The government of Algeria is taking the charges of corruption against key officials at Sonatrach to heart and is enacting a new measure to help prevent any future charges of corruption.
Sea Dragon Energy Inc. has entered into an Alliance Agreement with Tanmia Petroleum Company, a company incorporated in Egypt and owned 100% by state-run EGPC. Read more
The Dzata-1 oil discovery drilled by Vanco Energy and Lukoil off the coast of Ghana has kicked off a dispute with neighboring Cote d’Ivoire who claims that part of Ghana’s maritime area belongs to it.
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The second attack on an oil facility in the Niger Delta in less than a week took place on March 3. The latest attack was against an Agip facility.
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Shokri Ghanem, head of Libya’s National Oil Corp. (NOC), called officials from US energy firms operating in the country to give them the heads up on the possible fall out from the diplomatic problems between Libya and the US. Read more
GDF Suez and South Africa’s PetroSA have been unable to come to an agreement over feedstock for the South African firm’s Mossel Bay refinery. Read more
Petroceltic International gave an operations update on its activities in Tunisia and Algeria along with an outlook on its contingent resources. Read more
Weatherford Pipeline & Specialty Services has been awarded a contract by Technip for pre-commissioning and commissioning services for the Jubilee Field Development Project offshore Ghana. Read more
GDF Suez and partner Dana Petroleum spud the Bamboo well on the West El Burullus Concession offshore Egypt’s Nile Delta in mid-February, according to the company.
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The government of Algeria is taking the charges of corruption against key officials at Sonatrach to heart and is enacting a new measure to help prevent any future charges of corruption.
