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Nigeria gets new supply ‘template’ as government sees way towards fuelling gas-to-power boom
Two new committees to spearhead and monitor reform and efforts to unify contracts reveal the president’s focus on achieving stable power supply Issue 189, 25 June 2010.more
Government looking to pick ‘low-hanging fruit’ to raise power output and ensure Jonathan’s future
Accelerating Nigeria’s energy partnership with Germany might allow the Jonathan government to raise electricity output and revive industry. A big boost for the power sector would promote the new president’s claim to be a serious candidate for the 2011 elections, write Jon Marks and David Slater Issue 188, 11 June 2010.more
USTDA backing for renewable energy
The US Trade and Development Agency has awarded more than $850,000 in grants to enable the recipients to identify clean and sustainable sources of energy. Issue 188, 11 June 2010.more
SPDC’s integrated oil and gas project to start supplying IPP
Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC) has announced that its integrated oil and gas project in Bayelsa state will begin supplying gas to an independent power project (IPP), the Imiringi Gas Power Plant, as well as to the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas plant in Rivers state from June. Issue 187, 28 May 2010.more
Nigeria looks to more realistic gas pricing to relaunch electricity industry
With gas prices for producers set to become more attractive, the Jonathan administration is hoping for a genuine breakthrough in bringing substantially more generation capacity on stream, write Leonard Lawal and David Slater Issue 185, 30 April 2010.more
Wood-waste project progresses
US renewable energy developer Revonergy says it has been assigned the rights to develop and own a wood waste-to-energy project in Ondo state (AE 161/15, 140/9). The company said a “very significant amount” of development had taken place and it was ready to proceed to the next phase, consisting of securing power purchase agreements, finding a local partner and bringing the project to a financial and technical close. Issue 186, 14 May 2010.more
Making up the power deficit
After the failure of successive ministers to increase Nigeria’s generation capacity to meet targets, missing out on the 6,000MW capacity increase expected by end-2008 and again in 2009, Acting President Goodluck Jonathan is taking on the portfolio himself until a new power team has been assembled to work in conjunction with the power sub-committee of the new Presidential Advisory Council. Issue 184, 16 April 2010.more
Nigerian electricity supply industry remains in disarray
The Federal Government has again failed to meet one of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s most treasured commitments, to raise generation output to at least 6,000MW, with 10,000MW installed capacity working by end-2010. Issue 178, 12 January 2010.more
Nigerians talk up sector reform with PIB expected ‘within weeks’
The controversial Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), designed by the previous government to implement the largest energy sector shake-up in recent Nigerian history, will be passed into law by the end of August, according to petroleum minister Diezani Allison-Madueke. Issue 192, 6 August 2010.more
Seplat completes Niger Delta purchase
Seplat Petroleum Development Company, which is 45% owned by France’s Maurel & Prom, has completed the acquisition of a 45% stake in Niger Delta OMLs 4, 38 and 41 from Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria, Total E&P Nigeria and Nigeria Agip Oil Company (AE 181/18). Issue 192, 6 August 2010.more
Afren acquires EER’s residual interest in OML 115
UK-based Afren has agreed terms to acquire Energy Equity Resources Oil and Gas’ residual licence interest in OML 115 in the eastern Niger Delta. Issue 191, 23 July 2010.more
Total Takes Chevron’s Block 1 stake
Total has signed an agreement to acquire Chevron’s 45.9% interest in Block 1 in the Joint Development Zone (JDZ). Issue 191, 23 July 2010.more
Drilling success for Sinopec
China’s Sinopec has struck oil in its first exploration well on OML 137, which it acquired when it bought Addax Petroleum last year. Issue 191, 23 July 2010.more
Sun also rises for Delta interests
A new and obscure player has emerged in the battle to secure choice sub-Saharan Africa oil and gas reserves, with a $4.8bn bid by Lagos-based Sunrise for ExxonMobil’s Nigeria assets. Issue 189, 25 June 2010.more
In statements, press briefings and interviews, Royal Dutch Shell on 21-22 June sought to reassure Nigerian communities that it was reviewing the much-derided safety of its local operations following the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and making a vital contribution to the nation’s economy. Issue 189, 25 June 2010.more
NNPC reform as elusive as ever as Jonathan lines up a 2011 presidential bid
Goodluck Jonathan and his allies have proved ruthless in their efforts to reshape the Nigerian energy industry, with the president firing the second NNPC head of his short tenure, while his crackdown on corruption is removing some powerful PDP figures opposing his bid for a second term Issue 187, 28 May 2010.more
Who is Austen Oniwon?
