Oil | Egypt Oil & Gas - Part 28
Kenya Creates 17 New Oil Exploration Blocks
Kenya has created an extra 17 new oil exploration blocks, bringing its total to 63, and aims to auction them in a licensing round in 2017, Kenyan newspapers quoted Ministry of Energy and Petroleum saying, Reuters repo...
Non-Opec Producers Cutting Back Oil Output
Oil output from producers outside the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is falling faster than expected, helping the market to rebalance, according to The Telegraph. Non-Opec oil producers are expec...
Circle Oil Completed North West Gemsa Drilling
Circle Oil plc, the international oil and gas exploration, development, and production company announced that the 2016 infill drilling campaign on the North West Gemsa field in Egypt has been completed, OilVoice repor...
Nigeria’s Oil Production Output Nears 22-Year Low
A series of attacks on Nigeria’s oil infrastructure has pushed its output of crude close to a 22-year low, Reuters data shows, putting intense pressure on the country’s finances. The rebels, seeking a fair...
Kuwait Calls on Oil Production Freeze
The Kuwait’s Deputy Foreign Minister, Khaled Jarallah, stressed the importance of reaching a consensus among oil producing countries on an output ceiling to prop up crude prices, and he said that “There is...
US Sets Rule to Cut Methane From Oil, Gas
The Obama administration issued a final rule to sharply cut methane emissions from US oil and gas production, a key part of a push by President Barack Obama to reduce methane emissions by nearly half over the next dec...
Tanzania, Uganda to Accelerate Oil Pipeline Project
Tanzania has agreed with Uganda to accelerate the implementation of a crude oil pipeline project between the two east African nations, and award the construction contract to multiple contractors, Reuters reported. The...
Canada Oil Sand Fields Gradually Return
Workers for one of the largest oil sands companies affected by a wildfire in northern Canada started to return to the shuttered facilities on May 12th, a union official said, the latest indication the key petroleum pr... 
