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31 May 2023

Sub-Saharan Africa upstream in brief

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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.

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
Murphy Oil on the brink of a return to Africa
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
New Fortress Energy sign MoU with Mauritania for Fast LNG
Savannah Energy lands deals in Chad and Cameroon
Chevron wraps up more acreage in Equatorial Guinea
Eni/Sonangol solar JV sanctions 50 MWp project in Angola
Why Uganda is struggling to attract IOCs
Production starts on BP’s Platina field in Angola
Mozambique offers 16 blocks in its sixth licensing round
Eni takes delivery of the Coral Sul FLNG vessel.
Tullow pre-empts Kosmos in Ghana
Glencore finally agrees to sell its Chad assets to Perenco
INPEX exits the Democratic Republic of Congo
Oxy sells Ghana assets for US$750 million
Sonangol announces bidders in farm down process
ExxonMobil to exit its Nigerian shallow water JV
TotalEnergies spuds Ondjaba in Angola, the deepest water well ever
Eni brings Cabaco North onstream in Angola
Angola announces 2020 onshore block awards
Tullow exits further exploration licences in SSA
Costs for East Africa’s Crude Oil Pipeline jump by over 40%
NLNG output at its lowest level in five years
BW Energy strikes oil again at Hibiscus North offshore Gabon
NPDC to operate OML 11 as appeal court rules against Shell
Eni brings Cuica onstream quickly in Angola
Assessing Shell's JV divestment plans in Nigeria using our Lens platform
Nigeria announces 13% cut in gas-to-power prices
At last: more gas for GoFLNG as Perenco commits to new wells
Local firms dominate bids in Angola’s onshore licence round
Sonangol attempts to sells assets to pay debt
QP’s strategic partnership with TotalEnergies deepens
Rovuma LNG: unlikely to FID before 2026
Savannah Energy in exclusive talks to acquire ExxonMobil’s Chad & Cameroon businesses
ExxonMobil exits Deepwater CTP licence, Ghana
Landmark deal as partners sign PSC renewal for OML 118, Nigeria
Shell to divest onshore Nigeria - the Lens view
Gabon calls time on its 12 th licensing round
Eni and BP consider merging their Angolan portfolios
Togo commissions 65 MW Kékéli Efficient Power
South Sudan launches its first licensing round
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