Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, yesterday lamented that the country spends almost 40 per cent of its scarce foreign exchange (FX) on the importation of petroleum products as well as petrochemicals, which continues to put pressure on the naira exchange rate. Speaking during a media briefing on the sidelines of the
Abidjan hails biggest discovery in two decades but critics raise risks and developed world’s focus on renewables. The Ivorian Society of Refinage in Abidjan. Energy group Eni have discovered up to 2bn barrels of oil off the country’s coast . Ivorians celebrated when Italian energy group Eni revealed that it had discovered up to 2bn
Halliburton Company released the iStar Intelligent Drilling and Logging Platform, a comprehensive measurement platform comprising multiple services for greater control of drilling and logging operations. The platform’s digital architecture supports automation, machine learning, and artificial intelligence for reservoir evaluation, faster drilling, and consistent well delivery. The iStar platform acquires high-definition measurements closer to the bit
The newly incorporated Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited has a capitalisation of N200 billion. This emerged yesterday in Abuja when President Muhammadu Buhari received the certificate of incorporation of the firm. Under the recently signed Petroleum Industry Act (PIA), the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) was expected to transform to a limited liability company,
President Muhammadu Buhari has given the go-ahead to a coalition of anti-graft agencies, including the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI), Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU), the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to recover about N2.65 trillion unremitted funds by 77 oil companies
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