Sub-Saharan Africa upstream in brief

Table of contents

• Latest Insights and Informs
  • UTM signs Pre-FEED contracts for Nigeria’s first ever FLNG project
  • First production from Total’s Zinia 2, Block 17, Angola
  • Total declares force majeure on Mozambique LNG project
  • Six in a row for Eni on Block 15/06, Angola
  • Qatar Petroleum farms-in to ultra-deepwater blocks offshore Namibia
  • Addax’s licences revoked in Nigeria
  • Has Nigeria's marginal fields bid round run aground?
  • Total suspends construction once more at Mozambique LNG after further attacks
  • BP signs MoU for gas-to-power and rural electrification project in Mauritania
  • Sonangol EP to sell more blocks in Angola
  • Niger switches on 89 MW of oil-fired generation
  • Shell’s Niger Delta divestments
  • Continued freeze on Shell's bank accounts in Nigeria
  • Nigeria’s Escravos-Lagos Pipeline expanded
  • First gas exports from Chevron’s Alen field, Equatorial Guinea
  • Sasol re-sanctions Inhassoro gas development onshore Mozambique
  • LUKOIL push hard for MSGBC position with proposed takeover offer for FAR
  • Panoro Energy acquires Tullow Oil assets in Equatorial Guinea and Gabon
  • NNPC announces FID on $3.5 billion Brass methanol plant
  • Equinor takes a near $1 billion impairment on Tanzania LNG
  • Heirs Holdings acquires 45% of OML 17, Nigeria
  • Pipeline attacks in Nigeria highlight increased security risks in 2021
  • Nine blocks available in Angola’s 2020 onshore bid round
  • 161 companies notified as preferred bidders for 57 Nigerian marginal fields
  • Sasol’s upstream retreat continues as VAALCO ups its stake in Etame Marin, Gabon
  • FAR exits Senegal's Sangomar at substantial discount
  • Tortue project optimised in bid to deliver value, Senegal and Mauritania
  • Shell chases its own leopard offshore South Africa
  • First E&P achieves first oil from OMLs 83 & 85 in Nigeria
  • Luiperd hits the spot for Total in South Africa
  • ExxonMobil signs up for exploration blocks in Angola’s Namibe Basin
  • Tanzania to resume negations with IOCs over delayed LNG project
  • Nigeria's Petroleum Industry Bill is back: first impressions
  • Sudan falls out with its only upstream investors
  • Total signs agreement with Uganda for US$3.5 billion pipeline
  • Kosmos sells off frontier exploration to Shell: the SSA angle
  • Exploration resumes in the region with Total’s Luiperd-1 offshore South Africa
  • ExxonMobil and Equinor exit frontier acreage offshore South Africa
  • Qatar Petroleum enters Angola, farming-in to ultra-deepwater Block 48
  • Woodside pre-empts LUKOIL Sangomar transaction and Senegal's NOC exercises its increased equity option
  • September Vlog
  • Perenco acquires more assets from Total Gabon
  • Cairn exits the Sangomar project in Senegal, selling its stake to Lukoil
  • Chevron brings the Nsinga field onstream in Angola
  • Chevron to acquire Noble Energy – the Sub-Saharan Africa view
  • Mozambique LNG completes US$14.9 billion financing
  • Nigeria’s Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano (AKK) gas pipeline to begin construction
  • Spread of cases in the Niger Delta a reminder that coronavirus is far from over
  • Equatorial Guinea’s new petroleum regulations are long on ambition but short on detail
  • After the crash – what’s changed in Africa upstream?
  • Kenya and Uganda 2020 virtual research trip key takeaways
  • Angola 2020 virtual research trip key takeaways
  • CNOOC Ltd elects not to pre-empt Total’s Tullow acquisition in Uganda
  • Nigeria’s on/off indigenous marginal fields round
  • Qatar Petroleum continues to track Total.......this time into Cote d'Ivoire
  • Total cancels its acquisition of Occidental's Ghana portfolio
  • Shell announces its own FID on NLNG T7
  • French succession: Perenco wins tender for Total’s KLL fields in Congo
  • Total acquires Tullow Oil’s entire Uganda portfolio for US$575 million
  • BP invokes Force Majeure on Tortue, Offshore Mauritania and Senegal
  • No project is immune: Mozambique’s Rovuma LNG sanction is postponed
  • The fall-out continues: Nigeria LNG Train 7 delayed
  • Glencore ceasing production in Chad
  • Mozambique’s Rovuma LNG hits FID setback: ExxonMobil withdraws from US$2 billion US export credit agency loan
  • Oil price shock
  • CPC fires-up production on the Benoy field in southern Chad
• Older stories
  • Eni proves up more volumes at Agogo, Angola
  • Kosmos Energy to shun basin-opening oil exploration in response to climate change
  • Azimuth acquires operatorship offshore South Africa
  • Perenco expands its onshore Gabon acreage
  • One billion barrels discovered in Nigeria’s Upper Benue Trough?
  • Congo publishes a flurry of new contracts
  • 2016 bid round awards
  • Ad-hoc awards
  • Mozambique’s insurgency problem: is further military involvement inevitable?
  • Another boost for Angolan exploration as BP re-acquires Block 18
  • Africa Oil Corporation completes Nigeria entry with 50% acquisition of POGBV
  • All go at Angola's Agogo
  • Woodside takes FID on Sangomar, offshore Senegal

Tables and charts

This report includes 52 images and tables including:

• Global FLNG projects economics (12% discount)
• Block 17 production
• Net resources discovered by the Majors (2015-2020)

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