| Nigeria >> 9/19/2019 - SeaBird Exploration has signed a contract to acquire a 2D seismic survey for an international oil & gas company in the Africa region. The survey is due to commence towards the end of September and is ... |
| Senegal >> 9/19/2019 - TGS has fired first shot to commence a new survey in the MSGBC Basin, offshore north-west Africa. The Senegal Ultra-Deep offshore 3D survey covers over 4500km2, with a modern broadband acquisition set... |
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Egypt >> 9/18/2019 - SDX Energy plc (SDX) is pleased to announce that the MSD-19 development well in the West Gharib Concession in Egypt (SDX 50% Working Interest & Joint Operator) has encountered a commercial oil accumul... |
| Morocco >> 9/18/2019 - Europa Oil & Gas (Holdings) plc is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a new Exploration Permit (‘Inezgane Offshore Permit’ or ‘the Licence’), covering an area of 11,228 sqkm in the Agadir Ba... |
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Egypt >> 9/17/2019 - Eni announces the successful commissioning and start-up of production of the offshore Baltim South West gas field in Egypt. ... |
| Libya >> 9/17/2019 - National Oil Corporation (NOC) subsidiary Harouge Oil Company has replaced Ras Lanuf storage tank no. 7, which has a capacity of 500,000 barrels of crude oil, bringing the port’s storage capacity to i... |
| Niger >> 9/16/2019 - Savannah Petroleum PLC, the British independent oil & gas company focused around activities in Niger and Nigeria, is pleased to note the signature on 15 September 2019 of a Transportation Convention b... |
| Angola >> 9/13/2019 - PGS MultiClient GeoStreamer 3D data, basin modeling and PGS Access™ products support the exploration of the Namibe Basin for the Angola offshore license round. ... |
| Gabon >> 9/13/2019 - VAALCO Energy, Inc. has commenced its 2019/2020 drilling campaign and spud the Etame 9P appraisal wellbore at the Etame field offshore Gabon. Drilling of the Etame 9P appraisal wellbore is expected t... |
| Somalia >> 9/13/2019 - Sterling Energy has announced that the Government of the Republic of Somaliland has granted a continued extension to the current period of the Odewayne Production Sharing Agreement ('PSA'). ... |
| Angola >> 9/12/2019 - ION Geophysical has announced a new 2D multi-client program offshore West Africa. The industry-supported NamibeSPAN program covers the underexplored Namibe basin offshore southern Angola. The datase... |
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Egypt >> 9/12/2019 - Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. announces that its subsidiary Tecnimont S.p.A. has signed with Egypt Hydrocarbon Corporation, a subsidiary of Carbon Holdings, a preliminary EPC contract related to the implemen... |
| Algeria >> 9/11/2019 -
Belkhair Dada Moussa, Minister of Training and Professional Education and Abdelkader Djellaoui, Ouargla Province Governor have visited Petrofac’s recently inaugurated training centre in Hassi Mess... |
| Congo >> 9/11/2019 - Anglo African Oil & Gas plc, an independent oil and gas developer, is pleased to announce that well re-entry operations have now commenced at the Tilapia site in Pointe Noire in preparation for drilli... |
| Egypt >> 9/11/2019 - Petrojet has completed rehabilitation of 252 m phase 1 of container terminal which is part of Crane Terminal rehabilitation Project at Damietta. ... |
| Nigeria >> 9/11/2019 - Eland Oil & Gas PLC, an oil & gas production and development company operating in West Africa with an initial focus on Nigeria, is delighted to announce that through its joint-venture subsidiary, Elcr... |
| Algeria >> 9/10/2019 - Honeywell (HON) announced that Sonatrach Total Entreprise Polymères (STEP) has selected Honeywell UOP’s C3 Oleflex™ technology to produce 565,000 metric tons per year of polymer-grade propylene for a ... |
| Nigeria >> 9/10/2019 - Solo Oil has signed a sale and purchase agreement (SPA) to exit its 20% investment in Burj Petroleum Africa Limited, a company which had applied for various undeveloped fields in the 2014 Nigerian Mar... |
| Congo >> 9/9/2019 - New Age (African Global Energy) Limited announces that its subsidiary New Age M12 Holdings Limited has completed the sale of its 25% non-operated interest in the Marine XII Licence to LUKOIL Upstream ... |
| Libya >> 9/9/2019 - National Oil Corporation (NOC) chairman, Eng. Mustafa Sanalla, met with Mr John W. Wallace, chairman and CEO of DeGolyer and MacNaughton, in Tunis. Also present were NOC board member for Exploration a... |
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Egypt >> 9/8/2019 - President Abdel Fattah El Sisi met with Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly, Minister of Electricity and Renewable Energy Mohamed Shaker Al Marqabi, Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Tarek El Mo... |
