Tag: Platforms Africa exclusive

’25 Winners, 10 Reserve Bidders,’ Results of 2022/2023, 2024 Nigeria’s Oil Licensing Round

ADEOLA YUSUF

Platforms Africa obtains, publishes full names of winners in the Nigeria’s three-year Licensing Round announced by the NUPRC at the 2024 Commercial Bid Conference   The Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) has announced the final results of the 2022/ 2023 Deepoffshore Licensing Round and the 2024 Licensing Round. Platforms Africa reports that these results were announced at the 2024 Commercial Bid Conference organised by the commission on Wednesday in Lagos. After Platforms Africa Report, Oil Ministry Director Queried, Minister Disowns Claim ‘Drill Or Drop,’ NUPRC Begins Idle Oil Blocks’…

Read More

EXCLUSIVE: Buhari Declines Ministerial Consent For ExxonMobil $1.6bn Assets’ Sale To Seplat

ADEOLA YUSUF

. NUPRC Confirms Platforms Africa Exclusive, writes ExxonMobil to veto deals + word-for-word content of the letter . Real reason Buhari declined Ministerial Consent, ordered all parties in the transaction to revert status quo . The NNPC right of first refusal that made the deal to hit the rock . How Platforms Africa broke news in a world-class exclusive over two months ago   Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has declined Ministerial consent for ExxonMobil’s $1.6bn assets’ sale to Seplat, Platforms Africa reports authoritatively. Buhari, the substantive minister of Petroleum Resources,…

Read More

EXCLUSIVE: ExxonMobil ex-Image Maker, Omo-Ojo petitions Buhari, declares sack Abuse of Nigerian law

Aliyu Aliyu

  An ex-staff at the Media and Communications unit of the United States (U.S) oil giant, ExxonMobil, Ernest Ivie Omo-Ojo, has written a petition to Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, alleging that his suspension and sack by the company in Nigeria were “Wilful and Flagrant Abuse of the country’s Regulations.” Platforms Africa gathered that Omo-Ojo got a letter of suspension from Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited (a subsidiary of ExxonMobil) on April 12, 2019. While arbitration by the country’s Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) was ongoing between the employer and employee, Omo-Ojo…

Read More