19+ Oil and Gas Small Business ideas

What is the best business to start in the oil and gas sector? Are you interested in doing business in the petroleum sector but you don’t know how to go about it?

Do you want to join the league of oil and gas merchants but you don’t have the capital to pursue that dream? Then read on as I expose some business opportunities in the oil and gas sector you can start today with little or no money.

Nigeria’s oil firms face zero revenue, post losses

the revenue woes facing local oil companies following the sharp drop in global oil prices have been worsened by the recent upsurge in militant attacks in the Niger Delta, industry players have said.
They stated this at the 40th Nigeria Annual International Conference and Exhibition of the Society of Petroleum Engineers in Lagos.
The Managing Director, Seplat Petroleum Development Company Plc, Mr. Austin Avuru, said about 70 per cent of the nation’s production from the traditional terrain of onshore and shallow water had been locked in.

Fund Managers who outperformed in their sectors in recent period of volatility

On Investors Chronicle, Darius McDermott of FundCalibre suggests looking at fund managers with a proven track record of strong performance in volatile times such as 2008/09 and also earlier this year.

Having crunched the numbers to identify those managers who outperformed in their sectors in both those recent periods of volatility, he came up with a shortlist of robust defensive suggestions across a wide range of sectors.

25 Years of the World Wide Web: What Surprised, Charmed and Changed Us

The internet has its share of milestones. Some trace its birthday to the first message sent from one computer to another in 1969 as researchers developed ARPANET, what would become the Internet. Some call that the web’s “first breath.”

Founders of AOL, Twitter and More Share the Best and Worst Moments in Internet History

On Aug. 6, 1991, the World Wide Web became accessible to the public. To celebrate the 25th birthday of this world-changing event, we asked founders of some of the first dot-com companies and inventors of some of the most fundamental internet technologies to look back on their careers and share their contributions.

Pics: Justin Bieber rents a huge $10k a night mansion in Hawaii for his two-week vacation

Justin Bieber has rented an impressive ocean-side mansion for a planned two-week summer getaway. The singer is paying $10,000 a night to stay at the stunning Water Falling Estate on Hawaii. The spacious residence is worth approximately $7 million and covers 10,942 sq ft over three floors.

Nigeria’s Mario Economy and The Way Forward

Am glad when it said *Thy glory, O Israel is slain upon high places:
How are the mighty fallen!

*Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the philistines rejoice, and lest the daughters of the uncircumcised exalt. That is the case when the hobo from the hobo-camp pejoratively hobnobs with the hobgoblin. Nigerians have been bamboozled, razzle-dazzle, razzmatazz politically.

A new oil discovery in Kenya is “very encouraging indeed” for its export ambitions

British energy group Tullow Oil has discovered oil in Kenya’s northern Kerio Valley, a finding that could mean the opening of a second oil basin as the East African country prepares to become an oil exporter for the first time.
Tullow said today (Mar. 16) that it had discovered “an active petroleum system with significant oil generation” across 700 meters in Cheptuket, south of the South Lokichar oil basin, which is already being developed by Tullow, its local partner Africa Oil, and AP Moller-Maersk of Denmark. Kenyan officials want to begin exporting some of the basin’s estimated one billion barrels of oil by September.

Robbers beat prayer warriors to coma for invoking wrath of God on them

Some prayer warriors during the weekend escaped being beaten to death by irate youths believed to be robbers for invoking the wrath of God on them.

The incident happened in Umudioka, Awka South Local Government Area, Anambra State.

Everything You Need to Know About Pokémon Go

Seemingly out of nowhere, people across the United States and other countries around the world could be found walking around with their faces in their smartphone screens. That's the norm nowadays, except these smartphone users weren't on social media. They were "capturing" imaginary creatures overlaid on the real world with the augmented reality game Pokémon Go.

Here's a timeline of the phenomenon (it will be updated regularly):

A $350 million skyscraper in San Francisco is tilting and sinking — here's why

San Francisco seems to have its own leaning tower.

It's called the Millennium Tower, and according to the San Francisco Chronicle, it has sunk 16 inches into the ground and tilted two inches to the northwest since its completion in 2008.

Generate 7 Figures From a Book Without Selling a Single Copy

Four out of every five folks say they have at least one book inside them -- and, as an entrepreneur, you’d better be one of them. Publishing a book is a savvy business move because there’s no quicker or surer way to set yourself up as an authority in your field. Especially considering that of the 85 percent of American businesspeople claiming they want to write a book, only 5 percent actually do.

That's unfortunate, because surely they know that there’s nothing better for instant social proof of their clout, credibility and competence. Imagine citing examples from your own book or being introduced as an author at an event or on a podcast. The credential raises the bar to a whole new