Libya’s Petroleum Facilities Guards (PFG) threatened on Sunday to close all oil and gas facilities in the country’s western region after the end of a 10-day deadline to authorities to meet their demands, including a 67% salary rise.
Baboucarr Njie, Managing Director of the Gambia National Petroleum Company (GNPC), will speak at the Invest in African Energy (IAE) forum in Paris, taking place this May 14-15. Njie is expected to share insights into the investment opportunities across The Gambia’s oil and gas value chain, engaging with global financiers and technology providers to attract capital to its untapped energy prospects.
With clear mandates – ensuring compliance with petroleum laws, regulations and guidelines, monitoring of operations at drilling sites, producing wells, production platforms and flowstations, crude oil export terminals, and all pipelines carrying crude oil, and natural gas, supervising operations being carried out under licences and leases, monitoring operations to ensure that they are in line with national goals and aspirations – the Nigerian Upstream Regulatory Commission, NUPRC, occupies a very influential position in Nigeria’s oil and gas industry.
(WO) – Reconnaissance Energy Africa Ltd. announced an operations update. ReconAfrica continues to pursue activities as it prepares to start a multi-well drilling campaign in 2024.
The overall expansion of North Field from 77mtpa currently to 142mtpa by 2030 represents an 85 percent increase in production.
The Chamber of Petroleum Consumers (COPEC) and the Institute for Energy Security (IES) have urged the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) to shut down the Chinese Sentuo Oil Refinery over alleged illegal operations.
Despite growing support for nuclear energy and significant government investment, the U.S. grapples with the dilemma of managing highly radioactive nuclear waste.
Proposed solutions include consolidating nuclear waste storage facilities in the Permian Basin to reduce costs but face opposition from the oil and gas industry.
Socioeconomically struggling communities in Southeastern New Mexico view hosting nuclear waste storage facilities as a potential economic boon, while industry leaders express concerns over the impact on oil and gas production.
Determined to save the world from climate change, California has nearly shut down its oil and gas industry, though the Golden State currently gets 50 percent of its total energy from oil and another 34 percent from gas. The state’s most recent move was a decision by California’s Geologic Energy Management Division to deny new hydraulic fracturing permits on oil and gas wells.
Minister of Energy Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh has led a delegation of energy sector officials in the upstream petroleum sector to Trinidad and Tobago to gain insights into best practices, explore advanced technologies and identify potential partnerships.
Years after an end to the oil and gas wars was declared in Colorado, the fight is fueling back up.