Mozambique is set to launch its fifth oil and gas bidding round in 2014, which will mostly consist of offshore blocks, a government official announced
Exploration
Algeria’s undiscovered hydrocarbons ‘amount to six times its present stock’
Algeria has announced that its undiscovered unconventional hydrocarbons, both shale and tight, amount to six times the present level of reserves
Longreach Oil & Gas spuds Moroccan well
Canada-listed Longreach Oil & Gas has announced that it has spud a well at its Sidi Moktar Licence Area in Morocco’s Essaouira Basin
Somaliland to award oil exploration license to Middle East firm
The Ministry of Energy in Somaliland has planned to award an oil exploration license to a Middle East-based energy company later this month
Tullow announces fifth consecutive oil discovery in Kenya
Tullow Oil has discovered oil in a fifth well in the Turkana region in northern Kenya