Serinus Energy in an update on its Q3 production in Tunisia saw working interest flow at 1,343 barrels of oil equivalent per day. The working interest is 11% higher than output in Q2, petroleum Africa reports. Oil increased to 1,053 bpd while gas was 1.7 Mmcf/d as a result of the return of the Sabria Field as well as the declaration of operational issues with the national gas utility and...

Angola is set to export approximately 1.80 million bbls/d of crude oil by December. According to a provisional loading schedule, is higher than the 1.77 million bbls/d intended in November, Reuters reports. Oil companies including Exxon, Total and Chevron and Sonangol are to export the oil on 58 cargoes against the 55 cargoes intended to move in November. Pressure has been put on the...

AGOCO has today announced its plans to hold a 93-well drilling campaign at its Libyan concessions. Chairman of AGOCO Mohamed Ben Shatwan declared this at the 4th New Libya Oil & Gas Forum in London. The Libyan company, an affiliated company of the state-owned National Oil Corporation (NOC), has stakes in eight of the country’s fields. The fields include Beda, Messla, Hammada and Sarir,...

Sudan has announced that boosting production capacity is part of its goal for 2016. Whilst addressing the national legislature, President of the Republic, Field Marshal Omer Al-Bashir revealed that the country plans to discover and produce natural gas as well as assuring the flow of the supply of petroleum to meet local needs. The government intends to focus on diversification of mineral...

Production is still limited in Libya making the country produce about 440,000 bbls/d of crude oil chairman of the country’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) revealed at the 4th Libya Oil and Gas Forum in London. Clashes between two rival governments in the country, have kept the country’s oil output below the 1.6 million bbls/d it used to produce before Muammar Gaddafi’s fall in 2011. As a...

The mobile operator Inwi, third on the national market in terms of number of subscribers, has just launched a service designed for sharing 4G connection. With no contract and only available to mobile devices, the offer called “i-dar” will enable 5 mobile devices to operate on the same 4G internet plan within and outside the household, and even simultaneously. With this offer, it is clear that...

The Kibali gold mine, in North-Eastern DR Congo, continues with its operations and is in good standing to exceed the production target for 2015 set at 600,000 ounces of gold. Mark Bristow, Executive Director of Randgold Resources, made this statement on the situation of the mine in a project update, on 16 October, mentioning the good progress in terms of major investments including the...

The cocoa and coffee interprofessionnal council (CCIC) on 20 October 2015 in Milan, Italy, for the Universal Expo, organizes the “New Generation Youth Forum” to present the opportunities that Cameroon’s cocoa-coffee sector has to offer but also the objectives and benefits of its “New Generation” scheme. “Considered by international cocoa-coffee associations as one of the most...

Abdou Mani, the Nigerien Minister of Telecommunications, declared on 16 October 2015 that the State will merge the Nigerien Company of Telecommunication (SONITEL), the state operator, and it's mobile branch Sahel Com, in order to better withstand competition in the national telecom market. Actually, the two companies belonging to the State are in bad shape in terms of market share and revenues....

Kasbah Resources Ltd is making a detailed examination of an option of a small scale startup, on the basis of a modest investment, tin production in its Achmmach project located in the north of Morocco. Wayne Bramwell, Managing Director of the company which is listed on ASX, explained, in the quarterly report ending in September on this project, published on 16 October, that the approach...