The African Energy Chamber has shared updates on two liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects by global energy majors in African waters. One concerns the United States’ ExxonMobil, which has pushed the final investment decision (FID) for its liquefied natural gas (LNG) project offshore Mozambique by one
Ten months into 2024, shipyards’ deliveries of containerships have reached a new annual record, according to the shipping association BIMCO.
The partners behind two exploration blocks in shallow waters offshore Gabon have signed production sharing contracts (PSCs) with the country’s Petroleum Minister and Minister of Economy.
TotalEnergies has kicked off drilling activities at an exploration well close to previously made light oil discovery in the prolific Orange Basin off the coast of Namibia with a semi-submersible rig owned by Northern Ocean and managed by Odfjell Drilling.
OCP Group and Engie have taken a step towards launching several projects in renewable energy, energy storage, green hydrogen and ammonia, power infrastructure and sustainable desalination.
Stena Drilling has brought one of its drillships back to Egyptian waters to embark on a drilling assignment with Chevron in the mostly unexplored West Mediterranean (West Med) blocks off the coast of Egypt.
Trident Energy has brought online its first infill well on Block G off the coast of Equatorial Guinea, drilled with a drillship owned by the U.S.-headquartered Noble Corporation.
BP has hired two companies, Kotug and its Senegalese partner Maritalia, for the provision of marine services off the coasts of Mauritania and Senegal at a gas project that is said to be the biggest one in the oil major’s portfolio.
Canadian oil and gas company Africa Oil Corp. has received a set of clearances from the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) – one for the amalgamation of its wholly owned subsidiary Africa Oil Papa Corp. and BTG Pactual Holding, and another for the extension of a petroleum mini
Norwegian marine geoscience and technology company Shearwater GeoServices has added more work in Africa to its to-do list, following the award of a deepwater ocean bottom node (OBN) project. Set to start in the fourth quarter of 2024, the deepwater OBN survey, marked as “landmark”, will have a one-m
Odfjell Drilling has entrusted Norway’s Coast Center Base (CCB) with the special periodic survey (SPS) job for one of the harsh environment semi-submersible rigs it manages on behalf of China’s CIMC. Another rig, which the drilling contractor is managing on behalf of Northern Ocean (NOL), has begun
CMA CGM Group inks JV deal with Marsa Maroc to equip and operate for 25 years a section of the Nador West Med container terminal.
