Camac Energy to start exploration in Kenya’s onshore block L1B, L16
CAMAC Energy has announced that it will start its exploration onshore on block L1B or L16 in 2015 even as exploration continues in Blocks L27/ L28 in the Lamu Basin … Read More
Kenyan government plans to increase petroleum products storage capacity
Kenya hopes to increase its storage capacity of petroleum products by 22 percent in the next 3 years in anticipation of increasing demand and increased product from a new pipeline … Read More
Tanzania’s LNG export terminal could be expanded
Courtesy of Reuters Tanzania’s first planned liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal could be expanded after the project partners discovered more gas than expected, shareholder Ophir Energy said. East Africa, … Read More
Comoros ratifies Discover exploration production sharing agreement
Discover, the privately owned, geology-led, oil and gas exploration company specialized in deep water petroleum systems, has announce the ratification of its Production Sharing Contract covering offshore blocks 35, 36 … Read More
3rd East Africa Oil & Gas Summit & Exhibition set for Nairobi in October
The 3rd East Africa Oil and Gas Summit and Exhibition EAOGS is taking place on the 15-17 October in Nairobi at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre in Nairobi. EAOGS was … Read More
Ophir Energy Plc announces its preliminary Full Year Results for 2013
Full Year Results Highlights: •Announced the divestment of a 20% interest in Blocks 1, 3 and 4 Tanzania to Pavilion Energy for US$1.288 billion. This transaction is now unconditional with … Read More
Kenya’s senate wants proposed refinery site changed
Kenyan senators have voiced their opposition on the proposed oil refinery site in Isiolo saying it should be located at any county bordering the sea. The former government had come … Read More
Future of East Africa is in agriculture not oil, says expert
Story by The New Times The discovery of commercially viable oil and gas deposits in East Africa has caused a lot of excitement among ordinary citizens, as well as political … Read More
Uganda’s Petroleum Institute in verge of Collapse
Story by The Observer For an institution that was envisaged to produce skilled manpower for Uganda’s oil sector, the Uganda Petroleum Institute Kigumba (UPIK) looks like one big anticlimax. And … Read More
Lamu offshore well to be “plugged and abandoned”
Pancontinental Oil and Gas NL has provided an update regarding the Sunbird-1 exploration well in area L10A offshore southern Kenya. Pancontinental’s in a release dated 6th January 2014had said it … Read More