[11] The company owns one of the largest petroleum tank farms in Nigeria with facilities in excess of more than 250 million liters on over 100,000 square meters of landmass.
[13] In 2014, Aiteo acquired a controlling stake in Oil Mining Lease (OML) 29 and the Nembe Creek Trunk Line (NCTL) in the Eastern Niger Delta from Royal Dutch Shell Plc.
[18] In November 2023, Aiteo recorded a historic milestone in Nigeria’s oil and gas sector when it launched a new grade of crude called Nembe through a joint venture with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).
[22] The acquisition, achieved through agreements with Mozambique’s state oil firm Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos (ENH), grants Aiteo operational control over the block that spans around 23,000 square kilometers and contains 19 trillion cubic feet of gas.
[23] Aiteo has already initiated an extensive development program encompassing aeromagnetic and gravitational studies, field surveys, and data reprocessing.
[26] Peters is also the founder and CEO of Bravura Holdings, a vertically integrated mining company developing gold, copper, lithium, and steel assets in countries throughout the African continent, including Ghana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Namibia, and South Africa.
[28] The initiative will establish a 12-person task force focused on critical minerals, assembling participants from the United States, Europe, and Africa, including figures from the financial sector, development organizations, and governments.
[29] Amid the global pursuit of critical minerals, the task force will convene regularly in Washington, D.C. Their discussions will aim to assess the importance and potential of African minerals within supply chains of the U.S. and EU, devise approaches to improve the involvement of African nations and suppliers, and identify ways to more successfully mobilize the private sector.
[44] In April 2017, Aiteo announced the signing of a five-year partnership agreement with the Nigeria Football Federation, worth an estimated N2.9 billion naira ($3.8 million).
[51] In early November 2023, the African Centre for Justice and Human Rights (ACJHR), a pan-African civil society group, lodged a petition with Nigeria's House of Representatives, demanding a comprehensive legislative investigation into the defamation and undermining of Nigerian businessman Benedict Peters.
[53] Through the petition, the ACJHR seeks to "compel the British government to stop undermining Nigeria’s judicial sovereignty and the judgments rendered by competent Nigerian courts.