Continental News

MDL delivers Ghana’s Tema LNG port a flexible installation

MDL Third-generation Reel Drive System, operated by the company’s expert offshore personnel, was used to deploy a 13” gas lift riser from an 11.4m reel which was mobilised on the back of an Anchor Handler Vessel. The tie-in connected the beach with a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) facility, located 12km off the coast of Tema, […]

Oilfield Africa - Saturday May 22, 2021
Carlyle Group Gabon subsidiary Assala Energy in a fresh 14 million USD Gamba site investment

Assala Energy, the Gabonese subsidiary of the American The Carlyle Group, announces new investments at the Gamba site located in the province of Ogooué-Maritime. “Our 14 million USD (7.52 billion FCFA) electric gas compressor project in Gamba is on track. It will support future development in the field, improving oil recovery, improving energy and cost efficiency […]

Oilfield Africa - Saturday May 22, 2021
KBR wins UTM Offshore Contract to Support Nigeria’s First Ever FLNG

KBR announced it will be supporting the development of Nigeria’s first ever Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) facility, enabling economic growth and sustainability of the country’s future energy supplies. The award, by UTM Offshore Limited, builds on over 40 years of KBR’s continuous LNG experience and depth of FLNG capabilities. Acting as Owner’s Engineers, KBR […]

Oilfield Africa - Thursday May 20, 2021
Eni and bp in a new Angolan Oil and Gas joint venture partnership

Eni and bp have announced that they have entered into a non-binding memorandum of understanding (MoU) to progress detailed discussions on combining their upstream portfolios in Angola, including all their oil, gas and LNG interests in the country. The companies believe that combining their efforts in a new joint venture company would bring significant opportunities […]

Oilfield Africa - Thursday May 20, 2021
Equinor and Sonatrach in New Oil and Gas Exploration, Greenhouse Partnership in Algeria

Equinor and Sonatrach have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to examine cooperation within oil and gas exploration and production in Algeria and internationally.  The signing of the MoU strengthens the existing partnership between Equinor and Sonatrach. The MoU also includes cooperation within greenhouse gas emissions and carbon management, industrial safety management, implementation of technology […]

Oilfield Africa - Monday May 17, 2021
VAALCO Signs Crude Oil Swaps Agreements in Etame oilfield offshore Gabon

VAALCO Energy has announced that it has entered into crude oil commodity swap agreements for a total of 672,533 barrels at a Dated Brent weighted average price of $66.51 per barrel for the period from and including May 2021 through October 2021. These swaps will settle on a monthly basis.  The Company is hedging a […]

Oilfield Africa - Monday May 17, 2021
Africa Oil Announces Prime’s First Quarter 2021 Performances

Afrrica Oil Corp has said that the Prime’s first quarter 2021 average daily W.I. production was 27,700 boepd and economic entitlement production was 30,300 boepd (84% light and medium crude oil and 16% conventional natural gas), net to Africa Oil’s 50% shareholding in Prime. It stated that the Production of the Egina field is continued […]

Oilfield Africa - Friday May 14, 2021
Africa Energy Resumes Venus-1 Exploration Well Drilling Campaign by end of Q4 2021 offshore Namibia

Africa Energy with operating 30.9% shareholding interest in Impact Oil & Gas has exposure to the Venus-1 exploration well in Block 2913B, offshore Namibia which is expected to spud by the end 2021. Venus-1 will target a large basin floor fan system with significant undiscovered petroleum initially in place that has been identified using 3D seismic data. Africa […]

Oilfield Africa - Friday May 14, 2021
Tunisia Domestic crude oil production output up by 18% rise in Q1 2021

Recent report has shown that the Tunisia domestic crude oil production went up 18% increase late in March 2021, to 491,000 tonnes (kt), about 3.6million barrels per day (mbd) reads the March 2021 report of to the monthly energy situation report released by the National Observatory of Energy and Mines Observatory (French: ONEM). According to […]

Oilfield Africa - Friday May 14, 2021
Algerian Government Reviews its pipeline transport Operation and construction decrees

The Algerian government has recently examined two draft executive decrees defining the procedures for obtaining authorizations to construct structures for pipeline transportation of petroleum products, and a pipeline transportation system. This new development the countrys oil and gas sector , was done during its executive meeting chaired by Prime Minister Abdelaziz Djerad, According to a […]

Oilfield Africa - Friday May 14, 2021