Simba Energy’s exploration activities at Block 2A in Wajir County in Kenya, is currently at a standstill as locals have destroyed part of the working equipment being at the site while protesting against the ongoing work by the Company. According to the Company's Director, James Jenkins, they had suffered huge losses due to the conflict between Simba and members of the community.He said that...

In Kenya, the Lamu county and the National Land Commission clashed over a wind park project planned in the region. The clash results from both institutions approving the allocation of a 11,000 acres plot in the region to two distinct energy developers. While the county gave the permission to US company Cordisons International to build a 100 MW park, NLC gave its’ to Belgian Electrowind (which...

As part of a workshop launched on August 25, 2016 in Anosy, in the South-eastern part of Madagascar, technicians from the General Directorate of land services are offering a training session of procedures related to land for Malagasy lawyers. About a hundred members of Madagascar’s Lawyers Order working in the Analamanga region are taking part to the session. According to a statement relayed...

Angolan state oil company, Sonangol, has announced that Block 15’s output has reached 2 billion barrels ever since it began production in 2003, making it one of the most successful offshore oil concessions in West Africa.The block’s production is currently at about 320,000 barrels of oil per day. “Achieving these significant numbers is the result of seventeen commercial discoveries, which...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has expressed its readiness to negotiate with other three countries sharing the Lake Tanganyika in order to discuss the methods of extracting oil and natural gas in the lake. This is a new development as Tanzania and DRC have been in disagreement over the proposal for both countries to issue a combined exploration licence for the lake. The two countries in...

Earnings from members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) are expected to fall to $341 billion in 2016, according to U.S Energy Information Administration (EIA)’s price forecasts.The 14-member cartels’ net export revenue in 2015 was at $404 billion, a 46% decline from $753 billion earned in 2014 and is still expected to increase to $427 billion in...

The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Maikanti Baru (photo), has advised the National Association of Petroleum Explorationists (NAPE) to search for hydrocarbon in some of the green frontier basins so as to increase the country’s dwindling reserves. According to Baru, the Federal Government is willing to put provisions in place for incentives for...

Yinka Folawiyo Petroleum Company Limited (YFP) has announced that the much awaited first oil export cargo from the Aje field, offshore Lagos, will be shipped to the United Kingdom next month. This is coming after Panoro Energy and the operator Yinka Folawiyo Petroleum announced in July that the first crude oil lifting for export from the Aje field would commence by the end of August. According...

After the success of the first Tendrara well (TE-6), Sound Energy has commenced the drilling of the second well TE-7 at Tendrara, onshore Morocco. The sub-horizontal appraisal well was spud on August 25, 2016, with the aim of ascertaining sufficient gas volumes and well deliverability to allow for the completion of the field development plan and a concession application and also determining the...

Vaalco Energy’s Avouma 2-H well on the Avouma Platform offshore Gabon in the Etame Marin Permit has resumed production at a stable rate. According to the company, the secondary electric submersible pump (ESP) in the well was recently started and the well is now producing at a steady rate.Earlier this year, the primary ESP in the Avouma 2-H well failed and before trying to start the secondary...