| Algeria >> 9/7/2019 - Neptune Energy and Sonatrach announced first gas export production from the Touat gas development in Algeria. Touat will deliver around 75,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day at plateau (around 450 ... |
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Egypt >> 9/7/2019 - Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Tareq el Molla discussed Friday with Djibouti’s Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Yonis Ali Guedi, currently on a visit to Egypt, joint cooperation a... |
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Egypt >> 9/6/2019 - TGS and Schlumberger have announced a new 3D seismic reimaging project in the Egyptian Red Sea. The project will comprise reimaging data from three overlapping seismic surveys totaling 3,600 km² that ... |
| Nigeria >> 9/6/2019 - LEKOIL, the Africa-focused oil and gas exploration, development and production company, has announced that pursuant to a letter dated 4 September 2019, the Federal Government of Nigeria and the Minist... |
| Algeria >> 9/4/2019 - The gas compression and re-injection plant at Hassi Messaoud (Ouargla) will be inaugurated shortly, said Sonatrach CEO Rachid Hachichi. ... |
| Angola >> 9/4/2019 - Sonadrill Holding Ltd, Seadrill Limited’s 50:50 joint venture with an affiliate of Sonangol E.P., has secured a nine well contract with six options, each for one well, in Angola for the Libongos drill... |
| Nigeria >> 9/3/2019 - Airborne Oil & Gas B.V. has been awarded a large contract from a supermajor through Oceaneering International Inc to supply Thermoplastic Composite Pipe (TCP) flowlines for deployment in West Africa. ... |
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Egypt >> 9/2/2019 - The Ministry of Petroleum said 10 exploratory wells were dug in the Western Desert and they went online in a record time with a daily average output of 5,000 oil barrels. ... |
| Mauritania >> 9/2/2019 - International compressor supplier TMC Compressors of the Seas (TMC) has been awarded a contract to supply the offshore market’s most energy efficient compressed air system to Golar LNG’s Gimi FLNG ves... |
| Gabon >> 8/30/2019 - Panoro Energy ASA is pleased to announce that the Hibiscus Updip well (DHIBM-1), currently being drilled on the Dussafu Marin Permit offshore Gabon, has encountered hydrocarbons. ... |
| Nigeria >> 8/30/2019 - LEKOIL, the Africa-focused oil and gas exploration, development and production company, is pleased to announce it has reached a resolution with Optimum Petroleum Development Company ("Optimum"), its p... |
| Gabon >> 8/29/2019 - Panoro Energy ASA is pleased to announce the release of a mid-year update of the oil reserves report from independent reserves auditor Netherland, Sewell & Associates Inc. (“NSAI”) on certain fields l... |
| Uganda >> 8/29/2019 - On January 9, 2017, Total and Tullow entered into a Sale and Purchase Agreement (SPA) whereby Total would acquire 21.57% out of Tullow’s 33.33% interest in the Lake Albert licenses. CNOOC exercised it... |
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Botswana >> 8/28/2019 - RigNet (RNET), the leading provider of ultra-secure, intelligent networking solutions, has signed a multi-year agreement with Borr Drilling (BDRILL), a global offshore drilling contractor, to exclusiv... |
| Cameroon >> 8/28/2019 - Tower Resources plc, the AIM-listed oil and gas company with a focus on Africa, is pleased to provide an update on operations on the Thali block in Cameroon and on well financing. ... |
| Gabon >> 8/28/2019 - VAALCO Energy, Inc. provided an operational update with additional details on the commencement of its 2019/2020 drilling program, the successful completion of its full-field annual maintenance shutdow... |
| Mauritania >> 8/28/2019 - McDermott Marine Construction Limited has awarded a contract to Nexans for the supply of approximately 100 km subsea umbilicals and accessories for the Greater Tortue Ahmeyim natural gas project offsh... |
| Equatorial Guinea >> 8/27/2019 - Noble Energy has made a new discovery in Block 1 offshore Equatorial Guinea, with the U.S. company expecting to produce new oil by tapping into existing infrastructure by October. The Aseng 6P well wa... |
| Libya >> 8/27/2019 - National Oil Corporation (NOC) chairman, Eng. Mustafa Sanalla met with the Pakistani Ambassador to Libya, His Excellency Sajid Iqbal. The two parties emphasized the special relationship between the tw... |
