Orca Exploration Closes $60 million financing for Tanzania’s Songo Songo development from IFC

Orca Exploration has announced that it has entered into a loan agreement with International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, for a US$60 million investment in … Read More

Need To Cut Upstream costs,Have Reasonable Local Content Requirements in Sub-Sahara Africa – – Wood Mackenzie

As only one third of the continent’s pre-sanction projects are economical at less than US$50 per barrel ($/bbl), Wood Mackenzie says greater collaboration with the service sector, increased focus on … Read More

Call for Comments on Draft Uganda Standards for Oil and Gas Upstream Equipment and Materials

Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) in collaboration with the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development (MEMO), through the Technical Committee (UNBS/ TC 16/ SC2) is developing Standards for the … Read More

Conference on the International Legal Perspectives in Oil and Gas Kicks-off in Nairobi

A one and a half day East African Oil and Gas conference has began in Nairobi with the role of providing a unique forum for an engaging and interactive legal … Read More

Erin Energy obtains 18-month extension in Kenya’s Blocks L27 and L28

Erin Energy Corporation has announced it has obtained an eighteen-month extension of the Initial Exploration Period (IEP) of its offshore Kenya blocks, L27 and L28. The IEP on blocks L27 and L28 which … Read More

Tanzania’s Kiliwani North Gas Agreement to be Signed in Q3 2015

Production from the Kiliwani North Field could start in 2015 with the Tanzanian authorities having advised that production should start within Q3 2015 now that the main pipeline has been … Read More