Sub Sahara Africa

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November 05, 2018
Equatorial Guinea expects oil companies to spend $2.4 billion on the nation’s oil and gas industry by the end of next year.
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October 26, 2018
Oil production at Total SA’s subsidiary in the Republic of Congo has exceeded expectations, a company official said.
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September 26, 2018
Delmar Systems, Inc. has been awarded the mooring contract to provide engineering design services, project management, mooring equipment, and mooring installation services for the Development Driller III at ExxonMobil’s locations offshore Equatorial Guinea.
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September 24, 2018
Anglo African Oil & Gas plc, an independent oil and gas developer, has announced that the construction of the extended pad at Tilapia field, in the Republic of the Congo has been completed ahead of schedule.
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September 17, 2018
BW Offshore has announced that first oil from the BW Adolo FPSO was safely achieved on Sept. 16, 2018, 18 months after the initial investment was made in the Dussafu license, offshore Gabon.
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September 07, 2018
Equatorial Guinea may exclude oil-service companies TechnipFMC Plc, Subsea 7 SA and Schlumberger Ltd. from the country because they aren’t complying with local-content rules over training and jobs, said a government official.
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August 31, 2018
Panoro Energy has reported an oil discovery in the Ruche North East Marin-1 (DRNEM-1) well drilled in the Dussafu Marin PSC, offshore Gabon.
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August 31, 2018
Bowleven, the Africa focused oil and gas company traded on AIM, has announced the spud of the IE-4 appraisal well on the Etinde Block, Cameroon, by the block’s operator, New Age Cameroon Offshore Petroleum SA.
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August 15, 2018
Bowleven, the Africa focused oil and gas company traded on AIM, has announced the completion of drilling of the IM-6 appraisal well at the Etinde Block, Cameroon, to a TD of 3,550 m by the block's operator, New Age Cameroon Offshore Petroleum SA.
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August 15, 2018
Anglo African Oil & Gas plc (AAOG), an independent oil and gas developer, has confirmed that the TLP-103 well, on Tilapia oil field, spudded on Aug. 15, 2018.
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July 19, 2018
The Democratic Republic of Congo is considering whether to open up swathes of two world-famous national parks to oil exploration.
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July 02, 2018
Anglo African Oil & Gas plc, an independent oil and gas developer, is pleased to announce the results of further work on the TLP-102 well on the Tilapia license in the Republic of the Congo.
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June 28, 2018
Pan-African explorer Oranto Petroleum is farming into two exploration blocks located onshore Zambia. Blocks 17 and 27 represent Oranto’s first investment in the country.
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June 2018
Baker Hughes, a GE company, has been awarded, by Equinor ASA and Aker Solutions, a contract to provide turbomachinery equipment for the topside structure on the Johan Castberg FPSO.
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June 04, 2018
Victoria Oil & Gas Plc, the Cameroon based gas and condensate producer and distributor, has provided the following update, based on internal estimates, on the reserves position for Logbaba field in Cameroon.
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May 15, 2018
Panoro Energy has announced the successful drilling of the DTM-3 appraisal well located at Tortue field, within the Dussafu License, offshore Gabon.
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May 14, 2018
Ophir announces that it has entered into a farm-out agreement with Kosmos Energy covering the EG-24 exploration license in Equatorial Guinea.
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May 10, 2018
Noble Energy, Inc. announced that it has executed, along with the Government of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea and necessary third-parties, a Heads of Agreement establishing the framework for development of natural gas from Alen field located offshore Equatorial Guinea.
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April 12, 2018
Independent global completions service company Tendeka has been awarded a multi-million-dollar contract to deliver autonomous inflow control devices (AICD) screens for an operator in Sub-Sahara Africa.
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April 11, 2017
HNR Energia B.V., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Harvest Natural Resources, Inc. closed the sale of all of its Gabon interests in accordance with a previously announced sale and purchase agreement dated Dec. 21, 2016 among Harvest, HNR Energia B.V. and BW Energy Gabon Pte. Ltd, a private Singapore company.
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April 04, 2017
2H Offshore, an Acteon company, has successfully completed the installation of the first of 17 production top tension risers (TTRs) for Total E&P Congo’s Moho Nord field.
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