| Namibia >> 8/27/2019 - Total and Qatar Petroleum have further strengthened their international partnership by signing agreements under which Qatar Petroleum will farm into Total-held exploration acreage in Namibia, Guyana a... |
| Nigeria >> 8/27/2019 - Eni, through its subsidiary NAOC (Eni 20%, operator, NNPC 60%, Oando 20%) carried out an important gas and condensate discovery in the deep geological sequences of the Obiafu fields -Obrikom, in the O... |
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Egypt >> 8/26/2019 - Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli said that the state attaches great importance to the petroleum sector due to its vital role in pushing forward development efforts in the country. ... |
| Nigeria >> 8/23/2019 - LEKOIL, the oil and gas exploration and development company with a focus on Nigeria and West Africa more generally, has agreed to acquire, subject to the receipt of the required consents, via Lekoil 2... |
| Botswana >> 8/22/2019 - Tlou Energy Limited, the ASX, AIM and BSE listed company focused on delivering power in Botswana and southern Africa through the development of coal bed methane (CBM) is delighted to announce that sus... |
| Mozambique >> 8/22/2019 - The board of directors of the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) voted to notify the U.S. Congress, pursuant to the EXIM charter, of its consideration of a $5 billion direct loan to suppor... |
| Mozambique >> 8/22/2019 - Rosneft Oil Company and the National Petroleum Institute (Instituto Nacional de Petroleo, INP) have signed a Cooperation Agreement. The document was signed by Chief Executive Officer of Rosneft Oil Co... |
| Nigeria >> 8/19/2019 - Savannah Petroleum PLC, the British independent oil & gas company focused around activities in Niger and Nigeria, is pleased to provide an update in relation to the Seven Energy Transaction (the "Tran... |
| Morocco >> 8/18/2019 - Announcing its unaudited results for the six months ended 30 June 2019, Genel Energy said that, on the Sidi Moussa block offshore Morocco (Genel 75% working interest, operator), processing of the mult... |
| Mozambique >> 8/18/2019 - Total SA is committed to developing the Mozambique natural gas project that it will take over from Anadarko Petroleum Corp. as part of its expansion in Africa, the company said. The project, to cost a... |
| Gabon >> 8/16/2019 - BW Offshore has received a one-year contract extension for the lease and operation of the FPSO Petroleo Nautipa. The FPSO is operating on the Etame field offshore Gabon for VAALCO Energy. The firm per... |
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Egypt >> 8/14/2019 - Natural gas production at Zohr, the largest gasfield in the Mediterranean Sea, more than tripled in the first half this year to reach 11.3 billion cubic metres, Russian energy giant Rosneft said. ... |
| Senegal >> 8/12/2019 - Woodside Energy (Senegal) BV awarded Halliburton Company (HAL) nine conditional contracts for drilling and completion services for SNE Field Development Phase 1 offshore Senegal. ... |
| Nigeria >> 8/10/2019 - Africa’s largest oil refinery will not be finished until the end of 2020 due to problems importing steel and other equipment, executives at Dangote, which is building the facility in the Nigerian comm... |
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Egypt >> 8/8/2019 - The EBRD is stepping up its support for renewable energy in Egypt by providing funds to one of the biggest windfarms in Africa. ... |
| Algeria >> 8/7/2019 - LyondellBasell (LYB) announced that Sonatrach Total Entreprise Polymeres Spa (STEP), a joint venture between Sonatrach and TOTAL S.A, has selected LyondellBasell’s Spheripol technology for a 550 KTA p... |
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Egypt >> 8/7/2019 - Siemens announced that the Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company (EETC) has awarded the company a series of five-year grid studies to analyze and examine the country’s transmission network, to ide... |
| Egypt >> 8/7/2019 - The Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) to enhance the relationship and cooperation between both institutions and ... |
| Niger >> 8/6/2019 - China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) signed a contract with the government of Benin in West Africa to build and operate a crude oil pipeline in the region. The 1,980-kilometres pipeline will start fro... |
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Egypt >> 8/5/2019 - Adding to the 64,1 MWp project in operation since February 2018, ib vogt began commercial operation for three additional solar power plants totalling 166.5 MWp. All projects are located in the Benban ... |
