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Sub-Saharan Africa upstream in brief

07 January 2021

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07 January 2021

Sub-Saharan Africa upstream in brief

Report summary

The Sub-Saharan Africa upstream in brief provides Wood Mackenzie's expert opinion and analysis of the key events impacting the upstream industry in the region. We draw upon our upstream database and data tools to help deepen our clients' understanding of the region. The report primarily focuses on exploration and appraisal drilling, project developments, production, licensing, fiscal and regulatory changes, geopolitics, and corporate and M&A activity.

Latest Insights and Informs
- 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