From Bystanders to Shareholders: How Angola’s Lobito Refinery Became the Most Coveted Energy Asset in Southern Africa
Angola’s $6.6 billion Lobito Refinery has crossed a threshold that few single infrastructure projects in Africa ever reach — it…
Shell and QatarEnergy Notch Their Best Orange Basin Well Yet as Merlin-1X Unlocks Light Oil in Namibia’s Hottest Deepwater Play
Shell and QatarEnergy have recorded their most technically promising exploration result yet in Namibia’s Orange Basin, with the Merlin-1X well…
Egypt Hands Its Flagship Red Sea Wind Farm to UAE’s Alcazar in $420 Million Privatisation Deal — The First of Many
Egypt has handed operational control of the Gabal El-Zeit wind facility on the Red Sea to UAE-based Alcazar Energy Partners…
Algeria’s Sonatrach Moves Deep into Niger with Triple-Pronged Energy Partnership Spanning Drilling, Seismic and Fuel Distribution
Algeria’s state energy giant Sonatrach has broadened its footprint in Niger through a cluster of new cooperation agreements that simultaneously…
Gabon’s Overlooked Ngulu Block Takes Centre Stage as Record Resources Targets 20,000 BPD on Strength of 5,000 BPD Single-Well Forecast
Calgary-based independent Record Resources Inc. is positioning its Loba oil discovery in Gabon’s offshore Ngulu Block as a potential production…
Libya’s NOC Courts SLB on AI, Drilling Technology and Marginal Field Development in Push to Grow National Output
The Chairman of Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC), Masoud Suleiman, has held high-level talks with a senior delegation from global…
Chevron Spuds First Well at Nargis Gas Field as Egypt’s Mediterranean Exploration Surge Accelerates
Chevron has commenced drilling a new development well at the Nargis natural gas field in the Mediterranean Sea — the…
Zimbabwe Enters the Oil and Gas Era: Country Signs Its First-Ever Production Sharing Agreement for the Cabora Bassa Basin
Zimbabwe has crossed a historic threshold in its energy development journey, signing its first-ever petroleum production sharing agreement with Australian…
Dangote Tilts Toward Mombasa for His $15-$17 Billion East Africa Refinery — and Says the Ball Is in Ruto’s Court
Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote has signalled a clear preference for Kenya’s port city of Mombasa as the site of a…
West Africa’s Sleeping Giant Wakes Up: Baobab Oil Field Roars Back to Life After 18-Month Dubai Overhaul — Phase 5 Drilling Next
One of West Africa’s most consequential offshore restarts is now underway. Vaalco Energy and its partners have successfully brought the…
Mozambique’s LNG Ambitions Get a $1.16 Billion Boost as Technip Energies Lands Coral Norte FLNG Construction Contract
Mozambique’s deepwater LNG sector has taken a major leap forward with the award of a billion-dollar engineering, procurement, construction, installation…
Dangote Doubles Down: Construction Begins on Second Refinery Unit That Will Push Nigeria to 1.4 Million BPD by 2028
Ground has been broken on a second crude processing unit at Nigeria’s Dangote Petroleum Refinery — an expansion that will…
History Made in Namibia: ReconAfrica Fires Up the Country’s First-Ever Cased Production Test at Kavango Discovery
In a moment that could define Namibia’s onshore energy future, ReconAfrica and its partners NAMCOR and BW Energy have commenced…
Egypt Cabinet Green-Lights $52.97 Million in New Drilling Agreements Covering Mediterranean, Nile Delta and Eastern Desert
The Egyptian Cabinet has approved four new petroleum exploration agreements collectively worth a minimum of $52.97 million and committing to…
Egypt’s EGPC Boss Takes the Western Desert by Storm, Demanding Faster Drilling and Greener Field Operations
Salah Abdel Kerim, Chief Executive Officer of the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC), has personally taken to the field —…
Egypt’s Drilling Arm Expands into Türkiye with $43 Million Contract, Eyes India, UAE and West Africa Next
The Egyptian Drilling Company (EDC), the drilling arm of Egypt’s state petroleum sector, has launched a new overseas operation in…
Egypt’s Sinai Offshore Fields Clock Highest Oil Output in Nine Years as Eni Drive Delivers 50% Production Surge
Crude oil production from Egypt’s Sinai Offshore Fields has reached its highest daily level since 2017, with output averaging around…
Namibia Clears the Way: Regulator Greenlights TotalEnergies Licence Swap as Offshore Sector Heats Up
The Namibian Competition Commission has approved a transaction between TotalEnergies EP Namibia BV and Windhoek PEL 28 BV involving the…
Nigeria’s Oil Sector in Crisis: Country Haemorrhages Five Drilling Rigs in a Single Month
Nigeria’s upstream oil sector is reeling from its sharpest monthly drilling contraction in recent memory, with the country shedding five…
Shovels Hit the Ground: Algeria Breaks Soil on $13 Billion Trans-Saharan Gas Pipeline
After more than two decades of ambition, planning and repeated false starts, the Trans-Saharan Gas Pipeline (TSGP) has finally moved…