Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) is reportedly in talks with Royal Dutch Shell over an exploration and production deal offshore East Keta Basin
Exploration
Taipan Resources acquires 15 per cent interest in Kenyan block
Taipan Resources has entered an agreement with Tower Resources (Kenya) Limited, a subsidiary of AIM-listed Tower Resources plc, which outlines it will acquire a 15 per cent participating interest in Block 2B onshore Kenya
Murphy Oil and OMV sign farm-in deal for Namibian offshore blocks
US-based Murphy Oil and Austria’s OMV have signed a farm-in agreement with Cowan Oil & Gas for a pair of blocks offshore Namibia
Kenya to offer new oil blocks by June 2014
Kenya has announced that it will offer seven new oil blocks to investors before the end of June this year in the East African country
United Hydrocarbon spuds two oil wells onshore Chad
United Hydrocarbon has annnounced that the company has successfully drilled two oil wells on its production sharing contract area DOC and DOD blocks in Chad’s Doba Basin