The Industrial Court has thrown out the application by the Botswana Mine Workers Union (BMWU) and 677 others challenging Botswana Confederation of Commerce Industry and Manpower (BOCCIM), Hatch Africa (Pty) Ltd, CCB (Pty) Ltd, G-LTA, Kalcon over the suspension of
IN an effort to achieve maximum utilisation of natural gas, the Federal Government has announced the commencement of moves to help it separate gas business from oil as well as identify strategies for success and appropriate policies to help drive
SYLVERIUS Okoli is the Chairman of the Depot and Petroleum Products Marketers Association (DAPMA). A product of Department of Civil Engineering from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria in 1964. Engr Okoli started his career in the Nigerian Railways.
EVEN as the out come of an audit report is awaited, Federal Government has said the establishment of the committee to investigate claims of impropriety in the conduct of the 2007 oil and gas bid round has not uncovered any
A Majority of southern African countries are still using leaded petrol after expiry of the agreed deadline to use more environmentally friendly fuels by the beginning of 2006.
Horizon Plantation Plc, a newly established company by Sheikh Mohammad Hussein Al Amoudi, will secure the 100, 000hct of land it requested for its planned bio-fuel development.
Federal government will by 2009 raise the prices of petroleum products in the local market by over 100 per cent to match the export value and landing cost of the import cargoes.
A Federal Government's Committee set up to investigate the proposed construction of an undersea petroleum products pipeline system from the Porto Novo Creek to the Ibru Jetty, yesterday submitted its report, opposing the project on the grounds that it would
The French industrial giant 'Alstom' has announced the signing as of July 2008 of a contract with the Tunisian gas and electricity company (STEG), for the building of a totally integrated electricity power plant in Ghannouch, Gabès; the plant which
The first power-generating centre using environmentally friendly hydro and solar power has been inaugurated in a Kenyan village 150 kilometres north east of Nairobi by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO).
The Minister of Lands, Mines and Energy, Dr. Eugene Shannon has told visiting members of the United States Congressional delegation that as part of phase two of the Emergency Power Program (EPP), the Liberia Electricity Corporation (LEC) would turn on
Zesco limited and Egypt based El Sewedy Electrical Supplies group have jointly embarked on an ambitious multi-billion Kwacha infrastructure development programme.
OIL producing communities in the Niger Delta region have been urged to form registered foundations in order to benefit from a N59.2-billion fund set aside by the European Union (EU) for the development of the area.
THE Government has asked Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) to import 21,000 tonnes of fuel to beef up the current stocks after Indeni Petroleum Refinery exhausted its crude oil.
The Uganda National Bureau of Standards' (UNBS) budget has increased to sh7.8 Billion this financial year from sh3. Billion in 2006/07. Ricks Kayizzi talked to Dr. Terry Kahuma, the executive director
Despite an all time increase in the world oil prices, Nigeria has lost 30% projected revenue for the 2008 budget because of the Niger Delta crisis, President Umaru Musa Yar'adua said at a conference in Abuja aimed at raising funds
