Oil deepens rifts in East Africa
Story by The National In recent years, oil and gas discoveries have established east Africa as one of the world’s most promising frontiers. While the full scale of natural resources … Read More
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Heritage relinquishes Northern block license in favour of the South in Tanzania
Heritage Oil has relinquished its Rukwa North license in Tanzania in favour of the neighbouring Rukwa South licence which had showed better prospectivity after an analysis of the initial seismic data. … Read More
Uganda Gov’t adopts horizontal drilling method for its oil
Uganda has adopted the horizontal oil drilling method as a way to reduce impact on the environment and wildlife in the environmentally sensitive Albertine graben. Commercial deposits of oil, which … Read More
Kenya’s new energy bill delayed by 6 months
Kenya will have to wait a little bit longer before it can have a new energy bill that will regulate the petroleum sector with the Bill not expected in parliament … Read More
Simba Energy strikes new farm-out for Kenya block 2A
Canadian oil explorer Simba Energy has a signed letter of intent for a new farm-out of Block 2A, onshore Kenya. The deal with a private Calgary-based company will see Simba selling up … Read More
Pancontinental Oil and Gas, BG Group starts offshore drilling in Kenya
Pancontinental Oil & Gas and BG Group have spudded exploration well Sunbird-1 in licence area L10A offshore Kenya. The Kenya L10A consortium consists of BG Group, operator, with 50% working … Read More
Tough luck for Ophir oil exploration in Tanzania
Ophir Energy plc has announced that drilling operations have now concluded on the Mlinzi Mbali-1 well in Block 7*, Tanzania. Ophir has an 80% net interest. The well was located … Read More
Sub-Saharan Africa outstrips China in 2012 oil demand growth
Oil demand in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) grew by a massive five per cent year on year between 2011 and 2012, outstripping both China and India, new data from African energy … Read More
Chinese oil workers South Sudan to Juba
[twitter-follow screen_name=’oilnewskenya’] Story by Reuters China National Petroleum Company, a main oil investor in South Sudan, is evacuating oil workers to the capital, Juba, amid continued fighting in the world’s … Read More
Challenges Kenya, Uganda face in oil production
The East African region is now focus of the world as it joins the league of oil producing countries with over 1.6 billion barrels discovered in Uganda and Kenya with … Read More