The West Africa oil and gas market is demonstrating strong growth potential, driven by global energy demand and rich reserves in the region, the 2025 West Africa Oil and Gas Outlook by Deloitte has revealed. According to the report, the West African oil and gas market represents a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 6.5% […]
Ghana currently supplies about 425 million standard cubic feet of natural gas per day (MMscfd), sourced from the Jubilee and TEN fields, the Sankofa-Gye Nyame field, and imports from Nigeria. This gas supports nearly 70% of the country’s electricity generation.
“This is an exciting moment for us. The restart of drilling reflects another milestone in our journey in Ghana and shows our confidence in the country’s resource base,” Jean-Médard Madama, Managing Director of Tullow Ghana said in a statement. “Even as the field matures, we are confident in its capacity to deliver value—for our shareholders, partners, and the people of Ghana.”
Subsea7 will be responsible for transporting and installing flexible pipelines, umbilicals, and associated subsea components for the connection of a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel as well as the pre-laying activities for an upcoming drilling campaign.
Shearwater Geoservices will deploy the SW Tasman vessel for a newly awarded deepwater ocean-bottom node (OBN) survey offshore West Africa.
Virtually all West African countries, from Mauritania, Cote D’Ivoire, Sierra Leone, Liberia, to Ghana and others, all in the Gulf of Guinea axis, have developed oil and gas explorations. By 2027, all these countries will increase three fold their oil outputs.
Belgium has approved new quality controls set to suspend the export of cheap, low-quality motor fuels from its ports to West Africa, the government confirmed May 23, in a move that could shift trade flows to alternative supply hubs.
The West African nation of Benin has blocked China’s first shipment of crude oil from Niger amid an ongoing border dispute with Niger following a coup that has put a military junta in power and shaken relations with other African nations.
Energas West Africa CEO David Pappoe Jr. will speak at the Invest in African Energy (IAE) forum in Paris next month, spotlighting opportunities for local service companies within Africa’s growth markets.
Since 2020, there have been military coups in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger. Potential spillover of conflicts to the coastal West African countries could endanger some oil projects and deter foreign investment, according to report by analyst – Tsvetana Paraskova, writing for Oilprice.com.