Outlook for Africa’s oil & gas industry improves – PwC report

The outlook for Africa’s oil & gas industry is positive amid difficult operating and economic headwinds. Tough economic and external conditions have placed pressure on oil & gas companies to … Read More

Presidents of Chad, Uganda and Senior Minister implicated in Chinese Energy Firm bribing scandal

U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York has said it has charged Chi Ping Patrick Ho aka “Patrick C.P. Ho,” and Cheikh Gadio (the former Foreign Minister … Read More

Unleashing the potential of open EITI data

Source: eiti.org/blog/ Author: Christoffer Claussen On 31 December 2017, an important provision of the 2016 EITI Standard comes into force. It requires implementing countries to make their EITI data available in open … Read More

Rhino Resources Acquires two offshore blocks in East Africa

Rhino Resources has announced it has expanded its African footprint with the recent acquisition of two offshore blocks in East Africa in the Comoros territorial waters. The two offshore blocks … Read More

Sub-Sahara Africa’s growth to slow amid oil and other commodities price drop – World Bank

Sub-Saharan Africa’s growth will slow in 2015 to 4.0 percent from 4.5 percent in 2014, according to World Bank projections released today. This downturn largely reflects the fall in the … Read More

FAR raises $46.7 million to fund exploration ventures in Africa and Australia

FAR Ltd has completed a placement to institutional and sophisticated investors to raise $46.7 million before expenses by issuing 424,961,685 shares. The capital raising follows the significant oil discovery in … Read More

Cairn Energy, FAR announce oil discovery Senegal

Cairn together with its joint venture partners FAR ConocoPhillips 35% and Petrosen have announced that the FAN-1 exploration well, offshore Senegal, has discovered oil. The well, located in 1,427 metres water depth and approximately 100 kilometres offshore in the Sangomar Deep block reached a Target … Read More