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Nigeria Develops New Legal and Regulation for Mining Exploration and Industry


Nigeria has developed a new legal and regulatory framework for mining, in addition to carrying out a number of institutional reforms, the country’s Minister of Mines and Steel, Deziani Allison-Madueke, said here Friday.

Nigeria Expand and Develop Mineral Mine Exploration Make Regulation for Mining Exploration


Federal Government has identified seven minerals for national development, inister of Mines and Steel Development, Chief Sarafa Isola, said in Abuja yesterday.
He told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the minerals were Gold, Lead/Zinc, Barite, Bitumen, Limestone, Coal and Iron Ore. Isola said that Nigeria was well-endowed with myriad of solid minerals, but that [...]

Utah, Colorado rival OPEC oil reserves, lure Chevron, Exxon, Shell


Colorado and Utah have as much oil as Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Venezuela, Nigeria, Kuwait, Libya, Angola, Algeria, Indonesia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates combined.
That’s not science fiction, according to Bloomberg News. Trapped in limestone up to 200 feet (61 meters) thick in the two Rocky Mountain states is enough so-called shale oil to [...]

Nigeria: Chambers of Commerce Tasks FG On Petroleum Sector


The Kaduna Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (KADCCIMA) has appealed to the Federal Government to address the impediments, which they said have made the effective deregulation of the down stream sector of the petroleum industry impossible.
Reviewing the business and economic situation of the country in 2006 as part of preparations for the hosting [...]