Iraq will sell more crude oil to its biggest customer, China’s Unipec, just before production cuts agreed with OPEC and other producers are scheduled to kick in, Hellenic Shipping News reported. Iraq’s Oil Marketing C...
Nigeria has reached a $5.1b settlement to reimburse foreign oil companies, including Exxon Mobil Corp. and Royal Dutch Shell Plc, for past operating costs, Bloomberg reported. Nigeria’s Oil Minister, Emmanuel Ib...
Angolan state oil company Sonangol and its partners including oil major Chevron have started production at the Mafumeira Sul oil field with an initial output of 10,000b/d, Reuters reported. The Mafumeira Sul project i...
Nigerian Oil Minister Emmanuel, Ibe Kachikwu, said that the country has reached a $5b outline settlement with five oil majors to cover outstanding payments for joint exploration and production. This settlement related...
Total, Glencore and Gunvor are bidding for a 75% stake in Chevron’s South African downstream assets, which include a 110,000b/d refinery in Cape Town, Reuters reported. The second bidding round in which actual o...
Angola’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) export plant launched a tender to sell its second post-shutdown cargo, loading in early October, Reuters reported. This comes as a spokeswoman for Angola LNG confirmed that t...
The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, stated that Nigeria will sell off some of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation’s (NNPC) and Nigeria LNG Limited’s (NLNG) oil and gas ass...
The amount of West African crude oil heading east in September is expected to reach a five-month high, driven in part by trading houses. At least 60 cargoes, carrying the equivalent of 1.9mb/d are expected to make the...
Nigerian oil production has dropped to 1.4mb/d due to attacks by armed militant groups, the Nigerian Oil Minister, Ibe Kachikwu, declared, Argus Media reported. Nigerian output has improved to 1.75mb/d in July, up fr...
Heads of South Africa’s Strategic Fuel Fund (SFF) stepped down after the Department of Energy, to which the Fund reports, objected to an allegedly unauthorized offer the SFF had submitted for the purchase of Chevron C...