Exploration
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July 07, 2025
Algeria’s state-owned oil company Sonatrach and Italy’s Eni have signed a 30-year production sharing contract to explore and develop the Zemoul El Kbar region of Algeria. The contract is estimated at a value of $1.35 billion, Sonatrach said in a statement Monday.
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July 02, 2025
Chevron Corp. and TotalEnergies SE are competing in Libya’s first energy exploration tender since the 2011 conflict, the country’s state-run oil firm said, as the OPEC member looks to oil majors to help ramp up production to a record.
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June 18, 2025
The contract includes a firm commitment to drill two exploration wells, targeting drill-ready prospects that offer significant resource potential and are strategically positioned to unlock synergies with Petronas’ existing operations in Suriname.
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June 17, 2025
TotalEnergies, jointly with QatarEnergy, has been awarded the Ahara license following the “Algeria Bid Round 2024”, launched by The National Agency for the Valorization of Hydrocarbon Resources (ALNAFT), the first call for tender conducted under the hydrocarbon law No.19-13.
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June 16, 2025
TotalEnergies has acquired a 25% working interest in a portfolio of 40 exploration leases offshore U.S. from Chevron (operator). The transaction provides access to multiple offshore exploration plays and prospects, strengthening the successful U.S. offshore collaboration with Chevron beyond existing partnerships.
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June 04, 2025
MOL Group and SOCAR have signed key terms for an exploration, development, and production sharing agreement for a new onshore area covering the Shamakhi-Gobustan regions of Azerbaijan.
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June 03, 2025
bp and partners have approved phase three of development in the Shah Deniz gas field, the $2.9 billion Shah Deniz Compression project. In addition to the project approvals, bp also announced an agreement with SOCAR to access two blocks in the Caspian Sea for exploration and development.
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May 29, 2025
Zephyr Energy has announced initial post-well evaluation results at its flagship project in Utah's Paradox basin. “The Cane Creek reservoir is highly productive and potentially ranks alongside some of the most productive oil and gas plays in the U.S," said CEO Colin Harrington.
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May 26, 2025
Saudi Arabia and Kuwait jointly announced Monday that they have discovered oil in the North Wafra Wara-Burgan field, part of the neutral zone between the two nations. The news was reported by Saudi Press Agency (SPA).
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May 21, 2025
The latest U.S. Geological Survey assessment estimates that 27 trillion cubic feet of gas, and 473 million barrels of recoverable oil are located in parts of Wyoming, Colorado and Utah, the Department of the Interior announced on Wednesday.
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May 19, 2025
A top United Nations court has ruled in favor of Equatorial Guinea in a long-running territorial dispute with Gabon, awarding it sovereignty over three small islands located in potentially oil-rich waters in the Gulf of Guinea.
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May 16, 2025
EOG Resources, Inc. (EOG) today announced that the company was awarded a new oil exploration concession for Unconventional Onshore Block 3 (UCO3) by Abu Dhabi's Supreme Council for Financial and Economic Affairs (SCFEA).
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May 15, 2025
Libya’s latest upstream licensing round has already attracted more than 40 applicants, signaling growing interest in its largely untapped hydrocarbon potential. The update was shared during a ConocoPhillips-sponsored session at the Invest in African Energy Forum.
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April 29, 2025
The Republic of Congo's Minister of Hydrocarbons Bruno Jean-Richard Itoua will speak at African Energy Week (AEW) 2025. Congo is preparing to launch its 2025 licensing round – central to its strategy of increasing oil output from 274,000 to 500,000 bpd by 2027.
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April 28, 2025
Ever since oil and gas majors announced massive hydrocarbon discoveries in Namibia’s offshore Orange Basin, interest in additional exploration in has been intense. Will negotiations stall, as we’re seeing all too often in African nations, or will the process move forward smoothly?
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April 25, 2025
APA Corporation and its partners Lagniappe Alaska, LLC, an Armstrong company, and Oil Search (Alaska), LLC, a subsidiary of Santos Limited, have completed successful flow testing of the Sockeye-2 exploratory well in Alaska's North Slope.
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April 25, 2025
Ecopetrol S.A. has initiated a joint plan to determine the best alternative to ensure the continuity of the projects in the Southern Caribbean following Shell's decision to withdraw from its offshore assets in said region.
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April 24, 2025
The African Energy Chamber (AEC) is calling for a deliberate and accelerated approach to moving Namibia’s recent oil and gas discoveries into production – emphasizing the importance of speed, investor confidence and strategic collaboration.
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April 21, 2025
(Bloomberg) — Turkey is planning new oil and gas exploration in Bulgaria, Libya, and Iraq as part of a broader upstream expansion strategy. State-run TPAO is leading efforts to boost regional output and secure international energy deals.
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April 17, 2025
ReconAfrica has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with ANPG for a joint exploration project in the Etosha-Okavango basin, located onshore in southeastern Angola. ANPG is Angola's national concessionaire and regulator.
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April 15, 2025
EXPLORCO, the exploration division of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), is set to spud its first exploration well in the Voltaian basin in Q1 2026, targeting new leads and play-opening discoveries.
