West Africa
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August 26, 2019
A Nigerian high court ordered the government to renew Shell Petroleum Development Co.’s operating license for the Oil Mineral Lease 11 field, which was withdrawn earlier this year, Lagos-based Punch newspaper reported.
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August 12, 2019
Woodside Energy Senegal awarded Halliburton nine conditional contracts for drilling and completion services for SNE Field Development Phase 1 offshore Senegal.
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August 07, 2019
PJ Valves, the specialist manufacturer and supplier of valves for the global energy industry, has been awarded three significant FPSO valve contracts for projects in Brazil, Mexico and Nigeria.
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July 30, 2019
Senegal won’t change already-awarded natural gas contracts despite calls from the country’s political opposition to rework deals in the wake of corruption allegations, according to a government adviser.
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July 26, 2019
Nigeria, Africa’s biggest oil producer, could attract more U.S. investment if the oil and gas sector becomes less opaque and a fuel-price peg is removed, according to a U.S. official.
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July 24, 2019
Total will develop and operate the regasification infrastructure that will comprise a floating storage and re-gasification unit (FSRU) located offshore Benin and an offshore pipeline connection to existing and planned power plants in Maria Gléta.
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July 24, 2019
Tullow Oil reduced its 2019 production forecast for the second time in three months as technical glitches in Ghana continued to cast a shadow.
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July 15, 2019
International oilfield services company Expro has been awarded a contract by Pacific Drilling LLC’s subsidiary, Pacific Santa Ana, Ltd., for the provision of an Intervention Riser System (IRS) for Petronas’ Chinguetti Field Phase II plug and abandonment (P&A) contract, offshore Mauritania.
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July 2019
Talos Energy has completed its appraisal program for the Zama discovery on Block 7, in the offshore portion of Mexico’s prolific Sureste basin.
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July 07, 2019
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Tanzanian counterpart, John Magufuli, agreed to explore trading in natural gas, which companies including Equinor ASA are looking to develop for export.
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July 04, 2019
Two people died after a gasoline pipeline owned by Nigeria’s state oil company exploded in an area of Lagos, the commercial capital, the National Emergency Management Agency said.
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July 03, 2019
Eni (70%) and its partner Vitol (30%) have been awarded rights to Block WB03, located in the medium deep waters of the prolific Tano basin, offshore Ghana.
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July 03, 2019
Maritime Developments (MDL) has been awarded a follow-up flexible and umbilical installation job offshore West Africa.
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July 01, 2019
Penspen has partnered with MJMEnergy, a leading gas and energy consultancy, for the gas-to-power study early development phase in Senegal.
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July 01, 2019
Kosmos Energy has announced that the Greater Tortue Ahmeyim-1 well (GTA-1), drilled on the eastern anticline within the unit development area of Greater Tortue, has encountered approximately 30 m of net gas pay in high-quality Albian reservoir.
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June 05, 2019
Just as Nigeria gets to grips with militants who brought the nation’s oil industry to its knees a few years ago, another group of longstanding foes are slowly making a comeback: thieves.
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June 04, 2019
Eni has signed the contracts for two new exploration blocks in the eastern part of the sedimentary basin offshore Ivory Coast. The blocks were part of the 20 blocks available at the end of 2018.
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May 22, 2019
The new business entity NCS West Africa Limited (NCS WA) is the Nigeria affiliate of Nautical Control Solutions, LP, (Fueltrax), and is located in Victoria Island, Lagos and Onne, Port Harcourt.
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May 20, 2019
Nigeria’s economic growth slowed in the first quarter after the oil sector, the country’s biggest foreign-exchange earner, contracted.
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May 09, 2019
KBR, Inc. has announced that BP has awarded KBR’s UK operating subsidiary the engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) contract to provide facilities integration and terminal quarters and utilities (QU) management for the hub/terminal of BP’s Greater Tortue Ahmeyim Project, located at the maritime border of Senegal and Mauritania.
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May 09, 2019
Eni announces a gas and condensate discovery in CTP-Block 4, offshore Ghana.
