INEOS, one of the world’s largest manufacturing companies, has today completed the purchase of the global Aromatics and Acetyls businesses from BP for a consideration of $5 billion. INEOS is already one of the world’s leading petrochemical companies and this acquisition will extend both the portfolio and the geographic reach of the business. The businesses […]

Savannah Energy the African-focused British independent energy company sustainably developing high quality, high potential energy projects in Nigeria and Niger, has announced that its Accugas subsidiary has entered into a revised gas sales agreement (“GSA”) on favourable terms with Lafarge Africa PLC, part of the LafargeHolcim Group, for the supply of gas to its Mfamosing […]

ReconAfrica announced a highly anticipated operations update, confirming that it has spudded the high impact 6-2 exploration well on the Company’s Petroleum Exploration License 73 (PEL) in Namibia. The well is the first of three planned exploration wells to evaluate the presence of an active conventional system in the Kavango Basin. While geochemical work and […]

The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) and the Petroleum Technology Association of Nigeria (PETAN) on Monday signed an agreement on US$30m Working Capital Scheme that will support the operations of oil companies against the adverse effects of COVID-19 Pandemic and loss of contracts due to low oil price. The Executive Secretary of NCDMB, […]

Exxon Mobil Corp. announced several new emissions targets and said it would begin publishing pollution related to customers’ use of its products for the first time; just days after activist investors criticized the oil giant for its environmental record. Exxon will reduce the intensity of upstream emissions by as much as 20% by 2025, the […]

Chevron Corporation has announced that Marillyn A. Hewson has been elected to Chevron’s board of directors, effective on January 1, 2021. She will serve on the Audit Committee of the Board. Hewson, 66, is executive chairman of Lockheed Martin Corporation. She served as Lockheed Martin’s chairman, president and chief executive officer from January 2014 to […]

The world oil and gas sector was thrown into unprecedented economic crunch owing to the advent of novel pandemic that is currently bedeviling the global finance.  Major exploration and production companies have   penultimately announced delays and cancellations impacting minor projects, but the start-up dates of most major hydrocarbon projects are expected to be postponed by […]

Leading global offshore services provider Swire Oilfield Services has unveiled a new corporate brand, as the business continues to embrace the current energy transition. The company has changed its name to Swire Energy Services after more than 40 years’ operating in the oil and gas industry.  The move follows a period of diversification for Swire, […]

Bowleven, the Africa focused oil and gas exploration has announced that its Operational Etinde offshore Cameroon Front End Engineering Design (FEED) contract has been awarded to Technip in Q1 2020 Commencement was delayed until 1 July 2020 due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. This contract focuses on the design and engineering of the […]

 The ANOH Gas Processing Plant development at OML 53 will comprise a 300 MMscfd midstream gas processing plant in its first phase. The contractors for the civil foundation works, plant roads and drainages have mobilized to site with work progressing as planned according to the released unaudited report by Seplat Petroleum Development Company Plc . […]