West Africa
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August 23, 2017
Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Ltd joint venture has started production at Gbaran-Ubie Phase 2, a key project in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region.
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August 21, 2017
The Ministry of Mines and Hydrocarbons (MMH), Ophir Equatorial Guinea (Block R) Ltd, OneLNG SA and La Compania Nacional De Petroleos De Guinea Ecuatorial (GEPetrol) have nominated Gunvor Group (Gunvor) as their preferred LNG buyer for offtake from the Fortuna FLNG project.
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August 17, 2017
As of Aug. 16, Well La-107 has been successfully drilled to its planned TD of the 6-in. hole section at 3,180 m MD (3,166 m TVD) where the base of the Logbaba formation was encountered.
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August 17, 2017
KBR, Inc., has announced that it has been awarded pre-front end engineering design (FEED) and project support services contracts by BP for the development of the Tortue/Ahmeyim field offshore Mauritania and Senegal.
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August 10, 2017
Atwood Oceanics, Inc., has announced that one of its subsidiaries agreed to a one well contract at an undisclosed dayrate for operations offshore Northwest Africa with Kosmos Energy Ventures for the ultra-deepwater rig, the Atwood Achiever.
News
August 07, 2017
The well encountered oil and gas in the primary objective and oil in the deeper secondary objective, in a separate accumulation to the SNE field.
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August 01, 2017
An attack by Islamist militants on an oil exploration team in Nigeria’s northeast has hurt the government’s agenda to find new crude reserves and quashed hopes of a quick recovery of the West African nation’s least developed region.
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August 01, 2017
Sound Energy, the European and African focused upstream gas company, is pleased to announce that it has received written confirmation, from the Wilaya of the L'Oriental region in Morocco (a local authority in Eastern Morocco), that preliminary approval has been provided for the proposed route of the gas export pipeline that will be necessary to transit gas from Sound Energy's Eastern Moroccan interests to the Gazoduc Maghreb Europe (GME) pipeline.
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July 27, 2017
Suspected Boko Haram militants ambushed an exploration team working for the Nigerian National Petroleum Corp., killing 10 people, the Nigerian army said.
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July 26, 2017
Tullow Oil Plc plans to drill more wells off Ghana once a ruling on a border dispute is out of the way.
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July 26, 2017
ABIS Holdings Energy Services Ltd. has signed an agency agreement to support the development and operation of an offshore supply base on the Spanish island of Gran Canaria.
News
July 20, 2017
The Agbada 2 flow station should have been buzzing with activity, pumping crude to one of Nigeria’s largest export terminals. Instead it was idle in the muggy, mid-morning heat as Wilcox Emmanuel, the facility’s manager, shrugged in resignation about the thieves who’d shut him down.
News
July 20, 2017
Sparrows Group and SPIE Oil & Gas Services have secured their first joint delivery project, which is in West Africa, after Total E&P Congo awarded the partners the crane maintenance contract on the Moho Nord development.
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July 20, 2017
African Petroleum has agreed to let an exclusive agreement lapse in talks to sell oil licences in Gambia and Senegal, it said on Thursday.
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July 13, 2017
Nigeria signaled its willingness to cap its oil production to support OPEC’s efforts to ease a global supply glut.
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July 11, 2017
Cairn Energy has announced the results of the FAN South-1 well in the South Fan prospect offshore Senegal.
News
July 11, 2017
A proposal that Libya and Nigeria could have to accept limits on their crude production probably wouldn’t be enough to put OPEC’s faltering efforts to eliminate a global supply glut back on track.
Article
July 2017
While much of West Africa suffers from economic hardship, political turmoil and corruption, other regions are thriving. Despite the risk to E&P activity in these precarious areas of operation, producers cannot ignore its abundant resources and its affluent potential to be an international hydrocarbon hotbed.
News
July 05, 2017
Shares in Oslo-listed African Petroleum plunged over 40% on Wednesday, a day after falling 50%, as Gambian Oil Minister Fafa Sanyang confirmed that his country had ended talks to extend exploration rights for two offshore areas.
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July 05, 2017
Nigeria's cabinet has approved a national gas policy that aims to reduce the country's dependence on crude oil by increasing gas exploration and facilities, the oil ministry said in a statement.
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July 04, 2017
Nigeria's state oil company has saved $2 billion in the past year by renegotiating its upstream servicing contracts, it said in a statement on Tuesday, as it tries to reduce high overheads.
