THE SUN Promoters of Bayelsa Oil Company Limited alongside its Joint Ventures Partners, Hardy Oil Nigeria Limited and Century Exploration/ Production Limited, have appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to intervene in their effort to restore Alata Oil Field in (OML…
VANGUARD ONE popular maxim among people who are indigenous to South Eastern part of Nigeria is that obu ihe ojo mmadu ihapu ara nneya wee nua akpu (it’s an abomination for a child to suck the boil on its mother’s…
THIS DAY The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) has called on Joint Venture (JV) partners of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to reconcile a $183.07 million discrepancy in their 2019 transport accounts. In its latest report on the…
THIS DAY Some marginal fields’ operators have kicked against the revocation of 11 oil field licences by the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) under the guise that the affected fields had been left fallow, stressing that the action of the…
THE GUARDIAN The Pan-Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) and South-South Elders’ Forum have berated Minister of State for Petroleum, Timipre Sylva, for saying that International Oil Companies (IOCs) cannot relocate to the Niger Delta region due to insecurity and violence. But…
THIS DAY The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) has revoked four Oil Mining Licences (OMLs) belonging to Addax Petroleum due to the non-development of the assets by the petroleum company. The affected assets are OML 123, 124, 126 and 137.…
THE GUARDIAN Interim Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Col. Dixion Milland Dikio (rtd.), has lamented ex-agitators constant obstruction of the East-West road, which was criminalising the Niger Delta region. Describing the ex-agitators antics as ‘retrogressive and old-fashioned,’ Dikio…
THE GUARDIAN Niger Delta stakeholders have faulted relocation of the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) from Lagos to Abuja, describing Federal Government’s move as insensitive and provocative. Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, had explained that moving the…
THE SUN HOUSE of Representatives, yesterday, queried the Department of Petroleum Resources(DPR) over 329,420,319 barrels of crude oil alleged to be missing. The House Ad-hoc Committee on Oil Theft said the DPR could not account for the crude valued at…
THE GUARDIAN The Ijaw Youths Council (IYC) has threatened showdown with the Federal Government for cancelling Oil Prospecting Licences (OPL) 2001, 2002 and 2003 awarded to companies associated with Niger Delta indigenes despite a court order restraining it from doing…