Royal Dutch Shell has been awarded a contract to explore for oil and gas in the Black Sea off the Bulgarian coast, Reuters reported. Two blocks, Silistar and Tares, were placed for auction by the small country in Apri...
After disappointing results from its last action round, the Mexican government is sprucing up the terms of its new auction for oil and gas blocks off the coast, said the Financial Times. The Mexican oil sector was ope...
ExxonMobil Corporation said that its subsidiary, Esso Exploration and Production Nigeria Limited, has started oil production ahead of schedule and under budget at the Erha North Phase 2 project offshore Nigeria, Petro...
Libya’s internationally recognised government plans to boost oil production five-fold and will punish companies working with a rival cabinet striving to control the divided North African nation’s crude dep...
Angola is unlikely to produce 2m b/d in 2016, said the office of economic and financial studies of the Portuguese bank BPI, adding that this is “an overly optimistic goal,” MacauHub reported. “The Angolan authorities ...
According to Abu Bakr Ibrahim, Chairman of Ganope, the company has made a total of 17 agreements, in addition to 5 new agreements currently being finalized, reported Egypt Oil & gas (EOG). The 5 agreements were th...
Prime Minister Sherif Ismail said that optimizing the usage of natural resources, boosting exploration activities, increasing local production, as well as reserves ensure maximizing the value added to the national eco...
US shale fields across the country reported production drops of a combined 80,000 b/d, the EIA said. The drop in production is lower than expected, being a smaller reduction than what was observed over the last four m...
Italian energy giant Eni intends to add about 300 mcf/d to the Noras field in the Western Desert, by the end of 2015, reported Daily News Egypt. According to sources at EGAS, the increase is attributed to the three w...
A study by the Egyptian Center for Economic Studies (ECES) forecasts that due to the recent gas discovery, Egypt will be able to double its natural gas production by 2018. According to the study Egypt is expected to a...