Namibia’s power utility, NamPower, and CERIM Luderitz Energy, a joint venture between Energy China and locally owned Riminii Investments, on Monday signed power purchase and transmission connection agreements to develop a 50 MW wind power plant in the coastal town of Luderitz, southwestern Namibia. WINDHOEK, April 18 (Xinhua) — Namibia’s power utility, NamPower, and CERIM […]

Africa Oil Corp has announced the company participation in a USD 95.0 million Open Offer by Impact Oil & Gas Limited a privately–owned and African–focused exploration company. The capital raised shall be used towards funding Impact’s participating share of the multi-well drilling and testing programme in Namibia to further evaluate and appraise the Venus discovery; a world class, light-oil […]

PGS, a leading supplier of offshore geophysical services for Angola, has released a new Angola Central Basin Time screening dataset, offering the opportunity to evaluate open acreage for proven pre- and post-salt plays in readiness for the 2025 licensing round. Recent legislative changes now incentivize gas and marginal field developments, providing further reasons to evaluate […]

Metatek-Group Limited, a worldwide airborne geophysical survey specialist based in the United Kingdom, is currently conducting an eFTG survey over an area of nearly 2,200 square kilometers (540,000 acres) in ReconAfrica’s 25,000 square kilometers (6.3 million acres) PEL073 exploration license in north-eastern Namibia. The airborne component of the survey is expected to be completed by […]

Afentra has disclosed that having received the necessary approvals from the regulator and contractor group members to the formal transfer documentation ahead of the 17 April 2023 long stop date, Afentra have agreed with INA to proceed to completion whilst they await receipt of outstanding signatures to this documentation. The company look forward to updating […]

QatarEnergy has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Ministry of Mines and Energy of the Republic of Namibia to strengthen cooperation in the energy sector. The agreement was signed by His Excellency Mr. Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi, the Minister of State for Energy Affairs, the President and CEO of QatarEnergy, and His Excellency Mr. […]

The National Agency of Petroleum, Gas and Biofuels (ANPG) and the Contractor Group of Block 15, operated by ExxonMobil Angola, announce the achievement of the milestone of 2.5 billion barrels of cumulative oil production in Block 15, since the First Production from FPSO Xikomba, 20 years ago. Block 15 is located approximately 145 kilometers west of the […]

Energy woes are synonymous with South Africa right now. Having a conversation with Gugu Mfuphi on her Kaya FM show, reminded me on the necessity of an energy mix and natural gas and making markets work for South Africa. As the country’s fleet of mostly coal-powered plants struggles to keep up with electricity demand, South […]

Kinetiko Energy, an Australian gas explorer and developer focused on advanced shallow conventional gas and coal bed methane in South Africa, has provided the following update on its onshore gas exploration and production development activities. Core well 270-03C, spudded on 24 January 2023 approximately 7 km from the South Africa’s largest gas pipeline the Lily […]

Reconnaissance Energy Africa Ltd has announced as a result of recent data from the ongoing phase two 2-D seismic program, a significant new play type has been confirmed in the southern and western parts of the Company’s ~6.3 million acre exploration licence area in Namibia – PEL 73. This new fold belt province, the “Damara […]