Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) will offer new oil and gas blocks for bidding to help the country hit new untapped resources, announced ADNOC CEO, Sultan al-Jaber, during CERAWeek in Houston, US.

South Sudan has initiated talks with India to revive oil blocks closed in the wake of a civil war in 2013

Indonesian state-owned energy company Pertamina has officially signed a framework agreement in the oil and gas sector with the Russian energy giant Rosneft. The target is to obtain additional oil production of 35,000b/pd and oil reserves of 200m barrels.

Liberia appears to be nearing closer to sealing the lease of two controversial oil blocks with Kosmos Energy, the based out of Dallas, Texas, company.