West Africa

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August 27, 2018
ONS is proud to be hosting the first ever Ghanaian Pavilion to appear at an ONS 2018. You will find the Ghanaian Pavilion at ONS 2018, in Hall 4, stand 4300.
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August 27, 2018
Oando Plc is looking to boost crude output from next year as the Nigerian producer breaks the back of a $2.5 billion debt burden built up through the 2014 acquisition of oil and gas assets from U.S. giant ConocoPhillips.
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August 22, 2018
FAR Limited has selected its final well location for the upcoming Samo-1 well in its Gambian exploration program.
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August 15, 2018
Savannah Petroleum PLC, the British independent oil and gas company focused around oil and gas activities in Niger and Nigeria, has announced that the Eridal-1 exploration well is an oil discovery.
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August 08, 2018
Savannah Petroleum, the British independent oil and gas company focused around oil and gas activities in Niger and Nigeria, is pleased to announce the signature of a legally binding Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between Savannah’s Niger subsidiary (Savannah Niger) and the Republic of Niger.
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August 08, 2018
Marine and offshore engineering consultancy Aqualis Offshore has been handed the position keeping role for installation of the Egina FPSO, offshore Nigeria.
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August 07, 2018
After decades of difficulties in Nigeria over crude theft, pollution and oil-related corruption, Royal Dutch Shell Plc still feels optimistic a fossil fuel can improve life in the country.
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July 30, 2018
Savannah Petroleum PLC, the West African focused British independent oil and gas company, this morning announces that the fourth well in its current Niger drilling campaign, Eridal-1, was spudded on July 27, 2018. Eridal-1 is located on the R3 portion of the R3/R4 PSC Area in the Agadem basin, south east Niger.
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July 23, 2018
A giant refrigerator will replace the village Jonas Alide Saide has called home for 70 years and he’s not happy about it.
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July 23, 2018
Shell signed two production sharing contracts with the government of Mauritania for the exploration and potential future production of hydrocarbons in offshore blocks C-10 and C-19.
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July 20, 2018
Royal Dutch Shell Plc is in talks to sell two Nigerian oil licenses in an area that’s at the heart of environmental and human rights controversies for $2 billion, according to people familiar with the plan.
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July 11, 2018
Nigeria is taking its first steps to expand its LNG capacity by a third, outlining a $12-billion program to keep up with the world’s biggest producers.
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July 11, 2018
Savannah Petroleum announce its third consecutive discovery in the R3/R4 PSC Area, southeast Niger.
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July 04, 2018
Eni has started gas production from Sankofa field in the Offshore Cape Three Points (OCTP) Integrated Oil and Gas Project, in Ghana, on schedule during the past weekend.
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June 25, 2018
The Republic of Congo expects to raise oil production by as much 65% this year as two new projects come on stream, Hydrocarbons Minister Jean-Marc Thystere-Tchicaya said.
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June 13, 2018
The Ministry of Hydrocarbons of the Republic of Congo has announced the promotion of the Congo-Brazzaville License Round Phase 2 2018/19 at Africa Oil Week, Nov. 5-9, 2018.
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June 11, 2018
Ghana will buy contracts to protect it from higher oil-product prices in the third quarter as the West African nation seeks to curb volatility in what consumers pay at the pump amid rising costs of the fuel in international markets.
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June 07, 2018
On a tropical island just off the coast of Nigeria, hundreds of engineers work around the clock to produce liquefied natural gas at a plant the size of Lower Manhattan.
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June 04, 2018
Nigeria’s oil wells may be flowing again, but the country’s largest operator says attacks continue to put a brake on output.
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May 16, 2018
It’s meant to be a cash cow, but the state oil company of Africa’s biggest producer is bleeding money.
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May 03, 2018
ION Geophysical Corporation has announced acquisition began on a new 2D multi-client program offshore Ghana in partnership with Geoex and Ghana Geophysical. ION and its partners will acquire up to 7,200 km of data in advance of the license round anticipated in late 2018 to help refine understanding of the hydrocarbon potential of the area.
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