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Empty containers: NPA empowers Port Manager to sanction shipping companies On By Godfrey Bivbere NIGERIAN Ports Authority, NPA, has empowered port managers to sanction shipping companies that are unwilling to return empty containers, as well as stop collection of illegal money for depositing empty containers at their holding bays.   Vanguard Maritime Report learnt that most of the shipping companies are still collecting toll of between N5,000 and N10,000 from importers and truck drivers to be...

Charné Hundermark, Southern and East Africa Editor February 16, 2021 The African continent holds an impressive natural gas resource base, providing a resource to fuel decarbonizing economies globally, as well as domestic industries. While some African nations, such as Equatorial Guinea, Algeria and Egypt, have successfully extended the natural gas value chain, most others are yet to fully realize the benefits of the resource. Gas pipeline projects bridge the gap b...

Vanguard News NPA moves to dredge Escravos channel as more vessels run aground On By Godwin Oritse FOLLOWING the shallow depth of the Escravos channel, a development that has reduced the number of vessels calling at the Warri port, the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, has commenced moves to dredge the channel for increased port activities. Speaking to Vanguard Maritime Report, Managing Director of the Escravos Ship Pilots Nigeria Limited, ESPL, Capt Charlie Tobi, said that vessels run aground in...

Inside Nigeria’s multibillion-dollar abandoned oil, gas projects Published 8 February 2021 Before COVID-19 triggered a collapse in crude oil prices and demand last year, several big-ticket oil and gas projects in Nigeria had been hanging in the balance. In this report, ’FEMI ASU examines the impact of project delays and/or cancellations in the nation’s oil industry as well as the economy Nearly nine years ago, one of the agencies in the Ministry of Petroleum Resources acquired 10.2 hecta...

Kingsley Nwezeh in Abuja Military authorities said yesterday that troops of Operation Delta Safe dismantled 13 Illegal refining sites set up by oil bunkerers in the Niger Delta region. The military also recovered 9,856.1 barrels of stolen crude, 1,339,000 litres of illegally refined diesel or Automotive Gas Oil (AGO) and 500,000 litres of kerosene or DPK while 24 suspected oil thieves were nabbed. Speaking at a media briefing in Abuja, Coordinator, Directorate of Defence Media Operations (DDMO)...

1 Min Read LONDON (Reuters) - More loading programmes for Nigerian crude in March were issued on Friday while differentials appeared to be under downward pressure from ample supplies in February. NIGERIA * Bonny Light is loading six cargoes in March, while Forcados is loading seven full cargoes and two partial shipments, traders said. Even so, March supply of four main grades is set to be lower than in February. * Differentials have been coming down this week due to ample supply as Qua Iboe exp...

Kyari said: “Nigeria is currently witnessing increased domestic gas demand in the industrial and power sectors, leading to increased production and reduced gas flaring. ”Nigeria has also witnessed increased household access to gas networks and LPG in the main cities. There are deliberate plans to expand that access to rural areas.” According to him, there are conscious efforts by the Federal Government aimed at deepening domestic gas consumption through the use of Compressed Natural Gas (...

Kyari spoke on Wednesday at the virtual Atlantic Council’s Global Energy Forum. Naija247news reports that the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency had on Tuesday announced that Nigeria’s domestic consumption of LPG exceeded one million Metric Tonnes (MT) in 2020. According to the available statistics, total consumption of LPG in Nigeria was about 50,000 MT in 2007. Kyari said: “Nigeria is currently witnessing increased domestic gas demand in the industrial and power sectors, leadi...

Troops of Operation Delta have apprehended 24 suspected oil thieves and recovered 9,856.1 barrels of crude oil, 339 million litres of illegally refined diesel as well as 500,000 litres of Kerosene in Delta State

Rescue three kidnapped persons in Nasarawa, arrest four cultist in Plateau The Defence Headquarters, yesterday, said gunboats of Forward Operating Base, Ibaka, Akwa Ibom State, arrested two suspects and a wooden boat laden with 1,184 of 25kg bags of Yaraliva Nitrabor Fertiliser being smuggled from Cameroon during routine patrol on the Effiat waterways. It also disclosed that while fertilisers were usually for agricultural purposes, the possibility of it being acquired by criminal elements and m...