Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Karim Badawi, met Sultan Al Jaber, UAE’s Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology and the CEO of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) Group, to discuss increasi...
Iraq plans to offer 10 gas exploration blocks to international companies in a new licensing round to be revealed during Iraqi Oil Minister’s visit to the US. Iraq’s Oi Minister, Hayan Abdel-Ghani highlighted the count...
Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Tarek El Molla, received a delegation from the French company TotalEnergies, headed by Jean Jaylet, VP North Africa and Yemen. The meeting discussed the company’s pla...
Iran is planning to unveil its first round of oil and gas exploration tenders since the easing of economic sanctions. This step comes in the light of Iran’s strategy to attract International Oil Companies (IOCs)...
During its preliminary results and operational update for the year ended 30 June 2016, Edinburgh-based Bowleven said that the Scottish oil explorer was making progress on developing its Cameroonian assets despite its ...
Zanzibar, a Tanzanian archipelago off the coast of East Africa, will soon start direct talks with investors in the oil and gas sector, thanks to a new law to be passed by Tanzania’s House of Representatives, All Afric...
In an effort to increase Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the oil and gas sector, Ganoub El-Wadi Holding company issued a new international tender for the exploration of ten areas including five sites within the sou...
European oil major Total has signed a ten-year agreement to supply 500,000 tons of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to China’s privately-run ENN Group annually, Rigzone reported. The supplies of the super-chilled nat...
Santos says an appraisal well has proved more gas at the Barossa discovery in the NT/RL5 permit offshore Northern Territory. Barossa-3 was the second of a three-well campaign. It was drilled 300 km (186 mi) north of D...
Origin Energy Ltd. has found what it calls potentially commercial gas in the Speculant-1 exploration well. The gas is in Waarre formation reservoirs in the Otway basin, offshore Victoria, Australia. Preparations are b...