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February 04, 2022
A fire on an oil production vessel that exploded off Nigeria’s coast has been extinguished, according to the government official in charge of investigating the environmental toll.
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February 04, 2022
Royal Dutch Shell Plc has made an oil discovery in Namibia, an area where previous explorers have largely failed to find commercial resources.
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February 04, 2022
Nigeria has started investigating an explosion on an oil production vessel capable of holding about 2 million barrels of crude.
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February 03, 2022
Shell Plc’s sale of a multibillion-dollar stake in a joint venture that operates oil fields in Nigeria has attracted bids from four local companies, according to people familiar with the negotiations.
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February 03, 2022
An oil production ship exploded off the coast of Nigeria in what may prove to be the nation’s second major environmental setback in three months.
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February 03, 2022
Africa’s biggest crude producer is preparing a crackdown on oil theft as part of an ambitious recovery plan to boost output that’s fallen by more than a quarter in two years.
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February 02, 2022
The final investment decision taken on Lake Albert Resources Development Project is the second-largest FID taken in the oil and gas industry in the last two years, said an oil and gas analyst at GlobalData.
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February 01, 2022
TotalEnergies and its partners reached a final investment decision worth over $10 billion to produce Uganda’s oil discoveries and build a pipeline that will turn the country into a significant crude exporter.
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January 28, 2022
The Uganda National Oil Company plans to sign a final investment decision on Feb. 1 for a large oil field and pipeline project, taking a definitive step toward becoming a crude exporter.
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January 25, 2022
Tanzania has selected U.S. law firm Baker Botts LLP as an adviser to help conclude talks with international oil companies over a long-delayed $30 billion liquefied natural gas terminal.
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January 19, 2022
Ghana’s state-owned oil company is progressing with plans to sell liquefied natural gas throughout West Africa after shipments of the fuel begin to flow to an import terminal this year.
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January 13, 2022
Just weeks after Royal Dutch Shell Plc was forced by a court to suspend a seismic survey seeking hydrocarbons in South African waters, activists are looking to block another such program.
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January 05, 2022
OPEC made only part of its planned production increase last month, with supplies hampered by disruptions in two of the group’s African members.
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January 05, 2022
The vessel hired by Royal Dutch Shell Plc to look for potential oil and gas fields is on course to leave South African waters after community groups won a court case to temporarily halt the activity.
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December 28, 2021
Royal Dutch Shell Plc has been ordered by a South African court to temporarily halt an offshore seismic survey after local communities took legal action to block the project.
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December 16, 2021
Mahathi Infra Uganda’s $270-million lakeside logistics complex, a strategic addition to the East African nation’s oil infrastructure, is set to start operations in January.
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December 16, 2021
Mozambique has made gains against Islamic State-linked insurgents who disrupted the southeast African nation’s multibillion gas project, according to President Filipe Nyusi.
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December 09, 2021
Chevron has signed an agreement with the government of Equatorial Guinea for Block EG09, located in the Douala basin on the border of Cameroon.
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December 06, 2021
Cabinda Gulf Oil Company Limited has signed a contract with Angola’s Agency for Oil, Gas and Biofuels aimed at extending the exploration and production of Block 0, in Cabinda, for another 20 years.
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December 03, 2021
A South African court has ruled that Royal Dutch Shell Plc can proceed with a seismic survey offshore the East Coast, after dismissing a legal application by activist groups.
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