| Guinea Bissau >> 8/5/2019 - SPE Guinea Bissau AB (“Svenska GB”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Svenska Petroleum Exploration AB, Sweden, is the Operator of Block 2, the Sinapa Licence, and Blocks 4A & 5A, the Esperança Licence, o... |
| Nigeria >> 8/5/2019 - Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc has entered into a contract for its new-build semi-submersible well intervention vessel, the Q7000. The vessel will be performing subsea workover and integrated well ... |
| Nigeria >> 8/5/2019 - Shelf Drilling, Ltd. has secured a six-month contract extension on the Shelf Drilling Resourceful jack-up rig
in direct continuation of its current contract for drilling operations offshore Nigeria. ... |
| Libya >> 8/4/2019 - National Oil Corporation (NOC) chairman Eng. Mustafa Sanalla visited the offshore El Bouri oil field, meeting facilities staff while inspecting operations and completed maintenance works. The field, s... |
| Nigeria >> 8/2/2019 - ModuResources primarily provides rig inspection services and recently branched out to add other services to its group of companies such as training (IWCF & IADC accredited), well engineering & advisor... |
| Swaziland >> 8/2/2019 - ABB announced that Hitachi, Ltd. (Hitachi) placed an order for ABB Ability™ Network Manager Market Management System (MMS), a software solution for the electricity balancing market system. MMS, consis... |
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Egypt >> 8/1/2019 - Shares in Egypt’s Qalaa Holdings, one of the country’s largest investment companies, fell by nearly 10% on Wednesday after it said that its stake in a new refining company had been reduced. ... |
| Mozambique >> 8/1/2019 - Speedcast International Limited, the world’s most trusted provider of remote communication and IT solutions, announced today that the company has been awarded a new multi-year contract to provide comm... |
| Namibia >> 8/1/2019 - Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS) has been awarded a contract from Nabirm Global LLC (“Nabirm”) for a proprietary 3D CSEM survey over Block 2113A, Petroleum Exploration License (PEL 0058) in the ... |
| Nigeria >> 8/1/2019 - Eland Oil & Gas PLC, an oil & gas production and development company operating in West Africa with an initial focus on Nigeria, is pleased to announce that first production from the Gbetiokun oilfield... |
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Egypt >> 7/31/2019 - Israel’s anti-trust regulator gave the partners in the Tamar and Leviathan natural gas fields a green light to buy into an export pipeline to Egypt, as long as they grant other players access to the p... |
| Libya >> 7/31/2019 - National Oil Corporation (NOC) announces the reinstatement of force majeure on crude oil loadings at Zawiya port commencing Tuesday, July 30, 2019. This decision was prompted by a new illegal Sharara ... |
| Libya >> 7/31/2019 - National Oil Corporation (NOC) and Italian oil major Eni announce the completion of Phase 2 of the Bahr Essalam offshore gas project, a joint venture between the two companies operated by NOC subsidia... |
| South Africa >> 7/31/2019 - A report released by Africa Oil Week and Menas Associates about what lies in store for Africa’s oil and gas industry has concluded that, on balance, the continent’s economic performance is promising, ... |
| Cameroon >> 7/30/2019 - Tower Resources plc, the AIM listed oil and gas company with its focus on Africa, is pleased to announce an extension of its Bridging Loan Facility ("Facility") of US$750,000. The terms of the extensi... |
| Cameroon >> 7/29/2019 - Victoria Oil & Gas Plc, whose wholly-owned subsidiary, Gaz du Cameroun S.A. ("GDC"), is the fully integrated onshore gas producer and distributor with operations located in the port city of Douala, Ca... |
| South Africa >> 7/29/2019 - Algeria –having just announced “fuel self-sufficiency” – is the latest African oil-and gas-producing country to confirm its attendance at the 26th Africa Oil Week (AOW) in Cape Town this November. ... |
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Egypt >> 7/26/2019 - Egypt's Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Wealth and Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy signed with the US Department of Energy a memorandum of understanding on cooperation in the field of e... |
| Uganda >> 7/26/2019 - Chinese oil firm China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) aims to take a stake in an oil pipeline being developed to export Ugandan crude, the firm said on Friday. ... |
| Angola >> 7/25/2019 - Eni has successfully drilled Agogo-2, the first appraisal well of the Agogo discovery in Block 15/06, offshore Angola. The well results confirm the 650 million barrels of oil in place at the Agogo fie... |
