The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has announced that it received four more cargoes of petroleum products to keep the country afloat. NNPC Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Ohi Alegbe, disclosed this in a statement in Abuja. The statement guarantees the public of adequate supply of petrol throughout the country. “The deliveries which amount to about 180...

Puma Energy is making plans to fill what it calls a growing market gap for cleaner fuels in South Africa, where demand is growing ahead of the capacity to supply. The company, officially commenced operations in South Africa this week. Meanwhile it has before now, invested about $150 million to develop storage, logistics and retail capacity both locally as well as in Mozambique. The...

Afrox on Tuesday announced that it has secured a R100-million contract to supply liquid carbon dioxide to Kingsley Beverages’ new carbonated soft drinks plant in Roodepoort, South Africa. This is coming after the company signed an initial R150-million supply contract in 2013, for the latter’s Malvern and Spring plants. Afrox has also been granted a R260-million, five-year contract extension...

In Tanzania, Addax Energy SA has won the tender to supply petroleum products in the country for March 2016. The oil company defeated other competitors after presenting the lowest bid at 32.349, the lowest premium ever recorded. It offered GASOIL at premium of 32.580, motor spirit at 29.430, JET A-1 at 44.190 and IK at 44.190. The bidding which witnessed the participation of three other bidders;...

Ghana on Friday revealed plans to ban improved supply of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) from Nigeria via the West African Gas Pipeline (WAPG) scheme, Guardian news reports. As a matter of fact, Ghana has complained about the failure to fully utilize the pipeline, which supplies an insignificant 50 million scf/d of gas to the country, out of its 460 million scf/d capacity. “Nigeria need to supply...

BIA Africa on Friday announced that Cummins has extended its distribution contract in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The company is to now be the official distributor of Cummins’ engine, generator, and filter system product lines for the Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, Togo, Benin, and Burkina Faso. According to Eric...

The Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency, (PPPRA), on Wednesday released the import allocation for the supply of approximately 3 million metric tonnes of Petrol for the first quarter of 2016. The Executive Secretary of the agency, Farouk Ahmed (photo), in a statement revealed that 78 % of the overall allocated capacity for the first quarter was awarded to the Nigerian National...

In Namibia Vivo Energy, has announced the launching of a new service station in Windhoek. The service station, Lafrenz Shell, will allow drivers top-up while also re-energizing themselves at the convenience store. Its aim is to serve the community in that area as well as travelling motorists. According to Vivo Energy Namibia’s Managing Director, Johan Grobbelaar, the launching of the new...

As part of a business development support to its main distributors, Vivo Energy Ghana Limited on Wednesday awarded four brand new Shell lubricants trucks to its distributors to facilitate the safe transportation of Shell lubricants all through the country. The Managing Director of Vivo Energy Ghana, Ebenezer Faulkner, while presenting the keys to the trucks, urged the distributors to work...

The Federal Government of Nigeria plans to construct hundreds of petrol stations throughout the country. To this effect, it is collaborating with states and local governments as well as private investors to ensure that the crisis in the supply of petroleum products across the country does not reoccur in the future. According to the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu...