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

Comparison between International crude oil prices (Murban) and local fuel prices (Kenya)

[twitter-follow screen_name=’oilnewskenya’]   Crude oil price is in Dollars per Barrel while the rest is in Shillings per litre. The graph is meant to show the trend not the exact … 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

Kenya to host its first local content conference in the oil and gas industry

Nairobi will next month host the first conference and exhibition that seeks to stir debate on local content in the upstream oil and gas industry in the Eastern Africa region. … Read More