GABON: BW Energy Re-starts 3-well Drilling Campaign on the Dussafu license

BW Energy Limited is pleased to announce the re-start of a three-well drilling campaign on the Dussafu license offshore Gabon consisting of two exploration wells in the Hibiscus area and … Read More

ALGERIA: Sonatrach Seizes Sunny Hill Energy Gas Asset Over US$1 Billion Claim.

Sonatrach, Algeria’s national energy company, has terminated the contractual interest held by the U.K. company Sunny Hill Energy through its wholly owned subsidiary Petroceltic Ain Tsila in the Ain Tsila … Read More

ZIMBABWE: Polaris Natural Resources Awarded Cabora Bassa Basin Seismic

Invictus, following the recent signing of the PEDPA with the Republic of Zimbabwe, has awarded Polaris Natural Resources Inc, Canada’s longest standing seismic company to provide acquisition services for its … Read More

Greenpeace and Western Anti Africa Energy Groups Take the Wrong Approach to East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) in Uganda and Tanzania

By NJ Ayuk, Executive President of the African Energy Chamber. If someone were to put me on the spot and ask me to name an environmentalist group, I’d probably blurt out the … Read More

NAMIBIA: ReconAfrica’s 1st Well Proves Working Conventional Petroleum System in the Kavango Basin

First Drill Site (6-2 well) The well sample log of the 6-2 provides over 200 meters (over 660 feet) of oil and natural gas indicators/shows over three discrete intervals in … Read More

NIGERIA: DPR Denies Revoking Licenses of 32 Petrol Refineries

The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) has refuted a report that the regulatory agency for the oil and gas industry revoked the licences issued for the establishment of 32 refinery … Read More

Energy Storage to Enable the Continued Growth of Renewables in Kenya

By Michael Ball, Project Development Manager for Africa and Europe, Wärtsilä According to the government’s power development plans, the next decade will see many new solar PV and wind power … Read More