Angola

PETROFINA TO RE-LAUNCH SOYO

A team of experts from operator Petrofina is currently in the country to examine what work will be required to [...]

TOTAL RE-TENDERS FOR JACK-UP

Total has issued a new tender for a jack-up programme [...]

CABINDA GULF TO USE SEDCO 708 ON NIMBA

After transferring Sedco 709 from Asia to drill in Gabon's [...]

PUSH FOR LUZAMBA PROJECT

Endiama is planning to re-activate cooperation with the Brazilian group Odebrecht to mine diamonds around Luzamba in the northern part [...]

PECTEN EXPECTED TO DRILL WITH SEDNETH 701

Pecten (Shell group) is probably going to use Sedco Forex's [...]

ELF SAID TO FIND ACCOMODATION RIG FOR COBO

An accommodation jack-up, Ahmed, that is currently in the Persian [...]

ELF STARTS OOMBO DEVELOPMENT

As it prepares to put Pambi into production following Cobo [...]

PREPARING FOR PEACE

As the government and UNITA move to the negotiating table to convert Angola's cease-fire into a full-scale truce Compania Nacional [...]

SECOND WELL ON BLOCK 17 WITH NEDDRILL 1

Finally, the drillship Nedrill 1 will drill its first well [...]

OPEC FUND TAKES PART IN FINESSE

The Opec Fund for International Developmewnt has approved a small [...]

JEAN MARC ROCHEREAU DE LA SABLIERE

The head of the French foreign ministry's Africa Desk wants [...]

Following the agreement signed last year to set up African [...]

Spotlight
MINING IN SADC: GETTING THE BALL ROLLING

Investment totalling over $200 million was pledged during a Mining Forum staged jointly in Lusaka between Sept. 7-9 by the European Union and the Southern Africa Development Conference (SADC). That could appear modest in view of how far sub-Saharan Africa [.

SONANGOL-GLOBAL MARINE JV

The government has given a green light to a move by Sonangol and the U.S. drilling contractor Global Marine to [...]

GARY SMITH REPORT A DAMP SQUIB?

A "Report on Sonangol and Angolan Oil Dealing" signed Gary [...]

The first-ever summit of the Common Market of East and [...]

TEXACO TO FIX THREE DRILLING RIGS IN YEAR

Service company circles expect Texaco to charter three rigs for [...]

SOYO BACK IN PRODUCTION IN SPRING

Oil circles in Angola believe that on-shore fields in the Soyo region (Fina Petroleos de Angola, operator, Texaco, Sonangol) won't [...]

STEP-UP IN DRILLING

The oil services market has seen a flurry of invitations to tender and preliminary inquiries from oil operators in the [...]