Statoil , ExxonMobil CNOOC fight for Tanzania’s Block 4/3A

[twitter-follow screen_name=’oilnewskenya’] China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC)  Statoil  and ExxonMobil will have to wait and see who gets the offshore block 4/3A after the three companies submitted bids for … Read More

Vivo Energy Kenya Launches Mobile Fuel Testing Laboratory

Vivo Energy Kenya, Shell’s distributor for fuels and lubricants, has  launched a mobile fuel testing laboratory a first of its kind by an Oil Marketing Company (OMC) in Kenya. This initiative … Read More

Pancontinental receives 12 months license extension in Block L10B

[twitter-follow screen_name=’oilnewskenya’] Pancontinental Oil & Gas has announced that the Kenyan government has granted it a 12-month extension to the current Initial Exploration Period of the L10B offshore license. Pancontinental … Read More

3D seismic in Kenya’s Block 10BB and 13T to be completed by September

[twitter-follow screen_name=’oilnewskenya’] The ongoing 3D Seismic surveys over an area of 550 square kilometers in Blocks 10BB and 13T will be through by the end of the third quarter according … Read More

Soco to complete seismic in Controversial DRC’s Virunga Park by June

Soco international will complete the ongoing lake bed seismic survey on Lake Edward on Block V by the end of this quarter according to the latest update by the company. … Read More

Results on Taachui-1 well in Tanzania expected in two weeks

Ophir Energy has announced that results from the offshore Taachui-1 well in Block 1 will be known by the end of May. The well is projected to have a mean … Read More

Africa Oil, Tullow appraisal activities strike more oil in Northern Kenya

Africa Oil and its Partner Tullow oil have hit some 62 meters of vertical net oil pay in a well drilled towards the north of Twiga 1 and is currently … Read More