Statoil: New high-impact discovery offshore Tanzania

• Monday, 18th March 2013
• by Egypt Oil & Gas

Statoil and co-venturer ExxonMobil are pleased to announce their third high impact discovery in Block 2 offshore Tanzania in a year. The discovery of 4-6 TCF of natural gas in place in the Tangawizi-1 well brings the ...

Lukoil refuses to take over ExxonMobil stake in Iraqi project

• Wednesday, 26th December 2012
• by Egypt Oil & Gas

The Russian oil producer Lukoil has turned down an offer from the Iraqi government to replace Exxon Mobil at the West Qurna-1 field in Iraq. The development of a large-scale project such as West Qurna 1 would bring ad...

SABIC, Exxon to proceed with elastomers project in Jubail

• Tuesday, 26th June 2012
• by Egypt Oil & Gas

Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) and affiliates of ExxonMobil announced yesterday they will construct a world-scale specialty elastomers facility at the Al-Jubail Petrochemical Company (KEMYA) manufacturing ...

Statoil operated high impact gas discovery off Tanzania

• Sunday, 26th February 2012
• by Egypt Oil & Gas

Statoil announced on February 17 that the partnership had encountered indications of natural gas in the Zafarani exploration well in the Block 2 licence offshore Tanzania.  The logging results now show that the d...

ExxonMobil in dispute with Nigeria over oil licence renewal

• Thursday, 19th May 2011
• by Egypt Oil & Gas

Nigeria’s state oil company said on Monday that ExxonMobil has until Thursday to express its interest in three large oil-drilling licences that the U.S. energy firm says it has already been granted. Exxon says i...