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17 May 2013 Corruption in oil sector: Nigeria loses N75bn monthly – Ribadu
The former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Nuhu Ribadu, said on Wednesday, that up to $500 million (N75bn) of Nigeria’s oil revenue gets drained monthly as a result of the opacity that bedevils Nigeria’s oil sector.
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17 May 2013 Shell Suspends Gas Supply To NLNG
The Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) Wednesday declared force majeure on gas supplies to Nigeria LNG, following a reported gas leak on one of its pipelines on Tuesday, the company said in a statement yesterday.
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16 May 2013 2011 Bonga oil spill: 80 communities accuse SNEPCo of falsifying result
EIGHTY oil producing communities in Warri North and Warri South-West Local Government Areas of Delta State, yesterday, alleged that Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production
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16 May 2013 89 oil thieves arrested in Nigeria
The Joint Task Force (JTF) in Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta region has arrested 89 suspected oil thieves in its anti-oil theft joint operations.
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16 May 2013 Akpabio Demands Probe Of NNPC
The Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Godswill Akpabio, has asked the federal government to carry out a major audit of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to appropriately tackle corruption in the country.
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16 May 2013 EFCC secures order to evacuate stolen crude
Justice E. S. Chukwu of the Federal High Court in Abuja, Wednesday, granted the request of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to evacuate for safe keeping the petroleum products recovered from 14 suspected oil thieves currently facing prosecution for charges bordering on conspiracy and oil bunkering.
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16 May 2013 NNPC Partner With Military Against Pipeline Vandalism
The NNPC has pledged to fast-track its strategic partnership with the Nigerian military to arrest the menace of pipeline vandalism in the country.
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15 May 2013 Drop Your Appetite for Stolen Nigerian Crude- FG Tells International Community
The Federal Government has called on the global community and International oil traders to drop their appetite for stolen crude oil from Nigeria and join in the fight against the nefarious activities of oil thieves and pipeline vandals.
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15 May 2013 Five Foreign Sailors Kidnapped Freed
Five foreigners who were kidnapped last month when some heavily armed pirates stormed their cargo ship off the Niger Delta coast have been released, the vessel’s German operator said Tuesday.
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15 May 2013 How we arrested 14 crude oil thieves, army officer tells court
AN army officer, Lieutenant Mohammed Sani, on Tuesday, said 14 alleged crude oil thieves were ambushed and apprehended along the Lokoja-Abuja road based on the information at the disposal of the Nigerian Army on pipeline vandalism and siphoning of crude oil.
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15 May 2013 Niger Delta Oil Belongs To The North – Aliyu
A former Minority leader in the House of Representatives, Farouk Adamu Aliyu has warned Niger Deltans to stop laying claims to oil found on there land as it also belongs to the North, vowing that the North will fight to reclaim power from President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015.
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14 May 2013 Free for all: Pipeline vandals, illegal refinery operators demand amnesty
Reports say pipeline vandals, operators of illegal refineries and oil thieves have insisted that only amnesty from the Federal Government would stop them from scooping oil from pipelines.
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14 May 2013 NNPC Unveils $16bn Gas Infrastructure Programme
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has said preliminary works on the gas infrastructure development project which is expected to attract about $16 billion worth of investment to the proposed Ogidingbe gas-based industrial park will commence next month.
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14 May 2013 Pirates Attack 10 Boats In Southern Nigeria
Gunmen suspected to be pirates on Monday attacked 10 passenger boats off Nigeria's Niger Delta Bayelsa State, Xinhua news agency reported.
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14 May 2013 Reps order NNPC to cough out N236bn
The House of Representatives yesterday, ordered the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, to return N236 billion to the treasury of the Federal Government within a month.
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14 May 2013 Time to legalise ‘illegal’ refineries and decriminalise local ingenuity
The bumper sticker “Don’t Steal, Government Hates Competition” comes to mind when one reads news like this recent one announcing the feat of our military through the Joint Task Force’s Operation Pulo Shield in destroying 748 illegal refineries in the Niger Delta in four months.
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13 May 2013 Dealing With Crude Oil Theft
Time enough for the government to wield the big stick as crude oil theft continues to darken the economy
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13 May 2013 Groups support call for amnesty for illegal refinery operators
A coalition of youth groups in the Niger Delta weekend called on the Federal Government to accede to the amnesty call by oil bunkerers and illegal refinery operators in the region.
