Africa | Egypt Oil & Gas - Part 9
Hyperdynamics to Drill Offshore Guinea
Hyperdynamics Corporation, an independent oil and gas exploration company, has announced that it has signed a letter of award with drilling contractor Pacific Drilling to employ the Pacific Bora drillship to Guinea, E...
Nigeria to Allow Private Refineries
Nigeria’s Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, said that the Federal Government is to give licenses to the private sector individuals to build refineries, Today reported. His comments came during t...
Cameroon Spud Two Gas Wells
Africa-focused firm Victoria Oil and Gas said that drilling has started on two development gas wells in Cameroon. The wells will cost $40m and the drilling campaign will be wrapped up in the second quarter of 2017, En...
Mozambique to Launch Oil, Gas Bid
A senior official with Mozambique’s National Petroleum Institute, Augusto Macuvele, said that the country will hold its sixth round of oil and gas licensing bids late 2017 or 2018, Reuters reported. This comes a...
Nigeria to Invest in Gas
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation’s (NNPC) Managing Director, Maikanti Baru, said that the country currently possesses the capacity to create about $51b opportunities in the midstream and downstream gas sect...
Total to Produce Oil Offshore Congo in 2017
French Total’s Africa President for Exploration and Production, Guy Maurice, said that the company expects first production from Congo Republic’s offshore Moho Nord field to add an extra 100,000b/d when it start...
Tullow to Explore S. Lokichar field
Tullow Oil’s Vice President for Africa business, Tim O’Hanlon, sid that the company will restart exploration and appraisal drilling at Kenya’s prolific South Lokichar field in December, Reuters informed. O’Hanlo... Eni to Decide on Mozambique’s LNG Project
Italy’s Eni said a final investment decision is expected from partners on Mozambique’s deep-water Coral South floating liquefied natural gas project by December, with production starting five years later, ...
