Gas Goes Before A Fall

Continuous long-standing trade clash between Tanzania and Kenya and their inability to reach an agreement has cost the two EAC countries millions of shillings in foreign exchange earnings. Read more here: http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2017/08/09/local-lpg-use-down-38-percent-after-tanzania-import-ban_c1612710

Your Chev-xcellence Is On Point

Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL) beats other exhibitors on its excellent performance in the assessment criteria of content/quality of material exhibited, aesthetic of booth, audience engagement and conduct of booth personnel recently at the 2017 Nigeria Annual International Conference and Exhibition (NAICE), emerging the Best Exhibitor, and another prize for Best Technical Paper presented to its Reservoir Simulation Engineer, Frank Ogbuagu. Read more here: https://guardian.ng/news/chevron-wins-multiple-awards-at-naice-spe-2017/

The Butterfly Becomes A Bird

President Akufo-Addo appoints the publisher and lawyer, Egbert Faibille as the new Chief Executive officer of the National Petroleum Commission, to be announced soon. Read here: http://themarketghana.com/news/top/18699/Egbert_Faibille_heads_National_Petroleum

Fueling Terrorism

Crude oil refining exploration in the Lake Chad basin might be the primary motive of the renewed onslaught of the terrorist group Boko Haram against the Nigerian Military, and a claim by an unnamed source points accusing finger at foreign sponsors who have their eyes on the crude oil deposit in the Lake Chad region. Read more here: https://www.withinnigeria.news/rise-of-boko-haram-terrorism-in-nigeria/

Where There Is A Train, There Is A Way

To solve its recurrent fuel shortages, the Ethiopian government is converting 110 freight train wagons dedicated to transporting liquid goods from Djibouti port to Ethiopian Hinterland. Read more here: https://www.newsghana.com.gh/ethiopia-readies-110-freight-train-wagons-to-ease-fuel-shortages/