East Africa

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April 06, 2015
Libya’s biggest oil port may reopen in two weeks, as fighting in the area recedes amid increasing competition between the divided North African nation’s rival governments for the control of crude exports.
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March 31, 2015
Apache Corp. has reported strong appraisal- and development-drilling results from Egypt following the discovery of two new oil fields in the Western Desert.
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March 25, 2015
Schlumberger Oilfield Holdings Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Schlumberger Ltd., has agreed to enter a guilty plea and to pay a $232,708,356 penalty to the U.S. for conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act by willfully facilitating illegal transactions and engaging in trade with Iran and Sudan.
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March 2015
Energy development will bring economic progress to the emerging nations of East Africa
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February 10, 2015
Taipan Resources has started an arbitration action against East African Exploration (Kenya) Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Afren Plc.
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February 10, 2015
CAMAC Energy has completed its onshore 2D seismic acquisitions on Blocks L-1B and L-16 in Kenya.
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January 23, 2015
Eni has announced a new discovery of oil and gas in the West Melehia deep exploration prospect, located in the Melehia license, in the Western Desert of Egypt.
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January 2015

Injection pressures of proppant-laden slurry and proppant-free spacer, using a pulsing approach, were found to be significantly lower than those applied with conventional hydraulic fracturing treatments.

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January 14, 2015
MILAN, Italy -- Eni has signed two concession agreements for the North Leil and Karawan blocks offshore Egypt, following the Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company 2013 international bid round.
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January 12, 2015
HOUSTON -- ION Geophysical has signed an agreement with the Puntland Petroleum and Minerals Agency (PPMA) to complete a multi-client 2D regional seismic survey offshore Putland, Somalia.
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January 09, 2015
MILAN, Italy -- Eni has signed a new Concession Agreement to operate in the South-West Melehia Block in the Western Desert of Egypt, following the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) 2013 international competitive bid round.
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