Kent Lands Construction Services Contract with CABGOC, Deepening Its Angola Footprint
International energy services company Kent has been awarded a contract by the Cabinda Gulf Oil Company (CABGOC) to provide integrated…
VAALCO Rides a Wave of Offshore Success — Gabon Well Tops 8,000 bopd as Côte d’Ivoire’s Baobab Field Roars Back to Life
VAALCO Energy is reporting a surge of operational momentum across West Africa, with strong well results from its offshore Gabon…
NextGeo Wraps Up Trenching Work at Libya’s Bouri Gas Project, Broadening Its Offshore Services Arsenal
Naples-headquartered Next Geosolutions (NextGeo) has completed post-lay trenching operations at the Bouri Gas Utilisation Project (BGUP) offshore Libya, adding trenching…
Libya’s Mabrouk Oil Field Exits Trial Phase at 30,000 bpd — Full Production Capacity in Sight
Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) has announced that the Mabrouk Oil Operations Company has resumed full commercial operations at the…
Nigeria’s New Oil Grades Are Already Changing the Numbers: Utapate and Cawthorne Pump Out 12 Million Barrels in Five Months
Two of Nigeria’s newest crude export streams have already made a measurable dent in the country’s production ledger, with the…
South Africa’s Power Crisis Gets a Gas Answer: Eskom Signs Historic LNG Supply Deal for 3,000 MW Richards Bay Plant
South Africa has taken a decisive step toward ending its decade-long electricity crisis, with state utility Eskom signing a landmark…
Chevron Is Back in Libya — And Now It’s Going Deeper, Bringing Advanced Field Technology to AGOCO’s Mature Desert Oilfields
Less than six months after ending a 16-year absence from Libya, American energy major Chevron has moved rapidly from re-entry…
Afentra Builds Its Angola Portfolio on Two Fronts: Offshore Block 3/24 FID Targeted by Early 2027, Onshore Kwanza Basin Drilling by 2028
British independent Afentra is advancing exploration and appraisal activities across both offshore and onshore Angola simultaneously, positioning the company to…
Nigeria’s Gas Sector Is Finally Becoming Investable — PIA Reforms, Clearer Pricing and a 20-Year Shell Bet Are Changing the Story
Nigeria’s domestic gas industry is undergoing a structural transformation that industry players say is making the sector genuinely bankable for…
Nigeria Punches Past Its OPEC Quota for the First Time in Years — Output Climbs to 1.8 Million BPD, Highest Since 2009
Nigeria has crossed a milestone that its beleaguered oil sector has been chasing for years: crude production in May 2026…
Liberia and Ghana Build a Regulatory Bridge: Petroleum Authorities Sign MOU to Share Expertise as Monrovia Advances Its First Upstream Contracts in a Decade
Liberia’s petroleum regulator has formalised a cooperation agreement with its Ghanaian counterpart in a south-south partnership that brings together two…
Egypt’s Energy Minister Lands in Washington with Ambitions on Both Sides of the Atlantic — Bilateral Meetings With US and Kuwait Push Investment and Technology Agenda
Egypt’s Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Karim Badawi, has concluded a high-stakes Washington visit that produced substantive bilateral meetings…
Ghana Greenlights Jubilee’s Next Chapter: Tullow Wins Approval to Drill Up to 20 More Wells as Third New Producer Comes Online This Week
Ghana’s Minister of Energy has granted formal approval for Tullow Oil’s long-term Greater Jubilee Plan of Further Development — a…
Korra Energi and HIDLECO Win Two Lots of Egypt’s Largest Renewable Grid Project — 2 GW of Gulf of Suez Wind Power Needs a Highway to the National Grid
A consortium formed by newly listed energy solutions company Korra Energi and High Dam for Electrical and Industrial Projects (HIDLECO)…
Egypt’s Prime Minister Turns Up the Heat on Renewable Energy Financing — EBRD Eyes $70 Million for Benban Solar as Grid Modernisation Accelerates
Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly has convened a dedicated follow-up meeting to push the pace on securing financing for the…
Equatorial Guinea Gets Its First-Ever Offshore MegaSurvey — TGS to Reprocess 35,000 sq km of 3D Seismic Data in Gulf of Guinea Exploration Push
Norwegian energy data and intelligence company TGS has signed an agreement with the Government of Equatorial Guinea to create the…
Nigeria’s Petrol Self-Sufficiency Dream Hits Its First Real Test: Dangote Maintenance Sends Imports Surging to Four-Month High
The moment Nigeria’s energy sector had been building toward for years — a net petrol export position — has suffered…
Ghana’s Sentuo Refinery Lines Up $200 Million to Leap from 40,000 to 100,000 BPD — and Add Petrochemicals to the Mix
Ghana is moving to fundamentally transform its domestic refining landscape, with Ecobank Ghana formally appointed to coordinate a $200 million…
Libya Rewrites the Rules in Its Most Productive Oil Basin: Five International Giants Sign Historic Unified Operating Agreement for Murzuq I/R Field
Libya’s National Oil Corporation has secured a landmark governance breakthrough in the Murzuq Basin, engineering a unified operating agreement for…
Nigeria’s Petroleum Tax Revenue Misses Target by $9 Billion in Nine Months — The Oil Money Is Not Coming In
The fiscal numbers coming out of Nigeria’s Federation Budget Office are stark. Across the first three quarters of fiscal year…