West Africa
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February 09, 2018
Production optimization specialist company Enpro Subsea has been awarded a frame agreement contract to support leading multinational exploration and production (E&P) company Tullow Oil as part of the operator’s strategic activities in Ghana.
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February 09, 2018
Australian offshore engineer, ICON Engineering, has delivered its first field development work in West Africa, supporting the planning for a wellhead platform and processing facilities.
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February 01, 2018
Bowleven, the Africa focused oil and gas exploration group traded on AIM, is pleased to announce a key milestone in the appraisal drilling campaign of its Etinde asset, in which the Company holds a 25% offshore interest.
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January 25, 2018
Africa’s top oil producer is learning to ignore crude prices, Nigeria’s Finance Minister Kemi Adeosun said.
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January 19, 2018
ExxonMobil today announced that it has signed a petroleum agreement with the government of Ghana to acquire exploration and production rights for the Deepwater Cape Three Points block.
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January 19, 2018
Nigeria’s House of Representatives passed a bill governing the country’s energy sector after the Senate did so in May, taking Africa’s top oil producer one step closer to a much-awaited overhaul of the key industry.
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January 19, 2018
CGG has announced that it has an agreement with Société Nationale des Hydrocarbures (SNH), the National Oil and Gas Company of Cameroon, to promote enhanced multi-client E&P data packages and interpretative products, in support of Cameroon’s 2018 Onshore & Offshore Licensing Round opened and conducted by SNH for eight free blocks on offer, located in sedimentary basins offshore and onshore Cameroon.
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January 18, 2018
Shoreline Group, a Nigerian oil producer, plans to almost double its crude output after agreeing a $530-million finance deal with Vitol Group and local lenders.
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January 03, 2018
Maersk Drilling has been awarded a four year contract for the deepwater drillship Maersk Venturer by Tullow Ghana Ltd.
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January 03, 2018
A fire at a Nigerian pipeline interrupted gas supplies to companies generating more than 3,000 MW in Africa’s most populous nation, the government said.
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May 19, 2017
Nigeria’s manager-level oil union will continue a strike indefinitely at Exxon Mobil Corp.’s local unit, threatening output after talks with the company to end the action reached an impasse, a labor official said.
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May 18, 2017
Cairn has announced the results of another successful appraisal well offshore Senegal. Rig performance continues to be excellent and operations have been safely and successfully completed ahead of schedule and under budget following drilling, logging and drill stem testing (DST).
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May 12, 2017
Total and Mauritania have signed an exploration and production contract to perform exploration works on Block C7, which covers an area of 7,300 km2.
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May 08, 2017
BP, along with JV partner Kosmos Energy, announced a major gas discovery offshore Senegal.
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May 02, 2017
Total and the Republic of Senegal have signed two agreements enabling Total to contribute to the exploration activities in Senegal’s deep and ultra-deep offshore.
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April 28, 2017
Ivory Coast’s biggest oil-palm grower plans to meet rising demand for the product in Africa by increasing the capacity of its refineries and pushing output to at least 1 million tons a year by 2022.
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April 11, 2017
Royal Dutch Shell Plc said it knew some of the $1.1 billion paid to the Nigerian government in 2011 for an exploration license would go to a company linked to the country’s former oil minister, changing its previous stance on a deal that’s under investigation for alleged corruption.
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April 06, 2017
Cairn has announced the results of the VR-1 well offshore Senegal. Rig performance continues to be excellent and operations have been safely and successfully completed ahead of schedule and under budget following the drilling and logging operations.
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April 04, 2017
TGS announces a further expansion of its NWAAM multi-client library in the MSGBC basin with plans to acquire more than 11,000 km of long-offset broadband 2D seismic data together with magnetic and gravity data, in Senegal and Gambia.
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April 04, 2017
When militants in Nigeria’s southern Niger River delta started attacking oil installations, President Muhammadu Buhari promised to crush them by force. A year and $7 billion in lost oil exports later, his decision to switch tack by negotiating with the fighters seems to be working.
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April 03, 2017
Lloyd's Register has signed an agreement with GOSCO to form a joint venture dedicated to providing well project management, well engineering and associated site survey, geotechnical and rig inspection services, in the territorial waters of the Republic of Ghana.