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13 May 2013 JTF indicts N-Delta communities over oil theft
The Joint Task Force in the Niger Delta code named Operation Pulo Shield, has decried what it described as community shielding of crude oil thieves in the region.
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13 May 2013 Navy destroys 8 illegal refineries, arrests 2 suspects in Rivers
The Nigerian Navy in Port Harcourt said on Monday that it had discovered and destroyed eight illegal crude oil refineries and arrested two suspected oil thieves.
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13 May 2013 Nigeria oil production slides amid unrest
Nigeria relies almost exclusively on its energy sector for export earnings and 75 percent of federal government revenue, Graeber writes, but a long record of corruption, militancy and banditry has clouded Nigeria's oil prospects.
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13 May 2013 NNPC’s house of stench
IN an industry where sleaze is the rule rather than the exception, the protest by representatives of oil producing communities over alleged fraudulent allocations of some marginal oil fields has merely opened a fresh can of worms.
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12 May 2013 Army Arrest Two For Oil Theft In Kaduna
Two suspects who specialize in illegal oil bunkering and oil pipeline vandalization along the Kaduna-Abuja axis have been arrested by troops from One Division of the Nigerian Army, internal security force.
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12 May 2013 Bayelsa: Supremacy battle, illegal bunkering as fuel for militancy
Barely three weeks after yet-to-be-identified gunmen ambushed and killed 11 policemen in the creeks of Southern Ijaw council area of Bayelsa State, five youths were ambushed and gunned down in Lobia.
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12 May 2013 Nigeria’s crude oil production drops, earnings fall to $10.1 billion
NIGERIA’S crude oil production has decreased from the 1.746 barrels per day it recorded in the month of March to 1.734 in April 2013, according to the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).
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12 May 2013 NSCDC recovers 200 kegs of petrol from vandals in Kwara
THE military authorities in Kaduna have arrested and handed over to the police, suspected oil pipeline vandals and illegal oil bunkerers at the Sabon Gida village of Kaduna State.
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11 May 2013 After-effects of vandalising NNPC pipelines
Following reports of incessant vandalisation of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation NNPC Pipelines which cost the country huge loss of lives and properties
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11 May 2013 Oil Pipeline Vandalism: What we lost
As Nigeria is slipping deeper into the valley of insecurity, much of the momentum for economic breakthrough has been lost, in large part because of the increasing rate of oil theft, illegal bunkering and reckless vandalisation of pipelines across the country.
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10 May 2013 FG Orders Probe Of Domestic Crude Purchase By NNPC
Indication emerged yesterday that President Goodluck Jonathan, has ordered immediate investigation into deals relating to the 445,000BPD domestic crude oil purchase by the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and remittances to the Federation Account.
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10 May 2013 Nigeria needs stable Niger Delta to respond to development challenges
Charles Achodo, a development consultant and Adviser to the Ministry of Niger Delta, in this chat with CHIOMA ONUEGBU in Uyo speaks on the Niger Delta Action Plan implementaion
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10 May 2013 Okaeben charges community on pipeline protection
The Executive Director of the Edo State Petroleum and Gas Monitoring Committee, Honourable Chris Okaeben, has charged members of community hosting petroleum pipelines to drive pipeline vandals out of business by protecting the pipelines in their communities.
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10 May 2013 Shell Lauds JTF For Reducing Oil Theft In The Niger-Delta
Shell has given kudos to the Joint Task Force, JTF, set up by the Nigerian Government to check oil theft in the Niger Delta as it said the menace has drastically reduced.
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9 May 2013 Allison Madueke orders probe of domestic crude purchase by NNPC.
The Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs Deziani Allison Madueke, has ordered for an immediate investigation into the management of the 445,000BPD domestic crude oil purchase by the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and remittances to the Federation Account.
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9 May 2013 Army Parades Pipeline Vandals, Confiscate Four Fuel Tankers
Officers and men of the Internal Security Force of 1 Division, Nigerian Army, yesterday paraded two suspected petroleum pipeline vandals in Kaduna.
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9 May 2013 Atlantic Energy Partnership - Our Production Rights Intact - NPDC
The Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC) has stated that its recent entry into a strategic alliance agreement with Atlantic Energy Drilling Concepts does not include transferring its production rights, contrary to the substance of a recent petition by a group, Restoration Niger Delta.
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9 May 2013 Court Remands 14 NNPC Workers In Prison For Crude Oil Theft
Fourteen casual workers of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) accused of vandalising petroleum pipes to siphon crude oil for sales to foreigners have been sent to Kuje Prison on remand.
