Guyane Maritime Permit

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

Shell has purchased a 33% stake in the deepwater Guyane Maritime Permit off the coast of French Guiana. The permit, which is located 150km off the coast encompasses a 32,000km² area ...


Oil News ; Angola has overtaken Nigeria as Africa’s biggest oil producer ; Federal Government of Nigeria yesterday set a benchmark of $50 per barrel of crude oil and four million barrels per day production for the 2010 budget

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

Tema, Ghana: In this gritty port city in eastern Ghana, the country’s only oil refinery currently processes 45,000 barrels of crude per day, mostly from other West African countries such ...


Tullow Oil plc , Exploration drilling update - Uganda

Friday, May 29th, 2009

 Tullow Oil plc (Tullow) announces that the Awaka-1 exploration well, which is located in the Butiaba region of Uganda Block 2, has encountered water bearing reservoir sands. The well was drilled ...


Oil News from around the web, hydrocarbons in Libyan waters,OPEC is worried about oversupply,RWE Dea to invest in North African countries

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

))))) Oil prices lingered below $49 a barrel Thursday in Asia as rising U.S. crude inventories and a stark demand forecast by the IMF doused investor optimism for a near-term ...


Oil News, w/e 02/05,IFC clarifies approval of loan to Tullow and Kosmos, Chevron to delay key projects in Nigeria

Thursday, March 5th, 2009

TOR Oil Don’t forget TOR when oil production starts - Nigeria High Commissioner advices Tema, March 3, GNA - Senator Musilu Obanikoro, Nigeria High Commissioner to Ghana has advised the government of ...


Successful Mahogany-3 appraisal and exploration well

Friday, January 9th, 2009

Tullow Oil plc (Tullow) announces that the Mahogany-3 well located in the West Cape Three Points licence offshore Ghana has intersected significant light oil columns in both the Jubilee field ...


Blackford Dolphin - commence mobilization

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

The drilling unit Blackford Dolphin has completed the commissioning and test phase in Rotterdam and commenced mobilization under the drilling contract with Tullow offshore Ghana Keppel Verolme B.V. and Blackford Dolphin ...