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As part of its broad investment programme to increase presence in key growth markets, Oman Oil Company (OOC) has announced the opening of its first representative overseas office in Dar … Read More
Story by The National In recent years, oil and gas discoveries have established east Africa as one of the world’s most promising frontiers. While the full scale of natural resources … Read More
Heritage Oil has relinquished its Rukwa North license in Tanzania in favour of the neighbouring Rukwa South licence which had showed better prospectivity after an analysis of the initial seismic data. … Read More
The Songo Songo gas field is located on and offshore Songo Songo island, about 15km from the Tanzanian mainland and 200km south of the commercial capital, Dar es Salaam. The … Read More
Story by The EastAfrican:- Sovereign wealth funds are fast becoming the “must-have” for any natural resource-exporting country, and for any country hoping to commercialise reserves of oil, gas or minerals … Read More
Ophir Energy plc has announced that drilling operations have now concluded on the Mlinzi Mbali-1 well in Block 7*, Tanzania. Ophir has an 80% net interest. The well was located … Read More
The fact that a 40% drilling success rate marks out 2013 as one of BP’s best years for exploration in decades reflects the kind of glass-half-full attitude hardy oil investors must … Read More
[twitter-follow screen_name=’oilnewskenya’] Story by The National Hayaat Group, an Abu Dhabi-based investor, has bought a minority stake in an East African oil explorer for A$3.3 million (Dh10.8m). It acquired a … Read More
[twitter-follow screen_name=’oilnewskenya’] Australian owned Swala Energy Limited has announced that RISC Operations Pty Ltd an independent petroleum advisory firm, have completed their review of the resource potential of the Kito … Read More
[twitter-follow screen_name=’oilnewskenya’] Infill seismic surveying at the Ruvuma natural gas acreage, onshore Tanzania, is set to finalise locations for new exploration drilling and accelerate commercial development heading into 2014. A … Read More
