West Africa
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April 03, 2020
TDI-Brooks International, under contract to TGS, has completed its offshore “seep-hunting” surface geochemical analysis and geotechnical campaign of the MSGBC Basin, from Northern Senegal through The Gambia and AGC zone, into Guinea-Bissau down to the Guinea transform fault.
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March 24, 2020
Maersk Drilling has been notified by Tullow Ghana of early termination of its contract for the Maersk Venturer deepwater drillship.
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March 24, 2020
With OPEC’s output limits suspended and a price war under way, the group’s biggest oil producers are preparing to churn out more barrels to protect market share.
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March 02, 2020
A capital gains tax claim for about $500 million is holding up Total SA’s acquisition of Occidental Petroleum Corp.’s assets in Ghana, according to Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta.
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February 14, 2020
Ghana’s agreement with Tullow entitles the West African nation to free deliveries of gas that the company extracts with crude from its fields.
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February 11, 2020
BP has awarded Oceaneering a contract to provide comprehensive riserless light well intervention services offshore Angola in Blocks 18 and 31.
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February 11, 2020
Sea Swift was chosen for its modular design to minimize build and implementation time and for the ability to fabricate the platform locally in Cabinda, Angola.
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February 06, 2020
Tullow Oil will reduce its headcount in Kenya by about 40% as part of a company-wide restructuring following poor performances at its Africa and Guyana operations.
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January 28, 2020
The first-ever licensing round comprises 12 blocks in the MSGBC basin, offshore Senegal. Companies will be able to submit bids over the coming six months, with final applications delivered to the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy at the latest by Friday, July 31st, 2020.
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January 17, 2020
Oil production in Angola has slumped by a third in the past decade to less than 1.4 million barrels a day, reflecting years of underinvestment in new projects.
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January 15, 2020
The pretax sum of impairments and exploration write-offs reflects a lower oil-price forecast and a cut in reserves at a field in Ghana.
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January 14, 2020
The well in Angola’s Block 48 will be drilled at a new world record water depth of 3,628 m. The current world record is 3,400 m, set by Maersk Voyager’s sister drillship Maersk Venturer when it drilled the Raya-1 well for Total offshore Uruguay in 2016.
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January 14, 2020
PETROSEN has partnered with TGS, GeoPartners and PGS to provide over 14,000 km of 2D data, over 10,000 km² of 3D data and over 50,000 km² of Multibeam data with associated shallow cores and geochemistry, to interested parties.
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January 07, 2020
The Liberia Petroleum Regulatory Authority has announced the launch of its next offshore licensing round in the Harper basin, one of the last unexplored and undrilled regions offshore West Africa.
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December 16, 2019
An oil tanker was attacked on Sunday in West Africa’s Gulf of Guinea and most of its crew were kidnapped, the latest in a string of incidents highlighting the security risks to shipping in the region.
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December 09, 2019
Tullow Oil’s CEO and exploration director quit after the company cut its production outlook and suspended the dividend. The shares tumbled, deepening their loss for the year to more than 60%.
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December 05, 2019
Royal Dutch Shell won a UK ruling preventing London courts from enforcing a $516 million Nigerian judgment for damages caused by an oil spill half a century ago.
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November 26, 2019
Springfield E&P announced the completion of its maiden deepwater drilling campaign on the West Cape Three Points Block 2, offshore Ghana.
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November 19, 2019
Enpro Subsea has recently completed another two successful subsea hydraulic intervention campaigns for two operators in West Africa.
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November 06, 2019
Ivory Coast wants more explorers for oil and gas as it seeks to boost economic growth, according to Energy Minister Abdourahmane Cisse.
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October 21, 2019
Over the past 12 years, Nigeria tried and failed four times to crank up its aging and unprofitable crude-processing plants.
