West Africa
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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.
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October 28, 2016
TGS is to expand its NWAAM multi-client library in the MSGBC basin. The company is to acquire more than 11,500 km of long-offset broadband 2D seismic data as well as magnetic and gravity data in the Republic of Guinea, Guinea Bissau and the AGC joint exploration zone between Guinea Bissau and Senegal.
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October 27, 2016
Exxon Mobil Corporation today announced a significant discovery with a potential recoverable resource of between 500 MMbbl and 1 Bbbl of oil on Owowo field, offshore Nigeria.
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October 14, 2016
Eni announces that the naming ceremony of the Armada Olombendo FPSO vessel was held today in Singapore. The FPSO shall operate in Block 15/06, offshore Angola, for the East Hub Development Project.
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October 2016
Advances in directional drilling, logging while drilling (LWD) and well placement technologies have helped offshore operators reach new production targets, enabling wellbores to be threaded through geologically complex reservoirs and located many thousands of meters from a production platform.
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October 05, 2016
Oceaneering International is expanding its presence for autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) survey services to the West African region.
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October 04, 2016
OPEC crude production rose to a record in September, according to a Bloomberg survey, driven by returning output from Libya and Nigeria, members who will likely be exempt from last week’s deal to cut supply.
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October 03, 2016
The oil market gave the clearest sign yet that Nigeria’s Forcados crude is about to flow again for the first time in eight months, after Royal Dutch Shell was among companies said to have purchased the grade halted by militant attacks in February.
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September 28, 2016
Facing the likelihood of its first full-year economic contraction in 25 years, Nigeria is contemplating a rare sale of stakes in the oil and gas industry, the country’s biggest foreign-exchange earner.
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September 19, 2016
Sound Energy, the European and African focused upstream company, has announced that the second Tendrara well has now been drilled to the third and final casing point at an MD of 2,623 m and that operations have started to set and cement the 7-in. liner in the TAGI-I shale formation.
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September 06, 2016
FMC Technologies will provide subsea multi-phase boosting pumps, manifolds, and installation support services for Eni Angola's Block 15/06 West Hub Development Project located off the coast of Angola.
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August 31, 2016
Royal Dutch Shell’s Forcados pipeline in Nigeria will resume deliveries in September, according to an oil company that uses the line.
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August 30, 2016
CGG has signed an agreement with GNPC Operating Services Company (GOSCO), an independent Ghanaian E&P services company, to form a joint-venture company dedicated to conducting high-end 2D, 3D and 4D marine seismic acquisition and related services in the territorial waters of the Republic of Ghana.
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August 18, 2016
Offshore oil explorer Cobalt International Energy Inc. jumped the most in four years after an analyst upgraded the stock and said it could be a takeover target for bigger drillers.
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August 18, 2016
Crude oil production disruptions in Nigeria reached 750,000 bpd in May 2016, the highest level since at least January 2009.
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August 18, 2016
Nigeria’s Niger Delta Avengers militants, who have claimed repeated attacks on oil and gas pipelines sending the country’s crude output plunging, said Wednesday they were not ready to negotiate with the government.
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August 18, 2016
Tullow Oil has announced first oil from the Tweneboa, Enyenra and Ntomme (TEN) fields offshore Ghana, to the FPSO Prof. John Evans Atta Mills.
