Energy

Shell commits over $6.2m to scholarship

Oil major Shell has announced that a total of 184 beneficiaries of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company, NNPC/Shell Cradle-to-Career scholarship for secondary school students have been migrated to the SPDC JV university scholarship programme in the last five years. This…

Oil prices erase gains as U.S. Fed raises rates

Oil prices were trending down slightly on Wednesday following the 2:30p.m. EST Federal Reserve’s announcement of another hike in interest rates by three-quarters of a percentage point for the second time in a row, while Wall Street continued to flounder…

Libya increases oil production to 1.1mbpd

Libya, plagued by port blockades and protests at oil facilities in recent months, has now managed to raise its oil production to 1.1 million barrels per day (bpd), the oil Minister of the Tripoli-based government said in a text message…