Smaller oil and gas explorers, willing to take financial and operational risks, will lead the development of East Africa’s oil and gas industry, according to executives at the East Africa Oil & Gas Summit (EAOGS) held recently in London
Exploration
Savannah Petroleum wins contract for two oil blocks in Niger
Niger has awarded a production-sharing contract to UK-based company Savannah Petroleum for two onshore oil blocks
Circle Oil spuds its first well offshore Tunisia
Circle Oil has announced that it has started drilling its first exploration well El Mediouni-1 (EMD-1) on the Mahdia Permit offshore Tunisia
Soma Oil & Gas acquires seismic data offshore Somalia
Somalia has announced that Soma Oil & Gas has completed the offshore seismic acquisition programme across an evaluation area of 122,000 sq km
East African nations to give single firm the contract for oil pipeline
Kenya, Uganda and South Sudan will invite bids in June this year for a single consultant to oversee the building of an oil pipeline to transport crude to the Kenyan coast, a senior energy official said