Swala Energy Raises Up To $120 Million To Fund Burundi Block Acquisition

Swala Oil & Gas (Tanzania) plc has announced it engaged Exotix Partners LLP (Exotix) to place corporate bonds of up to a value of $120 million in order to finance … Read More

Swala Energy Pushes Tanzania’s Kito 1 Drilling Pushed to 2017

Swala Oil & Gas (Tanzania) plc has announced that it will not be drilling the Kito-1 exploration well in the Kilosa-Kilombero licence during 2016 as originally envisaged in part because … Read More

Mozambique Awards CGG Multi-Client Projects Offshore Rovuma, Southern Mozambique Basins

CGG has announced it has been awarded an extensive multi-client program by the Instituto Nacional de Petroleo/ Institute of National Petroleum of Mozambique  (INP) to acquire seismic data offshore Mozambique a multi-survey program … Read More

Guest Post: Early Oil Pilot Scheme Is a chance To Get It Right

By Dennis Morton In about nine months from now Kenya will be an oil producer. Tullow Oil and its partners Africa Oil and Maersk believe that they can produce and … Read More

Lobbyists want Kenya’s Early Oil Project Scrutinized

The Kenya Civil Society Platform on Oil and Gas (KCSPOG) has questioned the overwhelming government backing of the early oil pilot scheme (EOPS) project a no profit making venture that … Read More

Sasol Completes Onshore 3-D Seismic Campaign, Announce Discovery In Mozambique

Sasol has reported the completion of the first-ever 3-D onshore seismic programme in Mozambique involving the acquisition of 115 square kilometres of data in the Inhassoro field, which is part … Read More

Skills Audit for Northern Corridor Integration Projects Ongoing

A consortium of universities drawn from the Northern Corridor States of Eastern Africa in September were awarded a consultancy to conduct a skills audit for the Northern Corridor Integration Projects … Read More

Kenya’s Early Oil Pilot Scheme Not Expected To Generate Any ‘Significant Revenues’

The Kenyan government has rushed to cool down expectations resulting from the approval of the early oil pilot scheme project approved yesterday saying that whereas there will be oil exports … Read More

Tullow Oil, JV Partners Approve FID for the Early Oil Pilot Scheme in Kenya

Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta today received a progress report on the planned Early Oil Pilot Scheme presented at State House, Nairobi, by the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum and the … Read More