ARCH Tech Consults have been awarded the tender to provide consultancy services, a feasibility study, design and supervision of the energy ministry's office building in Entebbe.

Angola's Minister of Energy, Emanuela Vieira Lopes, on Tuesday met with the management of Kambambe Dam, during a few hours visit she paid to that undertaking, Angop has learnt.

Laureates of the Nigerian National Order of Merit (NNOM) have requested the Federal Government to empower more Nigerians to explore oil and gas.

Beginning this year, government is set to introduce incentives for importers of cooking gas, by reducing its levies on the product to make it affordable for many Rwandans.

AVERAGE annual inflation in 2008 more than doubled to 12% from 6.1% recorded in 2007. The rise was mainly due to sharp increases in the price of food, household goods, rent, fuel and utilities, according to figures released by the

THE Government has extended the bid deadline for construction of the Karuma hydro-power plant. The energy ministry had invited firms under open international bidding for consultancy services for preparation of a detailed design, construction, installation of equipment and commissioning supervisions

Major oil companies in Nigeria could clash with the government on the December 31, 2008 deadline to end the flaring of about 20 billion cubic metres of gas yearly.

UGANDA'S oil and gas reserves discovered so far at the Albertine Graben are about one billion barrels, Tullow Oil and Gas' top engineer has disclosed.

THE Government is to meet with the petroleum companies operating in Uganda to discuss the high prices of petroleum products.

The Edo State Branch of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) and other stakeholders in the distribution and sales of petroleum products in Edo state have assured the Edo State Government that they would not sell petroleum products

Mr Nimmno Bassey, Chairman, Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth International, has called on the Federal Government to be committed to the December 31, 2008 deadline to end gas flare.

Total debt owed by customers for Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) amounted to N199 billion within the first six month of last year, a report of the electricity industry has revealed.

Acute shortage of groundnuts has hit Kano manufacturers as some of the oil millers in the state have resorted to extracting soya oil instead groundnuts oil.

Alhaji Umaru Lawan, the MD/CEO Superb Feed and Veterinary Services (A Division of Super Fast Foods Industries Ltd), is the Chairman of Small Scale Industrialists Association (Sharada-Kano Branch).

Any attempt by the Federal Government to increase the pump prices of petroleum products this year will be resisted by labour, the President of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Abdulwaheed Ibrahim Omar has warned.

Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment Grace Bent has said that the National Assembly would come down hard on the multinational oil companies for failing to comply with the December 31 last year deadline for ending gas flaring.

The Joint Military Task Force (JTF) has commended media organisations for covering its activities and wooing investors to the Niger Delta.

FOR the poor working masses, as usual, there is nothing to cheer at the 2009 budget presented by President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua.

A 30 megawatt Wind Power Plants is being constructed for manufacturing industries in Kano State .

With the global oil price declining daily, there are discussions that countries should seek alternatives to oil. A country like Brazil is already leading the way with ethanol while the US is planning to invest heavily in this sector.