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April 04, 2024
Covering a surface area of approximately 600 km2, in water depths ranging from 50 m to 100 m, 19 wells have been drilled on Block EG-23 to date resulting in seven hydrocarbon discoveries (four oil, two gas and one gas/condensate), some of which have been tested.
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April 02, 2024
Discoveries made by TotalEnergies, Shell and Galp Energia have the potential to create thousands of jobs and contribute billions to the country’s GDP, with some estimating that Namibia’s economy could double by 2040
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March 31, 2024
Activities include acquiring over 26,000 km2 of 3D seismic data, drilling at least four deepwater research wells, and geoscientific studies in the Save and Angoche offshore regions.
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March 28, 2024
The West African country is set to open the taps this year on the $4.8 billion Grand Tortue Ahmeyim liquefied natural gas (LNG) project and Sangomar oil development after numerous delays, setting it up to become one of the world’s fastest-growing economies.
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March 27, 2024
It is estimated that using DIAL will enhance the net present value (NPV) of each well by up to $50 million over their lifetime. The contract is expected to lead to further adoption of DIAL in West Africa and across the continent.
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March 25, 2024
VAALCO Energy, Inc. announced that all partners have signed the final documents and the Government of Equatorial Guinea has approved the Joint Operating agreement (“JOA”) related to the Venus-Block P Plan of Development (“POD”).
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March 22, 2024
Following the two gas discoveries from the Upper and Lower Angwa reservoirs in the recently completed Mukuyu-2 / ST1 drilling campaign and the compositional analysis from fast-tracked downhole reservoir fluid samples, the analysis of additional downhole fluid samples has confirmed a rich gas-condensate discovery in Mukuyu and presence of light oil.
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March 21, 2024
On Wednesday, March 20, Perenco confirmed that a fire broke out at its Becuna platform in the Simba oil and gas field offshore Gabon. Today, March 21, Perenco unfortunately confirmed the death of five people.
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March 20, 2024
The blocks, situated offshore to the east of the Unguja and Pemba Islands within water depths between 500 m and 3,000 m, represent a large frontier area and form part of a five-year exploration road map.
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March 18, 2024
Africa Oil Corp. has made a cash offer to acquire up to 8.0% of issued shares from minority shareholders in Impact Oil and Gas Limited. The offer is worth up to approximately $64 million.
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March 15, 2024
Drilling operations on PEL 83 encountered a significant column with light oil in reservoirs of high quality. The AVO-3 exploration target, the AVO-1 appraisal target and a deeper target were fully cored and logged.
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March 13, 2024
Condensate gas ratios (CGR) are estimated between 14-22 barrels per million standard cubic foot (bbls/MMcfg) of gas from the Mukuyu-2 samples with a condensate API gravity of 50-60.
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March 10, 2024
Senegal’s readying to become a natural gas producer for the first time as its Greater Tortue Ahmeyim field, developed by bp Plc and Kosmos Energy Ltd., is scheduled to start production later this year.
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March 08, 2024
The well encountered light oil, gas, and condensates in various intervals of Cenomanian age characterized by good to excellent permeability values. Preliminary assessments indicate potential resources ranging between 1 and 1.5 Bboe.
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March 08, 2024
Production performance from the well has been in line with expectations and is currently stabilized at approximately 5,000-6,000 bopd.
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March 07, 2024
President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday signed executive orders introducing tax credits for some onshore and shallow-water locations and streamlining contract approvals, the government said in a statement on X. The measures also include some local-content requirements.
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March 06, 2024
Located within the prolific Orange basin, 200 km off the western coast of South Africa, Block 3B/4B covers an area of 17,581 km2. Block 3B/4B is adjacent to the DWOB license operated by TotalEnergies (50%) alongside QatarEnergy (30%) and Sezigyn (20%).
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March 04, 2024
Following the two gas discoveries from the Upper and Lower Angwa reservoirs in recently completed Mukuyu-2 / ST1 drilling campaign, preliminary compositional analysis from fast-tracked downhole reservoir fluid samples has confirmed a rich gas-condensate discovery in Mukuyu.
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March 01, 2024
Optimism that President Bola Tinubu’s arrival in office in May would expedite deals in Africa’s biggest oil producer is starting to dissipate.
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February 29, 2024
Aminex announced that interpretation of recently-acquired 338 km2 3D seismic dataset over the Ruvuma PSA has improved the in-place volumetrics for the Ntorya natural gas discovery and revealed a significantly higher resource potential in the wider license area than previously identified on the existing sparse 2D database.
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February 29, 2024
Svenska’s primary asset is a 27.39% non-operated working interest in the deepwater producing Baobab field in Block CI-40, offshore Cote d’Ivoire in West Africa. The gross consideration for the acquisition is $66.5 million.
