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Apache Corporation said its Phiops-5 appraisal well in the Western Desert tested 8,279 b/d of oil and 400,000 ft3/d of natural gas from the Cretaceous Alam El Buieb (AEB) formation, one of the highest test rates measured in the Western Desert.

GNPC: New MD for Ghanaian state company; PA RESOURCES: New well in Tunisia, fund-raising

No one doubts Dr Rilwanu Lukman’s pedigree in the Nigerian oil industry, but his return as oil minister last year, formalising his central role in shaping the Yar’Adua administration’s policy,

ANGOLA: New find on Block 31; ANGOLA: First oil from Morsa West; ANGOLA: Total gives CGGVeritas 4D inversion project; CHAD: New find for CNPC; EGYPT: BG begins Phase V gas production from WDDM; EGYPT: East Mediterranean Gas in repricing deal; LIBYA: Petrobras drills in Area 18; MOROCCO: New gas find for Circle; NIGERIA: Oando wins swamp drilling contract; NIGERIA: Acergy to revamp Mobil platforms

Petroleum Minister Sameh Fahmy has signed a long-awaited agreement to supply Lebanon with 600m m3/yr of natural gas through the Arab Gas Pipeline Project (AGPP).

Sharjah-based Dana Gas has announced another gas discovery in the Nile Delta with the Tulip-1 well on the West El Qantara concession.

Italy’s Eni is renegotiating the economic terms of some of its production-sharing agreements with Sonatrach.

Dismissed for years as a gas play at best, East Africa is now seeing a brisk pace of activity despite the debt woes besetting some of the region’s smaller pioneers

The government has revised its plans for increasing oil output, cutting its production target for 2013 to 2.3m b/d from 3m b/d. At an extraordinary meeting on 19 May, the General People’s Committee (GPC, cabinet) discussed the development plan for the oil sector over the next five years

UK private company Wessex Exploration plans to list on London’s PLUS market by 1 September. The PLUS market is proving popular with minnow oil companies looking to raise funds – the UK-based Africa Oil Exploration Plc listed in January 2008 raising £1.03m (AE 142/16).

New find on Block 31 Sonangol and BP have announced an 18th discovery on ultra-deep Block 31 with the Oberon-1 well. Located in the southern part of the block some 4.3km north-east of the Dione discovery,the well was drilled in a water depth of 1,624metres, reaching a total depth of 3,622 metres. Test results confirmed the capacity of the reservoir to flow more than 5,000 b/d under production conditions.First oil from Morsa West Process system integrators DPS have announced the start of oil production from Sonangol’s shallow water Morsa West field. The marginal field development project was awarded to Angola Drilling.

Total and its partners have contracted CGGVeritas for a seismic reservoir characterisation project involving the inversion of 4D seismic data covering the Dalia,Rosa,Girassol and Jasmine fields. CGGVeritas subsidiary Hampson-Russell Software & Services will undertake the inversion work. “Having proved this technology in the North Sea, this is an important opportunity to apply it inWest Africa,” said Philippe Doyen,Vice President, R&D, Hampson-Russell Services. “With the increasing number of 4D vintages available over producing fields, global4D inversion is better constrained and yields results that are more readily interpretable in terms of production effects.

Exploration drilling is finally getting under way offshore Sierra Leone with Anadarko due to drill a well later this year that could open up a new segment of West Africa’s previously less fashionable offshore, write Thalia Griffiths and Eleanor Gillespie

With IOCs pulling out, plans for a refinery on hold and independence for South Sudan in prospect, Sudanese hydrocarbons look troubled

San Leon Energy has signed a three-year memorandum of understanding with the Office National des Hydrocarbures et des Mines (Onhym) for the 6,000km2 Tarfaya oil shale project.