Reconnaissance Energy Africa Ltd. (ReconAfrica))  a young global exploration and production company has  announced  its  preparation for the upcoming drilling program in the Kavango Basin and  the appointment of Mr. Nick Steinsberger as Senior Vice President, Drilling and Completions.    Nick Steinsberger brings 32 years’ experience in petroleum engineering, drilling and completions, production, and surface facilities […]

Reconnaissance Energy Africa Ltd. is pleased to announce it has been granted a petroleum license in northwestern Botswana for 2.45 million acres (9,921 km2) and has entered into a farm-out option agreement on these lands. The Botswana lands are contiguous to the Company’s 6.3 million acre petroleum license in northeast Namibia. As a result of […]

Mozambique’s National Petroleum Institute is expecting Exxon Mobil’s final investment decision[ FID)  on a $30 billion prolific Rovuma gas project north of the country in 2021, the country recently proclaimed, but this speculation was allegedly dismissed by the company. “The final investment decision of the Rovuma LNG project has been postponed to, in principle, next […]

Air Products has signed up to Asuppl y two LNG heat exchangers to the Total-led Mozambique LNG venture. The company said its facility in Port Manatee, Florida, would manufacture the equipment, which would then be shipped to the Afungi Peninsula, in Mozambique’s northern Cabo Delgado Province. Air Products has signed the deal with the contractor, […]

Eni and the Area 4 partners tremendous progress in Cora Sul FLNG has being beoughr to fore, This was announced in Geoje, South Korea at the launch of the hull of the Coral Sul Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) treatment and liquefaction facility. The FLNG is part of the Coral South project that will put […]

Sonadrill Holding Ltd., Seadrill Ltd.’s 50:50 joint venture with an affiliate of Sonangol E.P., has secured a nine-well contract offshore Angola for the drillship Libongos. The contract includes six one-well options. The estimated total tract value is $101 million with commencement expected in late 3Q 2019 and running to early 2021. The Libongos is the […]

The Agogo1 well, discovered last March in Bloc 15/06 in the Angolan offshore, starts commercial oil production from next December, announced on Tuesday, the chairperson of ENI’s Board of Directors Claudio Descalzi. Claudio Descalzi was speaking to the press at the end of a meeting with the President of the Republic, João Lourenço, with whom […]

Dutch offshore vessel owner Smit Lamnalco has won a $200 million, 10 years contract to provide services for Coral South FLNG offshore Mozambique. Smit Lamnalco, a 50% affiliate of Boskalis, will provide integrated marine services to what will be Mozambique’s FLNG unit, operated by Eni. “This marks the first terminal services contract awardfor the Mozambique […]

Shell is considering among three prospects for a deep-water wildcat off Namibia, which is set to spud late next year at the earliest. The multi National Company will soon turn its focus to the rig market as it assesses available and suitable tonnage for the exploration well, which will be on its operated PEL 39 […]

New insights for early development of a frontier area Covering more than 65,000 km2, the Namibe Basin is one of the world’s largest remaining prospective frontier areas for oil and gas exploration. This southern most basin along the West African salt margin has largely remained unexplored despite significant oil and gas activity in the neighboring […]