AIM-LISTED BOWLEVEN has halted drilling and sealed its Sapele-1 wildcat offshore Cameroon after it encountered a high-pressure gas reservoir in the Cretaceous.

CIRCLE OIL HAS confirmed a gas discovery in its Base Guebbas target in its Sebou permit, in Morocco’s Rharb basin.

THE START UP of the Algerian side of the Medgaz pipeline, exporting natural gas to Spain, is "imminent," according to an Algerian official, after a delay of more than a year.

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.