FAR to Drill FAN South-1 Well in Senegal

• Tuesday, 2nd May 2017
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FAR Limited has announced that the Senegal joint venture partners will drill the FAN South-1 exploration well, the first pure exploration well to be drilled offshore Senegal since the FAN-1 and SNE-1 discovery wells i...

African Petroleum to Farm Out Senegal, Gambia Licences

• Wednesday, 19th April 2017
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African Petroleum announced that it has signed non-binding heads of terms and a binding exclusivity agreement with an undisclosed oil and gas company that is said to have a strong track record in offshore deep-water d...

CNOOC Teams Up with FAR to Search for Oil and Gas, West Africa

• Tuesday, 4th April 2017
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China’s CNOOC Ltd has agreed to collaborate with Australian minnow FAR Ltd to search for oil and gas prospects in what is considered to be en encouraging frontier off Senegal and Gambia over the next two years, ...

Cairn Energy Discovers Oil Offshore Senegal

• Tuesday, 28th March 2017
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Cairn Energy, in partnership with the Australian independent FAR Ltd, announced late March the discovery of oil at the VR-1 well, located on offshore Senegal, Offshore Energy Today reported. As Natural Gas World infor...

Indonesia, Senegal Seek Oil & Gas Partnership

• Wednesday, 22nd March 2017
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The Indonesian Embassy in Dakar announced in a press release that Senegal and Indonesia are exploring potential partnership in the oil and gas sector, Antara News reported. Indonesian Ambassador to Senegal, Mansyur Pa...

SNE Field Off Senegal to Start Production Before 2021

• Thursday, 16th March 2017
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Australia’s FAR Ltd, a partner in Senegal’s SNE offshore field, announced early March that  the project could start the production process before 2021, earlier than expected and at a higher rate than flagg...

OEG Offshore to Supply 100 Units to African Companies

• Monday, 6th March 2017
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OEG Offshore has delivered cargo carrying units for rental supply agreements in Europe and Africa during the start of 2017, Petroleum Africa reported. According to SBNN, OEG Offshore has been awarded contracts with in...

Cairn Energy Drilled SNE-5 Well Offshore Senegal

• Thursday, 23rd February 2017
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Cairn Energy has reached Total Depth (TD) at the SNE-5 well offshore Senegal at 2,852 meters below the mud line, Energy-pedia reported. Far Ltd, Cairn’s partner in the project, informed that a wireline logging and sam...

Cairn Energy to Drill New Wells Offshore Senegal

• Tuesday, 17th January 2017
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Cairn Energy is gearing up to start the third phase of its drilling program offshore Senegal in late January, aiming to further evaluate the SNE discovery, Offshore Energy Today reported. Cairn added the company and i...

BP to Invest $1b in West Africa Gas Field

• Monday, 19th December 2016
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BP is to inject almost b into a gas field off the coast of west Africa as the industry continues to battle low energy prices. The oil giant said it has struck an agreement with Kosmos Energy to explore the Tortue fiel...