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July 25, 2025
Angola’s upstream regulator the National Oil, Gas & Biofuels Agency (ANPG) is pushing a $60 billion investment drive across its upstream oil and gas industry between 2025 and 2030, led by a series of ambitious E&P projects.
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July 23, 2025
TotalEnergies has announced the start of production from the BEGONIA and CLOV Phase 3 offshore Angola projects, which together will add a total of 60,000 bpd of new production.
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July 21, 2025
Mozambican President Daniel Chapo said he expects to soon conclude talks with TotalEnergies SE over the restart of a $20 billion natural-gas project that halted four years ago because of an Islamic State-linked insurgency.
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July 21, 2025
Namibia’s former-Minister of Mines and Energy, Tom Alweendo, is spearheading the launch of Alvenco Advisory, a new strategic advisory firm. The launch of Alvenco Advisory comes as Namibia accelerates the development of offshore oil and gas discoveries made in the Orange Basin.
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July 18, 2025
Ghana’s oil and gas sector is showing signs of resurgence, underscored by Eni’s recent declaration of commerciality for the Eban-Akoma offshore development, and the recent license extension secured by Tullow Oil and partners for the Jubilee and TEN fields.
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July 14, 2025
Azule Energy, a joint venture owned equally by bp and Eni, has made a major gas discovery at its Gajajeira-01 exploration well, offshore Angola. The results confirm the presence of hydrocarbons and open new exploration opportunities in the area, Azule said in a statement Monday.
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July 14, 2025
Tullow Oil and Kenya's Gulf Energy Ltd. have secured an extension to submit a development plan for fields in Kenya, a crucial step to completing a sale of the assets. Tullow agreed to sell the oil deposits to Gulf Energy in April, after struggling for more than a decade to bring them on stream.
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July 10, 2025
Golar's FLNG Gimi vessel has reached its commercial operations date (COD) under the 20‑year agreement for the Greater Tortue Ahmeyim (GTA) gas project offshore Mauritania and Senegal. The Gimi FLNG unit will initially produce 2.4 MMtpa of LNG, with plans to ramp up to its full capacity of 2.7 MMtpa.
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July 08, 2025
(Bloomberg) -- bp Plc and Shell Plc signed agreements with Libya’s National Oil Corp (NOC) to study new opportunities, joining international majors accelerating their return to the oil-rich African nation. The focus on Libya, an OPEC member, comes as the North African nation tries to bring back oil majors that left.
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July 08, 2025
African E&P Petralon Energy is on track to boost Nigerian crude production by a further 2,500 bpd, following drilling activities at the Dawes Island field. The company has recently completed a new well at the field aligning with plans to maximize output at the field.
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July 08, 2025
Gabon’s newly-appointed Minister of Oil & Gas has committed to unlock new resources across the country’s oil and gas sector but shifting focus towards deepwater exploration.
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July 08, 2025
bp has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) to evaluate redevelopment opportunities in the mature giant Sarir and Messla oil fields in Libya’s Sirte basin and to understand the wider unconventional oil and gas potential within the country.
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July 07, 2025
Environmental advocate group Greenpeace has spoken out against the African Energy Chamber (AEC) and Africa’s energy sector, citing the continent’s efforts to accelerate development as a coordinated attack on the right to dissent, the AEC said on Monday.
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July 07, 2025
Algeria’s state-owned oil company Sonatrach and Italy’s Eni have signed a 30-year production sharing contract to explore and develop the Zemoul El Kbar region of Algeria. The contract is estimated at a value of $1.35 billion, Sonatrach said in a statement Monday.
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July 04, 2025
Companies hired by TotalEnergies SE to build a $20 billion gas project in northern Mozambique have started preparing to resume work on the venture, four years after it was suspended because of a militant insurgency, according to people familiar with the matter.
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July 04, 2025
U.S. oil and gas company VAALCO Energy is refurbishing its FPSO facility at the Baobab field in Block CI-40, offshore Ivory Coast, African Energy Chamber announced. The modernization is set to increase production and extend the field’s economic life.
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July 02, 2025
Mozambican President Daniel Chapo said his government and private companies will have to collectively ensure the necessary security is in place to enable TotalEnergies to restart construction of a $20 billion gas project that has stalled due to a militant insurgency — and even then, risks will remain.
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July 02, 2025
Chevron Corp. and TotalEnergies SE are competing in Libya’s first energy exploration tender since the 2011 conflict, the country’s state-run oil firm said, as the OPEC member looks to oil majors to help ramp up production to a record.
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June 23, 2025
"The COD milestone marks a major achievement for one of Africa’s deepest offshore developments which introduce Mauritania and Senegal as LNG exporters," Golar LNG said in a news release.
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June 20, 2025
Angola’s national oil company Sonangol has signed two agreements with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) aimed at strengthening cooperation and knowledge-transfer in the fields of oil, gas and critical minerals.
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June 20, 2025
Nigerian energy company Green Energy International (GEIL) has completed the development of the Otakikpo onshore terminal and commenced operations. The newly-constructed facility is the first indigenous onshore terminal constructed in the country in five decades.
