ADM Energy, OilBank Pre-qualifies in Bidding for Nigerian Marginal Oil Fields

ADM Energy has announced that it has successfully pre-qualified in the Nigerian Government’s 2020 Marginal Field Bid Round. The Company is participating in the Bid Round as the exclusive technical … Read More

ONGC Videsh to sponsor students from South Sudan to Indian universities

ONGC Videsh has offered to sponsor 20 students from South Sudan for the graduate level technical course in Petroleum Engineering in reputed institutes in India. Under this program, the first … Read More

Nine Companies and Countries Commit to End the Practice of Routine Gas Flaring

Nine oil companies and nations including Royal Dutch Shell, Statoil, Norway and Gabon have committed, for the first time, to end the practice of routine gas flaring at oil production … Read More

Atlas Development & Support Services Expands into North Africa

Kenyan headquartered  and listed African focussed support services and logistics company Atlas Development  has announce that it has been engaged to provide civil engineering supervisory, advanced life support, security and … Read More

Security in Africa: Structural challenges are reaching crisis point

[twitter-follow screen_name=’oilnewskenya’] The latest report from Think Security assesses changes in Africa’s security situation between 2013 and 2014 in three main categories: (1) Challenges impacting the national chain of command, … Read More

Total begins drilling of its deepest offshore project yet

[twitter-follow screen_name=’oilnewskenya’] Total has today reached another milestone for the Egina project in Nigeria, as an intensive drilling program got under way. The company has mobilized two rigs which will … Read More

Tower Resources resolves dispute with Repsol in Namibia

[twitter-follow screen_name=’oilnewskenya’] Tower Resources has announced that it has reached agreement with the Operator, Repsol Exploration (Namibia) (Pty) Limited relating to the disputed costs associated with the drilling of the … Read More

CAMAC Energy to Acquire 3D Seismic Offshore Gambia

[twitter-follow screen_name=’oilnewskenya’] CAMAC Energy has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, CAMAC Energy Gambia Ltd has awarded a contract for the acquisition of a 3D seismic survey to Polarcus Limited covering approximately … Read More

CAMAC Energy Announces Additional Drilling Rig for Offshore Nigeria

CAMAC Energy has reported that it has signed a contract with a subsidiary of Transocean Ltd. for the provision of the semi-submersible drilling unit Sedco Express for drilling and completion activities offshore … Read More