From Reuters Nigeria’s main opposition candidate for president said on Wednesday he would seek to privatize the state oil company and other government assets if elected next month, while removing a costly petrol subsidy, to revive the economy. Atiku Abubakar, a businessman who served as vice president between 1999 and 2007, has promised to double the size of Nigeria’s economy
From Bloomberg More than a decade in and the U.S. shale boom keeps breaking output records, with fields from Pennsylvania to Texas producing more natural gas than the country needs. That has triggered billions of dollars of investments to ship liquefied natural gas overseas. Yet the U.S. is still importing LNG from places such as Russia and Nigeria. There are
From Reuters Total SA said on Wednesday it had started production from the Egina oilfield off Nigeria’s coast, part of a shift by the French energy firm toward deepwater oil and gas projects to its drive cashflow. Output from Egina, which is located in waters about 1,600 meters (5,250 ft) deep, is expected to plateau at 200,000 barrels per day
Pushing the limits: following a $10 billion refinery and petchem plant and a $2.5 billion fertilizer plant, billionaire wants to acquire oil fields that will deliver 250,000 barrels of oil production daily From Bloomberg Aliko Dangote has made a fortune out of cement and food processing. Now, Africa’s richest person is embarking on a bigger challenge: a $15 billion investment in
From The Cable Goood news: oil prices hit $80 a barrel on Thursday for the first time since November 2014. Bad news: Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) on Thursday declared force majeure on the exports of Nigeria’s major crude oil, the Bonny Light, effectively cutting off sales of around 250,000 barrels per day (b/d) of the country’s crude from the market. Brent crude,
From Vanguard News Nigeria Nigeria and China have signed a currency-swap agreement worth $2.4 billion to boost commercial ties and reduce the need to use dollar in their bilateral trade. Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Godwin Emefiele, led CBN officials while Governor of People’s Bank of China (PBoC), Dr. Yi Gang, led the Chinese team at the
Erin Energy Corporation (ticker: ERN) announced unaudited financial and operational results for the year ended December 31, 2017. Full year 2017 revenues were $101.2 million, increasing by approximately 30% from $77.8 million in 2016. Fourth quarter 2017, revenues were $21.7 million compared to $21.1 million for the same period in 2016. Erin Energy reported a net loss of $151.9 million
Frank Ingriselli, independent director and chairman of Erin Energy (ticker: ERN) discussed the Oyo-9 well and related activity on Erin’s prospects offshore Nigeria during the company’s Q3 call last week. Frank Ingriselli: This is my second earnings conference call after my election as Chairman of Erin Board last May. At that last call, I acknowledged that it is an honor
Erin Energy Corp. (ticker: ERN), a Houston-headquartered international oil producer, has assets based entirely in sub-Saharan Africa. The company operates in Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, and Gambia—from approximately 5 million acres. Erin Energy’s Nigeria operations are offshore with a 100% working interest. The offshore production is connected to the Armada Perdana FPSO, or floating production, storage, and offloading vessel. The Aramada
According to the latest S&P Global Platts OPEC survey released July 6, 2017, OPEC’s crude oil output increased by approximately 500,000 BOPD within the last two months, pushing the organization’s total output to 32.49 MMBOPD. OPEC’s June output was 220,000 BOPD larger than May’s output, Platts said. Rises in production from Libya and Nigeria assisted in keeping the organization’s output
Countries exempt from the OPEC production deal are ramping up production Even as the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries looks to rebalance markets through coordinated production cuts within its ranks and with other non-members, production from the group is up. OPEC released its June Monthly Oil Market Report Tuesday showing that its production grew 0.34 MMBOPD to 32.1 MMBOPD in
Shell lifts force majeure on Forcados oil in Nigeria Royal Dutch Shell (ticker: RDSA) lifted force majeure on exports of Nigeria’s Forcados oil grade, returning about 250 MBOPD to world markets, according to shipment data obtained by Bloomberg. Europe’s largest oil company placed the crude grade under force majeure – meaning the company could miss contractual obligations due to circumstances
