DANA PETROLEUM HAS made a significant gas discovery at Anchois in the Tanger-Larache licence off Morocco. The Anchois-1 well lies about 40 km from the coast and was drilled to a total depth of 2435 m.

SPAIN'S REPSOL YPF has racked up its seventh gas discovery in the Algerian sector of the Sahara desert.

DOMINION GAS IS planning to open a new gas plant in Ghana. The firm anticipates that investment will exceed US$2.2mn and intends for the plant to be operational by June 2009.