Mtwara to Dar Es Salaam Gas Pipeline Project update

[twitter-follow screen_name=’oilnewskenya’] Source: Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation a) Completion and the commissioning of treatment plants natural gas – February 2015; b) Construction of Valve Stations 16 required for the entire pipeline … Read More

Swala Energy appoints financial advisor as it considers farm-down in East Africa

  Swala Energy has announced that it has appointed London based First Energy Capital LLP as financial adviser to the Company as it considers interest from a third party to … Read More

Tullow, Africa Oil to drill up to 6 basin openers in Northern Kenya in 2015

  Tullow Oil and Africa Oil say they plan to drill 6 basin openers in North Western Kenya’s North Lokichar basin, Kerio basin as well as in North Turkana according … Read More

Panalpina opens new office in Nairobi to serve East African region

[twitter-follow screen_name=’oilnewskenya’] International freight forwarding and logistics company, Panalpina, has opened a new office in Nairobi Kenya. The company says the new office will support Panalpina’s growth strategy for the … 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

Tullow Oil to drill first exploration well in Kenya’s Block 12A

[twitter-follow screen_name=’oilnewskenya’] Tullow Kenya is to drill its first exploration oil well in Elgeyo Marakwet later this year, as the company continues to expand its oil and gas search into … Read More

Thousands of oil industry jobs at stake as companies reduce costs

[twitter-follow screen_name=’oilnewskenya’] Keeping a job in the upstream sector of the global oil and gas industry is seemingly becoming harder by the day as companies streamline operations to reduce costs … Read More

Tullow Oil cuts exploration capital expenditure by 80% in 2015 following oil price drop

[twitter-follow screen_name=’oilnewskenya’] Tullow Oil has said it will be shrinking its 2015 exploration expenditure capital to just $200 million from $1 billion in 2014 as it takes steps to strengthen … Read More

Drilling of Kifaru-1 well in Mozambique begins

[twitter-follow screen_name=’oilnewskenya’] Wentworth Resources has announced the beginning of drilling operations on the Kifaru-1 exploration well by the Helmerich & Payne rig #243 in the Rovuma Onshore Concession in northern … Read More

ION Geophysical to acquire 2D seismic in offshore Puntland

[twitter-follow screen_name=’oilnewskenya’] ION Geophysical has announced that it has signed the first of a kind offshore multi-client 2D seismic survey  agreement with the Puntland Petroleum and Minerals Agency. According to … Read More