The Sub Saharan Africa International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference (SAIPEC) will return to the Eko Convention Centre, Lagos in 2022 for its 6th edition, as the only oil and gas event held in partnership with the entire Sub Saharan African petroleum industry. Working directly with PETAN, the organisers will draw on their global resources to ensure that the event […]

The Minister of Energy, Abdelmadjid Attar, Sonatrach’s CEO, Toufik Hakkar, and Eni’s CEO, Claudio Descalzi have met in Algiers to discuss the progress of the activities in the country, Eni and Sonatrach reviewed the recent completion of the construction of the gas pipeline linking the production sites of Bir Rebaa Nord (BRN) and Menzel Ledjmet […]

Total and Sonatrach has reached an agreement in new partnership in the field of liquefied natural gas (LNG) distribution. This agreement notably allows to extend the existing supply contracts for 3 additional years in order to provide 2 million tons per year of Algerian LNG to the French market, primarily through the LNG terminal at […]

OILSERV a leading indigenous EPC Nigeria company with global presence has finally commenced the nation’s Ajaokuta–Kaduna–Kano (AKK) Gas Pipeline project. The company has been awarded the engineering, procurement, construction, installation, testing, and commissioning of the first segment of the 614 km x 40-Inch Gas pipeline, which expanses from Ajaokuta to a mid-way between Abuja and […]

1 An exploration and production company BW Energy has produced first oil from the T ortue Phase 2 field development project (Phase 2) in the Dussafu Marin Permit offshore Gabon.The Gamba well DTM-5H which p l a n n e d p r o d u c t i o n t i me w […]

Savannah Petroleum has recently disclosed that it wouldc o n s i d e r  oil and  gas acquisitions in Nigeria with utmost priority, describing a purchase completed late last year as just warm up for further expansion. Savannah Petroleum recent purchase of Seven Energy International’s Nigerian gas assets, sub-Sahara Africa’s largest gas infrastructure and […]

The LEKOIL, the oil and gas exploration and production company with a focus on Nigeria and West Africa, has announced that, further to the Company’s announcement on 13 January 2020, it has reached an agreement with Optimum Petroleum Development Company, the Operator of the OPL 310 License, on deferring the Company’s financial and operational obligations […]

TechnipFMC an EPC company has been awarded a front end engineering design (FEED) contract for the development of the offshore IM gas condensate field at Etinde by Cameroon government. The Etinde Permit a formerly Block 7 lies in shallow water in the Rio del Rey Basin, offshore Cameroon, and comprises four proven reservoir intervals within […]

Gabriel Mbega Obiang Lima, Minister of Mines and Hydrocarbons of Equatorial The Board of Directors of the Ministr y of Mines and Hydrocarbons (MMH) of Equatorial Guinea has selected and published the shortlisted key companies for the execution of their reference projects in the framework of the current Investment Year. The decision was made during […]

United Oil & Gas has provided Uan update on the proposed acquisition of Rockhopper Egypt from Rockhopper Exploration. Rockhopper Egypt holds a 22% nonoperating interest in the producing Abu Sennan concession, onshore Egypt This update provides further detail regarding the ASH-2 well which was recently drilled at Abu Sennan, current production at Abu Sennan and […]