Nigeria lost around US$750mn to crude oil theft in 2019, according to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)
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Oil and gas M&A deal rises to US$370bn
The total deal value in 2019 increased 40 per cent y-o-y to US$370bn in the oil and gas market, thanks to several upstream and downstream mega-deals, according to a new Deloitte report
Making great progress in Equatorial Guinea
Almost a year after Oil Review Africa first caught up with Elite Construcciones, Marisol Ovono Nchama, the company’s managing director, provides an update on the latest activities in the emerging market of Equatorial Guinea
Flinders University and Clean Earth Technologies sign deal on oil spill technology
Flinders University from Australia and Singapore’s Clean Earth Technologies (CET) have signed a deal to build a manufacturing facility in South Australia to produce commercial quantities of the absorbent polysulfide
Global oil stocks to pile up following coronavirus-induced surplus
The coronavirus outbreak in China will curb global oil demand growth by at least a quarter this year, and the production cuts of 600,000 bpd proposed by an OPEC+ committee are far from enough to balance the market, a Rystad Energy analysis shows