Africa Oil & Gas: Nigeria Oil Minister Says Oil Refinery Revival Pushed Back

Africa Oil & Gas: Nigeria Oil Minister Says Oil Refinery Revival Pushed Back

(Bloomberg) — The revival of Nigeria’s state-owned refineries will happen a year later than expected after financing talks dragged on, according to the nation’s oil minister.

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Africa Oil & Gas: Nigeria Oil Minister Warns OPEC Won’t Play Price Regulator Forever

In the latest sign that OPEC is becoming increasingly nervous about the absent success of its oil production cut deal, Nigeria’s Petroleum Minister Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu warned the U.S. and other non-OPEC producers that “OPEC cannot continue indefinitely to just take the tank, take the blames and take the issues and yield the market space and also create the cuts that are essential to stabilise.”

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Africa Oil & Gas: “Nigeria to Start Dialogue with Niger Delta Militants” – Oil Minister says

Nigeria will start a dialogue with the Niger Delta Avengers militant group which has been claiming a string of attacks, oil minister Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu said. President Muhammadu Buhari had appointed a team “to begin the process of a very intensive dialogue with those caught in the middle of this,” Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu said late on Monday. He also said the country’s oil output was between 1.5 million and 1.6 million barrels a day.(Source: Reuters, Reporting…

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