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West Africa or Western Africa is the westernmost region of Africa. The United Nations defines Western Africa as the 16 countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo
Oceaneering International has announced that its Offshore Projects Group (OPG) has been awarded a multi-year contract by bp Mauritania Investments Limited for the provision of subsea inspection, maintenance, and repair … Read More
Valaris has announced that it has been awarded a five-well contract offshore West Africa for drillship VALARIS DS-15. The contract is expected to commence in the third quarter 2026. The … Read More
Equatorial Guinea through its Vice President Teddy Nguema has inked an MoU with Suzepet for the contruction of a domestic refinery in a ceremony in Shanghai which saw Zhang Jinhong, … Read More
Rex International and together with its subsidiaries announces that its indirect subsidiary, Akrake Petroleum Benin S.A., has confirmed that it had on 25 April 2025, signed contracts for a Mobile … Read More
To address Africa’s persistent reliance on imported refined petroleum products, which accounted for an amount of US$30billion annually in petroleum import costs due to inadequate refining, African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) … Read More
BW Energy is pleased to announce that second sidetrack DBM-1 ST2 well has confirmed the substantial oil discovery with good reservoir and fluid quality of the Bourdon prospect in the Dussafu … Read More
Golar LNG has announced that FLNG Gimi completed the offload of its first full LNG cargo to the LNG carrier British Sponsor. This introduces Mauritania and Senegal to the international gas market and … Read More
Explorco has announced plans to drill it’s first well in the basin in Q1 2026—the first such activity since 1974. Speaking at the executive roundtable Michael Aryeetey, Managing Director of … Read More
Borr Drilling reports that it has secured new awards for the rigs “Gerd” and “Norve” with an expected combined duration of 774 days. The “Gerd” has secured a binding Letter … Read More
Aquaterra Energy has secured a multi-million-dollar, multi-year contract with Intrepid Energy Limited (IEL) to deliver a bespoke subsea well intervention equipment package for a project in Nigeria. Aquaterra Energy’s turnkey well … Read More
