Long-been promoted as an efficient means of increasing foreign direct investment, facilitating commerce and creating employment in both developing and developed countries, the number of Special Economic Zones (SEZ) in Africa is growing, particularly in West Africa, which hosts the second largest number of free zones in Africa (24%).
Italian company Eni has authorization to start works in the Ivory Coast Baleine–or Whale–oil and gas field in the second half of the year, according to a government statement read on state-run Radio Television Ivoirienne on Friday.
Invictus Energy has raised over US$23 million for the next phase of Cabora Bassa oil and gas exploration and appraisal.
WTI Midland, the light sweet US grade, is being blended with heavy Brazilian grades to produce a cheaper Nigerian lookalike, which is undercutting the Nigerian crude grades in Europe and pushing down buying interest for Nigerian cargoes, multiple trading sources told S&P Global Commodity Insights.
Nigeria’s crude oil production has dropped below 1 million barrels per day, according to an Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries report.
The last time Nigerians benefited from their country being an oil producer was during the post-civil war years under General Yakubu Gowon.
The Northern Regional Security Council (REGSEC) has given the firmest assurance yet about its resolve to maintain the present stability in the region, as the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) prepares to begin drilling an oil and gas exploration well in the Voltaian Basin next year.
South Korea asked for Azerbaijan’s support Wednesday for its companies seeking to take part in major energy and other industry projects in the European nation, the industry ministry said.
The Multi-Stakeholder Group (MSG) of the Ghana Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (GHEITI) has today, formally launched the country’s 2020 Mining and Oil/Gas EITI reports, published on December 31, 2022.
An Ad-hoc Committee that was set up by the House of Representatives to investigate the alleged loss of over $2.4bn in revenue from the illegal sale of 48 million barrels of Crude Oil in 2015 including crude oil exports from 2014 to date has cleared the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd of any wrongdoing.