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Issue 371 - 14 June 2018

Morocco: Sound submits Tendrara development application

Sound Energy announced on 8 June that it had submitted a development application to the Ministry of Energy for the Tendrara gas discovery in eastern Morocco. The application for the Phase 1 development of Tendrara covers the technical and commercial aspects of the field...

Issue 371 - 14 June 2018

Morocco

Issue 371 - 14 June 2018

Cameroon moves closer to second FLNG project

Cameroon’s second floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) project has taken a step forward with the signing of a gas convention agreement between New Age LNG and the government establishing the fiscal terms for its project to produce gas from the Etinde permit. Project company...

Issue 371 - 14 June 2018

Cameroon

Issue 371 - 14 June 2018

Tanzania: Songas unfazed by critical report

A Special Parliamentary Committee on the Gas Sub-Sector delivered a summary of its report in Tanzania’s parliament on 2 June. The committee was tasked in November 2017 with deciding whether contracts in the gas sector contained “unconscionable terms” which could be revised under...

Issue 371 - 14 June 2018

Tanzania

Issue 371 - 14 June 2018

Islamist attacks in northern Mozambique highlight challenges facing LNG scheme

Scores of people have been killed since late May in attacks on villages in the northern Cabo Delgado province blamed on Islamist militants. In one attack near the coastal town of Palma, the attackers abducted residents from Monjane and Ulumbi villages who were found beheaded on...

Issue 371 - 14 June 2018

Mozambique

Issue 370 - 31 May 2018

Angola: New gas, marginal field laws

President João Lourenço has signed decrees setting out specific terms to regulate the exploration and production of natural gas and halving tax rates for the development of marginal fields as the new government seeks to maximise earnings from hydrocarbons. The decrees were...

Issue 370 - 31 May 2018

Angola

Issue 370 - 31 May 2018

Egypt: EGPC, Egas launch 2018 bid rounds

Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) and Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company (Egas) have both launched bid rounds. EGPC is offering 11 exploration blocks in the Gulf of Suez, Western Desert and the Eastern Desert sedimentary basins, with bids due by 1 October. Egas is...

Issue 370 - 31 May 2018

Egypt

Issue 369 - 17 May 2018

Equatorial Guinea woos neighbours with regional gas scheme

The Ministry of Mines and Hydrocarbons and GEPetrol signed an agreement on 9 May with Noble Energy to provide additional gas as backfill for Marathon’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant as the first phase of the government’s planned Gas Megahub project. The proposed Gas Megahub...

Issue 369 - 17 May 2018

Equatorial Guinea

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