Pan-African oil and gas explorer Oranto Petroleum is farming into two exploration blocks located onshore Zambia, the Blocks 17 and 27 representing Oranto’s first investment in the country
Exploration
Eco granted extension of oil and gas license in offshore Namibia
Eco (Atlantic) Oil & Gas Ltd, South America and Africa-focused oil and gas exploration company, has been granted a one-year extension to 20 March 2019, for the first renewal period of the PEL50 licence covering its offshore Tamar Block in Walvis Oil Basin in North Central Namibia
Eni announces offshore Angola oil discovery
Eni, a front-runner of Africa’s oil and gas sector, has announced a new oil discovery in Block 15/06, in the Kalimba exploration prospect, in Angola’s deep offshore
SDX announces spud of SRM-3 oil well in North Africa
SDX Energy Inc, the North Africa-focused oil and gas firm, has announced to spud its SRM-3 appraisal well at South Ramadan, Egypt, where SDX has a 12.75 per cent working interest
Tullow Oil to drill Cormorant-1, offshore Namibia
Pancontinental Oil & Gas has announced that the PEL 37 joint venture is on schedule for the upcoming drilling of the highly anticipated Cormorant-1 well, offshore Namibia