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Canadian explorer Africa Oil Corp and partners advance work at Namibian offshore find

Nigeria’s NNPCL to receive $3bn loan from Afreximbank

Senegal/Mauritania: Golar LNG says work on Gimi FLNG conversion is 97% complete

Golar LNG expects the FLNG plant that will be installed at the GTA gas-bearing block offshore Mauritania and Senegal to leave the Keppel shipyard next month.

Libya to invite local companies to bidding round for marginal oilfields

Libya’s National Oil Corp. (NOC) has announced plans to offer several marginal oilfields to privately-owned local companies.

Eni contracts CIMC Raffles to convert semi-sub rig to FPU for installation offshore Republic of Congo

Italy’s Eni has contracted China’s CIMC Raffles to convert the Scarabeo 5 semi-submersible rig into a floating production unit (FPU) for its Congo FLNG project.

IPR Energy announces major oil find in Alamein/Yidma Concession in Egypt

Uganda in talks with potential partners for Hoima refinery

Kenya reintroduces fuel subsidy amid public anger over rising cost of living

$1.98bn oil refinery set to begin operations in Tema, Ghana

Carlyle Group selling Gabon-based Assala Energy to Maurel & Prom for $730mn

Nigeria's Forcados crude terminal resumes crude exports

Sudan’s oil exports rise despite ongoing war, on steady flow from southern partner

Nigeria's crude oil production plummets to three-month low on back of Forcados terminal leak

Nigeria reports 121 incidents involving crude theft

Algeria, Syria agree to boost oil, gas cooperation

Africa Finance Corp commits $95.25mn to support downstream oil transport, storage in Lake Victoria area

AfrOil: NLNG operations still disrupted due to unavailability of pipelines

South Africa’s electricity minister defends spending billions of rands on emergency diesel

Ghana’s parliament approves $1.4bn capex for national petroleum corporation amid declining production

Namibia extends AIM-listed junior explorer Global Petroleum's licence by two years

Invictus Energy mobilises rig for appraisal well in Zimbabwe, completes 2D seismic data acquisition

Industry trends help reinforce Nigeria’s deal with Golar LNG

NNPCL’s increasing interest in FLNG projects is in line with global LNG operators’ flagging interest in onshore LNG plants.