First Oil Achieved from the GNN Discovery in the Southern Gulf of Suez, Egypt

Cheiron has announced that the GNN-4 well, which was drilled to appraise the recent GNN oil discovery, has been completed and successfully tested at initial rates of over 2,000 bopd. … Read More

Infrastructure Fund Africa50 helps Egypt’s Solar Power Sector take off

A 37-square-kilometer solar park so large that it can be seen from space, with over seven million photovoltaic panels, and funding of $4 billion. In Africa? Impossible? Not anymore.Thirty international … Read More

Total Committed and Planned Investments for 2020-2024 in the MENA’s Energy Sector in Excess of USD792bn

Committed and planned energy investments in APICORP’s 2020-24 investment outlook amount to USD792bn, a USD173mn drop compared to USD965bn in 2019-2023; The decline in investments is largely attributed to the … Read More

Remote Site Healthcare – Just how important is your on-site resource?

By Peter Brink With the oil & gas and commodity prices low, companies are forced to operate leaner and reduce both capital and operational costs. All aspects of operations are … Read More

Opportune Time for Africa Oil & Gas Industry to consider Change: PwC Oil & Gas Review

The decline in the global oil price has led to a reduced level of activity across the African continent and had an impact on countries that traditionally depend on oil … Read More

Oyster Oil Commences 3350 line kilometers of Airborne Survey in Djibouti

Oyster Oil and Gas Ltd has commenced an airborne survey in the Republic of Djibouti which is being conducted by Bridgeporth Holdings Ltd, a UK based specialist geophysical contractor. The … Read More

Security in Africa: Structural challenges are reaching crisis point

[twitter-follow screen_name=’oilnewskenya’] The latest report from Think Security assesses changes in Africa’s security situation between 2013 and 2014 in three main categories: (1) Challenges impacting the national chain of command, … Read More

PetroServices eyes expansion into the East African market

German oil field supplier and service provider PetroServices has said it is looking into opening an office in Kenya to tap into the expanding oil and gas sector. According to … Read More