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Entreprise Tunisienne d’Activités Pétrolières (ETAP) plans to set up an international subsidiary based outside Tunisia.
ALGERIA: Gulf Keystone gas find ANGOLA: Cabinda South drilling LIBYA: Eni charter MADAGASCAR: Aminex pulls out; MADAGASCAR: Chinese partners; MAURITANIA: RWE farms into onshore; MAURITANIA: Chinguetti drilling; MOZAMBIQUE: Indians plan Rovuma farm-ins; SIERRA LEONE: Elixir completes seismic; TUNISIA: Al Thani rig contract
Cabinda South find, Lukoil plans, Lotshi survey, RWE gas find in North El Amriya, Woodside find in Libya; Sweden’s PA Resources has spudded a second well on the Didon field; Eurogas drills on Sfax permit
BG GROUP: North African moves; Heerema completes Hasdrubal platform. BP: long-term agreements with Amec, KBR and Worley Parsons. EQUATOR: Better news boosts shares
In a further step in Dubai-based entrepreneur Abdullah Bin Saeed Al-Thani’s sale of regional assets – signalled by a big divestment in Sudan (AE 135/12) – Austria’s OMV has taken an 80% interest as operator in Tunisia’s offshore Sidi Mansour exploration licence from Thani Emirates Petroleum subsidiary Thani Tunisia Sidi Mansour.
Candax Energy has signed rig and drilling management service contracts for its 2008 onshore drilling programme in Tunisia.
Algeria and Tunisia are moving forward with an oil and gas exploration partnership first mooted in April 2003 when state companies Sonatrach and Entreprise Tunisienne d’Activités Pétrolières (Etap) created Numhyd, a 50/50 Jersey-registered joint venture (AE 65/15).
ANGOLA: Block 15/06 find; ANGOLA: SeaBird contract; REPUBLIC OF CONGO (BRAZZAVILLE): Moho-Bilondo starts up; EGYPT: Melrose record production from its acreage; GAMBIA: GB Energy pulls out; LIBYA: Hess to acquire 2D seismic; MADAGASCAR: Seismic shoot; MAURITANIA: Banda NW sidetrack hits oil and gas; TUNISIA: Sud Remada drilling success
Every country along the North African littoral from Morocco to Egypt has got at least one refinery project in planning or on the go.
CONGO-B: Marine XI farm-out brings in Vietnamese; MAURITANIA: Khop well spuds; TUNISIA: Vietnamese take two blocks; TUNISIA: DualEx enters with Bouhajla stake
CONGO-B: Transformers contract; DR CONGO: Ruzizi 1 rehab tender; ETHIOPIA: Sterlite wins EEPCo contract; TUNISIA: Rural solar project; UGANDA: ERA approves Tororo plant
AFRICA OIL: Newcomer plans IPO on newcomer Plus market; CANDAX: Non-exec chairman; GEOGLOBAL: Egyptian block rights handed over in India play
AfDB – first private equity investment in Maghreb; CADF $90m for four projects; US EX-IM Sub-Saharan Africa Advisory Committee
Circle Oil and partners have failed to find oil with the Zita-1 well on the Ras Marmour permit, but have approved a location for a first well on the Grombalia permit
South Perth-based Cooper Energy has received formal notification that the Bargou prospecting permit in the Gulf of Hammamet has been converted to an exploration licence.
