THE Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has initiated a new scheme to ensure smooth distribution of Dual Purpose Kerosene (DPK) across the country.    The Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Ohi Alegbe, in a stamen made available to The Guardian recently, said the ‘Kero Correct’ initiative would cut-off the several layers of middlemen…

SHELL Global Solutions, a unit of Royal Dutch Shell, is pushing to expand its upstream business by selling to oil producers in Asia and the Middle East technology designed to boost output of mature fields, an executive with the company has said.

IN 1896, Nigeria flagged-off power generation with a 20-mega watt (mw) capacity power plant located in Ijora, Lagos. With this development, all were agog with anticipations that the feat would fast-track growth and development of the African giant, even when it was yet to get independence.

THE World Bank has disclosed that its financing for renewable energy and energy efficiency projects in developing countries has risen by 24 per cent in the last fiscal year to $3.3 billion. The apex bank in a statement released recently said that in the past five years, it had approved 366 projects in 90 countries, noting that last year alone, the bank approved 99 projects in 48 countries.