Zik Gbemre Advises Keyamo To Expand Osubi Airstrip
LAGOS JANUARY 8TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Coordinator of Niger Delta Peace Coalition, Mr Zik Gbemre has appealed to the Minister of Aviation, Festus Keyamo to urgently embark on the expansion of the Osubi-Warri More...
Delta Govt, Shell Open Talks On Relocation To Warri
LAGOS OCTOBER 23RD (URHOBOTODAY)-The Delta State Government has opened talks with the Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, on the return of the multinational oil conglomerate to Warri, which it fled, over More...
NNPC, SNEPCo Donate 100-Seater ICT Centre To Petroleum Varsity, Effurun (PHOTOS)
3. Aerial view of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Centre donated by the NNPC, SNEPCo and their co-venturers to the Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun, (FUPRE) in Delta State… More...
Shell Appeals Against Judgment Abolishing Gas Flaring In Urhobo Community
LAGOS DECEMBER 29TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited has filed an appeal challenging the judgment of the Federal High Court sitting in Benin, Edo State, which ordered the company More...
Okowa Commends Shell For Donating Multimillion Dollar Projects To Maritime University
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Governor of Delta State, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, has described the phase one of infrastructure projects donated to the Nigerian Maritime University in Okerenkoko, Delta State by The More...
UPU Leader, Moses Taiga Appeals To Departed Oil Giants To Return To Urhobo Land
LAGOS AUGUST 16TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Urhobo Progress Union (UPU) President General (Worldwide) Olorogun Moses Taiga has appealed to all the oil giants which include Shell, Chevron, Seplats, Agip and others who departed More...
Federal Government Takesover Osubi Airport Over Alleged Incompetence
LAGOS FEBRUARY 13TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The festering face-off between aviation service providers and management of Osubi Airport, in Warri, Delta State, has assumed a new dimension with the Federal Government’s approval More...
N’Delta:Shell Deploys State-Of-The-Art Cameras To Track Spills, Crude Theft
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 17TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Nigeria’s leading energy giant, The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC), has deployed state-of-the-art high definition cameras for quick detection More...
Ijaw Community Demands For Appointment Of indigene As DESOPADEC Chairman
LAGOS JUNE 3RD (URHOBOTODAY)-The people of Ogulagha Kingdom in Burutu Local Government Area, Delta State has appealed to Delta State Governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa to appoint one of their indigene as Chairman More...
Relays: Govt College Ughelli To Host 200 Nigeria Schools
LAGOS AUGUST 31ST (URHOBOTODAY)-More than 20 secondary schools in Nigeria will compete at the inaugural edition of the Government College Ughelli (GCU) Relays scheduled for Saturday 17 November, 2018. According More...
Shell Confirms Recovery Of 95% Spill In Odimodi, Aghoro
LAGOS AUGUST 20TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC) says it has recovered over 95 percent of spilled oil from the recent spill incidents on sections of the Trans More...
Delta Govt Urges Shell To Return Administrative Office To The State In Full
LAGOS FEBRUARY 26TH(URHOBOTODAY)-The Delta State government has called on Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) to return its administrative and oil mining operations to the state in full. The state Commissioner More...
Ijaw Community Raises Alarm Over Poisonous Air Pollution from Shell Gas Facility
By Amos Okioma LAGOS DECEMBER 26TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Residents and indigenes of Tombia Community in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa have raised the alarm over suspected poisonous air pollution allegedly emanating More...
Shell Donates Modern Geophysical Equipment Accesseries to OAU
L-R: General Manager, Exploration, Shell Petroleum Development Company ofNigeria (SPDC), Mr. Daniel Agbaire; Occupant of the SPDC Professorial Chairin Geology at OAU, Professor (Mrs.) Mary Olowokere; Acting Vice More...
Ogoni Communities Drag Shell to Court in UK for ‘Decades of Oil Spills’ in Nigeria
LAGOS NOVEMVER 23RD (URHOBOTODAY)-Emere Godwin Bebe Okpabi, leader of Nigeria’s Ogale people, unpacked four bottles of water from his homeland and lined them up on a table to show why his subjects are suing More...
NNPC, Shell Sign MoUs with Nigerian Banks for $2.2 bn Contractor Financing Aid
Sitting L-R: Petroleum Technology Association of Nigeria (PETAN) Chairman, Mazi Bank-Anthony Okoroafor; Representative of the Group General Manager, National Petroleum Investment Management Services (NAPIMS), Supervisor, More...
SNEPCo Donates Modern Test Laboratory to Nigerian Institute of Welding
LAGOS NOVEMBER 15TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company (SNEPCo) and it co-venturers (ExxonMobil, TOTAL and ENI) have donated facilities including a modern test laboratory to the Nigerian More...
New Militant Group Threatens to Bomb Third Mainland Bridge, Bonga Oil field, Onitsha–Asaba Bridge
LAGOS JUNE 25TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A new militant group, the Asawana Deadly Force of Niger Delta (ADFND) has vowed to bomb the Bonga Oil Field, Third Mainland Bridge and the Onitsha – Asaba bridge among others More...
Buhari to Visit Niger Delta On Thursday
Buhari LAGOS MAY 31ST (URHOBOTODAY)-President Muhammadu Buhari will this week make his first visit as president to Nigeria’s oil-producing south, which has been riven by an upsurge in violence from militants, More...
Military Raid Tompolo’s Village as N’Delta Avengers Continue with Destruction of Pipeline Installations
Tompolo LAGOS MAY 28TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The search for members of the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) responsible for the upsurge in vandalism of oil and gas installations has gone further awry as members of the Joint Military More...
Lagos First Lady Commends NNPC, SNEPCo Initiative on Music Talent Hunt
Winners of the 14th edition of the NNPC/SNEPCo music competition; L-R: Music Co-ordinator, Murtala Mohammed Airport Secondary School, Mr. Okedeji James; Head, Business Relations, Shell Nigeria Exploration & More...
Suspected Militants Kill Four Naval Ratings, Husband, Wife in Bayelsa
LAGOS MAY 5TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Six persons, including four Naval ratings attached to an oil servicing company, are feared dead in Bayelsa State following a surprise attack by suspected militants. The incident was More...
SPDC Increases Gas Production in Eastern Niger Delta
LAGOS MARCH 29TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Ltd (SPDC) Joint Venture is producing more gas from Agbada field in the Eastern Niger Delta in support of government’s aspiration More...
Environment Minister Harps on Partnership as Shell, Imani Deliver New Estate in Abuja
L-R: Minister of State for Environment, Alhaji Ibrahim Jibrin; Executive Director, Imani & Sons Nigeria Limited, Alhaji Suleiman Abubakar; Minister of Environment, Hajia Amina Mohammed; Director, Shell Nigeria More...
Shell Boosts Subsurface Studies at University of Ibadan
L-R: Exploration Geoscientist, The Shell Petroleum Development Company, Dr. Adelola Adesida; Deputy Registrar, University of Ibadan, Mr Victor Adegoroye; Vice Chancellor, Professor Abel Olayinka; SPDC’s General More...