Sub-Saharan Africa upstream in brief Report

Insight 04 September 2023

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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.

Eni agrees to sell its Nigerian onshore subsidiary to partner Oando
Gabon’s president is overthrown after contested election
Cullinan dry hole breaks Shell’s run of Namibia discoveries
Eni starts up Baleine in Cote d'Ivoire
NNPCL secures US$3 billion loan to support Nigerian government policies
Maurel & Prom to acquire Assala Energy in Gabon
Niger coup d’état, what about the pipeline?
NNPCL begins independent power station construction
Nigeria update: oil production continued its recovery throughout June
TotalEnergies begins development drilling in Uganda
Angola and DRC progress in 20-year-old saga on Block 14
NNPC Limited agrees to take equity in UTM Offshore’s FLNG project
Afentra strengthens position in Angola with Azule Energy deal
Shell makes fourth Namibian discovery in a row with Lesedi-1X
Tullow Oil announces Jubilee South East start-up in Ghana
Nigeria takes tough action on crude oil theft
Plans for Mozambique’s Coral Norte FLNG submitted
Nigeria update: May production recovers from a six-month low set in April
Perenco acquires Eni Congo oil assets
Kinetiko Energy Shows Promising Results in Exploration Wells
TotalEnergies drills ahead in Namibia
Tinubu's reform agenda: what's coming next for Nigeria
Murphy Oil returns to Africa
Nigeria's President Tinubu removes currency controls
Chad's Savannah purge threatens pipeline harmony
Nigeria's President Tinubu means business, as fuel subsidy disappears
Tanzania LNG progresses after HGA and PSA agreement
TotalEnergies & Africa Oil Corp withdraw from Tullow's Kenya project
Sasol makes a gas discovery onshore Mozambique
Galp confirms rig for drilling plans in Namibia’s Orange sub-basin
NNPC Limited & Golar LNG sign Nigeria MoU
ExxonMobil set to re-enter Liberia
4.4 mmtpa LNG project planned in Nigeria
Aker Energy acquired by Africa Finance Corporation
QatarEnergy joins Shell as partner offshore Mauritania
Eni takes FID on Baleine phase 2
Chad nationalises Savannah Energy's portfolio
Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon sign Bilateral treaty for cross border cooperation
Nigerian production up 3.6% in February
Angola to launch new onshore licensing round
Tanzania LNG inches forward
Cameroon operator Victoria Oil & Gas in administration
Eni selling its onshore Nigerian JV
Azule Energy takes FID on Agogo full-development project
Nigeria PIA conversion update
Nigeria's marginal field participants revealed
Perenco sanctions small LNG project in Gabon
ICYMI: the biggest issues in global upstream revisited
Many hurdles remain for Mozambique LNG
Nigeria update: production remains fragile
Somoil continues shopping spree with Galp's Angolan assets
TotalEnergies to spend over 50% of its global exploration budget in Namibia
FLNG taking centre stage as IOCs hurry to monetise gas
Equinor seeks a buyer for Agbami-Ekoli in Nigeria
Nigeria produced just 1.38 million b/d in 2022
Gail Anderson, 12 January 2023
CNOOC Ltd and Eni commit to frontier exploration in Mozambique
TotalEnergies commits to another two decades in Gabon
PTTEP exits Angola’s Block 17/06
After deal closure, Chadian court may oppose Savannah acquisition of ExxonMobil’s assets
South Sudan wins over Chad for Savannah Energy
What NNPC Ltd's OML 86 & 88 acquisition means for its expansion plans
In Chad one deal done, another one to go
Nigeria's deepwater mini-bid round to be rushed through
NNPC Ltd secures US$1.4 billion of project finance for Chevron JV assets
Maurel & Prom acquires Wentworth Resources
Perenco successfully tests new pre-salt play offshore Congo
President Buhari launches oil & gas project in northern Nigeria
Eni and CNOOC Ltd submit bids in Mozambique's sixth licensing round