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9 May 2013 How to develop Niger Delta, by lawmaker
House of Representatives member, Hon. Evelyn Oboro, has urged the government and other stakeholders in the Niger Delta region to improve the quality of life of the people. She said the promotion of the public welfare would stop further agitation.
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9 May 2013 NNPC, NUPENG differ on domestic refining capacities
The recent pronouncement by the management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, that the refineries have started producing petroleum products to the tune of 10 million litres per day can only be described as a political statement. Such statements have in the past, been viewed by discerning minds as mere mischief making by the management of the organisation.
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9 May 2013 Pipeline vandalisation: NUPENG calls for FG sincerity
Against the backdrop of huge sums of money being expended on the importation of refined petroleum products, Salmon Akanni Oladiti, the deputy national chairman of the Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD) unit of NUPENG, has called on Federal government to, without further delay, rehabilitate all the moribund oil refineries in the country.
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8 May 2013 Bunkering: Abandoned crude oil drums litter Ogbaru area
AWKA — THOUSANDS of drums of crude oil abandoned by alleged oil bunkerers and illegal refinery operators in Anambra State have littered the banks of River Niger, along Ogbaru axis of the state.
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8 May 2013 Communities Issue Shell Ultimatum over Neglect
The 12 communities in the Estuary of Amata (EA) in Bayelsa State have jointly threatened to shut down oil facilities belonging to the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC) because of the company’s neglect of the people.
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8 May 2013 Divestment: IOCs’ assets to go to local companies – NNPC
Better days lie ahead for indigenous oil companies in Nigeria, as the Federal Government has maintained that all divestments by international oil companies (IOCs) will be handed over to local companies.
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8 May 2013 EFCC arraigns oil thieves Thursday
ABOUT 14 suspected oil thieves will be arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Thursday at a Federal High Court, sitting in Maitama, Abuja.
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8 May 2013 Host Communities Back NPDC, Atlantic Energy Oil Deal
The Niger Delta Oil Producing Communities (NDOPC) Tuesday expressed support for the transfer of oil blocks to Atlantic Energy Concept Limited by the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC).
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8 May 2013 Host Communities Back NPDC, Atlantic Energy Oil Deal
The Niger Delta Oil Producing Communities (NDOPC) Tuesday expressed support for the transfer of oil blocks to Atlantic Energy Concept Limited by the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC).
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8 May 2013 JTF arrests 2, recovers 2 bodies from militants clash in Bayelsa waterways
The Joint Task Force (JTF) in the Niger Delta, says it has arrested two suspects in connection with the recent clash between two armed groups in Lorbia 1 community, Southern Ijaw area, Bayelsa.
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8 May 2013 JTF declares Bayelsa community criminal haven, arrests two
Joint Task Force, codenamed Operation Pulo Shield, has declared Azuzuama and its suburbs in Southern Ijaw Local Government of Bayelsa State, den of criminals.
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8 May 2013 New Projects by Mobil, Total to Push Nigeria's Oil Production to 2.7mbpd
Nigeria’s crude oil production is expected to hit an all-time high of 2.75 million barrels per day (mbpd) as two major deepwater projects, Mobil’s Erha North and Total’s Egina, are set to add 350,000 barrels of oil per day to current output levels.
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8 May 2013 Soldiers arrest pipeline vandals in Kaduna
Army authorities on Wednesday in Kaduna arrested suspected pipeline vandals and illegal oil bunkerers at the Sabon Gida village in the state.
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8 May 2013 Towards An End To Oil Spillage
The issue of oil spillage has been a recurring decimal in Nigeria especially in the Niger Delta region. This region has been terribly devastated by oil spillage and its resultant effects.
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7 May 2013 FG urged to set target for JTF on illegal bunkering
FEDERAL government has been told to set target for the Joint Task Force on the crusade against illegal bunkering operations in the Niger Delta region.
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7 May 2013 JTF adopts new strategy to combat oil theft in Rivers--- Commander
The military Joint Task Force (JTF) in Rivers, says it has put in place new strategies with the capacity to stop illegal oil bunkering, pipeline vandalism and sundry crimes in the state.
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7 May 2013 Nigeria ‘refining 10,230 cubic metres of fuel daily’
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has announced that the country’s premium motor spirits (PMS) refining capacity currently stands at 10,230 cubic metres per day
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7 May 2013 Nigeria: Women in Oil And Gas Targets Crude Oil Proceeds
The Women in Oil and Gas (WIO), a Nigerian registered corporation, said it plans to harness part of the N30billion generated daily from the sale of crude oil for the benefits of the Nigerian women.
