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Indian state-run oil company, Oil India, will soon conduct exploration tests at Lassa oil field, in Gabon’s central region of Lambaréné, Gabon Actu reports. Manas Kumar Sharma, CEO of the company made the announcement as he met with Vincent De Paul Massassa, the Oil and Gas minister of the central African country. “We came to […]
Several African leaders have slammed wealthy countries responsible for most CO2 emissions for their absence at the Africa Adaptation Summit that was held in Rotterdam (5 September). Speaking at the Africa Adaptation Summit in the Dutch port city, which comes two months before the crucial COP27 climate conference in Egypt in November, Senegalese President and […]
Namibian offshore oil and gas discoveries by the energy giants TotalEnergies and Shell are of commercial quantities, likely in the billions of barrels, the southern African nation’s mines and energy minister Tom Alweendo said. Both companies announced earlier this year that they had made “significant” discoveries offshore Namibia, which could make Namibia, the southern neighbor […]
The Nigeria-Morocco gas pipeline project, which is currently in its Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) phase, will contribute to the emergence of an integrated and competitive North-West African zone, said Director of Moroccan National Office of Hydrocarbons & Mines (ONHYM), Amina Benkhadra. Speaking at a regional African conference on gas and oil, convened in Dakar Sept.1-2, […]
Nigeria has decided to adopt the security infrastructure similar to that of Saudi Arabia’s oil giant Aramco to protect its oil pipelines and curb theft. According to the CEO of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC), Mele Kyari, the new security architecture would be unveiled soon and help to curb massive oil pipeline vandalism that […]
Morocco’s commitment to international efforts to combat climate change and its endeavors to reduce greenhouse gas emissions were highlighted in Libreville Monday at a ministerial panel, organized as part of the African Climate Week. This commitment, which stems from the vision of King Mohammed VI, translated over time into concrete actions and programs in various […]
With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in its seventh month, Nigerians are feeling a harder punch with the scarcity of energy sources, wheat and fertilizer, as well as a worsening foreign exchange scarcity. While oil and gas exports account for 90% of Nigeria’s foreign exchange earnings, falling oil output and demographic growth mean that production is […]
Nigeria’s state oil company NNPC announced it has hired a firm owned by former militant Tompolo, whose movement’s attacks on facilities in the early 2000s crippled oil production, to protect installations and tackle rampant theft. It was one of five security contracts awarded as theft and pipeline sabotage have cut Nigeria’s oil exports by nearly […]
An explosion at nitrogen unit of well A55 in the Entissar field of the Zueitina Oil Company caused Thursday the death of a worker and injuries to another, Libya’s state-run National Oil Corporation (NOC) announced, Libya Observer reports. The casualty, the NOC indicated, was a worker from the Al-Nisr Company, which is carrying out work […]
The disruption in the fossil fuel market due to geopolitical tensions hastened the energy transition agenda of Morocco and Germany which now see new opportunities in fostering energy cooperation, notably in terms of green hydrogen and renewables. At a press conference in Rabat, both foreign ministers of Germany and Morocco attached priority to energy cooperation […]