{"id":6399,"date":"2017-10-12T07:54:16","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T07:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/?p=6399"},"modified":"2017-10-12T07:54:16","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T07:54:16","slug":"seychelles-announces-applications-2-blocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/seychelles-announces-applications-2-blocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Seychelles Announces Applications for 2 Blocks"},"content":{"rendered":"

PetroSeychelles has announced that it has received applications for Area A and Area B and is now inviting other interested parties wishing to submit competing applications for the two areas to do so within ninety (90) days.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Area A and Area B were formerly Afren under the\u00a0East African Exploration (Seychelles) Limited (EAX) and\u00a0Vanoil Energy Ltd under its wholly owned subsidiary, Avana Petroleum Limited.<\/p>\n

Areas A and B comprise 14,319 km2\u00a0in total and are located on the Seychelles micro-continent in shallow to deep water in the northern half of the Seychelles plateau in a region.<\/p>\n

The applications follow the new blocks licensing system in operation in the Seychelles termed as \u201cOpen File\u201d system under which companies may submit proposals for open areas on a first come first served basis. Upon receipt of a proposal PetroSeychelles and its partners in Government undertakes due diligence to verify that the company is technically and financially competent to undertake the work program proposed. This is then followed by publication of the intent to allow other interested companies to submit competing proposals, for the same area, within a 90 day period. All proposals received will then be evaluated and the selected company will be invited to negotiate a Petroleum Agreement.<\/p>\n

Should other companies bid the winners will join the Japan Oil Gas and Metals National Corporation, JOGMEC<\/a> the only party that holds an exploration license in Seychelles after the other explorer UK listed company Afren collapsed.<\/p>\n

Other exploration companies that have been in the country include Amoco which drilled three wells: Reith Bank-1, Seagull Shoals-1 and Owen Bank A1\u00a0all of which encountered oil and gas shows\u00a0 in the area as well as Enterprise Oil Plc, Vanoil Energy<\/a> and WHL Energy<\/a> which took over US based company Petroquest International.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PetroSeychelles has announced that it has received applications for Area A and Area B and is now inviting other interested parties wishing to submit competing applications for the two areas … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[59,4274,6476,6477,208,6481,4133,4132,6480,3929,2027,6478,6479,2288,2668,2734],"class_list":["post-6399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news","tag-afren","tag-amoco","tag-area-a","tag-area-b","tag-avana-petroleum","tag-enterprise-oil-plc","tag-japan-oil-gas-and-metals-national-corporation","tag-jogmec","tag-owen-bank-a1","tag-petroquest-international","tag-petroseychelles","tag-reith-bank-1","tag-seagull-shoals-1","tag-seychelles","tag-vanoil","tag-whl-energy","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/area-and-b-seychelles.png?fit=308%2C256&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5JWkQ-1Fd","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1710,"url":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/avana-petroleum-limited-receives-a-default-notice-in-seychelles\/","url_meta":{"origin":6399,"position":0},"title":"Avana Petroleum Limited receives a default notice in Seychelles","author":"Samuel Kamau Mbote","date":"September 2, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Vanoil Energy Ltd announces that its wholly owned subsidiary, Avana Petroleum Limited, has received a default notice under the joint operating agreement in respect of Seychelles Areas A and B, due to non-payment of its share of joint account expenses in the amount of USD $732,755 plus interest. 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