GOVERNMENT has introduced a fuel levy to be remitted to the Zimbabwe National Road Administration for developing roads.

CIC Energy has selected Shanghai Electric as the preferred engineering, procurement and construction contractor for the planned power station at the Mmamabula coal fields in Botswana.

Oil producing communities in the country are insisting on the December 31, 2008 deadline for gas flaring in the country or, in the alternative, oil companies which are unable to meet up with the deadline should be made to vacate

PetroSA announced on Sunday that it had resumed crude oil production from the Oribi or Oryx oilfields following the successful recertification of the 39-year-old ORCA Floating Production Storage Offloading (FPSO) facility.

Niger Delta Technical Committee would on Monday submit its report, requesting Aso Rock to concede over 60 per cent resource control to oil-bearing states in a bid to calm frayed nerves, Saturday Independent has learnt.

The Dutch Minister for International Development Cooperation, Bert Koenders, has pledged his country's continuous support to the Rwandan Government in her efforts towards investment in alternative energy sources.

The Dutch minister for International Development has just been in Rwanda, making a timely commitment towards, the country's investment in alternative energy sources. Sources of energy in Rwanda include; hydro, thermal, methane and solar.

THE Rift Valley Railways (RVR) has brought in one million litres of fuel to alleviate the fuel shortage in the country.

PIVOT, a Nigerian Engineering Company and subsidiary of Honeywell Group, has concluded plans to receive seven bespoke gas insulated transformers, which is said to be the biggest transformers ever in Nigeria.

STATE-OWNED oil and gas company PetroSA has resumed crude oil production at its Oribi and Oryx offshore fields after the re-certification of its Orca floating production storage and offloading facility.

INDICATIONS are that the Acting Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) may have usurped the functions of the Minister of State for Energy (Petroleum) initiating polices for the sector, rather than taking a cue from the

The Niger Delta Technical Committee, NDTC, inaugurated Monday, September 8, this year, by the Federal Government will tomorrow present its report to President Umaru Yar'Adua in Aso Rock Villa, Abuja. The 45-member committee picked Mr. Ledun Mitee and Mrs. Nkoyo

Management of Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) has attributed the inconveniences being experienced by its customers nationwide to the persistent shortfall in gas supply to Egbin and Sapele thermal power stations by the Nigeria Gas Company (NGC).

Former Governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu,has called on Niger Delta leaders to quit the politics of resource control and push for a 10-year Marshal Plan to massively develop the area and release the creative potentials of its peoples.

Mr. Ofordile Okoye is the managing director of North East Atlantic Oil and Gas Limited, a downstream oil company. The firm which was incorporated in 2007 specializes in marketing and distribution of petroleum products. Okoye began what seemed like adventure

Uganda needs to use the preliminary findings of surveys that have been carried out so far to discover the economic potential of geothermal electricity at Katwe, Buranga and Kibiro where initial work has been done but with no concrete information

WITH the continous slide of crude oil prices coupled with unrelenting sharing of excess crude oil revenue by the three tiers of government, the nation's external reserves have continued to dwindle steadily.

LEADERS of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) and their Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), have threatened to shut the nation's oil industry within the next one week over a number

Makerere University is to introduce a new programme of Petroleum Geosciences and Engineering.

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) said at the weekend that the Lagos State Government would have to pay the sum of N97billion as compensation demanded by the victims of Ijegun Pipeline Fire.