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Denmark’s Maersk Oil has announced plans to close its Houston office and reduce its Luanda team to try to reduce capital expenditure and improve returns from the unsanctioned Chissonga project. Maersk said options included a future project developed jointly with other hydrocarbon discoveries in the same region. “Chissonga, like many deep-water projects in our industry, remains economically challenged in the current market environment. Maersk Oil remains committed to the Chissonga project and we have evaluated multiple options to commercialise these resources in the best interests of our partners and the Angolan authorities.

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The government of Somaliland has announced a production sharing contract (PSC) with Norway’s DNO International for onshore Block SL18. The PSC was signed by Somaliland president Ahmed Mohamoud Silanyo and DNO International executive chairman Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani. DNO has initiated studies on the 12,000km2 block ahead of a seismic programme planned for 2014. Genel Energy and Ophir Energy already have acreage in the self-declared republic, while DNO has acreage across the Gulf of Aden in Yemen.

Somalia
Issue 212 - 02 July 2011

New play for Kiwis

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New Zealand Oil & Gas Ltd (NZOG) has made a first foray outside its home area with the Diodore permit in the Gulf of Gabes. Chief executive David Salisbury, who travelled to Tunis for the signing ceremony, said NZOG had been assessing opportunities in Tunisia since 2008

Tunisia
Issue 171 - 03 October 2009

Prospects in the ultra-deep

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Anadarko Petroleum Corporation and Tullow Oil plc will be able to explore the same play as their Sierra Leone find offshore Liberia, where the government plans a bid round for the unlicensed Blocks 1-5, to be followed by licensing of the ultra-deep.

Liberia
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Foxtrot International has completed a four-year, $850m field development programme, significantly raising output from Block CI-27. Oslo-listed RAK Petroleum said two new gas fields, Marlin and Manta, have been brought on stream following the installation of a four-legged, manned platform and related processing and pipeline facilities and the drilling of one exploration and seven production wells. Gas production from CI-27 climbed to an average of 170mcf/d in August 2016, constituting more than three-quarters of Côte d’Ivoire’s total. Production of oil and condensates from the block averaged 3,000 b/d.

Côte d'Ivoire
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Russia’s Lukoil has spudded a deep-water well on the Savannah prospect on Block SL-5-11, using the Eirik Raude rig. The well, which spudded on 12 September, will be drilled to more than 4,700 metres, in water depths exceeding 2,000 metres. Lukoil took over as block operator in June 2011, alongside Nigeria’s Oranto Petroleum, and PanAtlantic Energy, the successor company to Vanco Energy Company.

Sierra Leone
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Total on 15 March announced the start of production from the 100,000 b/d Moho Nord deep offshore project, 75km from Pointe-Noire. The development, launched in 2013, comprises 34 wells tied back to a new tension leg platform, the first for Total in Africa, and to the new Likouf floating production unit. The oil is processed on Likouf and exported by pipeline to Total’s Djeno onshore terminal. Total operates the project with a 53.5% interest.

Congo Brazzaville
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Kenya’s onshore promise has prompted Tullow Oil to accelerate its drilling programme, and results could prove decisive in settling long-standing disputes over development plans for neighbouring Uganda, but international boundary disputes between Kenya and Ethiopia could pose a risk down the line, writes Adrian J Browne

Kenya | Uganda | Ethiopia
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With a long-running arbitration case over exploration Block A nearing its end in Washington, the government is gearing up to relicense the acreage, CAR’s energy minister told François Misser in Bangui

Central African Republic
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Are Algeria's ambitious energy sector plans feasibile?

Algeria
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Somalia launched an offshore licensing round on 7 February, offering 15 blocks in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Galmudug, Hirshabelle, South West and Jubaland states. Its promoters hope that similar geological structures to those harbouring gas offshore Mozambique, Tanzania and Kenya are oil-bearing offshore Somalia. The event, which was live-streamed by Somali TV, aimed to underline to Somalis back home and in the diaspora the government’s commitment to transparency in exploring its oil and gas potential.

Somalia
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The Algerian authorities have continued to sign new deals in the upstream and downstream sectors while advancing their more controversial agenda of exploiting shale resources despite public opposition. Preparations are building for a policy announcement in December which could open the way to further developments next year. On 7 October, Sonatrach, Total and Repsol completed their agreements to jointly develop the Erg Issouane gas field and market the gas. The field is located on the TFT Sud permit south of the partners’ existing Tin Fouyé Tabenkort (TFT) field.

Algeria
Issue 274 - 28 March 2014

Morocco: Kosmos drills on Foum Assaka

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As the pace of exploration speeds up offshore Morocco, Kosmos has begun drilling the FA-1 well on the Foum Assaka Block, while Cairn Energy has plugged and abandoned the JM-1 well on the Cap Juby prospect on the Juby Maritime licence. Kosmos’ well, which spudded on 16 March, will test the Eagle prospect, which the company estimates to contain 360m boe of resources in its primary deep-water Lower Cretaceous reservoir objective. It is expected to take three months to drill.

Morocco
Issue 157 - 20 February 2009

Drilling planned on Logbaba

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Victoria Oil & Gas (VOG) plans to start drilling on the Logbaba gas and condensate field, following completion of its acquisition of Bramlin in November 2008 (AE 149/15).

Cameroon
Issue 262 - 02 October 2013

Ghana: New head for GNPC

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National Petroleum Authority (NPA) chief executive Alexander Mould has been named as the new head of Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), the energy ministry said. Mould replaces Nana Boakye Asafu-Adjaye, who had been GNPC chief executive since 2009. Before his appointment to the NPA, Mould had been executive director and co-head of wholesale banking at Standard Chartered Bank in Ghana

Ghana