West Africa
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June 07, 2018
On a tropical island just off the coast of Nigeria, hundreds of engineers work around the clock to produce liquefied natural gas at a plant the size of Lower Manhattan.
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June 04, 2018
Nigeria’s oil wells may be flowing again, but the country’s largest operator says attacks continue to put a brake on output.
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May 16, 2018
It’s meant to be a cash cow, but the state oil company of Africa’s biggest producer is bleeding money.
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May 03, 2018
ION Geophysical Corporation has announced acquisition began on a new 2D multi-client program offshore Ghana in partnership with Geoex and Ghana Geophysical. ION and its partners will acquire up to 7,200 km of data in advance of the license round anticipated in late 2018 to help refine understanding of the hydrocarbon potential of the area.
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March 28, 2018
Shell referred a former vice president for sub-Saharan to the Dutch authorities, suspecting he may have committed crimes related to an asset sale in Nigeria.
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March 16, 2018
Royal Dutch Shell Plc and Eni SpA may have misled regulators in Nigeria by wrongly attributing oil spills to theft and sabotage in order to avoid paying compensation to affected communities, rights group Amnesty International said.
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March 13, 2018
Wood has been awarded three contracts to perform subsea and flow assurance studies for Woodside in Senegal, West Africa, supporting the proposed SNE Field Development in the Rufisque, Sangomar and Sangomar Deep Offshore blocks located offshore Senegal.
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March 12, 2018
An agency tasked with cleaning up Nigeria’s murky oil industry says even though financial accountability has improved the state oil company still hasn’t explained billions of dollars of missing revenue.
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March 08, 2018
Africa Oil Corp. has announced that it has completed the previously announced (Feb. 7, 2018) investment in Impact Oil and Gas Limited, a private UK company with exploration assets in South and West Africa.
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March 2018
Crude prices tumbled in February over fear of unfettered U.S. shale output, and a combined increase of 130,000 bpd by OPEC members Libya, Nigeria and Venezuela.
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March 2018
TAG Oil Ltd. (70%), operator of the Puka permit (PEP 51135) in New Zealand’s Taranaki basin, said the Pukatea-1 exploration well was drilled to 10,170 ft, MD, encountering variable hydrocarbon shows.
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March 07, 2018
OPEC member Equatorial Guinea suffered a double blow this week to its ambition of revitalizing its energy industry.
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March 01, 2018
Republic of Congo President Denis Sassou Nguesso appointed a new head of the state oil company as it struggles to pay creditors.
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February 28, 2018
Analysis of Ghana’s upstream oil and gas industry shows that the country currently has 21 licensed blocks, of which 14 are in the ultra-deepwater terrain, five are in shallow water, and two in deepwater, according to GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.
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February 27, 2018
Lines of cars and trucks snaking around blocks in the center of the Nigerian capital, Abuja, highlight the state’s failure to fix a problem that’s bedeviled Africa’s biggest oil producer for decades: fuel shortages.
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February 26, 2018
Ghana may start locking in future prices for oil and petroleum imports from the end of March as it seeks to contain inflation, said Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta.
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February 21, 2018
Danos has successfully completed a turnaround comprising four client offshore facilities in Equatorial Guinea.
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February 21, 2018
Japaul Oil & Maritime Services Plc, a Nigerian oil-services company, said it signed an agreement with private equity firm Milost Global Inc. for $350 million in shares and loans for business expansion.
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February 15, 2018
Add independent Nigerian drillers to the list of oil producers itching to supply more crude at a time when OPEC and allies like Russia are trying to restrict output and prop up prices.
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February 2018
Total (40%) and Chevron (operator, 60%) have announced a major discovery at the Ballymore prospect, in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.
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February 12, 2018
BP today confirmed that a key agreement between the governments of Mauritania and Senegal, which will enable the development of the BP-operated Tortue/Ahmeyim gas project to continue to move towards a final investment decision, has been signed by the two governments.
