Cloudbreak Discovery PLC has announced that it has entered into a Mineral Application Cooperation Agreement (MACA) with Gondwana Petroleum Namibia Pty Ltd, Timeworn Investments Pty Ltd, Pioneer Oil and Gas Consulting CC and a Swiss Based Asset Manager (SBAM). The purpose of the MACA is to jointly work towards submission of an application to acquire […]

Reconnaissance Energy Africa  hasprovided an exploration update for the Kavango Basin in NE Namibia and NW Botswana, highlighting multiple drilling prospects and new play types following the integrated analysis of the two stratigraphic test wells and first phase of 2D seismic. The initial exploration and development is being conducted in the first of five sub-basins within […]

Africa Oil and TotalEnergies {operator}have announced major light oil discovery in Block 2913B, offshore Namibia. Africa Oil has an indirect interest in this block through a 30.9% shareholding in its investee company Impact Oil & Gas Limited with a 20% working interest in the block. “TotalEnergies has made a significant discovery of light oil with associated gas […]

Global Petroleum has acknowledged the announcement made recently by National Petroleum Corporation of Namibia (NAMCOR), Shell Namibia Upstream B.V. and Qatar Energy. The NAMCOR Announcement states that the Graff-1 deep-water exploration well in the Orange Basin offshore Namibia has made a discovery of light oil in both primary and secondary targets (Graff-1 discovery), and that […]

Barely one month after Shell announced the company’s drilling campaign of the Graff-1 oil exploration well in Block 2913A, located in the Orange Basin, offshore Namibia, Shell in partnership with with Qatari state-owned petroleum company, QatarEnergy, and Namibia’s National Oil Company (NOC), NAMCOR have has made a significant oil and gas discovery at an closely-watched […]

Royal Dutch Shell a multinational exploration and production company as an operator in partnership with with Qatari state-owned petroleum company, QatarEnergy, and Namibia’s national oil company (NOC), Namcor have announced spudding the Graff-1 oil exploration well in Block 2913A, located in the Orange Basin, offshore Namibia. The drilling was confirmed by National Petroleum Corporation of […]

Africa Oil Corp. investee company Impact Oil & Gas has announced the spud of the Venus-1X offshore exploration well in Namibia Block 2913B (PEL 56). This, together with the adjacent Block 2912, are held through Impact’s wholly owned subsidiary, Impact Oil and Gas Namibia (PTY) Ltd. Both blocks are operated by TotalEnergies EP Namibia B.V.; […]

Reconnaissance Energy Africa Ltd. and its joint venture partner NAMCOR have provided initial results from the first seismic acquisition program ever conducted in the Kavango Basin, in northeast Namibia. As reported on October 21, 2021, 450 linear kilometers of seismic data were successfully acquired within budget and on schedule. Third party processing of this data […]

The Traditional Authorities of Kavango East and Kavango West have confirmed their support for the oil-and-gas exploration program in Namibia by Reconnaissance Energy Africa Ltd.At a meeting last week in Namibia, the leaders of the five key Traditional Authorities of Kavango East and Kavango West expressed confidence that ReconAfrica’s ongoing exploration program, which has to […]

BW Energy is at the concluding phase of achieving a revised development plan for the Kudu gas field offshore Namibia. The new development plan for the gas-to-power project will use a repurposed semisubmersible drilling rig as a Floating Production Unit. The Company has signed an agreement to acquire the semisubmersible drilling rig, from Aquadrill LLC for a total consideration of USD 14 million. Repurposing will enable an optimisation of the project timeline and significantly reduce capital investments compared to previous development concepts. “The revised development concept offers tangible financial, schedule and environmental benefits. The re-use of existing facilities also supports a substantial reduction in field development related greenhouse gas emissions compared to a new-build . “We have consequently decided to take advantage […]