The Egyptian Ministry of Environment approved the study to build a 220km pipeline with a 26 inche diameter in order to move production from the Zohr gas field to an onshore processing station in Port Said Governorate.
Tullow Oil Plc’s Kenyan unit said it’s seeking trucking companies to transport crude from northwestern fields to the port city of Mombasa as the East African nation rushes to export its first oil by mid-2017.
The High Court in Chad has fined Exxon Mobile with $74b for allegedly underpaying royalties for 15 years. The two other companies named in the case are Chevron Corp. and Malaysia’s state-owned Petroliam Nasional Bhd.
Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of the Congo signed a memorandum of understanding for joint exploration and development of hydrocarbons in Lake Tanganyika.
A pipeline linking Iraq’s Kirkuk field to Turkey’s Ceyhan port was repaired after it was halted. A flow test took place and operations are expected to return to normal exports levels of more than 90,000b/d.