Statoil resumes operations at targeted In Amenas plant
Statoil has resumed operations at the In Amenas plant 19 months after a brutal terrorist attack left 40 people dead.
Africa
Nigeria activist who escaped the gallows probes oil accounts
Two decades ago Ledum Mitee escaped being hanged while campaigning against corruption in Nigeria’s oil industry. Today, as head of a government transparency initiative, he says little has changed.
Chariot buys time with Namibian blocks re-award
Atlantic-focused explorer Chariot Oil & Gas has secured more time to seek partners for its Namibia exploration campaign after being re-awarded two of its relinquished licences.
Nigeria’s oil hub under Ebola threat
A man who contracted Ebola in Nigeria evaded surveillance and infected a doctor who later died, health authorities say.
Kenya campaign bears fruit for Tullow
Africa-focused explorer Tullow Oil has deemed its Kenyan exploration and appraisal campaign a success after a number of its onshore wells struck oil.
Shell targets Nigerian assets in $15billion sell-off plan
Royal Dutch Shell, Europe’s largest oil company, is advancing plans to sell four fields in Nigeria to meet a $15billion asset-sales plan.
Tanzania well test boosts BG gas hub campaign
Energy giant BG Group has reinforced its drive to develop a gas hub offshore southern Tanzania following a successful well test on the firm's latest appraisal well in the country.
Etinde farm-out gets due date extension
The longstop date to finalise the farm-out of Cameroon's Etinde licence has been extended, the permit owner Bowleven has announced.
GE plans $2billion Africa spending with workforce set to double
General Electric will invest about $2billion in Africa by 2018 and double the local workforce in what chief executive Jeffrey Immelt calls one of the world’s most-promising markets.
Africa to add more renewable power in 2014 than in past 14 years
Growing demand for electricity and falling costs for wind and solar power mean more renewable- energy projects will be commissioned this year in sub-Saharan Africa than were added from 2000 through 2013.
Ghana expects Hess offshore oil field to join project lineup
Ghana, the nation seeking to increase its oil output fivefold in the next decade, expects an offshore development by Hess Corp. to join the nation’s project pipeline, according to the Petroleum Commission.
Oil industry to join fight against HIV as more workers become infected
A call was today made for oil and gas companies to play a more active role in the fight against HIV.
‘Oil revenue should be used to fight hunger in South Sudan’
New fighting has broken out in South Sudan, forcing aid workers to take cover in a city where more than 40,000 civilians are huddled in a UN base, an aid group has said.
Exxon ends oil search with Total in South Sudan as war rages
Exxon Mobil Corp., the US’s largest oil company, ended exploration plans with Total SA in South Sudan, Total and the government said, a sign of faltering investor confidence in the African nation as a civil war enters its eighth month.
FAR looks for partner in Kenya amid drilling spike
FAR confirmed it was on the hunt to secure a partner for its drilling operations in Kenya as work picks up in the region.
Petrofac staff forced to abandon offices in Tunisia
Petrofac staff in Tunisia were forced to abandon their offices after two incidents in just as many weeks.
Violence in Libya sends world oil prices higher
A Libyan military police chief said he disbanded parliament after a militia group he backs stormed it yesterday, spreading violence in the energy-rich nation to its capital and sending world oil prices higher. In a televised speech late yesterday preceded by clashes, Mukhtar Fernana said parliament will be replaced by a 60-member group. Nuri Abu Sahmain, the head of the General National Congress, denied that it had been suspended and said yesterday he was running it from a “safe place,” the state-run Libyan News Agency reported. Fernana said he won’t allow Libya to become a safe-haven for extremists or a “home for terrorists.” The assault, he said, was not a coup and reflects the “freedom that Libyans wanted and fought for.”
British oil worker abducted in Yemen
Armed men have abducted a British national working with an oil services company on a main street in Yemen.