Tag: offshore
Somalia to auction 7 oil blocks in August
Somalia said it will launch its offshore licensing rounds in August, offering seven of its offshore oil blocks as Mogadishu seeks to exploit its...
Australian military reviews offshore exercises amid COVID-19 outbreak
The Australian Defence Force (ADF) has begun reviewing its offshore operations amid the novel coronavirus outbreak.
Hundreds of ADF troops are currently...
Indigenous petroleum explorer Springfield confirms discovery of 1.5 billion barrels of crude offshore Ghana
Indigenous Ghanaian exploration and production firm Springfield announced here on Wednesday it had confirmed the discovery of 1.5 billion barrels of crude oil on...
Eni Announces Massive Discovery of Oil in Offshore Angola
Eni announces a major oil discovery in Block 15/06, in the Agogo exploration prospect, in Angola’s deep water. The new discovery is estimated to...
Madagascar: Bidding round to drive new business opportunities for exploration companies in Africa
The Government of Madagascar has announced the opening of the Madagascar bidding round at Africa Oil Week
The bidding round continues to highlight...
Ghana’s Offshore Field Begins Commercial Gas Production
The government of Ghana and its partners announced here on Wednesday the start of commercial gas production on the Sankofa field Offshore Cape Three...
Rigworld Offshore Training Center is Here to Stay
With increased mining activity in West Africa especially Ghana, it has become essential to have adequate and the necessary training facilities to train and...
AFC to fund Tunisia’s development of offshore oil concession
Africa Finance Corporation (AFC), a leading pan-African multilateral development finance institution and project developer has announced that it will provide a US$28 million subordinated...
Boakye Agyarko Attends Offshore Technology Conference in Texas
The Minister for Energy, Hon. Boakye Agyarko, with two of his deputies, Deputy Energy Minister in charge of Petroleum, Dr. Mohammed Amin Adam, and Joseph Cudjoe,...
Lloyd’s Hops into Ghana’s Offshore Sector
The potential impact of new discoveries on the country’s economy has led to phenomenal interest in the country’s petroleum sector both locally and internationally.
It...
World Bank Guarantee Support For Sankofa Gas Project
The World Bank Group, has announced the commitment of $517 million in debt and guarantees to support Ghana’s Sankofa Gas Project, an integrated offshore...
China begins construction of 1st offshore nuclear plant
China General Nuclear Power Corp (CGN) has begun building the country's first floating nuclear plant.
China General Nuclear Power Corp (CGN), a leading nuclear...
Ivory Coast sets a double target for oil and gas supply by 2020
While it has developed natural gas deposits for domestic consumption, French-speaking West Africa's largest economy has ignored its energy sector for decades as the...
Activities of Fishermen Pose Danger to Ghana’s Offshore Operations
Ghana’s offshore operations are being threatened again as fishermen continue to encroach on the safety zones around the upstream petroleum installations. Speaking at the inauguration...
Eni Gets New Exploration Licence
Italian oil firm Eni, which has invested US$7 billion in Ghana’s Offshore Cape Three Points (OCTP) oil and gas fields, has been awarded, following...
Eni Acquires License for Ghana Offshore Oil and Gas Exploration
Italy’s Eni Awarded Ghana Offshore Oil, Gas Exploration License – Statement / Sputnik InternationalItaly’s Eni oil and gas company has been awarded an exploration...
Swiber Acquires 38 Percent of Nigeria’s Deltatek Offshore Firm
Following the acquisition, DOL has become an associated company of Swiber.
Swiber has acquired 9,500,000 nil-paid ordinary shares of DOL with nominal value of $0.005...
SNE offshore Senegal Recommence Appraisal Drilling
The second appraisal well to be drilled on the SNE oil field, 100km offshore Senegal, has been reentered and will now be drilled to...
Rosneft and ExxonMobil Sign Contract On 3 Offshore Blocks in Mozambique
Rosneft says its RN-Exploration subsidiary, in partnership with ExxonMobil Exploration and Production Mozambique Offshore, has been awarded three blocks under Mozambique’s fifth license round.
After...
Equatorial Guinea to boost offshore exploration
Following the success of its 2012 and 2014 bidding rounds, the Ministry of Mines, Industry and Energy of Equatorial Guinea has announced it will...
Ghana ready to open to offshore buyers two- year cedi bonds
Ghana will open its two-year domestic bond auctions to foreign investors this month, a senior central bank official said on Tuesday, in a renewed...
Offshore West Africa partners International Trade Council
Offshore West Africa Conference & Exhibition, owned and produced by PennWell Corporation, has announced a Strategic Partnership for the upcoming 20th anniversary edition with the...
More international companies venture into oil exploration, development in Ghana
More international companies, comprising a consortium of sub-sea experts, are now venturing into oil field exploration and development in Ghana.
Oceaneering International, General Electric (GE)...
Saltpond Offshore company clears of wrongdoing
The Nigerian Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has cleared the Saltpond Offshore Producing Company Limited (SPOCL) of any wrongdoing after thorough investigations into...
Sycamore Medical Centre Accredited By OGUK
The Sycamore Medical Centre, a state of the art hospital in the Western Region has received accreditation from Oil and Gas UK (OGUK) to...
Chamber of Mines Refute Allegation
It is purported that the cause of irregular supply of foreign currency on the local market is stemming from offshore accounts maintained by the...
Four Dead, 1 Missing In Offshore Chopper Crash
A service helicopter carrying workers to an oil rig off the coast of Ghana operated by Russia's Lukoil crashed into the ocean on Thursday,...
Gambia Withdraws Licenses Of 3 Oil Explorers
?The Gambia has terminated offshore and onshore licenses of three oil explorers that the West African nation said violated its petroleum law.
?These licenses have...
EPA commence Lonrho?s environment impact assessment
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Monday organized a day?s public hearing to solicit public views before issuance of operating permit for the establishment...
$1.2b TEN Contracts Offshore Project Has Been Awarded To French Technip
France?s Technip has announced it?s been awarded two contracts worth $1.23 billion for the development of the Tweneboa-Enyera-Ntomme (TEN) project offshore Ghana.
Technip, who is...