Leading oil producing nations in Africa have decided to join major oil producers to stop gas flaring at oilfields by 2030
Gas
Indian oil companies to invest US$6bn in Mozambican offshore gas field
India’s ONGC, Oil India Limited (OIL) and BPCL have agreed to invest US$6bn to develop a gas field offshore Mozambique, said Indian oil minister Dharmendra Pradhan
Statoil strikes gas offshore Tanzanian well
Norwegian oil major Statoil has made an additional 28.5bn cu/m to 51.3bn cu/m of natural gas discovery at Mdalasini-1 exploration well located in Block 2 offshore Tanzania
CI-Energies to develop gas block offshore Côte d’Ivoire
State-owned oil and gas firm CI-Energies has signed a non-binding agreement with an international company to finance, develop and operate CI-202 Block located at Grand Bassam in Côte d’Ivoire
Ethiopia eyes gas production and exports from potential reserves
Ethiopia has announced that it will begin producing and exporting natural gas from underdeveloped reserves in its southeastern region by 2017