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7 May 2013 OIL THEFT: JTF DESTROYS 748 ILLEGAL REFINERIES, ARRESTS 498 SUSPECTS
The Joint Task Force (JTF) in the Niger Delta, Operation Pulo Shield, said on Tuesday that it had destroyed 748 illegal refineries in the region within the last four months.
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7 May 2013 OTC 2013: Regulation frustrates greenfield refineries – NNPC
Regulation of the downstream petroleum industry has been identified as a major hiccup for the take-off of three green field refineries in Nigeria, for which Memoranda of understanding MoUs, have been signed with a Chinese construction firm.
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7 May 2013 Pipeline professionals kick against subsidy removal
PIPELINE Professionals Association of Nigeria, PLAN, has kicked against removal of subsidy on petroleum products, saying it would worsen challenges being faced by the poor in the country.
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7 May 2013 Total Egina, Mobil Erha projects to be ready by 2016 – Minister
Nigeria’s oil production is expected to rise by additional 350,000 barrels per day when two recently approved projects by the Nigerian units of French Total’s Egina and America Exxonmobil’s Erha North are completed before the end 2016.
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6 May 2013 8 ex-militia youths shot dead in south Nigeria
Eight young men suspected of being ex-militia members from two rival groups were killed early Sunday in a shootout in Lorbia community in Nigeria's southern oil-rich Bayelsa state, their relations and the army said.
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6 May 2013 Crude oil theft as it retrocedes us to the militancy epoch
Force majeure is a term that is slowly creeping into our national lexicon and consciousness. It is such a negative phrase that no serious country would ever carry about in a way that allows its use anywhere within its territory.
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6 May 2013 Gunfight in Nigeria's Delta oil region kills eight:
Gunmen opened fire on a group of former militants in the oil producing Niger Delta late on Saturday, leading to a shootout that left eight people dead, a security official said.
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6 May 2013 Multiple spills from Shell facility contaminates Taylor Creek in Bayelsa
Residents of Ikarama community have reported that several oil spills from nearby oil wells have contaminated the Taylor Creek in Yenagoa, Bayelsa.
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5 May 2013 Nigeria loses $60bn oil revenue in 2012
Nigeria reportedly lost about $60 billion oil revenue due to shortfalls in its estimated production in 2012. Vanguard gathered from an industry source in one of the leading International oil consulting firms that the country has since 2008 lost about $100 billion revenue by not producing what is supposed to produce.
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5 May 2013 Nigeria to review Trans-Saharan gas pipeline plan
Nigeria and Algeria signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) in 2002 for the 4,000 km gas pipeline to carry gas from Nigeria's Niger Delta region through the Republic of Niger to Algeria's Beni Saf export terminal on the Mediterranean Sea.
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5 May 2013 NSCDC nabbed 6 young men over illegal bunkering
THE men of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Ondo State command have nabbed six young men in connection with illegal bunkering of petroleum products in the state with over 100, 000 litres of fuel seized from them.
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5 May 2013 Presidency wades into NIMASA, NLNG face-off
AN intervention from the Presidency Sunday led to the lifting of the blockade of access to Bonny Channels of the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Company (NLNG) by the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA).
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4 May 2013 ARUNTON: Paradise of oil thieves, sex workers
A giant billboard at a T-junction in Aruntan, Delta States, reads: ‘Stay alive, AIDS is real,” warning sex lovers, especially those living around Escravos, Warri South-West Local Government Area of Delta State, to exercise some restraint.
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4 May 2013 NIMASA Blockade: Three NLNG Ships Stranded In Bonny Bay
FORTY-EIGHT hours after the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) shut down the operations of the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) over unpaid levies, three ships belonging to the company may have been stranded.
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4 May 2013 Oil thieves flee, abandon 150 drums of illegally refined diesel
OIL thieves took to their heels, weekend, abandoning 150 drums of illegally refined diesel, following a raid on them in Udu Creek, Delta State, by naval men in Warri.
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3 May 2013 Boko Haram: Army goes tough on infiltration in Niger Delta
THE fear of Boko Haram creeping beyond its base in the north into the south, especially the South-South may be extant as the Nigerian Army has said it has deployed strategies to tackle the infiltration of the sect to the region, beginning with the inauguration of operation Quick Response Group (QRG) on Thursday at 3rd Battalion, Nigerian Army, Effurun, Delta State.
