The federal government has been blamed for Nigeria’s continued flaring of gas produced from oil fields in the Niger Delta. According to experts which included a former chair of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), Mr. Ransome Owan, the government has continuously failed to show the level of commitment and leadership required to end gas […]
Read More The Nigeria Gas Association, NGA, said the country has reduced gas flaring from two billion cubit fit per day to 700 million cubits fit per day, indicating 65percent improvement in the last 10 years. The President, NGA, Dada Thomos, who made this known at a briefing to announce the fourth coming NGA International gas conference […]
Read More In 2016 alone, Nigeria could not earn about $1.150 billion potential gas revenue because as much as 275 billion cubic feet (BCF) of natural gas were flared from oil fields in the Niger Delta, a taskforce of the federal government has said. The taskforce – Nigerian Gas Flare Commercialisation Programme (NGFCP) – which is situated […]
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Chevron Nigeria Limited has said it is committed to ending routine gas flaring, boosting domestic supply, diversifying and commercialising gas resources through gas-based industries gas-based industries. The Chairman/Managing Director, CNL, Mr Jeff Ewing, said this, stressing that the oil major had contributed immensely to the Nigerian government’s gas master plan through the various gas projects […]
Read More The Federal Government has accused oil companies of not paying stipulated gas flaring penalties, amounting to loss of revenue in billions of dollars into government coffers. Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, said the companies are taking advantage of the wording in the legal framework which stipulates charges instead of penalties for gas-flaring. Speaking in Abuja, […]
Read More The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Wednesday disclosed that gas flare rate in Nigeria has dropped to 12 per cent, which translates to 919.73mmscfd. Nigeria was among countries with highest gas flare rates, but a number of Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects aimed at appropriate gas utilization have improved the country’s standing. The NNPC in […]
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Brig. Gen. Paul Boroh, the Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Niger Delta, says the Federal Government will soon introduce a programme that will end gas flaring in the Niger Delta. Boroh said this on Friday during the inauguration of a water project in Gelegele-Gbene community near Benin in Ovia North East Local Government […]
Read More Oil and gas companies operating in the country flared a total of 108.91 billion standard cubic feet (scf) of natural gas in the first five months of the year, causing the country an estimated loss of ₦95.8bn. The latest data obtained from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation on Friday showed that 24.77 billion scf of […]
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A develop-mental economist, Prof. Pat Utomi, has warned that cases of cancer would be on the increase in the Niger Delta if the ongoing environmental degradation arising from gas flaring in the region remains unchecked. Utomi, who gave the warning in his keynote address at the 2nd mid-year national conference of the Women’s Wing of […]
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The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has said that it has put in place measures and facilities to curb gas flaring preparatory to the 2020 flare out deadline by the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR). NNPC Group Managing Director, Dr. Maikanti Baru, who was represented by the Managing Director of the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company […]
Read More The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) said that Nigeria, the ninth largest gas producing nation in the world, lost over 850 million dollars to gas flaring in 2015. Mrs Pat Maseli, Deputy Director, Head, Upstream, DPR, gave the statistics at the just concluded 10th Annual Sub-Saharan Africa Oil and Gas Conference in Houston, Texas, U.S. […]
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The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation on Sunday said it had succeeded in reducing gas flaring in by 26 percentage points in the last 10 years from 36 to 10. It said this had improved Nigeria ranking as the second highest gas flaring nation in 2006 to the seventh position in 2016. The corporation also announced […]
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