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A new reserves review for Victoria Oil & Gas has doubled the proven and probable (2P) reserves for the Logbaba field beneath Douala.

The Joint Development Authority (JDA) has approved a six-month extension of exploration phase I in blocks 3 and 4 of the Nigeria-São Tomé Joint Development Zone, enabling the companies involved to complete the studies needed for further exploration (AE 194/14).

The Ministry of Mines, Industry and Energy has selected KBR to provide conceptual design and project management services for the Mbini refinery.

The Ministry of Energy and Mines is already quietly downgrading expectations for the outcome of Agence Nationale pour la Valorisation des Ressources en Hydrocarbures (Alnaft)’s third licensing round (AE 193/10).

Ghana’s Jubilee oilfield has been plagued by allegations of corruption dating back to beneficial ownership of companies granted licences to work on the giant oil block

Resource hungry China has given Ghana a $15bn package of loans for energy and other infrastructure, raising fresh expectations that Kosmos’ Jubilee stake will end up in Chinese hands

President Abdoulaye Wade has sacked energy minister Samuel Sarr and given the job to his son Karim after street protests over the latest wave of load shedding.

With BP set to drill even deeper than the ill-fated Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico, scientists fear ancient Greek and Roman remains and coastal ecology could be damaged, writes John Hamilton

Sonatrach has started awarding contracts for key projects again after a year of paralysis caused by corruption investigations and management changes

Industry sources say Total may have made a major gas find in the Taoudeni Basin, which stretches across Mauritania and Mali.

Confident of first gas by year-end, VOG is looking to its Logbaba project to fund expansion in West Africa and the former Soviet Union

Electricity production and consumption are projected to rise sharply in Creg’s latest forecast, pointing to a further spate of new-build, predominantly gas-fired power plants being ordered in the next decade. Even so, the Algerian regulator is projecting a slower increase in gas demand than was previously forecast.

Traders’ concern over payments delays have made NNPC’s fuel importing arm a heavily insured entity on the single-risk insurance markets.

Move by the US major puts a couple of small players in an enviable position in one of the West Coast Transform Margin’s emerging E&P plays, writes Thalia Griffiths

The often murky world of products trading has sucked in the former freedom fighters of Namibia’s ruling party, with a power struggle between rival factions for control of Namcor, writes Our Windhoek Correspondent