Marine seismic acquisition firm Shearwater Geoservices has secured a contract from TotalEnergies for an Ocean Bottom Node (OBN) data acquisition campaign offshore Angola.
Namibia has ambitions to become one of the largest oil producers in Africa by 2035, with an average output of half a million barrels daily, displacing Egypt in the top five list, a government official has said.
This report on the petroleum industry in South Africa includes comprehensive information on supply, refining, crude oil storage reserves, and the distribution and retail of petroleum products, including lubricants, LPG, LNG and biofuels. There is information on the size of the industry in terms of production and consumption, pipeline transportation, wholesale and retail, and the state of the industry, including the effect of refinery closures, pricing and policy, new projects, divestment and government’s plans to revive the industry.
TotalEnergies has decided to withdraw from two oil and gas blocks offshore South Africa, with its partner in one of the blocks QatarEnergy also announcing its exit from the development.
SLB’s OneSubsea has won a sizeable contract for 13 wellsets plus associated equipment and services in the development of the Kaminho project offshore Angola from French energy major TotalEnergies.
Namibia’s nascent oil industry is going from strength to strength following several discoveries that have provided great enthusiasm around the future of Namibian oil. The recent success of the industry is somewhat surprising considering the failed exploration projects of previous decades. Based on several new finds, energy experts believe that Namibia could quickly become as big as Guyana in terms of its crude reserves, which has gained it huge interest from local and international oil companies.
Oil major TotalEnergies intends to develop a US$9Bn deepwater oil project in Suriname using a nexus of subsea infrastructure connected to a newbuild FPSO
Block 58 is adjacent to ExxonMobil’s Stabroek block in Guyana, a site with more than 11 billion barrels (bbbl) of recoverable oil and gas.
TotalEnergies and partners Petronas and Sonangol have taken FID on the Kaminho oil project in Block 20/11 offshore Angola.
Africa Oil has issued updates on its E&P activities offshore southern and western Africa in its latest results statement.