Offshore Africa News


TotalEnergies' Mozambique LNG Project Up for Delay Beyond 2029

Jan 23, 2025

TotalEnergies' $20 billion Mozambique LNG project will not be operational by 2029 as hoped, the French oil major said on Wednesday, citing the need to end force majeure and ensure security at the project site.TotalEnergies had previously said…

ExxonMobil Makes Gas Discovery Offshore Egypt

Jan 20, 2025

ExxonMobil Egypt, a subsidiary of U.S. oil giant ExxonMobil, has made a gas discovery as part of a drilling campaign in the North Marakia Block offshore Egypt.The drilling of the Nefertari 1 well at an area with at a water depth of 1,720 meters…

Trident Energy Strengthens Oil and Gas Portfolio in Congo

Jan 15, 2025

Oil and gas company Trident Energy has completed the acquisition of the entire issued share capital of Chevron Overseas (Congo), as well as an additional working interest in the Nkossa and Nsoko II fields from TotalEnergies.The acquisition results…

Tower Resources Inks Farm-Out Deals with Prime for Cameroon and Namibia Licenses

Jan 10, 2025

U.K. oil and gas company Tower Resources has signed two farm-out agreements with Prime Global Energies for minority, non-operated interests in its Thali license, offshore Cameroon, and PEL96 offshore Namibia.Through its wholly-owned subsidiary…

Senegal's Sangomar Oil and Gas Field Beats Output Target

Jan 07, 2025

Senegal's Sangomar offshore oil and gas field raised its output of crude to 16.9 million barrels in 2024, exceeding its initial target of 11.7 million, the West African country's energy ministry said on Tuesday.Discovered 10 years ago about 100 km (62 miles) south of the capital Dakar…

Damen Delivers Patrol Vessel for Nigeria’s Oil and Gas Sector

Jan 07, 2025

Damen Shipyards Cape Town has delivered an FCS 3307 patrol vessel to Homeland Integrated Offshore Service (Homeland IOSL) in Nigeria.This vessel, on charter with an international energy company, will perform offshore patrol duties to enhance the security of personnel…

Tullow Oil Gets $320M Ghana Ops Tax Exemption

Jan 06, 2025

Shares of Tullow Oil jumped over 14% on Friday after the West Africa-focused company was exempted from a $320 million tax on its Ghana operations.The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) ruled that the Branch Profit Remittance Tax (BPRT)…

Australian Oil and Gas Firm Joins Sonangol’s Offshore Block in Angola

Jan 06, 2025

Australian oil and gas company Red Sky Energy has signed a risk service contract with the Angolan National Agency for Oil, Gas and Biofuels (ANPG), acquiring 35% interest in Sonangol-operated Block 6/24 in the Kwanza Basin, offshore Angola.Sonangol…

BP’s Greater Tortue Ahmeyim Produces First Gas in West Africa

Jan 02, 2025

BP has started gas flow from Greater Tortue Ahmeyim (GTA) Phase 1 deepwater project, offshore Mauritania and Senegal.The gas from wells at the GTA Phase1 liquefied natural gas (LNG) project now flows to the floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel for the next stage of commissioning…

Galp Finds Oil and Gas Condensate Offshore Namibia

Dec 31, 2024

Galp, together with its partners NAMCOR and Custos, has found more light oil and gas condensate in a well at PEL83 license offshore Namibia.The partners drilled and logged the Mopane-2A well (well #4) in PEL83, which was spudded on December 2…

Eni Starts Up Baleine's Second Phase, Boosting Production Offshore Côte d'Ivoire

Dec 30, 2024

Italian energy giant Eni has started production from the second phase of Baleine field's development offshore Côte d'Ivoire, which will increase its output to 60,000 barrels of oil per day and 70 million cubic feet of associated gas.Phase 2 will see the Floating Production…

TotalEnergies to Keep DeepSea Mira Rig in West Africa

Dec 26, 2024

TotalEnergies has exercised an option as part of the contract with Northern Ocean for its DeepSea Mira semi-submersible rig, extending its stay in West Africa for up to three months.The firm term of the contract has, as a result, been extended by approximately 65 to 93 days…

Chevron’s Sanha Lean Gas Connection Project Achieves First Gas off Angola

Dec 24, 2024

The Sanha Lean Gas Connection, led by Chevron’s Angolan subsidiary Cabinda Gulf Oil Company, has achieved first gas production as part of the project that will supply gas from Block 0’s Sanha field to Soyo power plants and the Angola LNG plant…

Dolphin Drilling Wins Arbitration Case for Blackford Dolphin Termination Deal

Dec 24, 2024

Oslo-listed offshore drilling firm Dolphin Drilling has announced positive outcome in the arbitration case with General Hydrocarbons Limited (GHL) over the termination contract for Blackford Dolphin semi-submersible rig that was hired for operations offshore Nigeria…

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