Kosmos Energy has increased its working interest to 90% and assumed operatorship, subject to customary government approvals, of the world-scale Yakaar-Teranga gas discoveries offshore Senegal. The increase in working interest follows BP’s exit from the field. Yakaar-Teranga is one of the world’s largest gas discoveries in recent years and holds around 25 trillion cubic feet […]

BW Energy today announced that the DHBSM-1 appraisal well has encountered commercial volumes of oil in the Hibiscus South satellite prospect. The Company plans to return to the well to complete it as a production well in early 2024. The DHBSM-1 well was drilled from the MaBoMo production platform to a total depth of 6,002 […]

Corcel  has witness successful progress on the drilling results of the Tobias-13 (“TO-13”) well in onshore Block KON-11, in Angola, where the Company has a 20% working interest (18% net). The operator is Sonangol, the largest hydrocarbon producer in Angola. Antoine Karam, Executive Chairman of Corcel, commented: “The initial results of the TO-13 well are an […]

PGS has increased regional coverage of its Congo Vision dataset by targeting deepwater open acreage and facilitating an improved understanding of the prospectivity. The latest phase expands Congo Vision to the south, along strike from significant Angolan fields in the core of the Congo Fan depocenter. PGS in partnership with SNPC have completed a fourth […]

Nigerian National Petroleum limited is currently concluding plan to make a maiden crude oil supply to the recently commissioned 650,000 barrel-per-day Dangote oil refinery with up to six cargoes of crude oil in December to be used in test runs according to various sources of information made available by Reuters. This recent revelation is coming […]

The Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Engr. Simbi Kesiye Wabote, on Thursday commissioned the corporate Head Office and Training Academy of the hospitality conglomerate, Genesis Group Limited, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.  The NCDMB boss lauded the firm for being the leading provider of catering services for major oil […]

𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑬𝒙𝒆𝒄𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑺𝒆𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑵𝒊𝒈𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑪𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝑫𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒐𝒑𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑩𝒐𝒂𝒓𝒅 (𝑵𝑪𝑫𝑴𝑩), 𝑬𝒏𝒈𝒓. 𝑺𝒊𝒎𝒃𝒊 𝑲𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒚𝒆 𝑾𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒕𝒆 has 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝑴𝑮 𝑽𝑶𝑾𝑮𝑨𝑺 𝒏𝒆𝒘𝒍𝒚 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒅 200-𝒕𝒐𝒏 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒇𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒆-𝒐𝒇-𝒕𝒉𝒆-𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒉 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒎𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒂𝒏𝒚’𝒔 𝒚𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝑷𝒐𝒓𝒕 𝑯𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒕, 𝑹𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒆. Speaking at the event, the Executive Secretary lauded the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) […]

A new Monitoring and Evaluation Reporting Template has been conceptualized and presented to stakeholders of the oil and gas industry by the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB). This is in line with the provisions of the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content Development (NOGICD) Act 2010 and the Nigerian Content 10-Year Strategic Roadmap. […]

Shelf Drilling has consistently  expanding its drilling operations in Nigeria, this is following the recently secured contracts for the Adriatic I and the Shelf Drilling Mentor jack-up rigs for operations offshore Nigeria for firm durations of 16 months and 8 months, respectively. The combined estimated contract value for the two rigs is approximately USD 93 […]

ARA Petroleum Tanzania (APT) has set out a path to first gas at Tanzania’s Ruvuma production-sharing agreement (PSA). APT was established in 2018 to accelerate the development of the Ntorya area. A farm-in agreement for a 50% working interest was agreed with the operator AMINEX Plc. Once the farm-in was completed in 2020 APT became […]