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  • Nigeria, SPDC achieves record gas production at 512MMscf/d


    Oil and Gas News — Authority Authority: 137
    The Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), operators of a joint venture with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), has set a record gas production with a total of 512 million standard cubic feet of gas (MMscf/d) in Western Niger Delta.SPDC said the production level was the highest in two years from ...
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  • European Union gives Nigeria $1bn for peace - Militants have been demanding a greater share of the oil wealth


    Niger Watch — Authority Authority: 107
    From BBC News online, November 23, 2009: European Union gives Nigeria $1bn for peace The European Commission has signed a $1bn (£602m) development pact with Nigeria, aimed at tackling corruption and promoting peace. A substantial amount of the funding will be spent on resolving conflict in the oil-rich and ...
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  • UK region hit by severe floods


    heave-ho.org — Authority Authority: 460
    A policeman remains missing after a bridge collapsed in Cumbria amid floods that have seen more than 200 people rescued. View original post here:  UK region hit by severe floods
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  • ‘Dream killer’ cleared of murder


    heave-ho.org — Authority Authority: 460
    A man with a sleep disorder who killed his wife while he said he had a dream about an intruder is cleared of murder. Read the original here:  ‘Dream killer’ cleared of murder
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  • FG begins payment of allowances to former militants – Daily Trust


    Nigerian Bulletin! — Authority Authority: 152
    The Federal Government has commenced payment of arrears of allowances owed former militants in various camps in the Niger Delta region. Each of the former militants is entitled to N65,000 per month as stipend for the period of rehabilitation. There are two rehabilitation camps in Rivers and Delta States.The former ...
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  • Nigeria: Gas Flaring – Shell Expends $1 Billion On Iog Project


    Royal Dutch Shell plc .com — Authority Authority: 146
    Port Harcourt — Following the Federal Governments decision to end gas flaring, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) says over $1 billion have so far been spent on the Gbaran-Ubie Integrated Oil and Gas project within the last 18 months.
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  • Relocate NNPC HQ to N-Delta, Amaechi urges FG – Vanguard


    Nigerian Bulletin! — Authority Authority: 152
    The Federal Government has been urged to relocate the headquarters of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)  to any state in the Niger Delta region where the nation’s oil economy is based.Governor Amaechi made the call  when the Group Managing Director of NNPC, Dr. Mohammad Barkindo, led a delegation ...
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  • Post-amnesty oil output hits 2.4mbpd – The Guardian


    Nigerian Bulletin! — Authority Authority: 152
    The Amnesty programme may have begun to yield fruit as Nigeria’s oil production has reached a record 2.4 million barrels per day (mbpd), the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr. Mohammed Barkindo, said at the weekend.Also, the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Chief Ufot ...
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  • Shell sees rise in Nigeria oil theft


    Royal Dutch Shell plc .com — Authority Authority: 146
    LAGOS, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Suspected oil thieves in Nigeria have increased their attacks on Royal Dutch Shell-operated (RDSa.L) oil facilities, the company said on Friday, reporting five separate incidents already in the last three months.
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  • Nigeria Earns $2b Revenue From Oil in Three Months


    Net News Publisher — Authority Authority: 453
    The new Director in charge of Nigeria’s Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), Billy Aghah, says Nigeria earned N312 billion (about US$2 billion) from oil between July and September this year. Aghah told journalists on Thursday in Lagos that Nigeria’s oil reserve would hit 40,000 billion barrels by 2010. He ...
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  • Attacks on Shell-operated facilities


    Oil and Gas News — Authority Authority: 137
    Shell said suspected thieves have sabotaged five wellheads in the oil-producing Niger Delta since 14 August, some resulting in fires. No production was affected since most of the oilfields were already shut in because of insecurity in the region.“We have growing concerns over the number of oil wellhead incidents due ...
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  • Resumption of crude oil production


    Oil and Gas News — Authority Authority: 137
    The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC) announced resumption of crude oil production at its 115,000 barrels per day (bpd) East Area (EA) oilfield.The oilfield was shut down in 2006 following a series of attacks on the facility and abduction of oil workers, but was reopened in July this ...
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  • Oil theft in Nigeria


    Oil and Gas News — Authority Authority: 137
    SECURITY agents were yesterday put on the high alert over the high rate of illegal bunkering and theft in the oil sector.The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, who raised the alarm, challenged security agents to “code Nigeria’s crude oil to prevent its theft through bunkering by international ...
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  • Human right groups ask Shell to leave Nigeria


    Royal Dutch Shell plc .com — Authority Authority: 146
    Two human right groups staged a peaceful protest rally yesterday in remembrance of Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other Ogoni people who were killed on November 10, 1995. The members of the Ogoni Solidarity Forum and the United Action for Democracy protested in front of the Shell headquarters in Marina, Lagos.
    2 weeks ago

  • Why is the cost of gas soaring?


    Thy Glory O Nigeria..! — Authority Authority: 123
    Adeola Aderounmu Slowly and steadily the price of gas has increased and surprisingly it is no longer part of the BIG news. I really don’t know why the price of gas has increased to a record high in Sweden. Gas is now sold for over 12 swedish crowns (12:37) the last time I checked. Few years ago there was a lot of ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Ex-militants protest in Warri – Demand jobs – Tribune


    Nigerian Bulletin! — Authority Authority: 152
    Operations of Chevron Nigeria Limited, Warri, was, on Monday, disrupted for many hours by ex-militants, who were demanding for employment and other human development programmes.Hundreds of the placard-carrying former militants, under the auspices of the Niger Delta Welfare Committee (NDWC), stormed the office of the ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Nigeria: Amnesty not enough to solve the Niger Delta Crisis


    Royal Dutch Shell plc .com — Authority Authority: 146
    We, the Ogoni Students in diaspora under the auspices of the National Union of Ogoni Students, USA, today 11/10/2009 commemorate with the rest of the world the judicial murder of 9 Ogoni leaders (Ken Saro Wiwa, Dr. Barinem Kiobel, John Kpuinen, Saturday Doobee, Nordu Eawo, Paul Levura, Felix Nuateh, Baribo Beera, and ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Group Petitions United Nations on Abuse of Women in Niger Delta Region


    Net News Publisher — Authority Authority: 453
    Journalists for Niger Delta (JODEL), a media group concerned with the affairs of Nigeria’s oil and gas region, have joined emerging global pressure groups, to protest against the rising sexual assault on women and young girls in the region. The group had accordingly written to the United Nations (UN) ...
    2 weeks ago

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