| Libya >> 7/25/2019 - A senior delegation from National Oil Corporation (NOC) is in China at the invitation of the country’s leading oil major China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) to discuss investment and enhanced ... |
| Benin >> 7/24/2019 - Total, the Republic of Benin and the Societe Beninoise d’Energie Electrique (SBEE) have signed the Gas Supply Agreement and the Host Government Agreement for the development of a Liquefied Natural Gas... |
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Egypt >> 7/23/2019 - United Oil & Gas PLC, the AIM traded oil and gas exploration and development company, is pleased to announce the proposed acquisition of Rockhopper Egypt Pty Ltd from Rockhopper Exploration Plc, for a... |
| Egypt >> 7/23/2019 - In early 2018, Wintershall Dea announced the start of an extensive work program in all own-operated Egyptian assets. The company is currently investing more than 500 Million US-Dollars over three year... |
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Egypt >> 7/23/2019 - Eni announces that production from South West Meleiha Development Lease, located in the Egyptian Western Desert, some 130 Km North of the oasis of Siwa, has started. The current production, delivered ... |
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Egypt >> 7/23/2019 - Belayim Petroleum Company (Petrobel) has successfully achieved a natural gas discovery in the Nile Delta concession area, which is currently being put into production at rates of up to 20 million cubi... |
| Equatorial Guinea >> 7/23/2019 - Tenaris was awarded the offshore export pipeline for the Alen Gas Monetization Project in Equatorial Guinea, a key component of Noble Energy’s growth strategy in West Africa. ... |
| Gambia >> 7/23/2019 - Gambia National Petroleum Corporation and British Petroleum Exploration (Gambia) Ltd signed a Joint Operating Agreement for Block A1 License. This JOA marks the first involvement of the National Oil C... |
| Kenya >> 7/23/2019 - The agreement is subject to customary regulatory approvals by the government of Kenya. Following such approval, the partners comprising the consortium will consist of affiliates of each of Eni (the op... |
| South Africa >> 7/23/2019 - Transnet SOC Ltd is pleased to announce that it has entered into a cost-sharing agreement with IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, to conclude a feasibility study for the development of a liquefied... |
| Libya >> 7/22/2019 - National Oil Corporation (NOC) announces the lifting of force majeure on Sharara crude oil loading from Zawiya port, following the opening of a closed valve on the pipeline connecting the Sharara oilf... |
| Algeria >> 7/20/2019 - On Friday, July 19, 2019, the MESDAR tanker of 2,000,000 barrels of capacity, property of SONATRACH, was forced to set sail for the territorial waters of the Iranian coasts, by the coastguards of the ... |
| Mozambique >> 7/20/2019 - Eni has started installation works on the hull of the Coral Sul floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) treatment and liquefaction unit that will be moored offshore in Mozambique. The unit is part of th... |
| Angola >> 7/17/2019 - Seadrill Limited has secured a nine well contract with three options, each for two wells, for the West Gemini in West Africa. Total contract value for the firm portion of the contract is expected to b... |
| Angola >> 7/17/2019 - VAALCO Energy, Inc. has paid $4.5 million to Angola National Agency of Petroleum, Gas, and Biofuels (ANPG), as National Concessionaire, under the terms of the previously announced Settlement Agreement... |
| Congo >> 7/17/2019 - Anglo African Oil & Gas plc, an independent oil and gas developer, is pleased to announce that it has completed a fundraising (the "Fundraising") for up to £8.25m. The fundraising comprises: ... |
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Egypt >> 7/17/2019 - Egypt's Ambassador to Algeria Ayman Mosharafa said that he discussed with Algerian Energy Minister Mohamed Arkab means of boosting bilateral relations in the oil field. ... |
| Gabon >> 7/17/2019 - Seadrill Partners (SDLP) has secured a one well contract with PC Gabon Upstream S.A. for the West Polaris to work offshore Gabon. Backlog is expected to be approximately $22 million excluding mobiliza... |
| Libya >> 7/17/2019 - National Oil Corporation (NOC) convened an emergency meeting at the headquarters of the Azzawiya Oil Refining Company (ARC) following a suspected device explosion on July 15, 2019, at the offices of t... |
| Algeria >> 7/16/2019 - Petrofac inaugurated its construction skills training centre in Hassi Messaoud, Southern Algeria, following the completion of a programme to upgrade the centre’s facilities. The centre will provide tr... |
