Africa's Oil, Gas and Energy News.
West Africa or Western Africa is the westernmost region of Africa. The United Nations defines Western Africa as the 16 countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo
The upstream sector is set to carry strong momentum into 2026, with high-impact wildcat drilling activity expected to remain elevated following a solid 2025. Last year, the success rate for … Read More
Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL) has recorded a significant hydrocarbon discovery following the successful drilling and evaluation of the Awodi-07 appraisal and exploration well in the shallow offshore western Niger Delta. … Read More
Rex International Holding Limited together with its subsidiaries wish to announce that Rex’s indirect subsidiary Akrake Petroleum Benin S.A. is finishing drilling operations on the AK-2H production well in the … Read More
TGS, announces the commencement of the Nigeria Onshore MegaSurvey, a new regional-scale seismic project covering 28,000 square kilometers across the Onshore Niger Delta. The project is supported by industry funding and is in partnership with the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC), Petrodata Management … Read More
Eni has signed a binding agreement with SOCAR, the State Oil Company of the Republic of Azerbaijan, for the sale of a 10% stake in the Baleine Project – the … Read More
ReconAfrica is now funded in its plans to expedite activity across its portfolio following the completion its previously announced underwritten, listed issuer financing exemption offering. The offering which raised aggregate … Read More
Geoex MCG, in partnership with the Ministry of Hydrocarbons and Mining Development (MHMD), Perceptum, and DUG, have launched a major reprocessing initiative to revitalise legacy offshore Equatorial Guinea regional 2D seismic dataset. … Read More
Murphy Oil Corporation has announced results from the Civette exploration well in Block CI-502 offshore Côte d’Ivoire. The Civette-1X well reached a total depth of 13,950 feet (4,252 meters) and encountered … Read More
São Tomé and Príncipe’s offshore hydrocarbon ambitions have faced a setback following an announcement by Shell confirming that the Falcão-1X exploration well did not encounter commercially viable hydrocarbons. The well, … Read More
BluEnergies has successfully entered into an industry standard joint study and application agreement (JSAA) with the Liberian upstream subsidiary of TotalEnergies SE (TTE) in order to further explore the prospectivity … Read More
