Sub Sahara Africa

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May 15, 2018
Panoro Energy has announced the successful drilling of the DTM-3 appraisal well located at Tortue field, within the Dussafu License, offshore Gabon.
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May 14, 2018
Ophir announces that it has entered into a farm-out agreement with Kosmos Energy covering the EG-24 exploration license in Equatorial Guinea.
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May 10, 2018
Noble Energy, Inc. announced that it has executed, along with the Government of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea and necessary third-parties, a Heads of Agreement establishing the framework for development of natural gas from Alen field located offshore Equatorial Guinea.
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April 12, 2018
Independent global completions service company Tendeka has been awarded a multi-million-dollar contract to deliver autonomous inflow control devices (AICD) screens for an operator in Sub-Sahara Africa.
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April 11, 2017
HNR Energia B.V., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Harvest Natural Resources, Inc. closed the sale of all of its Gabon interests in accordance with a previously announced sale and purchase agreement dated Dec. 21, 2016 among Harvest, HNR Energia B.V. and BW Energy Gabon Pte. Ltd, a private Singapore company.
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April 04, 2017
2H Offshore, an Acteon company, has successfully completed the installation of the first of 17 production top tension risers (TTRs) for Total E&P Congo’s Moho Nord field.
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March 24, 2017
Royal Dutch Shell, through its affiliates, has reached an agreement with Assala Energy Holdings, a portfolio company of the Carlyle Group, to sell 100% of its Gabon onshore assets for $587 million. The sale and purchase agreement (SPA) is subject to certain conditions which include various approvals. Closing is expected in mid-2017.
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March 20, 2017
South Sudan and Equatorial Guinea announced an historic partnership today in Juba, setting out the terms for a strong bilateral relationship between the African oil and gas producers.
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March 15, 2017
Total has started production from the Moho Nord deep offshore project, located 75 km offshore Pointe-Noire in the Republic of the Congo. The project has production capacity of 100,000 boed.
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March 06, 2017
Bowleven plc, the Africa focused oil and gas exploration group and Victoria Oil & Gas Plc, an integrated energy company with operations in Cameroon, both trading on AIM, are pleased to announce that they have signed a farm-out agreement relating to the Bomono production sharing contract (Bomono PSC).
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February 27, 2017
Total has signed an agreement for the sale of stakes and the transfer of operatorship in various mature assets in Gabon to Perenco. The transaction is subject to approval by the authorities.
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January 23, 2017
The Ministry of Mines and Hydrocarbons of Equatorial Guinea has announced that it has submitted its interest to join the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in 2017.
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January 05, 2017
VAALCO Energy, Inc. has announced that the Avouma 2-H well on the Avouma platform offshore Gabon is back on production after utilizing a hydraulic workover unit to replace a failed Electric Submersible Pump (ESP) system.
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