Statoil announces successful test in Block 2 offshore Tanzania

Statoil and co-venturer ExxonMobil have announced the results from their first drill stem test in the Tanzania Block 2 offshore discoveries. The data acquired is important to reduce technical uncertainties in a possible future Tanzania … Read More

East Africa lacks extractive industry taxation capacity

Article courtesy of OxfamAmerica Dr. Prosper Ngowi Dr. Prosper Ngowi, an economics professor from Tanzania, said that Tanzania has lost a lot of revenue from the gold sector because of … Read More

East Africa next investment attraction exploration and production companies

[twitter-follow screen_name=’oilnewskenya’] 3 East African countries Kenya, Mozambique and Tanzania are set to be the next attraction for the exploration and production companies following recent mineral finds and infrastructure projects. … Read More

Nock, Shell among Oil marketers’ guilty of mixing products

Major oil companies including government owned National Oil Corporation (Nock) are among 16 rogue marketers penalized by the energy regulatory commission. The other major oil companies include multinational oil giant … Read More

Scottish firms eye East African Oil and Gas sector

[twitter-follow screen_name=’oilnewskenya’] 15 firms have visited Kenya on a fact finding mission oh how the region is prepared for the oil and gas boom and to discover opportunities in the … Read More

Infrastructure projects Uganda must undertake for quick oil production

[twitter-follow screen_name=’oilnewskenya’] Amid accusations from British explorer firm Tullow Oil that Uganda was dragging its feet in relation to becoming an oil producer the government is said to be pulling … Read More