The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) says it currently has 6,621 staff strength both at its headquarters and across all its subsidiaries, division and offices nationwide. The corporation disclosed this in its report of compliance with the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative’s (EITI) Open Data requirements, released in Abuja on Monday. The report disclosed that the 6,621 individuals comprised its total staff strength as at April 20, 2020. This meant that the recently employed 1,050 fresh...

The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mele Kyari, has denied reports that 84 million barrels of Nigerian crude oil were stranded at sea because there no buyers to take them. Mr. Kyari said there were no physical vessels floating on the sea with Nigerian crude oil waiting for buyers. According to a report by ThisDay, the NNPC GMD said crude oil was normally sold and done on paper two months...

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has said that 32 pipelines in the country malfunctioned or were vandalised in February 2020. In a statement, the Corporation’s Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Dr. Kennie Obateru, explained that 22 pipeline breaches, eight weld failures and two pipeline ruptures occurred in the month under review. “Mosimi area accounted for 78 percent total cases, the Port Harcourt axis 16 percent and all other routes accounted for the...