Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) is increasingly turning to crude oil from West Africa as part of efforts to restore stable operations and support a long-term recovery plan, its managing director has said.
Tullow Oil forecast annual production to come in at the higher end of its outlook range on Tuesday, after a strong start to 2026 at the West Africa-focused independent oil and gas producer due to improved operations and an active drilling programme.
Azerbaijan’s state oil company SOCAR has signed an agreement with Italian Eni S.p.A. to acquire a 10% participating interest in the development project of the Baleine oil and gas field located offshore Côte d’Ivoire, Trend reports via SOCAR.
Ghana’s Ministry of Energy and Green Transition has been confirmed as Patron of the West Africa Energy Cooperation Summit (WAECS), to be held in Accra from December 2, 2025, to December 3, 2025.
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.