Nigerian Oil Terminal Delays Add To Supply Concerns

Following disruptions of the oil flows on the pipeline feeding the Forcados terminal in Nigeria, the facility faces more than two weeks of delays of oil cargo loadings, and no official June or July loading schedules have been released yet, trading sources told Platts on Tuesday.  The flow of crude oil to the Forcados terminal is

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Egypt’s natural gas production increases by 20.5% YoY

Egypt’s production of natural gas increased by around 20.64% year-on-year (YoY), reaching 3.437 million tons in March 2018 compared to 2.849 million tons in March 2017, Egypt Oil & Gas reports. Statistics published by the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) reveal that consumption of natural gas in Egypt rose by around 9.3%

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Libyan protesters shut down Raguba oilfield

Libyan protesters shut down on Wednesday the eastern Raguba oilfield which had 5,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude production feeding Brega port, said a spokesman for the owner, state-run Sirte Oil. The protesters had been threatening to shut down oilfields and pipelines passing through their remote home region of Marada unless authorities improve state

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NIGERIA: NNPC plans strategies to stay in business

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has said that it is working on the right strategies to remain in business for a long time. The Group Managing Director of the corporation, Maikanti Baru, who spoke at the NNPC first quarter 2018 top management steering committee meeting in Abuja at the weekend, said in order to operate as

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NIGERIA: NNPC to begin retail of petrol across West Africa

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) would begin retailing of petroleum products across markets in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in the next two years. NNPC Group Managing Director, Maikanti Baru, who rebranded key downstream subsidiaries of the group yesterday, in Abuja, said the company would own 30 per cent market share

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UGANDA: Oil production to create 160,000 jobs

The oil production expected to start in the Albertine region by 2020 is projected to create over 160,000 jobs, Caroline Korutaro, a senior petroleum engineer in the Directorate of Petroleum at the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development has said. Korutaro said of jobs created, about 60% will be for petroleum engineers, geologists, oil researchers

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GAMBIA: Fuel Prices increase again

The pump price of fuel has been increasing from D42 to D45.50 per litre in October 2017, despite a 40 percent decrease in price of crude oil at the time as acknowledged by the Minister of Transport. It was further increased to D48.16 in December 2017 and now it is being sold over D50 per

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