Oil and gas exploration and production company Eco Atlantic appears determined to make a breakthrough in its underexplored Namibian offshore assets after preliminary works in preparation for a deep dive it expects to take in the four offshore permits as early as October next year…
Bourbon Marine & Logistics announced on Monday that it has been awarded an integrated logistics contract from Total to support the supermajor's deep offshore exploration campaign in South Namibia in 2020. The project scope covers provision of logistics base…
After a disappointing well-drilling venture offshore Namibia in the fourth quarter of 2018, Guernsey-registered hydrocarbons exploration and production company Chariot Oil & Gas has no immediate plans for additional exploration wells in this driest country in Sub-Saharan Africa…
Oslo-listed Electromagnetic Geoservices (EMGS) has been awarded a contract from Nabirm Global LLC for a proprietary 3D CSEM survey over Block 2113A in the Walvis Basin offshore Namibia.The program, valued at over $1 million, will cover acreage in block 2113A…
Namibia marine diamond mining company, Debmarine Namibia announced that its Board of Directors have approved the construction of the world’s first ever custom-built diamond recovery vessel.The new vessel is expected to cost US$468 million and…
ExxonMobil has grown its footprint in the deep waters offshore Namibia, adding approximately 28,000 square kilometers of exploration acreage in in the frontier region, the supermajor said on Wednesday.ExxonMobil said it signed an agreement with…
Three years after Tower Resources and its partners relinquished their assets in Namibia, the company has returned after signing a new Petroleum Agreement it previously promised shareholders and which gives it an 80 percent operated interest…
The Atlantic margins focused oil and gas exploration company Chariot Oil & Gas Limited has announced the result of the well on the Central Blocks license, offshore Namibia (Chariot 65% (Operator), Azinam 20%, NAMCOR 10% and Ignitus 5%).The well has been safely drilled to a total MD of 4…
Azinam, financially backed by private equity firm Seacrest Capital, will plug and abandon its Prospect S well in Petroleum Licence (PEL) 71 offshore Namibia, it said on Thursday.'The anticipated stacked target reservoirs were penetrated and the well encountered wet gas shows…
Africa-focused Tullow Oil will abandon its first well in Namibia, but data gathered in the project indicated it might strike lucky in another attempt, it said on Monday.'The Cormorant-1 exploration well in the PEL-37 licence, offshore Namibia…
Pancontinental Oil & Gas has signed a petroleum agreement (PA) for its second block offshore Namibia. Under the agreement, the firm has committed to a four-year exploration program. Pancontinental also will become project operator with 75% interest in Block 2713 in the Orange Basin…
Tullow oil is aiming to start drilling on the Cormorant prospect in the Walvis Basin offshore Namibia at the start of September next year [2018], according to partner Pancontinental. The Cormorant prospect, in about 550m water depth, is part of exploration license in PEL 37…
ONGC Videsh has entered an agreement with Tullow Oil to acquire a 15% participating interest in the offshore Namibia Petroleum Exploration License 0030 for Block 2012A. India-based ONGC Videsh said today (21 November) the completion of…
Eco (Atlantic) Oil & Gas is plannig to drill a well on its Osprey prospect in the Cooper Block (PEL30) in the Walvis Oil Basin, offshore Namibia. Osprey is in about 500m water depth and has had several thousand kilometers of 2D seismic and a 3D survey…
French oil giant Total has agreed a farm-in deal with UK based independent Impact Oil and Gas, which will see it take major stakes in deepwater blocks offshore Namibia and South Africa. Total has acquired 70% of Impact’s interests in Block 2913B…
