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Issue 399 - 13 September 2019

Nigeria: Onshore find for Eni

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Eni affiliate NAOC has discovered 1tcf of gas and 60m barrels of associated condensate in the deeper sequences of the Obiafu-Obrikom fields in OML 61, onshore in the Niger Delta. The Obiafu-41 Deep well reached a total depth of 4,374 metres and encountered more than 130 metres of Oligocene-age hydrocarbon-bearing sands. The well can deliver more than 10mcf/d of gas and 3,000 b/d of condensates, and will immediately be put on stream to increase NAOC’s gas production. The discovery has further potential that will be assessed with the next appraisal campaign, Eni said.

Nigeria
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The Spanish firm has stepped in as operator of Hyperdynamics’ concession offshore Guinea, just as the country’s chronically unstable politics take another turn for the worse, writes Thalia Griffiths

Guinea
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As Hyperdynamics prepares to start drilling Guinea’s second offshore well, the government has announced that the country’s first offshore licensing round will open in October. Office Nationale du Pétrole chief executive Diakaria Koulibaly told the Oil & Gas Council’s NOC Assembly in Paris on 12 June that Guinea was hoping recent discoveries offshore Senegal and Mauritania would encourage interest. He said the round would be open for six months from October 2017, with awards expected by October 2018. Companies will be able to submit bids on all open blocks.

Guinea
Issue 135 - 28 March 2008

Ghana gathers experts for oil forum

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Participants have criticised some aspects of the government-organised National Forum on Oil and Gas Development held in Accra on 25-26 February, but however imperfect it made a

Ghana
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Total has awarded contracts to Maersk Drilling to use the 7th generation drillship Maersk Voyager for wells offshore Namibia and on Angola blocks 32 and 48. Maersk announced on 13 January that the campaign was expected to commence this month, with an estimated duration of 240 days. The total value of the firm contracts is approximately $46.3m, including a mobilisation fee. The contracts include two additional one-well options.

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Bowleven’s new board has consolidated its hold on the company with the replacement of chairman Billy Allan and has concluded a strategic review. “Having undertaken a review of all strategic options available to the company, [Bowleven] is committed to the rationalisation of its cost base, and the preservation and enhancement of its existing assets. In addition, the board does not expect to pursue any new exploration activity at the current time,” the company said.

Cameroon
Issue 359 - 07 December 2017

Algeria/Libya: Sonatrach still willing

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Sonatrach has not pulled out of Libya, “despite the security circumstances our neighbour country is experiencing”, the Algerian national oil company’s president director-general Abdelmoumen Ould Kaddour said during a late November visit to Hassi Messaoud. Sonatrach still has a drilling rig on the ground, “and we want to continue to be in Libya”, Ould Kaddour said during a visit to southern Algerian oil fields.

Libya | Algeria
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Recently-established Qatar Petroleum International (QPI) has bought a 20% stake in Total’s Taoudeni Ta7 and Ta8 permits. Total remains operator with a 60% stake, with the remaining 20% belonging to Sonatrach, which farmed in in March (AE 135/18).

Mauritania
Issue 152 - 12 December 2008

Puntland drilling planned for 2009

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For all the region’s problems, Canadian minnow Africa Oil announced the completion of a 2D seismic survey in the Dharoor valley of Somalia’s breakaway Republic of Puntland on 3 December. A total of 782km of vibroseis data, comprising a grid of 15 lines, were recorded by the UK’s IMC Geophysical. “Mapping of this combined survey should commence in early 2009 and drilling locations will be selected before the end of Q1 09,” the company said. This should permit mobilisation of a drilling rig before end-2009.

Somalia
Issue 221 - 02 December 2011

Timis moves into Senegal

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African Petroleum Corporation has snapped up two Senegalese blocks lying either side of its Gambia acreage, increasing its footprint in a region otherwise dominated by bigger players.

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An early March decision by National Oil Corporation (NOC) to lift force majeure at the Es-Sharara oil field in south-west Libya is just one consequence of recent decisive military developments in the southern province of Fezzan. An illegal three-month blockade was lifted when the field was taken over by forces under the command of Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA) and opponent of the internationally backed Government of National Accord (GNA) in Tripoli.

Libya
Issue 307 - 11 September 2015

Egypt: Rockhopper buys Beach assets

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UK-based Rockhopper Exploration has bought the Egyptian assets of Australia’s Beach Energy for $22m. The assets consist of a 22% non-operated interest in the producing Abu Sennan concession and a 25% non-operated interest in the El Qa’a Plain exploration concession. Payment will be made as $11.5m in cash and $10.5m in Rockhopper shares. The Abu Sennan concession is located in the Abu Gharadig basin in the Western Desert and is operated by Kuwait Energy. Production began in 2012.

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Ophir Energy has announced a successful drill stem test (DST) on the Fortuna-2 well on Block R. The Fortuna field is expected to form the first phase of a planned floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) development. The DST achieved a sustained flow rate of 60mcf/d with a drawdown of less than 20psi at the reservoir. However this rate was surface equipment constrained, and based on the expected operating conditions of the FLNG facility, Ophir estimates it could deliver 180mcf/d via the 5” drill pipe used for the DST.

Equatorial Guinea
Issue 217 - 08 October 2011

EGPC launches 15-block bid round

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Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) has launched a new bid round offering 15 blocks in the Gulf of Suez, Western Desert, Eastern Desert and Sinai.

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Ethiopian Electric Power (EEP) invites prequalification applications by 16 October from contractors for drilling services at the Dubti field in the Afar region for the first phase of the Tendaho geothermal power project. The contract, which will require the drilling of six shallow and two deep geothermal wells, is being financed by the Agence Française de Développement and the European Union Infrastructure Trust Fund. This project will be jointly implemented by EEP and the Geological Survey of Ethiopia through a project management unit.

Ethiopia