West Africa
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February 08, 2017
Nigeria’s progress in curbing militant attacks hasn’t much boosted its oil output. While that’s bad news for a country mired in its worst economic slump in 25 years, it’s making life easier for fellow OPEC members.
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February 03, 2017
Eni announces that the naming ceremony of the John Agyekum Kufuor floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel was held today in Singapore.
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January 31, 2017
West African oil producers will next month send the most crude to Asia in at least five years, the latest sign of how refineries in the world’s biggest demand region are scouring the world to replace supplies cut by OPEC’s Middle East producers.
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January 27, 2017
A Nigerian court has ordered Royal Dutch Shell Plc and Eni SpA to cede control of a jointly owned oil license to the government amid an investigation into how they purchased the asset.
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January 12, 2017
Nigeria’s blue-collar oil union suspended a planned three-day warning strike that began Wednesday after the government brokered a deal between workers and oil companies, including units of Chevron Corp. and Exxon Mobil Corp.
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January 06, 2017
Hyperdynamics Corporation has accepted a proposal from its drilling contractor, Pacific Drilling, to deploy the Pacific Scirocco drillship in place of the Pacific Bora for Hyperdynamics' upcoming deepwater exploration well offshore the Republic of Guinea.
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January 06, 2017
Royal Dutch Shell shut the Trans Niger oil pipeline after a fire, threatening to worsen a drop in Nigerian output due to unplanned disruptions.
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December 25, 2016
Algeria’s state energy producer Sonatrach Group plans to increase output of natural gas and crude oil by 20% in the next four years as new projects start up, Salah Mekmouche, the company’s V.P. of exploration and production, said.
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December 19, 2016
Penspen, a provider of engineering and project management services, has signed a strategic alliance agreement with Nigerian engineering firm Crestech.
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December 19, 2016
BP agreed to buy stakes in West African licenses held by Kosmos Energy for $916 million as the British producer builds its natural-gas business following an acquisition in Egypt last month.
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December 06, 2016
PARIS, France -- CGG announced the delivery of near real-time imaging results for a 4,200 sq km BroadSeis 3D marine seismic survey acquired offshore Morocco. CGG delivered the very-fast-track (VFT) RTM PSDM volume to the client only four days after the last shot.
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December 01, 2016
CGG announced that the final processed depth volumes (Kirchhoff and RTM PreSDM) from the company's recent 3D BroadSeis multi-client survey in the highly prospective Gabon South Basin are now available for license.
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November 25, 2016
The CI-GNL (Ivory Coast LNG) consortium led by Total has been awarded the rights to build and operate a liquefied natural gas (LNG) re-gasification terminal in Ivory Coast with a capacity of 3 mtpa.
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November 24, 2016
When OPEC exempted Nigeria from its plan to cut oil output for the first time in eight years, it highlighted how far Africa’s biggest producer has fallen.
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November 17, 2016
Nigeria reached a $5.1-billion settlement to reimburse foreign oil companies, including Exxon Mobil CNigeria orp. and Royal Dutch Shell Plc for past operating costs.
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November 10, 2016
Ophir Energy and OneLNGSM, a joint venture between subsidiaries of Golar LNG and Schlumberger, have signed a binding agreement to establish a joint operating company (JOC) to develop the Fortuna project, in Block R, offshore Equatorial Guinea.
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November 02, 2016
Nigeria and Libya, two crude suppliers in OPEC whose output was crushed by domestic conflicts this year, are ramping up again and spelling out what could become the producer club’s biggest challenge as it grapples with a global supply glut.
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October 31, 2016
Hyperdynamics Corporation, an emerging exploration company, has signed a Letter of Award with drilling contractor Pacific Drilling to engage the Pacific Bora drillship.
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October 28, 2016
Oceaneering International, Inc., has announced that a unit of BP has agreed to a two-year extension through January 2019, under the Field Support Vessel Services contract that was entered into with the Company for work offshore Angola on Blocks 18 and 31.
