Life After School: What Next

The traditional design of school goes like this: get good grades, get into a great University, and graduate with a degree and boom! You are now in the career you have always wanted.
However, this is a misconception from beginning to end. Many students are “lucky” or fortunate with the fact that success or a career comes at an early age. For others it is a constant struggle not just after graduation, but throughout their entire education, even starting as far back as high school. Many businesses are in a slump with the economic state, and so many jobs are not available. Trying to master life, career and business today is a struggle, and for many it will be an even bigger uphill battle.

Delay in releasing list of marginal fields for auction worries prospective bidders

The air of uncertainty over when the list of marginal fields to be put on offer in the next licensing round would be released has continued to put prospective investors on edge, fuelling concerns over the transparency of the process.

Interested investors are increasingly worried that one month after the announcement of the bid round, the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) has yet to make public the list of the assets to be put up for sale.

It was gathered that there is a list of assets that could be offered circulating among some highly connected Nigerian oil companies. Some of the companies have already told the DPR that they are interested in some of the fields and even gone ahead to say how much they are willing to pay.

Algeria to reopen Tiguentourine gas complex

Almost one year following the terrorist attack at the Tiguentourine gas plant near In Amenas, the foreign companies that operate the site reached an agreement with Algerian authorities to resume work.

Statoil and British Petroleum (BP) workers can once again return to their workplace, which has been deserted since the terrorist attack of January 16th, 2013. Thirty-eight civilians were killed in the attack.

The two companies demanded the introduction of security measures to protect expatriates working in this sensitive border area with Libya.

Kenya ‘delays energy bill

Kenya is to delay a much-anticipated energy reform bill until the summer as the East African country looks to monetise oil discoveries.
The Petroleum E&P Bill was to be ready for parliamentary debate last November, but has been pushed back.
Energy & Petroleum principal secretary Joseph Njoroge said the ministry is speaking with oil industry players and that meetings with regional officials will take place in February, Reuters reported.
“So by the end of this (fiscal) year – that is by June – we expect to have put everything in place,” the news wire quoted him as saying.

Ghana’s Petroleum Revenue Act to be amended in 2014

The Petroleum Revenue Management Act (PRMA), Act 815, is to be amended early this year to rectify some inconsistencies that exist in the current law, two-and-half years after it was enacted (in 2011).
Some of the inconsistencies identified in the law include the calculation of the Petroleum Benchmark Revenue and allocations to the Ghana Petroleum Funds (the Ghana Stabilisation Fund and the Ghana Heritage Fund) (GHF) and Annual Budget Funding Amount; membership of the Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC) and the qualifying instruments which Ghana Petroleum Funds (GPF) should be invested in.

No More Blackouts in Africa with Power SH Boxes - Coming to Africa

 

NRGLab (http://nrglab.asia/), the premiere green-energy company in Singapore, holds an affordable solution to power outages and blackouts.

The company has developed and perfected poly-crystal technology for producing electricity from environmental heat. This scalable power solution uses self-contained generators known as SH Boxes, which produce electricity for as little as 3 cents per kW. NRGLab systems produce environmentally-friends energy; no harmful emissions or pollutants of any kind are released from the company’s generators, which operate more than a decade on a single installation.   

Drop your comment, tell us what you think about this technology.

CUSTOMERS CAN NOW PAY CASH INTO THEIR ACCOUNTS AT ANY BANK - Comment

A big relief to Nigerian bank customers: you no longer need to reach your bank to deposit cash. You can now pay into any bank and the money will be credited into your account, just like you withdraw cash from any bank’s ATM.

The new deal has been made possible by BeyondBranches, owner of the payment platform QuickTeller, a value added service platform developed by Interswitch, the largest integrated payment processing service provider in Nigeria.

Oil and Gas Job - Cost Control Manager - Delmastar International Dubai

Payrate:               13,000 To 15,000 Monthly (AED)

Salary Details:     Free Accommodation & Food, Visa and Ticket

Job Status:            Full Time

Categories:           Oil & Gas

 Date:                    07-01-2014

Play Quest for Oil a unique online gaming environment by Maersk Oil - Make your comments

Quest for Oil is the first game of its kind and with the convergence of forces, innovation and technology Maersk gives the chance to experience the challenging world of being on a drilling rig with its 53,000 tonnes of steel rammed into the bottom of the ocean.

Making an impact at interview stage

Conducting job interviews had always been part of my job. And in my practice, I realized that the decisions I make regarding candidates are actually made within the first few minutes, while the rest of the interview served to validate my initial assumptions about each candidate. The same has been statistically proven in some surveys showing that most hiring decisions are made in the initial few minutes. But have you realized the importance of the initial meeting in consolidating your image during the job interview process?

It has been proven that the strongest element in any interviewee is their level of self-assurance – if they do not believe in themselves, how can they expect others to believe in them? Remember that, generally, all experienced recruiters hire first looking into the candidate attitude and then into their skills. The more positive and genuine the candidates seem, the better prospects they have to be selected.