Efforts to industrialise Rivers may have received the desired boost as the state government and Shell Nigeria Gas (SNG) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the distribution of gas to industries in the Greater Port Harcourt area and its environs. The MoU sets out broad terms and conditions to guide co-operation between the […]
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Royal Dutch Shell has agreed to buy British household energy and broadband provider First Utility, stepping up competition to the “Big Six” suppliers whose dominance of the market is already under pressure. Shell did not disclose any financial details of a deal which takes it into a new sector of the retail market. First Utility […]
Read More Amnesty International on Tuesday said Royal Dutch Shell Plc should face investigations in three countries for alleged complicity in human rights abuses, including murder and rape, committed by the Nigerian military government in the oil-producing Ogoniland region in the 1990s. The London-based human-rights group said authorities in Nigeria, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands should […]
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Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited on Tuesday said the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission had renewed the power generation licence for the Afam VI Power Plant. The SPDC said in a statement that the 650 megawatts plant had delivered over 25.97 million megawatts hour of electricity into the nation’s power grid since inception in […]
Read More Two Nigerian business owners, Mr. Precious Adeho and Mrs. Ngozi Deborah Atalor, have emerged winners in the 2017 Shell LiveWIRE Top Ten Innovators competition, a global contest open to beneficiaries of Shell LiveWIRE, and aimed at rewarding shining cases of innovation in businesses supported by the programme. The two Nigerians won the Merit prize along […]
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Shell Companies in Nigeria (SCiN) have emerged the 2017 Best Nigerian companies in Sustainability Innovation in Africa, beating two other finalists at the 11th edition of the Sustainability, Enterprise and Responsibility Awards (SERAs) for Corporate Social Responsibility held in Lagos on Friday. Shell companies also defeated three other contestants to win as the Best Company […]
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Royal Dutch Shell Plc has shelved a plan to permanently close the gasoline-producing unit at its 227,586-barrel-per-day Convent, Louisiana, oil refinery in early 2018, the company said on Thursday. Shell has decided to overhaul the 92,000-bpd gasoline-producing fluidic catalytic cracking unit (FCCU) next year, extending its production for at least four to five years, a […]
Read More An Italian judge is expected to decide on December 20 whether to send oil majors Eni and Shell to trial over alleged corruption in Nigeria, two legal sources said on Tuesday. Milan prosecutors have asked for the two companies and some past and present managers, including current Eni CEO Claudio Descalzi, to be indicted in […]
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Oil majors Royal Dutch Shell and Exxon Mobil won blocks in Brazil’s coveted pre-salt oil region in an auction on Friday. Shell was part of consortia that won two of the four blocks on offer in the first part of an eight block auction. Exxon, in a consortium with Norway’s Statoil and Portugal’s Petrogal, won […]
Read More Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) on Thursday awarded ₦60 million in scholarship awards to 400 indigent undergraduates from Abia, Bayelsa, Delta, Imo and Rivers States. The undergraduates, who are studying in different universities across the Niger Delta region, received a cheque of ₦150,000 each as scholarship for the 2015/2016 academic session. Mr Igo Weli, SPDC […]
Read More Organisers of the Sustainability, Enterprise and Responsibility Awards, otherwise known as The SERAS CSR Awards Africa has announced a list of 84 organizations that beat the deadline for the submission of entries for the 2017 edition. The list include Fidelity bank, GTbank, Diageo, Lafarge, Sahara Energy, Shell, Chevron, Tolaram group, 9Mobile, FCMB, FrieslandCampina, Multichoice, Access […]
Read More Anglo-Dutch oil major Royal Dutch Shell has started gas production from the second phase of the Gbaran-Ubie project in Nigeria’s Niger Delta, the company said on Wednesday. The project is an expansion of the Gbaran-Ubie development which opened in June 2010. Shell, through its Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria subsidiary, said the project would […]
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