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Issue 367 - 05 April 2018

Cameroon: VOG looks to new markets after Eneo setback

Victoria Oil & Gas (VOG) remains in informal talks with Bowleven despite the termination of a farm-out agreement for the Bomono gas permit, and both sides are hopeful that a solution can be found. Announcing its H1 results on 29 March, Bowleven said the farm-out transaction...

Issue 367 - 05 April 2018

Cameroon

Issue 367 - 05 April 2018

Senegal/Mauritania: TechnipFMC wins Tortue FPSO contract

BP has given TechnipFMC a front-end engineering design contract for the floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit for the Tortue/Ahmeyim gas field development.TechnipFMC said the agreement provided a mechanism to move to an engineering, procurement, construction...

Issue 367 - 05 April 2018

Senegal, Mauritania

Issue 367 - 05 April 2018

Egypt: SDX makes second Nile Delta discovery

Egypt-focused SDX Energy expects to bring its South Disouq field in the onshore Nile Delta into production during H2 2018. On 12 April, it announced a gas discovery at the Ibn Yunus-1X exploration well, which it spudded on 26 March. It drilled the well to a total depth of 9,068...

Issue 367 - 05 April 2018

Egypt

Issue 367 - 05 April 2018

Algeria: Sonatrach delays Petroceltic’s Ain Tsila development

Petroceltic International, the formerly Dublin-based and London-listed exploration company, has run into difficulties with the Algerian authorities over a contract approval at its Ain Tsila development, formally scheduled for first gas in 2020. The company had hoped to award an...

Issue 367 - 05 April 2018

Algeria

Issue 367 - 05 April 2018

Algeria: Eni and Sonatrach launch new Berkine exploration

Italy’s Eni has launched an “ambitious exploration and development programme” in the Berkine Basin, which it said would “lead to the production of new gas reserves through the use and optimisation of existing infrastructures”. Chief executive Claudio Descalzi and his Sonatrach...

Issue 367 - 05 April 2018

Algeria

Issue 367 - 05 April 2018

Ghana: First power plant sales mooted for Q3

The government is expected to begin shortly the process of selling two or three gas power plants to help reduce the debt burden on the Volta River Authority (VRA) and other state power utilities. The sale of all of the VRA’s thermal plants was mooted last year to help reduce...

Issue 367 - 05 April 2018

Ghana

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