National Oil Corporation (NOC) lifted a blockade of the pipelines leading to and from the Az-Zawiya refinery west of Tripoli in a matter of hours in early August, demonstrating that it still has the leverage to guarantee security at its facilities. Thanks to a combination of...

London-based Victoria Oil & Gas (VOG) has found more gas in the La-107 well on its Logbaba concession in Douala. The company said drilling had taken longer than expected due to a technical problem with the previous La-108 well, but completion, flow testing and network...

Gabon Oil Company has announced a restructuring that will refocus its role on managing the state’s assets and expanding its downstream presence. “The GOC is emerging from a major restructuring,” director-general Arnaud Engandji said following a 28 July board meeting. “We have...

Cairn Energy has announced that the SNE North-1 exploration well encountered oil and gas in the primary objective and oil in the deeper secondary objective in a separate accumulation to the SNE field.The well was drilled to test the Sirius prospect, to the north of the SNE...

After a process lasting more than two years, upstream operator Orca Exploration Group has received government approval for the Second Additional Gas Plan (AGP-2), more than doubling the available volume of Additional Gas for sale from the Songo Songo field.Under the...