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Sub-Saharan Africa upstream month in brief: the rebirth of the Transform Margin
Report summary
Our top story from April 2017 is the rebirth of the West African Transform Margin, with a flurry of corporate activity taking place on the back of major discoveries in the region by Cairn and Kosmos Energy. We used Wood Mackenzie and CGG Robertson's new EV2 tool to examine prospectivity by block across the basin. The picture is less rosy in Angola, with BP's withdrawal looking like a final death knell for the Kwanza Basin. In Nigeria, the government is making progress with the Petroleum Industry Governance Bill, while Shell and Eni wrestle with the ongoing investigation into OPL 245. This report includes our new interactive data dashboard, which can be accessed in the downloads section.
Table of contents
- Key stories this month
- Lead story
- Development
- Exploration and Licencing
- Fiscal
- Political
- Number of the Month
- Meet our analysts
- Vital statistics
Tables and charts
This report includes 7 images and tables including:
- Sub-Saharan Africa upstream month in brief: the rebirth of the Transform Margin: Image 1
- Prospectivity by block in the MSGBC Basin
- Relinquishments in the Kwanza Basin from 2015 to present
- Sub-Saharan Africa upstream month in brief: the rebirth of the Transform Margin: Image 4
- Sub-Saharan Africa upstream month in brief: the rebirth of the Transform Margin: Image 5
- Sub-Saharan Africa upstream month in brief: the rebirth of the Transform Margin: Image 6
- Sub-Saharan Africa upstream month in brief: the rebirth of the Transform Margin: Image 7
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