African Carbon Markets Initiative (ACMI) launched at COP27
Coral FLNG ships its first cargo
ExxonMobil reopens Kizomba treasure chest
Nigeria's regulator plans to offer seven deepwater blocks in November
Addax Petroleum finally leaving Nigeria
In Congo, Wing Wah gets the boo t
Seplat converting to Petroleum Industry Act fiscal terms
Vaalco Energy marches on in Gabon
Nigeria LNG declares Force Majeure
Assala Energy on the market... soon?
Drilling to restart on OML 120 in Nigeria
Africa rails against Europe’s fossil fuel double standards
Hot-tap discovery highlights the extent of Nigeria's crude theft epidemic
Chevron gobbles up juicy Orange Basin acreage
NNPC Limited acquires downstream player OVH Energy Marketing
Tullow and Capricorn merger off
Trouble down the pipe for TotalEnergies and CNOOC Ltd in Uganda?
Equatorial Guinea: ExxonMobil's Zafiro & Jade fields shut-down as FPSO takes on water
Chariot secures Total Eren as green hydrogen partner in Mauritania
Nigeria's government takes over insolvent power distribution companies
DNO set to acquire Cote d’Ivoire position
Seplat still in the dark on status of MPNU deal
Six Nigeria deepwater PSCs renewed for 20 years
Niger Delta oil production woes deepen
Deal or no deal? Nigeria’s regulator rebuts presidential consent of Seplat’s MPNU acquisition
First oil through the Amukpe-Escravos pipeline in Nigeria
The Democratic Republic of Congo launches bid rounds for 30 blocks
Eni successfully appraises Baleine
Perenco gets down to business in Chad
Angola’s New Gas Consortium takes FID on country’s first non-associated gas project
TotalEnergies announces production start-up from Ikike in Nigeria
Angola finally wraps up 2020 onshore licensing round
VAALCO to merge with Egypt-focussed TransGlobe Energy Corporation
Glencore and Perenco close Chad deal
Tanzania LNG breakthrough, but still a decade away at best
Perenco to buy NewAge's stake in Etinde, Cameroon
Nigeria facing an economic storm as presidential candidates decided
A Major shift in the corporate landscape
Another Major exits South Africa
Tullow and Capricorn merge to form a leaner Africa energy player
Gabon's production returning to normal after Cap Lopez shut-down
And then there were two: Tullow Oil in the hunt for SPDC
Nigerian government rejects ExxonMobil’s US$1.3 billion sale of JV business to Seplat
Implications of oil leak at Perenco’s Cap Lopez terminal
SPAs signed for Sonangol’s asset sales
TotalEnergies announces plans to sell onshore Nigerian assets
Seplat report further 9-12 month delay to ANOH project in Nigeria
Sonangol's farm down process ignored by major players
2021: A year to forget for Shell and Eni in the Niger Delta
Savannah Energy makes renewables entry with 250 MW wind farm in Niger
Nigeria’s PIA: It was supposed to end uncertainty, but it hasn’t
Angola resource boost for Eni at Ndungu
Russia's upstream presence in Sub-Saharan Africa
Could Fortuna favour the brave?
Eni and bp seal the deal to establish Azule Energy
Nigeria and Equatorial Guinea sign Memorandum of Understanding on gas supply
Glencore might finally make it out of Chad, Perenco to take over
Eni ties back another Angolan field in prolific Block 15/06
Out of this world: TotalEnergies makes record-breaking Venus discovery in Namibia
Eni revisits FLNG in Congo
Fire on Emeraude platform, Congo
The Gambia launches licensing round for Block A1
Shell makes huge oil discovery offshore Namibia
Trinity Spirit FPSO destroyed by explosion and fire
Nigeria calls time on 2020 marginal fields bid round
Nigeria’s new climate change legislation
At long last — FID at Uganda’s Lake Albert oil development
NNPC seeks to raise US$5 billion of finance: Shell JV in its sights?
Nigerian liquids production fell 12% in 2021
TotalEnergies and INPEX high-grade in Angola