The new Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) group managing director is a low-profile Harvard and Oxford-educated engineer from the central Kogi state, who joined NNPC in 1977 and became Warri Refining and Petrochemicals Company’s head of planning in 1987. Issue 187, 28 May 2010.more
SPDC’s integrated oil and gas project to start supplying IPP
Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC) has announced that its integrated oil and gas project in Bayelsa state will begin supplying gas to an independent power project (IPP), the Imiringi Gas Power Plant, as well as to the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas plant in Rivers state from June. Issue 187, 28 May 2010.more
The Liberian government has signed a ‘purchase and sale’ contract with Nigeria under which Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) will supply 20,000 b/d of crude oil to the Liberia Petroleum Refining Corporation (LPRC). Issue 191, 23 July 2010.more
AccuGas transaction kicks off Nigerian gas financing, bankers see more such deals to come
A big new loan for a Nigerian gas project underlines growing interest from private investors in the country’s potential, writes Kevin Godier Issue 191, 23 July 2010.more
Lagos seals refinery deal
Following a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in May between Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and China for a package of three refineries (AE 187/19), the Lagos state government has agreed details of a 300,000 b/d plant to be sited in the Lekki Free Trade Zone. Issue 190, 9 July 2010.more
KBR refinery contract
Houston-based FPR Inc has given KBR a contract to provide design and early engineering services for the development of the Araromi refinery project in the OK Free Trade Zone in Ogun and Ondo states, about 100km east of Lagos. Issue 188, 11 June 2010.more
SPDC’s integrated oil and gas project to start supplying IPP
Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC) has announced that its integrated oil and gas project in Bayelsa state will begin supplying gas to an independent power project (IPP), the Imiringi Gas Power Plant, as well as to the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas plant in Rivers state from June. Issue 187, 28 May 2010.more
Chinese promise Nigeria refinery investment package
A Chinese deal to build three refineries could help strengthen the government’s hand in deregulating the downstream sector while giving Beijing access to oil supplies. Issue 187, 28 May 2010.more
Wapco to deliver first gas to Ghana
There appears to be progress in the long-running saga of the West African Gas Pipeline Company (Wapco)’s failure to deliver Nigerian natural gas to Ghana. Issue 182, 12 March 2010. more
Nigerians talk up sector reform with PIB expected ‘within weeks’
The controversial Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), designed by the previous government to implement the largest energy sector shake-up in recent Nigerian history, will be passed into law by the end of August, according to petroleum minister Diezani Allison-Madueke. Issue 192, 6 August 2010.more
AccuGas transaction kicks off Nigerian gas financing, bankers see more such deals to come
A big new loan for a Nigerian gas project underlines growing interest from private investors in the country’s potential, writes Kevin Godier Issue 191, 23 July 2010.more
Nigeria gets new supply ‘template’ as government sees way towards fuelling gas-to-power boom
Two new committees to spearhead and monitor reform and efforts to unify contracts reveal the president’s focus on achieving stable power supply Issue 189, 25 June 2010.more
Government looking to pick ‘low-hanging fruit’ to raise power output and ensure Jonathan’s future
Accelerating Nigeria’s energy partnership with Germany might allow the Jonathan government to raise electricity output and revive industry. A big boost for the power sector would promote the new president’s claim to be a serious candidate for the 2011 elections, write Jon Marks and David Slater Issue 188, 11 June 2010.more
Big role for Tukur
The Nigerian-German Energy Partnership’s Nigerian chair is influential former diplomat Alhaji Hassan Tukur, who on 17 May became President Goodluck Jonathan’s new principal secretary, replacing David Edevbie, who was close to disgraced former Delta state governor James Ibori (AE 187/4). Issue 188, 11 June 2010.more
NNPC reform as elusive as ever as Jonathan lines up a 2011 presidential bid
Goodluck Jonathan and his allies have proved ruthless in their efforts to reshape the Nigerian energy industry, with the president firing the second NNPC head of his short tenure, while his crackdown on corruption is removing some powerful PDP figures opposing his bid for a second term Issue 187, 28 May 2010.more
Nigeria’s Jonathan seeks balance and dynamism with ‘northern elite’ deputy
Following the death of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua on 5 May after a prolonged illness, vice president Goodluck Jonathan has been elevated to the presidency after several months filling in as the acting head of state. With many of Nigeria’s political elite still deeply unhappy at a southerner taking office during the agreed presidential tenure for the north, Jonathan has tried to calm the controversy by appointing the relatively unknown Kaduna state governor Alhaji Mohammad Namadi Sambo as vice president. Issue 186, 14 May 2010.more
Financiers report ‘flight to quality’ as Nigeria’s top banks emerge from crisis
Having undertaken Africa’s biggest-ever banking sector bailout last year, Nigeria is clawing its way back to a more respectable profile in trade and project finance circles, according to market players who talked to Kevin Godier Issue 186, 14 May 2010.more
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