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Why Africa Will Not Abandon Fossil Fuels Yet ― APPO Scribe
As the global climate debate gets more intense, reaffirming the reality that the energy industry must decarbonize in order to save the earth from what may eventually become an irreversible catastrophe, meaning also that the!-->!-->!-->…
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Fuel Subsidy Fallout: FG Backs Down, Breaks own Law?
The Nigerian economy is set to suffer for another 18 months under the burden of fuel subsidy going by the postponement of full implementation of the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) which provided for the complete removal of subsidy on!-->!-->!-->…
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Make Autogas Available Before Subsidy Removal — Opinion Poll
For some time now, the Federal Government, through both the Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources and the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, has promised to give Nigerians alternative fuel, Autogas. This alternative!-->!-->!-->…
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NIGERIA: New Regulatory Era For Oil & Gas
By Gideon Osaka
It is no longer news that some far-reaching transformations are currently taking place in the Nigerian oil and gas industry following the commencement of the implementation of the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) signed!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
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Nigeria’s Under-Production Woes Stall Gains of Oil Price Rebound
The technical problems hampering Nigeria’s oil output have further heightened calls for genuine diversification of the nation’s oil-dependent economy, writes GIDEON OSAKA
On 10th December 2016, non-OPEC oil producing countries and!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
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Energy Transition Demands Fresh Agenda for Petroleum Institutes
-By Sopuruchi Onwuka
The highly orchestrated global coalition on climate action to avert looming environmental catastrophe, and the related transition from fossil fuels to low carbon energy logically require the existing courses of!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
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BARKINDO: The Nigerian Maestro at OPEC
-By Sopuruchi Onwuka
It would prove difficult to find a Nigerian who has flown the most populous black nation’s national flag in the international arena as high, in the recent years, as the current Secretary General of the Organisation!-->!-->!-->…
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Marginal Bid Round: Vested Interests Plot to De-market Nigeria’s Oil Sector
-By Gideon Osaka
The gains recorded in the oil sector, with the soon-to-be-concluded marginal fields bid round, risk being eroded by the tactics of disgruntled interests to frustrate and discredit the entire exercise, Valuechain!-->!-->!-->…
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Can Nigeria Fly on Gas?
-By Teddy Nwanunobi
Nigeria is blessed with an abundance of mineral resources but over the years, the country has depended so much on oil. The over reliance of black gold has led to the near abandonment of the development of the other!-->!-->!-->…
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FX Scarcity Casts Shadow over FG’s Deregulation
-By Gideon Osaka
In November last year when the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Mr. Timipre Sylva declared that a subsidy element was still being retained in the pricing of premium motor spirit (PMS) or petrol, analysts!-->!-->!-->…
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