CIRCLE OIL HAS confirmed a gas discovery at its ADD-1 exploration well at the Sebou Permit in Morocco’s Rharb Basin.

UK PLAYER DANA Petroleum has hit gas at the Cormoran-1 exploration well, drilled in Block 7 in Mauritania's offshore play.

TULLOW OIL HIT gas condensate with the Tweneboa-3 appraisal well, drilled in the deepwater Tano licence off Ghana.

PETROFAC HAS BEEN awarded a $1.2bn lump-sum engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract by In Salah Gas (ISG), an association between Sonatrach, BP and Statoil, to develop southern fields in the In Salah development.

NOBLE ENERGY HAS received government approval for its US$1.6bn development plan for the Alen gas-condensate project, off Equatorial Guinea.