BG Group has announced the spudding of oil exploration well Sunbird-1 in licence area L10A offshore Kenya using drillship Deepsea Metro 1

North African explorer Sea Dragon Energy has acquired a 12.75 per cent stake in an oil block in the Gulf of Suez, offshore Egypt

Longreach Oil & Gas has announced that the Koba-1 exploration well in the Essaouira Basin onshore Morocco has reached total depth (TD) and has encountered a potential Lower Liassic sandstone reservoir with gas shows

Russian explorer Lukoil has struck oil at its first appraisal well on the Independence field, offshore Côte dIvoire, in the Turonian strata