COUNTRIES AND MARKETS

Amendments to the 2005 hydrocarbons law (05-07) will introduce the “necessary conditions for the development of unconventional resources”; Kosmos Energy says it plans to drill the Sipo well testing the Liwenyi prospect on the Ndian River Block in late 2012; Chariot Oil & Gas has announced that subsidiary Enigma Oil & Gas has signed a drilling rig contract with AP Moller Maersk; UK oil company Afren has completed a successful well test programme on its Okoro East field in the offshore OML 112 and plans two production wells in H2 using existing facilities