NAMIBIA: Shell Spuds Graff-1 Well in PEL 39
Shell has spud the Graff-1 well in Block 2913 Petroleum Exploration License (PEL) 39 State-owned Namcor reported, The well is being drilled at a depth of around 2000 meters using … Read More
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NAMIBIA: Why PanContinental’s Hopes Linger on Venus -1, Graff-1 Drilling Results
French major TotalEnergies has commenced drilling its ultra-deep Venus-1 well in the Orange Basin offshore Namibia On-trend, Pancontinental has mapped the very large Saturn turbidite complex in PEL 87. Saturn is geologically similar to Total’s Venus Prospect Venus and Saturn overlie the same high-quality mature Oil Source Rock, and both lie immediately … Read More
Tanzania Hopes for FID on its Offshore LNG Projects as Discussions with IOCs Commence
Tanzania through its Minister for Energy January Makamba has reported that the government has started negotiations for the $30bn Tanzania LNG project with international oil companies including and Shell, Equinor, … Read More
Namibia Approves Eco Atlantic Operatorship in 4 Licenses
Eco Atlantic has completed drafting the four new Joint Operating Agreements (‘JOA’s’) for its new Petroleum Licenses offshore Namibia. We have received all paying partner approvals on the JOA’s and … Read More
NIGERIA: Oil Plus Awarded Water Injectivity Study for Shell
Specialist oil and gas consultancy Oil Plus has secured a number of significant international contract awards totalling more than £1.5million in the first half of this year including that of a … Read More
EGYPT: Shell completes sale of Western Desert assets to Cheiron Petroleum Corporation and Cairn Energy
Shell Egypt N.V. and Shell Austria GmbH, subsidiaries of Royal Dutch Shell, have completed the sale of their upstream assets in Egypt’s Western Desert to a consortium made up of … Read More
SOUTH AFRICA: BG New Operator at Transkei & Algoa after Farm-out Completion
Impact Oil & Gas has announced the completion of the previously announced farm-out transaction between its wholly-owned subsidiary, Impact Africa Limited, and BG International Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of … Read More
Valaris Announces Floater Contract Awards With Shell
Valaris Limited has announced that it has been awarded one-well contracts with Shell Namibia Upstream B.V. and Shell Sao Tome and Principe B.V. offshore Namibia and Sao Tome and Principe, … Read More
NAMIBIA: Global Petroleum Raises £1 million to Fund PEL94 Licence Commitments
Global Petroleum has announced that it has successfully raised £1,000,000 in aggregate before costs, through the Placing of 200,000,000 Ordinary Shares at a Placing Price of 0.5 pence per share. … Read More
NAMIBIA: Opportunities and Risks of Becoming an International Oil and Gas Player
Historically overlooked by independent oil companies (IOCs) and considered something of an oil and gas frontier state, Namibia is establishing itself more prominently on the international oil and gas map. … Read More
