Zarara Oil and Gas Gets 18 month License extension in Kenya’s block L4 and L13

Zarara Oil and Gas the operator in block L4 and L13 located in Lamu County has received an eighteen month license extension to January 2019 after the lapse of an … Read More

Schlumberger Introduces Complete Cased Hole Formation Evaluation and Reservoir Monitoring from a Single Tool

Pulsar service delivers rigless formation evaluation and monitoring for any reservoir to improve drilling efficiency and well productivity Schlumberger has introduced the Pulsar* multifunction spectroscopy service at the SPWLA 58th … Read More

ExxonMobil and Synthetic Genomics Report Breakthrough in Algae Biofuel Research

ExxonMobil and Synthetic Genomics Inc. have announced a breakthrough in joint research into advanced biofuels involving the modification of an algae strain that more than doubled its oil content without significantly inhibiting … Read More

Software overcomes limitations of conventional well-based reservoir modeling

Geoscientists in the oil & gas industry face many challenges in their quest to de-risk and drill the best wells and more confidently forecast production. CGG GeoSoftware geostatistical seismic reservoir … Read More

African Oil and Gas and the Quest for Prosperity – A review of the book “BIG BARRELS”

Book Review by Funke Michaels, Curator, ReadAFRICA.global BIG BARRELS has arrived very late. For many like myself, who struggled with the scarcity of positive Africa-specific case studies at business school; … Read More

Wentworth Resources Estimates Mozambique’s Tembo Field to Hold 1.7TCF

Oslo Stock Exchange listed independent and East Africa-focused oil & gas company Wentworth Resources has announced that an internal assessment of the prospective resource estimate for the Tembo Structure is … Read More