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“It is also important to note that our terminal to the Board’s headquarters in Yenagoa, Bayelsa
is automated, and we have since committed to State on Friday.
the construction of two Liquefied Petroleum Wabote explained that since some of the
Gas (LPG) tanks which gives a total capacity of trainings provided for the ex- agitators were not
6,000 cubic metres as part of Sahara’s drive for conducted by internationally recognised insti-
technological innovation and enhancing access tutions, most of the beneficiaries could not be
to clean energy in Tanzania, Rwanda, Zambia, employed with the skills and certificates they
Malawi and Congo,” he added. acquired. Stressing the importance of requisite
Sahara Tanzania, April 13 2021 certifications in the oil sector, Wabote said: “The
industry is very specific in term of certifications
required and if it is not met, you cannot force
SERVICES them to consider another thing.”
Wabote further opined the need for the PAP
Maersk Drilling secures to diversify its activities to ensure that it meets
the purpose for which it was set up and fulfills
one-well ultra-deepwater year, stressing that it is ready to work with stake- President Muhammadu Buhari’s vision of diver-
holders on the removal of all bottlenecks on the sification into agriculture and other allied sec-
exploration contract in use of the code. tors. He mentioned that the oil and gas industry
The federal government had last week apol-
is technology driven hence the number of people
Gabon with Petronas ogised for worsening power supply, blaming it it can employ was very limited.
on lack of gas supply. Minister of Power Saleh
NCDMB, April 15 2021
Maersk Drilling has been awarded a one- Mamman had stated that seven of the key inte-
well contract from PC Gabon Upstream SA grated power plants, comprising Geregu, Sapele,
(PCGUSA), a subsidiary of Petronas, for the Omotosho, Gbarain, Omuku, Paras and Alaoji, PERFORMANCE
provision of a deepwater drillship rig. The sev- were experiencing gas constraints, leading to
enth-generation drillship Maersk Viking will be power outages. DPR says it has accurate
employed to drill an ultra-deepwater exploration But the Director of DPR, Sarki Auwalu, told
well at approximately 2,100 metres water depth the Gencos that all their reservations concern- record of crude production
in Block F13 offshore Gabon. ing the gas supply code would be resolved so
The firm one-well contract with PCGUSA as to improve power supply. He stated that as a The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR)
is expected to commence in Q3-2021, in direct country with over 203 trillion cubic feet (5.749 on Friday debunked claims that the exact vol-
continuation of the rig’s previous work scope trillion cubic metres) of gas, Nigeria must take ume of crude oil produced in the country was
with Korea National Oil Corp. (KNOC), with an advantage of the availability of the commodity not known.
estimated duration of 60 days. The firm contract to resolve its energy challenges in line with the Paul Osu, DPR’s Head of Public Affairs, in
value is approximately $24m, including mobili- directive of President Muhammadu Buhari who a statement issued in Lagos, said every litre of
sation and demobilisation fees. has already declared the decade that of gas to crude produced in the country was adequately
“We’re delighted to expand our international fast-track the use of the fuel. captured during the process of extraction.
relationship with Petronas, with whom we have He added that the meeting was critical Osu said it was the responsibility of the DPR
worked on deepwater wells in the Far East, the because up to 70% of gas produced for the to monitor and account for crude oil production
Americas and now West Africa. We’re look- domestic market was consumed by the power as basis for determining government’s revenue
ing forward to conducting our first-ever cam- generation companies, whic use it to produce through royalty payments by operators for sus-
paign in Gabon,” says COO Morten Kelstrup of electricity. tainable development.
Maersk Drilling. DPR, April 20 2021 He said: “As a further step to boosting crude
Maersk Drilling, April 16 2021 accounting process from production to export,
DPR recently launched the National Production
HUMAN RESOURCES Monitoring System (NPMS). NPMS is an online
GAS VALUE CHAIN platform for direct and independent acquisition
of production data from oil and gas facilities in
DPR rallies stakeholders NCDMB to partner Amnesty Nigeria. NPMS, as an electronic data transmis-
Office on capacity
sion tool at production and export terminals,
to boost gas supply is designed to better predict the performance
of oil and gas reservoirs and better production
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) development forecasting.”
yesterday rallied major stakeholders, including The Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Con- According to him, the NPMS tool enables
the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission tent Development and Monitoring Board DPR to exercise surveillance, perform produc-
(NERC), the Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading (NCDMB), Simbi Wabote, has pledged readi- tion monitoring and data analysis for utilisation
Limited (NBET) and power generation compa- ness for the Board to partner with Presidential and forecasting. Osu said DPR as a business ena-
nies (Gencos), over its plans to ameliorate the Amnesty Office in the area of human capacity bler and opportunity house would continue to
current gas-to-power shortage. development for the ex-agitators. He made this develop robust and strategic initiatives to ensure
DPR told the Gencos that there was the need known when the interim Sole Administrator of timely and accurate payment of rents, royalties
to take advantage of the Nigeria Gas Network Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Col. and other revenues due to the government.
Transportation Code (NGNTC) launched last Milland Dixon Dikio (rtd.), paid a courtesy visit DPR, April 16 2021

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