Sub-Saharan Africa upstream in brief
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Table of contents
- 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
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- 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 158 images and tables including:
- Bonita 1 well location
- Galp’s deepwater Orange Basin acreage
- NNPCL shallow water acreage
- NNPCL's shallow water OMLs by gas resources
- Blocks 15, 16, 22 and 24
- Potential location of LNG project in Akwa Ibom
- Murphy Oil's Cote d'Ivoire blocks (under application)
- Panna Cotta exploration well location
- Cote d'Ivoire's gas production
- Forecast of Chad's oil production and capex
- Overall production
- Sector production
- Deepwater production
- JV terminal production
- Angola 2023 onshore licensing round
- Eni JV Acreage
- FPSO projects sanctioned or expected to be sanctioned in 2023
- Perenco Gabon LNG proposed location and feedgas fields
- Overall liquids production between January 2022 and January 2023
- Deepwater production by field between January 2022 and January 2023
- Production by JV terminal between January 2022 and January 2023
- Production by sector between January 2022 and January 2023
- Overall liquids production in 2022
- Production by JV terminal in 2022
- Production by sector in 2022
- Deepwater production by field in 2022
- Sixth licensing round blocks awarded
- TotalEnergies EP Gabon oil production and capex profile
- Angola's Block 17/06
- Deepwater mini-bid round acreage
- Maurel & Prom production before/after acquisition
- Perenco licences offshore southern Congo
- Kolmani River acreage
- Mozambique's sixth licensing round blocks
- East Africa gas resources
- Mozambique government oil and gas revenues
- Bavuca South location
- Acreage offshore Lagos
- Addax Petroleum's global portfolio
- Nigeria LNG feedgas pipelines
- Gross production from Assala Energy operated fields 2010-2030
- OML 120 block offshore western Niger delta
- Map of western delta and Trans-Escravos pipeline
- Block 2813B map with prospects
- Project Nour acreage showing mean windspeeds
- Nigeria power output July/August 2022
- Foxtrot International assets
- Monthly ExxonMobil JV production
- Onshore crude blend exports
- Amukpe-Escravos pipeline map
- Bid round summary
- Baleine discovery
- Mangara Badila production
- Angola LNG feedgas
- Amenam-Kpono and Ikike Production
- 2020 licence round blocks
- VAALCO and TransGlobe net cash flow
- Top Ten Producers in SSA by type
- Perenco Net Production 2015-2030
- Perenco Net Unit Opex 2015-2030
- 2022 net production
- 2022 net production post M&A
- MPNU/NNPC JV gross remaining production, capex and cash-flow
- Crude processing in Gabon (percentage of total production)
- TotalEnergies net resources - onshore SPDC OMLs
- Sonangol farm-down awards
- Eni & Shell net Nigeria oil and gas production 2020 vs 2021
- Savannah Energy annual net emissions and offsets
- Block 15/06 West Hub N’Goma FPSO production*
- Russian upstream value in SSA (US$ million)
- EG-27 block
- Azule Energy cashflow by existing portfolio
- EG LNG feedgas
- Perenco Net Production 2015-2030
- Perenco average net unit Opex across its African operations 2015-2022
- Block 15/06 production by hub
- Emeraude map
- Map of Block A1
- Production by onshore terminal
- Comparison of Somoil cashflow with transaction
- Block EG-09 map
- Block 28 Namibe basin, due west of Caraculo
- Satellite image of Caraculo
- SSA Licence round performance since 2018
- Block 18 production profile
- Mozambique's sixth licensing round
- Kosmos Energy cashflow impact
- Producing blocks upcoming Capex
- ExxonMobil JV net resources
- Top 10 exploration wells by depth
- Location of Baleine discovery
- Steel Prices in Asia and Europe
- NLNG utilisation 2020 vs 2021
- Dussafu Marin (Ruche EEA)
- Shell JV resources
- Shell JV production
- Angola 2020 onshore licence round blocks
- Sonangol P&P and Sonangol EP combined capex (2021-2025)
- QP’s net exploration acreage by operator-partner in SSA
- QP's blocks in South Africa and Namibia
- Eni and BP’s net remaining value (NPV10 = US$8.7 billion, January 2021)
- South Sudan 2021 bid round
- Global FLNG projects economics (12% discount)
- Block 17 production
- Net resources discovered by the Majors (2015-2020)
- Addax net production and opex in Nigeria
- Map of northern Mozambique
- Sonangol EP’s net remaining value (NPV10, January 2021)
- Shell's net onshore Niger Delta acreage and production
- ELPS and OB3 pipeline map
- EG LNG production profile
- Mozambique and South Africa* gas supply
- Panoro Energy net liquids production
- Location of Brass methanol plant and surrounding blocks
- Angolan licence offers 2019-2025
- Map of Sasol's former blocks in Gabon
- Sangomar: capital costs and production outlook
- Shell's South Africa blocks
- Map of OMLs 83 & 85
- ExxonMobil's Namibe Basin blocks
- Under development and pre-FID LNG breakevens in SSA
- Block 2A and 4 oil fields
- Totals' net annual production (2020-2030)
- Kosmos SSA divested acreage
- Kosmos net global capex (2020-2028)
- Block 11B/12B South Africa
- South Africa acreage divestments
- Block 48 Angola
- Assets sold by Total Gabon
- Sangomar - Project Capital Costs
- Nsinga field location map
- Noble Energy net production - Equatorial Guinea
- ENH's net cumulative costs for Mozambique LNG
- Map of AKK pipeline
- Equatorial Guinea production by field
- CNOOC Ltd's net development costs (2020-2030)
- Unconfirmed marginal fields by JV
- Cote d'Ivoire licensing map
- Annual field production by field
- Importance of NLNG for its shareholders value in Nigeria
- Perenco's net Congo liquids production
- Tullow Oil's development cost profile
- FIDs in SSA 2020-2021
- Oil production and oil capex in SSA
- Benoy development map
- Reserves in Angola's 'Golden Blocks' and Eni's Block 15/06
- Kosmos-operated exploration wells in SSA
- Kosmos acreage in SSA
- Azimuth's South Africa acreage
- Location of OPL 809 block
- Congo block awards
- Western military presence in east Africa
- Lower Congo block awards
- Block 15/06 West Hub production
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