Angola Opens Frontier to Big Oil: TotalEnergies and ExxonMobil Eye Four Ultra-Deep Blocks
Angola’s National Oil, Gas & Biofuels Agency (ANPG) has signed a Principles Agreement with TotalEnergies and ExxonMobil for the allocation…
Eni Locks In Technip for Coral Norte LNG Project Offshore Mozambique
The Eni-led Mozambique Rovuma Venture has signed a long-term contract with a consortium comprising Technip Energies, JGC and Samsung Heavy…
Egypt Races to Add 2,500 MW of Renewables and Bolster Gas Supply Ahead of Summer Crunch
Egypt is targeting the integration of 2,500 megawatts of renewable energy capacity into its national electricity grid before the summer…
South Africa’s First LNG Terminal Hits a Snag as Vopak Pushes Final Decision to 2028
Dutch tank storage and terminal operator Vopak has delayed its final investment decision (FID) on South Africa’s first liquefied natural…
Kenya’s Black Gold Dream Gets Real: $15M Drilling Rig Lands as First Oil Target Looms
Kenya’s long-delayed oil ambitions are finally shifting from paperwork to pipeline as Gulf Energy has acquired a $15 million onshore…
Seplat’s Dead Wells Rise Again: 49 Idle Boreholes Restored, Adding 48,600 bpd at a Fraction of Drilling Cost
Nigerian energy company Seplat Energy has pulled off one of the most capital-efficient production turnarounds in recent African upstream history…
Vaalco Takes the Wheel in Ivory Coast: US Independent Seizes Operator Control Over Two Offshore Blocks in West Africa’s Hottest New Basin
US independent Vaalco Energy has cemented its position as a leading operator in Ivory Coast’s rapidly emerging offshore sector, securing…
Nigeria’s Indigenous Oil Producers Now Pump More Than Half the Country’s Oil — And They Want More Say
Indigenous Nigerian oil producers have crossed a historic threshold, now accounting for more than half of the country’s total oil…
Global Energy Market Shocks Rattle Nigeria’s Fuel Sector — Industry Body Raises Alarm
Nigeria’s petroleum retail sector has raised urgent concern over the impact of escalating military tensions in the Middle East on…
Nigeria Breaks Up Africa’s Most Controversial Oil Block — Shell and Eni Finally Set to Develop OPL 245 After 30 Years
Nigeria has split the long-disputed OPL 245 deepwater oil block into four separate assets to be co-developed by Shell and…
Shell Eyes Comeback in Libya as PM Aldabaiba Rolls Out the Welcome Mat for International Oil Giants
Libya’s Tripoli-based Prime Minister Abd Alhamid Aldabaiba has received a senior Shell delegation in a high-level meeting aimed at accelerating…
Nigeria Races to Close 2025 Licensing Round as Regulator Sets Hard Deadline — and Seals a Landmark Host Community Handover
Nigeria’s upstream regulator has confirmed that registration and application submissions for the Nigeria 2025 Licensing Round will close at 4:30…
Egypt and Chevron Accelerate Aphrodite Gas Pipeline Deal to Cement Cairo’s Role as Regional Energy Hub
Egypt’s Petroleum Minister Karim Badawi held a video conference with Basil Allam, Country Manager of Chevron Cyprus, to advance the…
South Africa Bets on Domestic Gas to Cut Import Dependence as D3 Energy Wins Three Exploration Rights
South Africa is moving to accelerate domestic natural gas development after the Petroleum Agency South Africa (PASA) granted three petroleum…
Oil Markets Reel as Saudi Arabia Reroutes Exports Through Egypt
Egypt’s Petroleum Minister Karim Badawi swiftly announced that the country is ready to facilitate Saudi crude transport from Yanbu to…
Zambia Greenlights Two Massive Cross-Continental Pipelines in Landmark Energy Security Push
Zambia’s Cabinet, under President Hakainde Hichilema, has approved two major cross-continental fuel pipeline projects in a sweeping move to fortify…
Libya’s Mabrouk Field Roars Back — Production Surges to 30,000 Barrels Per Day
Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) has announced a sharp production uptick at the Mabrouk oil field following the successful launch…
Namibia’s Orange Basin Keeps Delivering as Rhino Resources Strikes Gold at Volans-1X
Namibia’s offshore energy story continues to gather pace. Independent explorer Rhino Resources has completed a successful well test at its…
Seplat Energy Smashes Records in 2025, Cementing Its Offshore Ambitions
Nigerian explorer and producer Seplat Energy has capped a landmark year, recording a 148% surge in group production to 131,506…
Egypt Bets Big on Drilling Blitz and New Contracts to Reverse Oil Production Slide
Egypt’s Petroleum Minister Karim Badawi has laid out a sweeping five-year plan to reverse declining domestic oil and gas production,…