The NNPC Limited has disclosed that it would supply Dangote Refinery with 300,000 barrels of crude oil per day, totalling 2.1 trillion in 20 years. According to its Managing Director, Mallam Mele Kyari said that the newly-sealed supply contract is a guarantee that the Federal Government is committed to ensuring sufficient petroleum products for members of the public. “We have …

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited has said that it has no hand in the decision of oil marketers to increase petrol pump price. Reports on Monday evening claimed that NNPC issued a notice to oil marketers, approving an upward review in the pump price from N165 per litre to N179 per litre as well as the ex-depot price …

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that the transformation of the publicly-owned Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation to the commercial entity now known as Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited  Limited would strengthen the capacity and market relevance of Nigeria’s oil industry. NNPC Limited came into effect on 1 July, and one of benefits of the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) 2021. The …

Hours after being received by President Muhammadu Buhari at the State House on Tuesday, the Secretary General of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Dr Muhammad Sanusi Barkindo, is dead. He died at about 11 pm on Tuesday. He was aged 63. His transition was announced in the early hours of Wednesday by the Group Managing Director of NNPC …

Despite the insistence of the Federal Government that marketers should not sell Premium Motor Spirit (commonly known as fuel or petrol) for more than the official rate of N165 per litre, many filling stations across the country have increased the price to no less than N185. The government issued the warning to oil marketers on Tuesday, while advising the citizens against …

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd.) has blamed the sudden appearance of fuel queues in parts of Abuja on low load-outs at depots. In a statement on Monday by its Group General Manager in charge of Group Public Affairs Department, Garba Muhammad said the situation usually happened during a long public holidays. Nigerians returned to work five days …

The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, and his colleagues on the Board of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd.) have expressed satisfaction with the progress of work at the Port Harcourt Refinery, Rivers State, which is process 60,000 barrels per stream day (bpsd) into the market beginnning from the third quarter of next year …

In order to tackle the challenges of gas flaring in Nigeria, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd) is to ensure that any proposed project without clear-cut plans to commercialise or use up its associated gas would no longer be approved. The NNPC Group Managing Director, Malam Mele Kyari said that gas utilisation was a major priority of both …