WorldOil

Jan 2013

• A new perspective emerges on Angola’s pre-salt

  Author Jennifer Greenhalgh

  The 2006 discovery by Petrobras of Tupi field, Santos basin, Brazil, and subsequent related pre-salt discoveries, has increased interest in the pre-salt analogues of Angola’s conjugate Kwanza-Benguela and Namibe basins. Common origin and similar tectonic history suggest that a similar play should exist in Angola. The depth migration of a PGS dual-sensor survey across the Kwanza-Benguela and Namibe area will assist exploration.

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Saturday, November 14, 2009

• 200 million barrels of oil confirmed in offshore Tunisia

  200 million barrels of oil confirmed in offshore Tunisia Following conclusion of the conceptual field development plan for the Hammamet West oil field in the Gulf of Hammamet, Tunisia, Cooper Energy is pleased to announce that the field is estimated

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Monday, January 21, 2013

• 37 foreigners killed, 7 unidentified: Algeria's Prime Minister

  37 foreigners killed, 7 unidentified Algeria's Prime Minister BY DAVID GAUTHIER VILLARS and LEILA HATOUM  ALGIERS Algeria's Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal said Monday that 37 foreigners and one Algerian security guard died during the attack on a remote natural gas

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Sunday, August 30, 2009

• Addax Petroleum commences exploration campaign in joint development zone

  Addax Petroleum commences exploration campaign in joint development zone Addax Petroleum Corp. has commenced its exploration drilling campaign in the deepwater Gulf of Guinea with the spudding of the Kina prospect in Block 4 of the Nigeria Sao Tome and

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Wednesday, October 10, 2012

• Addax Petroleum discovers new oil, gas reserves in Cameroon

  Addax Petroleum discovers new oil, gas reserves in Cameroon BY EMMANUEL TUMANJONG YAOUNDE Addax Petroleum, a wholly owned subsidiary of a subsidiary of China Petroleum and Chemical, said it has discovered new offshore oil and gas reserves in Bakassi, in

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