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Parastatal JV plans offshore drilling; Clov tenders line up; ExxonMobil seeks MTPS farm-out; Seplat completes Niger Delta purchase

ANGOLA: New find on Block 15/06; EGYPT: Mitsui buys in; GABON: Perenco workover raises output; MOROCCO: Exploration progress; NIGERIA/SAO TOME: Total Takes Chevron’s Block 1 stake; NIGERIA: Drilling success for Sinopec; TUNISIA: AfDB funds for Etap; UGANDA: Butiaba appraisal success

ANGOLA: Top crude supplier to China; LIBERIA/NIGERIA: Crude supply deal

Eni and its partners have made a new oil discovery in Block 15/06 with the deep-water Cabaça SE-1 well. The well, located in 470 metres of water 100km offshore, encountered significant oil-bearing reservoirs in the Miocene series. An appraisal well is planned to be drilled in Q3 2010 with the objective of delineating and testing this oil accumulation. Cabaça SE-1 is the seventh exploration well drilled in Block 15/06 since the block was awarded at the end of 2006. The eighth well of the exploration drilling campaign, Mpungi-1, is currently being drilled,and it will complete the work commitment of the first exploration period. The block has delivered six commercial discoveries out of the seven prospects drilled to date.

REPUBLIC OF CONGO: Nkossa contract extension; EGYPT: Technip contract for WDDM expansion; MAURITANIA: Taoudeni well makes slow progress; NIGERIA: Amenam contract extension; NIGERIA: Gas find for Conoil, Total; Chariot: Namibia seismic ready for inspection; MAUREL & PROM: Bullish on Nigerian acquisition; SEADRILL: Delivery of deep-water drillship West Gemini; SONANGOL: Venezuela move

Houston-based Doris has won the pre-front-end engineering and design contract for the Chevron-operated Lucapa field development in offshore Block 14

Angola is expected to export more crude oil in August than in July, with 1.80m b/d set to load in 58 cargoes, provisional loading programmes show

Angola has not given up plans to launch the licensing round put on hold since 2008 as first elections, then the global economic crisis, delayed plans to offer open acreage to investors

Vanoil contracts BGP for seismic; Newcomer in Karoo Basin; Maersk to decide next year on Chissonga

CITYVIEW: Share suspension; SONATRACH: Cherouati opens his account; TULLOW OIL: New deep-water licence in Suriname

The first phase of the Gove dam (also known as Ngove) is due to start operating in Q1 2011, generating an initial MW20 of electricity, the Angop news agency

An impressive number of power schemes are planned to exploit the country’s huge hydroelectric capacity, but they need an integrated national grid to run through, writes Jon Marks, recently in Luanda

ANGOLA: Amec wins Cabgoc contract; EGYPT: GDF Suez takes Ashrafi stake; EGYPT: KEC find; EQUATORIAL GUINEA: Mustang wins Belinda FEED; EQUATORIAL GUINEA: Afex signs; KENYA: CNOOC finds gas with onshore well; LIBYA: Medco findl ERHC ENERGY: Ntephe confirmed as chief executive

Final contracts have yet to be awarded, but national oil company Sociedade Nacional de Combustíveis de Angola (Sonangol) has moved to reaffirm Luanda’s commitment to raising levels of local content – and show who has control of the Angolan industry – by rejecting operator Total E&P Angola’s recommendations for contractors to build the giant Clov project’s infrastructure.

Regular brownouts in the capital and a more precarious position still in many provinces are driving the authorities towards an ambitious generation development programme