Tag: Sanusi Barkindo

Why We Offered Barkindo Post-Humous Award – NAEE

ADEOLA YUSUF

Even in death, a King! How presentations wil be done by Internationally respected cerebral energy economist, Professor Wumi Iledare   Nigeria Association of Energy Economics ( NAEE) will, tonight (Monday, July 18) at Abuja, offer a Posthumous Fellowship Award to Global Energy Leader and OPEC SG, HE Dr Mohammad Sanusi Barkindo, who passed on a few days ago in Abuja. Platforms Africa reports that the event, slated for 7pm at PTDF, is in recognition of Barkindo’s impressive achievements in the global energy Industry. An anticipated cynosure of the programme ,…

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BREAKING: OPEC Scribe, Sanusi Barkindo, Is Dead

ADEOLA YUSUF

“He died at about 11pm yesterday, 5th July, 2022,” NNpC GMd, Mele kyari confirms Barkindo’s death in a tweet   The Secretary General of Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Dr. Sanusi Barkindo, is dead. Platforms Africa reports that Mele Kyari, Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, a Nigeri-State-owned firm Barkindo once led, confirmed this on his verified Twitter handle. Though Kyari did not give details of Barkindo’s death, he extolled the virtues of the OPEC scribe. READ ALSO: EXCLUSIVE: Buhari Removes Ag Accountant-General 28 Days…

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NLNG, NCDMB, Chevron, SNEPCo, Others bag awards at 2022 NIES

ADEOLA YUSUF

OPEC’s Barkindo, MNPC’s Kyari, ex-Minister Ibe Kachikwu, here is the full list of who won what at the prestigious award The Nigeria LNG Company Ltd. (NLNG) has won the 2021 Gas Infrastructure Project Company of the year award in the Nigeria oil and gas sector. The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) also won an award for its role, which has made Nigeria a role model for other countries in Africa in terms of local content development and monitoring. Platforms Africa reports that the award was conferred on the…

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OPEC Pegs Downstream Funding Gap in Nigeria, Others at $1.5trn

ADESUPO OSOSANYA

Despite fears in some quarters that fossil fuel will become irrelevant in the next few years, the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) yesterday said downstream investments in Nigeria and African countries would gulp N1.5 trillion from 2021 to 2045. Secretary General of OPEC, Mohammed Barkindo, stated this in his keynote address at the African Energy Week in Cape Town, South Africa. Barkindo explained that $450 billion out of this amount would be invested in new refinery projects and expansions of existing units, adding that most of these projects will be…

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OPEC Throws Weights Behind Nigerian President, NASS on PIB

ADESUPO OSOSANYA

“Newly passed PIB will help guide the necessary reforms designed to strengthen institutions, solidify regulatory and fiscal frameworks and attract the much-needed investment in a sustainable manner.”   The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has supported the passage of Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) by the Nigeria’s National Assembly. commending President Muhammadu Buhari and the lawmakers on the passage. OPEC Secretary-General, Dr Mohammad Barkindo, gave the commendation at the ongoing 20th Nigeria Oil and Gas Conference (NOG) in Abuja, on Tuesday.   READ ALSO: PIB: Analysts Up Oil Prosperity Forecast for Nigeria,…

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Renewables won’t come close to overtaking oil in decades ahead – OPEC

Dawood Rabiu

  OPEC insists World’ll still depend on oil, gas for 50% energy need by 2045 The renewables will not come anywhere close to overtaking oil and gas in the decades ahead, Secretary General of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Dr Mohammad Barkindo, has declared. Barkindo added that the oil and gas sector will still supply over 50 per cent of the global energy needs by 2045. Barkindo made that assertion while presenting a special address at S&P Global Platts Americas Petroleum and Energy, held virtually on Wednesday. He…

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