UK oil and gas firm BG Group has discovered oil at the Sunbird-1 well, off Kenyas Lamu coast
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Statoil and ExxonMobil discover gas offshore Tanzania
Norwegian oil and gas company Statoil and American oil major ExxonMobil have discovered two to three trillion cubic feet tcf of gas in Piri well, offshore Tanzania
Camac Energy begins drilling at Nigerian oil well
Oil explorer Camac Energy has started drilling at the Oyo-8 development well, located offshore Nigeria
Glencore loans US$1.3billion to Chad for purchase of Chevron's oil assets
Mining giant Glencore will provide a loan of US$1.3bn to Chad to purchase oil assets belonging to oil major Chevron
Total starts offshore development unit in Angola
French oil company Total has started operating a major offshore development unit, CLOV, in Angola, which has a capacity of 160,000 bpd