August 2012
Features
Regional Report - Offshore Africa: Following the discovery of Jubilee field, operators are chasing Upper Cretaceous, pre-salt and deep horizon opportunities in West Africa and significant gas accumulations offshore East Africa.
The vast African continent is considered to have some of the last remaining hydrocarbon frontiers in the world. Excluding North African countries such as Egypt, Algeria and Libya, and the Sub-Saharan Africa countries of Nigeria, Angola and Gabon, where exploration has been ongoing for decades, exploration in the rest of the continent has been minimal. This article looks at frontier offshore exploration in three key regions: Gulf of Guinea, West Africa pre-salt and East Africa.
