No fewer than 12 young entrepreneurs from host communities to the Bonny Oil and Gas Terminal in Rivers State have benefitted from a N150 million capacity development and empowerment programme by The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC). SPDC’s General Manager, External Relations, Igo Weli, who handed over the service entry and final…
LAGOS APRIL 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Shell Companies in Nigeria have emerged the International Oil Company with the most impactful Local Content Initiatives in the upstream category at the 2019 edition of the Nigerian Oil and Gas Opportunity Fair (NOGOF) held in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State on April 4, 2019. Shell beat other competitors ,Total and Exxon Mobil to…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC) and its joint venture partners signed a Final Investment Decision agreement for a 300 million cubic feet of gas on Wednesday in Abuja at a ceremony witnessed by the Managing Director of Total Exploration and Production Nigeria Limited, Mr. Nicholas Terraz and the…
By Amos Odeh LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The people Aghoro 1 community in Ekeremor Local Government Area of Bayelsa has kicked against the breach of oil spill procedures in the leak that occurred in the area on May 17, 2018. It would be recalled that a leak on the Trans Ramos Pipeline that ruptured spilled about…
LAGOS JANUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Twenty-two members of the academia from 12 Nigerian universities have begun research attachments at The Shell Petroleum Development Companies of Nigeria (SPDC) in several fields of study in the latest phase of the sabbatical and internship programme of the SPDC Joint Venture which was introduced in 1980. The number represents 13…
LAGOS DECEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In 13 years of deep-water exploration, the Bonga vessel of the Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company (SNEPCo) has produced over 800 million barrels of crude oil, confirming the company as a pacesetter in offshore oil and gas production in the Gulf of Guinea. In its review of the performance of the…
LAGOS DECEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC) has emerged the Local Content Operator of the Year 2018 at the Annual Oil Industry Achievement Awards Dinner of the Petroleum Technology Association of Nigeria (PETAN,) an association of indigenous technical oilfield service companies in the upstream and downstream sectors. This marks the…
By Amos Okioma LAGOS NOVEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company (SNEPCO) operator of the Bonga oil field says the court judgment on the $3.6bn fine for the Dec.20, 2011 oil spill is not binding on it. Shell had approached the courts to challenge the powers of National Oil Spills Detection and Response…
