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Algeria
COOPERATION PACT WITH BHP

Australia's BHP group has signed a cooperation pact with Sonatrach [...]

Published on 28/07/1999 at 11:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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Tanzania
ADDAX BUYS AGIP'S ASSETS

Addax Petroleum has signed an agreement with Agip to buy the latter's Tanzanian assets with the blessings of the government, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.09.1999

Congo
AGIP TO KEEP SCARABEO 3 UNTIL APRIL, 2001

Agip Congo has exercised its option to extend its contract [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.09.1999

Africa
EXATRADE-JOVENNA ON THE MOVE

Exatrade is interested in extending its activities to the mining sector, concedes the South African trading company. But in fact [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.06.1999

Nigeria
AGIP AWAITING NEW BIDS FOR DRILLING ON BENIBOIYE

After a check in February for jack-up availability, Agip has [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.06.1999

Congo
BRAZZAVILLE SEEKS GAS PARTNERS

The Congo's hydrocarbons ministry has joined with the energy and hydraulics department in seeking private partners willing to conduct a [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.05.1999

Angola
FINAL ULTRA DEEP AWARDS SOON

Already postponed several times, the final distribution of stakes on the first blocks in Angola's ultra deep offshore - 31, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.05.1999

Angola
RANDOLPH YOST TO DRILL FOR AGIP

Negotiations between Agip and R&B Falcon to have the jack-up [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.04.1999

Nigeria
SHELL, CHEVRON AND AGIP CEASE IN-SHORE OPERATIONS

The swamp barges Searex IV and Searex VI have been [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.04.1999

Angola
AGIP POISED TO DRILL WITH THE RANDOLPH YOST

Following release by Chevron/Cabinda Gulf, the jack-up Randolph Yost is [...]

Subscribers only Energy 17.03.1999

Nigeria
AGIP SEEKING SAME TYPE OF RIG

Agip is also revisiting the market with a Nigerian shallow [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.01.1999

Angola
PSA'S SIGNED FOR THREE BLOCKS

The government announced just before the New Year that it had signed three PSA's concerning blocks 21, 22 and 24 [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.01.1999

Congo
AGIP DROPS OCEAN LIBERATOR

Agip has not exercised options to extend its contract with [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.12.1998

Angola
NEW FINDS ON BLOCKS 14-15

Within a week of one other Chevron and Exxon each announced new discoveries on blocks 14 and 15 where they [...]

Subscribers only Energy 21.10.1998

Congo, Gabon
MARATHON GETS ITS RIG

Marathon has fixed the jack-up Glomar Adriatic I for a [...]

Subscribers only Energy 21.10.1998

Nigeria
AGIP SEEKING JACK-UP

Agip Nigeria is checking jack-up drilling rig availability for a [...]

Subscribers only Energy 21.10.1998

Algeria
BHP CONFIRMS MAJOR PROJECT

Australia's BHP group is now waiting only for a green light from Algiers to undertake a first development on the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 26.08.1998

Algeria
FOOTHOLD FOR BHP IN LNG?

BHP is playing a card in Algeria's LNG sector that is both technical and tactical. The Australian group, which is [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.07.1998

Angola
BHP SEEKS SEMI SUB FOR BLOCK 21

BHP has issued a market check for a deepwater rig [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.07.1998

Congo
BUY-INS AND CHANGES

The following changes have been approved: Elf has acquired a [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.07.1998

Congo
CONTRACTS ON KOMBI-LIKALALA

Elf Congo has just signed new integrated development drilling contracts with Horwell and Sedco Forex for the Kombi-Likalala project. Work [...]

Subscribers only Energy 24.06.1998

Libya, Tunisia
ELF AND NIMR SHARE RIG

The semi-submersible Actinia will begin mobilizing from a yard in Singapore to the Mediterranean at the end of the month [...]

Subscribers only Energy 24.06.1998

Algeria
MIXED RESULTS FOR LATEST BHP WELLS

The SFNE 1 well on the Sif Fatima Nord-Est prospect [...]

Subscribers only Energy 27.05.1998

Gabon
ADRIATIC 1 PROGRAM FOR AGIP TO START

The jack-up Glomar Adriatic I was being transferred late last [...]

Subscribers only Energy 13.05.1998

Algeria
BHP MULLS OPTIONS FOR BSFN-ROD

BHP is looking at several options to develop the structure that encompass its Bir Sif Fatima Nord (BSFN) and Rhourde [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.04.1998

Congo
SCARABEO 3 BACK IN AFRICA

The semi-submersible Scarabeo 3 has arrived in Congo after mobilizing [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.04.1998

Algeria
4TH STRIKE FOR ANADARKO ON 208

Anadarko's series of successfull wilcats is continuing on the Berkine basin, which is the name Algeria has now given to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.04.1998

Congo
AGIP'S NEW DISCOVERY ON MARINE VI

The first of six wells that the semi-sub Ocean Liberator [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.04.1998

Algeria
NEW STRIKE FOR BHP ON BIR SIF FATIMA

BHP successfully tested its ROD-2 appraisal well on the Rhourde [...]

Subscribers only Energy 25.03.1998

Equatorial Guinea
AGIP KEEPS SEAREX IX

The tender-assist drilling unit Searex IX is being extended by [...]

Subscribers only Energy 11.03.1998

Libya
LASMO SEES 500 MILLION BARRELS

Named simply Elephant, the field discovered by Lasmo last October in Block NC-174 in the Murzuk basin in the south-west [...]

Subscribers only Energy 25.02.1998

Tunisia
SAME CONSORTIUM COULD TAKE RIG 136 BACK NEXT YEAR

A consortium made up of seven operators that was formed [...]

Subscribers only Energy 25.02.1998

Congo
REAL OUTPUT FIGURES FOR '97

Confidential but complete figures for Congo's production last year show that Nkossa's oil output fell 25% short of what had [...]

Subscribers only Energy 11.02.1998

Congo
KITINA TO PRODUCE 42,000 BPD

Moving swiftly into action after its start in the second week of December (AEM 218), Agip's Kitina field in which [...]

Subscribers only Energy 11.02.1998

Congo
UPGRADING FOR OCEAN LIBERATOR BETWEEN WELLS

The Ocean Liberator left Gabon's offshore for the Congo for [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.01.1998

Eritrea, Tunisia
AGIP IN ERITREAN OFFSHORE

Agip celebrated the Christmas holidays with a few days in advance by signing a stake-swap agreement with Anadarko that will [...]

Subscribers only Energy 31.12.1997

Congo
KITINA ON STREAM

Agip announced on Dec. 22 that production had begun on [...]

Subscribers only Energy 31.12.1997

Angola
NEW PERMITS IMMINENT

The government is expected to probably announce this week which operators have won blocks 23, 24 and 25. The blocks, [...]