Meridian Capital International Fund, a 19.28% shareholder of Africa-focused oil explorer FAR Limited, has rejected the takeover bid for Far launched earlier this week by Samuel Terry Asset Management.Earlier this week, Samuel Terry Asset Management…
Knut Søvold, CEO of the Oslo--listed oil and gas company PetroNor E&P, has been arrested as part of a criminal investigation in Norway.This was shared by PetroNor E&P on Thursday, a day after the company said that the National Authority for…
Oil major Chevron and the government of Equatorial Guinea have signed a production-sharing agreement for an offshore block in the Douala Basin, oil minister Gabriel Mbaga Obiang Lima said on Thursday.The agreement grants Chevron 80% ownership over block EG-09…
Australian oil and gas company Far has hired Stena Drilling's Stena IceMax drillship to drill the Bambo-1 well offshore The Gambia. The well is expected to be spudded in the fourth quarter of 2021.The Bambo-1 well in Block A2 is designed to drill into 3 prospects with a total estimated recoverable…
Private investment fund Remus Horizons has launched a conditional takeover offer for the Australian oil company FAR, which owns a stake in the RSSD offshore area in Senegal, containing the Sangomar offshore oil development.FAR has recently agreed to sell its stake in the Sangomar to Woodside…
Oil and gas company Tullow Oil has completed the sale of its assets in Equatorial Guinea to Panoro Energy, from which it had earlier on Wednesday received a payment of $88.8 million.The transaction also includes contingent cash payments of up…
Tullow Oil shareholders on Thursday approved the sale of the company's assets in Equatorial Guinea to Oslo-listed Panoro Energy.As announced in February, Tullow agreed, subject to certain conditions, to sell its subsidiaries with assets in Equatorial…
Oslo-listed oil and gas company PetroNor has acquired SPE Guinea Bissau AB, a Guinea Bissau subsidiary of Sweden-based Svenska Petroleum. The acquisition entitles sub-Saharan Africa focused PetroNor to become the operator of the Sinapa (Block…
Australian oil and gas company FAR has agreed to sell its stake in Woodside-operated offshore blocks in Senegal, containing the Sangomar development, to India's ONGC Videsh.FAR has been working to sell its Senegal assets for months, as the company…
Australian oil and gas company Far has signed new Joint Operating Agreements with Petronas related to the A2 and A5 offshore blocks in The Republic of The Gambia.This follows the granting of new licenses for those blocks by the country's government effective October 1…
Norwegian seismic data company TGS has said it has, with its partners, completed the Jaan 3D seismic survey covering the MSGBC Basin in NW Africa acquired in partnership with PGS and GeoPartners. Comprising over 28,000 square kilometers, the 3D survey spanning offshore Senegal…
Equatorial Guinea has granted oil and gas companies two-year extensions on their exploration programs, a statement from the hydrocarbons minister said.The move is an effort to keep investments flowing into the nation's energy industry amid a…
London-listed oil and gas company Cairn Energy has provided an update of its operations including the progressing of the Sangomar Field Development offshore Senegal despite the having yet to attract the necessary funding for its share of the costs…
The majority of high impact offshore exploration wells in 2020 will be drilled in Africa and the Americas, Rystad Energy, an energy research group based in Norway has said.Rystad Energy rates wells as high-impact by an assessment of several factors…
The long awaited first ever offshore licensing by Senegal has finally been launched as the West Africa country inches closer to achieving its national medium- and long-term hydrocarbon sector investment plan and drive to transform the upstream resource into a source of clean electricity generation…
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