Following the success of the Year of Energy 2019 an initiative of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea which is seeing the organization of several high level investment conferences and road shows in Malabo and internationally this year, the country will be continuing its outreach to global investors with the Year of Investment 2020. Supported by […]

Nigeria LNG Ltd., the operator of Africa’s largest natural gas plant, is in talks with lenders to finance a $10 billion expansion. The company is discussing with the country’s top-10 lenders including Guaranty Trust Bank Plc and Zenith Bank Plc, to raise as much as $2 billion, and with foreign lenders and export-credit agencies for […]

The series of recent development linking OMLs 25 in Niger Delta Region of Nigeria have generated concerns to all and sundry, Ranging from political undertones to its economic perspective. OML 25 is situated at the prolific hydrocarbon area, Niger Delta region Kula kingdom of Rivers State. Nigerians have witnessed years several mediations and engagements in […]

RusselSmith, one of Nigeria’s foremost Asset Integrity Management Service providers in the Oil & Gas Industry, has wrapped up an extensive offshore structural assessment project for a major operator in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region. The project scope included the structural assessment of the topside and subsea sections of multiple production platforms, and the inspection of […]

Renamed floating, production storage and offloading vessel Tamara Tokoni is ready for deployment at the Okpoho field in oil mining lease 119 by the end of October, sources familiar with the deal have said. Tamara Tokoni FPSO was formerly a Bumi FPSO. This is Century Energy Services second FPSO deal in a few weeks. Last […]

NigerStar 7, an Engineering.Procurement, Construction and Installation (EPCI) has announced the addition of two offshore construction vessels to its Nigerian fleet. The Seven Antares and Seven Inagha offshore construction support vessels acquisition and the reflagging is in addition to other recent progressive and expansion investments executed by the company in recent time to increase its […]

Equatorial Guinea is about to re-award EG-27 formerly know as block R . The block is where former independent Ophir Energy encountered its fortuna floating liquefied natural gas which never comes to pass. EG-27, presently gunning by Russian companies is one of seven blocks over which the Ministry of Mines & Hydrocarbons is discussing deals […]

Panoro Energy has announced the successful completion of the DTM-5H well, the second of the phase 2 Tortue development wells on Dussafu permit, offshore Gabon. The well was drilled with the Borr Norve jackup drilling rig in 115.5 m water depth as a horizontal production well in the Gamba reservoir. A long horizontal section of […]

Springfield Exploration and Production Limited (SEP),an Independent Ghanaian energy company drilling in deep water offshore Ghana,has spudded its Afina-1x well in the West Cape Three Points Block 2.This is the first time an independent energy company in Africa is accomplishing such a feat and places Springfield amongst known exploration companies, mostly foreign owned, that are […]

Kosmos Energy announced that theYakaar-2 appraisal well has encountered approximately 30meters of net gas pay in similar high quality Cenomanian reservoir to the Yakaar-1 exploration well, continuing the 100 percent success rate of wells targeting the inboard Mauritania/Senegal gas trend.Yakaar-2 was drilled approximately nine kilometers from Yakaar-1 and proved up the southern extension of the […]