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The upstream industry hopes 2024 can be a bounce-back year for high-impact oil and gas drilling after a lackluster 2023, with Africa and Latin America likely to spearhead activities. Rystad … Read More
HIGHLIGHTS Pancontinental Energy has provided the following project update regarding the Company’s PEL 87 exploration permit, offshore Namibia. PEL 87 3D Seismic Survey The 6,872 km 2 PEL 87 3D survey is being acquired by Petroleum Geo-Services’ Ramform Titan survey vessel, providing extremely high efficiency data acquisition … Read More
QatarEnergy announced a light oil discovery in the Jonker-1X deep-water exploration well drilled in the PEL-39 Exploration License, offshore Namibia. The Jonker-1X well was drilled to a total depth of … Read More
Stena Drilling has signed a new contract with BG Delta and BG International subsidiaries of Shell for the Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit (MODU) Stena Forth. The operations for Stena Forth in Egypt are due to commence in 2023 upon completion of … Read More
Despite over a decade of oil exploration in the horn of Africa, a working petroleum system, easy access to the market and over 60 wells, the dream of a commercial … Read More
Tanzania is expected to see increased upstream activity in 2023 in all aspects including seismic, exploration drilling, development and production buoyed by improved oil prices and goodwill from the country’s … Read More
Sintana Energy has provided the following update on several matters including a recently approved extension to Petroleum Exploration License 87 (PEL 87), a year-end review and 2023 outlook. “2022 was … Read More
Northern Ocean has announced that its high specification semisubmersible drilling rig, Deepsea Bollsta, has safely completed the transit to Namibia and commenced its contract with Shell Upstream Namibia BV, a … Read More
Shell Egypt, EGAS and Petronas have awarded a front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract to a Bechtel-led coalition that includes Enppi and Petrojet to study a proposed unified power system … Read More
Shell has welcomed a decision by the Milan tribunal on the settlement made in 2011 with the Federal Government of Nigeria and Eni over OPL-245 where the government had separately … Read More
