WARTSILA, THE MARINE industry's leading ship power system integrator, has signed a long term service agreement with Maersk LNG to optimise availability and operational economy.

IN A RECENT interview, Victoria Oil & Gas' Executive Director, George Donne, said the company is targeting first sales of gas by mid 2010 at its Logbaba gas project in Cameroon.

THE TRANS SAHARAN Gas Pipeline (TSGP) may feed African gas into the East European (Nabucco) gas line after it has come on stream in 2015.

GHANA PLANS TO begin natural gas production from its offshore Jubilee field by the fourth quarter of this year for domestic consumption, according to Energy Minister Joe Oteng-Adjei.

PETROCELTIC, IN ASSOCIATION with its partner Sonatrach, announced that well testing of the Objective Devonian F2 formation at well INW-2 has been successful, with a gas well test rate of 16.7 million standard cubic feet per day ("mmscf/d") (19,740 cubic meters/hour) with a flowing wellhead pressure of 347.5 PSIG on a 96/64"' choke setting.