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December 03, 2018
The Ministry of Mines and Hydrocarbons, representing the Government of Equatorial Guinea, calls for unity among oil producing ahead of this week’s 175th ordinary meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in Vienna.
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November 21, 2018
At the South Sudan Oil and Power Conference in Juba, the Minister of Mines and Hydrocarbons announced the decision to mandate all petroleum operators to cancel all contracts with U.S.-based oil service company Subsea 7, due to noncompliance of Equatorial Guinea’s local content regulations.
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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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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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March 24, 2017
Royal Dutch Shell, through its affiliates, has reached an agreement with Assala Energy Holdings, a portfolio company of the Carlyle Group, to sell 100% of its Gabon onshore assets for $587 million. The sale and purchase agreement (SPA) is subject to certain conditions which include various approvals. Closing is expected in mid-2017.
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March 20, 2017
South Sudan and Equatorial Guinea announced an historic partnership today in Juba, setting out the terms for a strong bilateral relationship between the African oil and gas producers.
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March 15, 2017
Total has started production from the Moho Nord deep offshore project, located 75 km offshore Pointe-Noire in the Republic of the Congo. The project has production capacity of 100,000 boed.
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March 06, 2017
Bowleven plc, the Africa focused oil and gas exploration group and Victoria Oil & Gas Plc, an integrated energy company with operations in Cameroon, both trading on AIM, are pleased to announce that they have signed a farm-out agreement relating to the Bomono production sharing contract (Bomono PSC).
