West Africa
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May 23, 2016
Algeria has more drilling rigs than the rest of Africa combined, yet oil production still isn’t recovering after years of decline.
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May 19, 2016
After years of relative peace, militants are again blowing up the pipelines that criss-cross the mangrove swamps of Nigeria’s Niger River delta, reducing oil output to the lowest in almost three decades and fueling a rally in global crude prices.
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May 10, 2016
Oil producers are evacuating non-essential workers from the Niger Delta, because of the deteriorating security situation in Nigeria’s most-important oil-producing region, a union official said.
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May 09, 2016
DALLAS -- Kosmos Energy’s Teranga-1 exploration well offshore Senegal has made a significant gas discovery, the company said Monday.
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May 06, 2016
Nigeria is suffering a worsening bout of oil disruption that has pushed production to the lowest in 20 years, as attacks against facilities in the energy-rich, but impoverished nation increase in number and audacity.
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May 04, 2016
ION Geophysical’s Ocean Bottom Seismic (OBS) company, OceanGeo, is mobilizing its vessels and crew to conduct an OBS survey offshore Nigeria.
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April 28, 2016
Tullow Oil Plc said production at its flagship field offshore Ghana will resume in the next few days, while another project under development in the nation’s waters remains on track.
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April 22, 2016
Bowleven, the Africa focused oil and gas exploration group traded on AIM announced that it has been awarded a one-year extension to the existing Bomono exploration licence, onshore Cameroon, pending the final award of an Exploitation Authorization (EA).
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April 21, 2016
Veolia Water Oil and Gas Angola Lda has been contracted by TOTAL and Sonangol to supply Veolia’s range of Hydrex chemicals for its FPSO fleet operating off the coast of Angola.
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April 21, 2016
Sound Energy, the European/Mediterranean-focused upstream oil and gas company, has confirmed the commencement of drilling of the first well at Tendrara, onshore Morocco.
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April 21, 2016
Gabon is considering a return to OPEC and trying to rally fellow African nations for a more coordinated response to slumping oil prices, President Ali Bongo Ondimba said.
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April 15, 2016
DeepOcean Ghana has been awarded a three-year contract with options for two additional years, to provide a light construction vessel to Tullow Ghana.
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April 08, 2016
Tullow Oil issued the following operational update on Jubilee field in Ghana.
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April 08, 2016
Nigeria’s government may sell 40% of a new national oil company within 10 years of its creation, according to a draft law.
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April 04, 2016
Tullow Oil extended the suspension of oil and gas production at its flagship Jubilee field off Ghana and now expects exports to restart later this week.
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March 16, 2016
Kosmos Energy’s Ahmeyim-2 appraisal well has successfully delineated the Ahmeyim and Guembeul gas discoveries offshore Mauritania and Senegal.
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March 10, 2016
Technip Angola Engenharia Limitada, a joint venture between Technip and Sonangol, has been awarded a three-year engineering services contract by Total E&P Angola.
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March 10, 2016
PetroRio is terminating its exploratory activities in Namibia, the company said in a statement.
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March 09, 2016
Cairn Energy Plc gained the most in 16 months after the explorer reported positive results from an oil well off Senegal, potentially opening up commercial development for the area.
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March 03, 2016
Clean Sea, proprietary technology designed by Eni's research laboratories, will be used for the first time for marine environmental monitoring and offshore asset inspection in the Mediterranean region and West Africa.
