Tullow Oil, Africa Oil appraisal activities in North Western Kenya successful

[twitter-follow screen_name=’oilnewskenya’] Tullow Oil plc and its partner Africa Oil have announced a new round of successful results from a series of exploration, appraisal and testing activities conducted in Blocks … Read More

Kenya’s oil and gas regulator to fly out trainees under its upstream training programme

[twitter-follow screen_name=’oilnewskenya’] National Oil has unveiled a human resource capacity development programme for the emerging upstream oil and gas sector. The first group of 34 management trainees has already been … Read More

Tanzania Mzia well test supports potential hub development – BG Group

[twitter-follow screen_name=’oilnewskenya’] BG Group plc  has announced that results from a recently completed second drill-stem test (DST) on the Mzia discovery in Block 1, offshore southern Tanzania, provided further support … Read More

Kenya looks into establishing oil and gas industrial parks

[twitter-follow screen_name=’oilnewskenya’] As East Africa potential to become a major global oil and gas producer continues to attract international investors Kenya is already looking into establishing Oil and Gas Industrial … Read More

UK listed firms must report all payments to governments starting 2015

[twitter-follow screen_name=’oilnewskenya’] British energy and mining firms will from January 1 2015 have to disclose all payments they make to governments in countries they operate in as the UK government … Read More

Simba Energy reopens discussions with interested parties in Kenya’s block 2A

[twitter-follow screen_name=’oilnewskenya’] Canadian explorer Simba Energy has reported that following positive results of the Company’s most recent FTG (Full Tensor Gradiometry) survey and final report by Bell Geospace, the Company … Read More

Swala commences 2D seismic acquisition over Tanzania’s Moshi basin

[twitter-follow screen_name=’oilnewskenya’] Swala Energy Limited has announced the start of its 2014 2D seismic data acquisition programme over the Moshi Basin located within the Pangani exploration licence in northern Tanzania. … Read More

2D seismic on Tanzania’s Mnazi Bay Concession set to be complete in Q3

[twitter-follow screen_name=’oilnewskenya’] The acquisition of 315km of conventional 2D onshore seismic data over the prospective areas of the Mnazi Bay Concession Tanzania is on program and is expected to be … Read More

Start-up and Equipment challenges delay completion of Tembo-1 well in Mozambique

[twitter-follow screen_name=’oilnewskenya’] Wentworth resources has reported a 45 day delay in its drilling operations on the Tembo-1 exploration well in the Rovuma Onshore Concession encountered start-up and equipment challenges. The … Read More