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Exclusive: Total resumes $2.5 billion Nigerian deepwater oil field sale

France’s Total SA, Europe’s second largest oil company, has put one of its offshore Nigerian oil fields up for sale again, the company said, after a 2012 deal with Sinopec Corp failed. Total has hired BNP Paribas to find buyers for its Usan deepwater oil field located in the Nigeria […]

Nigeria’s Capital Importation Up 3.32% in H1 2014-NBS

By Peter OBIORA InvestAdvocate Lagos (INVESTADVOCATE)- Nigeria’s total capital importation climbed up 3.32 percent to $186.23 million in the half-year of 2014 from $5.617 million recorded in the corresponding period of 2013, according to the latest figures released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). The report affirmed that capital […]

Power Supply: Nigeria to Triple Natural Gas Capacity by 2020

By Yakubu LAAH InvestAdvocate Lagos (INVESTADVOCATE) – Nigeria has said it will triple its natural gas production capacity by 2020 to help meet the nation’s power and industrial development needs, a Bloomberg report quoted Diezani Alison-Madueke, Petroleum Minister. According to the report, Alison-Madueke disclosed that Nigeria wants to increase gas […]