Namibia’s offshore oil and gas industry is set for significant growth in 2025, driven by new licensing opportunities and an uptick in drilling activities, Petroleum Commissioner Maggy Shino announced during a webinar hosted by the African Energy Chamber, Wood Mackenzie and Namibia’s Ministry of Mines and Energy. The move is set to attract fresh investment […]

Reconnaissance Energy Africa Ltd. announces the acceleration of drilling into Q2 2025 and a corporate update. ReconAfrica  has continued to pursue activities relating to the drilling of Prospect I.  To date, initial surveying activity has been completed, with debushing activities ongoing and demining activities set to be undertaken in the coming weeks. As a result of the […]

Sintana has said that Pancontinental has received notification from Woodside Energy (GOM) Inc. that Woodside has elected not to exercise its option to farm-in to the PEL 87 project. This notice has been received in advance of the long stop date of May 18th, 2025, after which Woodside’s option was due to expire and a […]

Energy and marine consultancy ABL has launched a new entity in Namibia, expanding its growing operations in-country to support the local oil & gas market, whilst also developing its offering to support Namibia’s energy transition.   Namibia is a significant player in African energy, with a focus on traditional oil & gas development, alongside plans to […]

Galp (80%, operator), together with its partners NAMCOR and Custos (10% each), has successfully drilled, cored and logged the Mopane-3X well (Well #5) in PEL83, offshore Namibia, which was spudded on January 2nd. Mopane-3X, located at an 18 km distance from the first Mopane-1X well, targeted two stacked prospects, AVO-10 & AVO-13, and a deeper […]

Kosmos Energy has announced that first liquified natural gas (LNG) production has been achieved at the bp-operated Greater Tortue Ahmeyim (GTA) LNG project, offshore Mauritania & Senegal.   On December 31, 2024, gas from the first phase of GTA started to flow from wells to the floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel as part […]

Reconnaissance Energy Africa (ReconAfrica) has completed the farm down agreement with BW Energy. The sale of a 20% working interest in Petroleum Exploration Licence 73 (PEL 73), in northeast Namibia , has been approved by the Namibian Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME) and Namcor Exploration and Production. The working interests in PEL 73 are […]

Global Petroleum has  stated that the ongoing farm-out transaction for Petroleum Exploration Licence (PEL) 94 is progressing well offshore Namibia and that all parties are working diligently towards a successful conclusion. The company is also pleased to report renewed and new interest from several well-known companies in the oil and gas industry. This increased interest […]

Sintana Energy has announced that the PEL 83 Joint Venture partners have successfully drilled and logged the Mopane-2A well (Well #4) on PEL 83 which was spud on December 2nd. This is a follow-up to further update regarding the second campaign on blocks 2813A and 2814B located in the heart of Namibia’s Orange Basin. Mopane-2A successfully encountered hydrocarbons […]

Sintana Energy has provided update regarding the second campaign on blocks 2813A and 2814B located in the heart of Namibia’s Orange Basin. The blocks are governed by Petroleum Exploration License 83 (PEL 83) which is operated by a subsidiary of Galp Energia of Portugal. Sintana maintains an indirect 49% interest in Custos Energy (Pty) Ltd, […]