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Issue 371 - 14 June 2018

Algeria: Total and Repsol renegotiate TFT contract

Total and Repsol have become the latest international companies to renegotiate an Algerian production concession. On 11 June, they and their partner the national oil and gas company Sonatrach signed new 25-year contract with industry regulator Agence Nationale pour la...

Issue 371 - 14 June 2018

Algeria

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

Kenya: Oil trucked from Turkana marks production start

President Uhuru Kenyatta on 3 June waved off the first four trucks loaded with oil from the South Lokichar Basin, launching the Early Oil Pilot Scheme (EOPS) that will see production ramping up to 2,000 b/d later this year. The waxy crude oil produced during testing operations...

Issue 371 - 14 June 2018

Kenya

Issue 371 - 14 June 2018

Niger: Second discovery for Savannah

Savannah Petroleum has announced a second discovery on the R3 portion of the R3/R4 area in the Agadem Rift Basin. The Amdigh-1 well was drilled by the GW 215 rig to a total measured depth of 2,469 metres, and encountered 22 metres of oil-bearing reservoir sandstones in the E1...

Issue 371 - 14 June 2018

Niger

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

Ghana: Swiss African Oil plans seismic

Swiss African Oil Company plans a 2D seismic survey over its onshore/offshore Keta Delta Block and has held five public hearings at different venues on 4-8 June to inform local people of its plans. The company, a subsidiary of Zug-based Swiss African Petroleum AG, was awarded...

Issue 371 - 14 June 2018

Ghana

Issue 370 - 31 May 2018

High hopes for Namibia wells

Tullow Oil and Chariot Oil & Gas plan back-to-back wells in Namibia’s Walvis Basin this year. Tullow plans to spud the Cormorant well on PEL 37 on 1 September using the Ocean Rig Poseidon deep-water drillship. This will be Tullow’s sole exploration well in 2018 as the...

Issue 370 - 31 May 2018

Namibia

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