Algeria Discusses Offshore Drilling Partnerships with Majors

• Wednesday, 1st March 2017
• by Editorial Team

Algeria’s Sonatrach wants to start its offshore oil drilling and has begun discussions with U.S. operators Exxon Mobil Corp and Anadarko, as well as Italy’s Eni, Reuters reported. As Investopedia explained...

President El Sisi Inaugurated EGYPS 2017 Exhibition

• Tuesday, 14th February 2017
• by Egypt Oil & Gas

His Excellency Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El Sisi translated his support for Egypt Petroleum Show (EGYPS 2017) by personally inaugurating EGYPS Exhibition. On his tour around two halls, he was accompanied by...

ExxonMobil, South Sudan in Talks over Oil Deposit

• Sunday, 12th February 2017
• by Editorial Team

The US-based ExxonMobil Corporation is in secret talks with Juba to buy a stake in South Sudan’s vast untapped oil deposit, a senior-level government source familiar with the negotiations told the South Sudan News Age...

Qatar Joins LNG Consortium in Pakistan

• Wednesday, 8th February 2017
• by Editorial Team

State-owned energy company Qatar Petroleum (QP) has joined an international consortium of major US, European, and Japanese energy companies to develop a liquefied natural gas (LNG) import project in Pakistan in collab...

Tanzania Expects LNG Plant Deal by 2018

• Tuesday, 24th January 2017
• by Editorial Team

Tanzania hopes to reach an agreement with international oil companies in 2018 paving the way for the construction of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant, part of a bigger plan for a new export terminal, Reuters report...

ExxonMobil Finds More Oil Offshore Guyana

• Monday, 16th January 2017
• by Editorial Team

ExxonMobil Corp. announced in early January it had further established offshore Guyana as a significant exploration province with a new oil discovery and successful appraisal drilling at its Liza field, Rigzone inform...

Tanzania’s LNG Plant in Negotiation Phase

• Tuesday, 27th December 2016
• by Editorial Team

The process of constructing Tanzania’s envisaged liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant to sit on the land of Lindi Region has now entered the negotiation stage of the Host Government Agreement (HGA), Sweet Crude Reports i...

Nigeria’s Qua Iboe Terminal Back to Activity

• Thursday, 22nd December 2016
• by Editorial Team

ExxonMobil operated Qua Iboe Terminal (QIT) in Nigeria is back to producing an excess of 150,000b/d of oil, Africa Oil&Gas Report informed. This came as the Ministry of Petroleum Resources said that the Obiafu-Obr...

Liberia’s Mesurado-1 Well Came Up Dry

• Tuesday, 20th December 2016
• by Editorial Team

ExxonMobil has failed in its effort to find oil offshore Liberia. According to Canadian Overseas Petroleum Limited (COPL), ExxonMobil’s partner in the Mesurado-1 well, the well is dry, Offshore Energy Today reported. ...

Iraq to Boost Oil Exports to China

• Monday, 19th December 2016
• by Egypt Oil & Gas

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...