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3 May 2013 Domestic refining of petrol hits over 10.2 million litres per day
THE management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), on Thursday, announced that production of premium motor spirit (PMS) at its three refineries in Kaduna, Warri and Port Harcourt has reached a combined level of 10.23 million per day.
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3 May 2013 Expert Raises Alarm Over PIB, Assures On Positives Of PHCN Privatisation
FORMER President of National Association of Energy Economics (NAEE), who doubles as a member of President Goodluck Jonathan’s Economic Management Team,
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3 May 2013 House to Probe NNPC Oil Deals
The House of Representatives Thursday joined the Senate to investigate some “shady” oil deals involving the sale of seven oil blocks for N59 trillion by the Ministry of Petroleum Resources to some firms without following due process.
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3 May 2013 JTF warns Niger Delta militants against camping
Militants in the Niger Delta region have been warned against camping anywhere in the area, DailyPost can report.
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3 May 2013 N58.9trn oil deal: Delta oil communities shun Senate •Diezani did no wrong - NNPC
The five oil-producing communities which petitioned the Senate Committee on Petroleum over an alleged transfer of four oil blocks valued at N59 trillion have shunned a Senate hearing scheduled to hold on Thursday.
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2 May 2013 Army nabs 2, destroys large hectares of local refineries
IN their relentless efforts to rid the creeks of illegal oil bunkering and its variants as mandated by the presidency, men of the 3rd Battalion, Sector 1, Operation Pulo Shield of the Nigerian Army, Effurun, Delta State, on Tuesday, nabbed two young men with boats loaded with five drums of diesel each at the Warri River.
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2 May 2013 Army razes Egbesu camp in Delta
Despite the amnesty programme that was granted militants in the Niger Delta, which led to the disarmament of many various groups
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2 May 2013 Deregulation: FG challenges court’s decision
The Federal Government has filed an appeal challenging the decision of a Federal High Court, Abuja, which declared the policy of deregulation of downstream sector unconstitutional, illegal, null and void.
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2 May 2013 N58.9TRN OIL BLOCK ALLOCATION: SENATE BEGINS PROBE OF MINISTER, NNPC, SHELL
THE Senate Committee on Petroleum Upstream, headed by Senator Emmanuel Paulker has commenced a probe into allegations that the Minister of Petroleum
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2 May 2013 Oil Blocks Not Sold to Atlantic Energy Drilling, Says NNPC
The Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Wednesday denied the recent allegation by some oil producing communities in Delta State that the company and Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke
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2 May 2013 OMLS Petition - NNPC Writes Senate, Clarifies Agreement With Atlantic Energy Drilling
GROUP Managing Director of Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Engr. Andrew Yakubu, has described as absurd allegations by Restoration Niger Delta that its agreement with Atlantic Energy Drilling Concept was reached in violation of the Public Procurement Act.
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1 May 2013 Army arrests 2, destroys illegal refineries in Delta
OFFICERS and men of the 3 Battalion, Nigerian Army, Effurun, Delta State, yesterday, destroyed over 50 illegal refineries located at the deep mangrove swamp forest in the outskirts of Otumara community in Warri South-West Council Area of Delta State.
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1 May 2013 FG introduces stiffer measures to curb fuel subsidy scam
FOLLOWING the fuel subsidy scam that rocked the downstream sub-sector in 2012, the Federal Government has finally introduced several measures considered stiffer to curb the menace.
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1 May 2013 Fuel subsidy: EFCC quizzes Ubah
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Tuesday arrested the Managing Director of Capital Oil and Gas Industries Limited, Ifeanyi Ubah.
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1 May 2013 Has Nigeria's Niger Delta managed to buy peace?
With two machine guns on board, the speed boat raced up and down the palm-fringed creek of Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta as several enthusiastic soldiers whooped with excitement.
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1 May 2013 Heritage Oil Eyes New Acquisitions in Nigeria
United Kingdom-listed is looking for further acquisitions in Nigeria, months after switching its main focus to the problematic Niger Delta region where performance of its field has to date been erratic.
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1 May 2013 New Bill offers hope for Nigeria's gas and oil industry
The Petroleum Industry Bill aims to resolve some of the many issues that have affected Africa's largest oil producer and pave the way for future growth and investment
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1 May 2013 Niger Delta's peace broken by violence
It has been almost four years since an amnesty was given to thousands of militants who were causing havoc in Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta, but relative peace has recently been broken.
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