Ophir Energy announces gas discovery in Tanzania
Ophir Energy plc has announced the successful results of the Taachui-1 & subsequent Taachui-1 ST1 well in Block 1, Tanzania which has resulted in a new gas discovery. The Taachui-1 … Read More
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Sustainable Gas Institute launched
The Sustainable Gas Institute is a collaborative centre of excellence for research, technology and education in gas sustainability and will translate research into practical solutions for the energy industry, the … Read More
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
Exploration in Kenya’s Block L10A to continue as Sunbird-1 analysis continue
JV partner Pancontinental Oil and Gas has advised that the BG Group-operated Sunbird-1 well off the southern Kenyan coast has been completed and the well has intersected a hydrocarbon-bearing zone in the top of the … Read More
BG Group offers Oil, Gas scholarships in Tanzania
Story by Tanzania daily News The number of oil and gas experts in Tanzania is set to increase following an offer of 20 scholarships by British multinational BG Gas for … 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
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
British Gas Group strikes ‘some Oil & Gas in Lamu
UK’s exploration firm BG Group has made an oil and gas discovery in lamu at the Kenyan coast although the reserves have been termed to be on no commercial threshold. … Read More
East Africa: the newest LNG frontier
Story by LNG With extraordinary discoveries of natural gas in the Rovuma Basin, East Africa is emerging as a new LNG frontier. The International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates that Africa … Read More
Tanzania to Review Gas-Drilling Deals
All contracts held by oil and gas exploration companies in Tanzania will be reviewed at the end of the year as the country revamps laws regulating the sector that has … Read More