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Petroleum marketers halt imports, rely on Dangote Refinery for fuel supply

Nigeria’s biggest petroleum marketers have revealed that they will be halting petrol imports after 650,000 barrels per day Dangote Refinery increased local supply.

Port Harcourt refinery loading products daily

Nigerian National Petroleum Co. Ltd. (NNPCL) has revealed that part of its rehabilitated 210,000 barrels per day Port Harcourt Refining Complex (PHRC) at the Area 5 terminal is now ready to commence loading of around 200 trucks per day.

Egypt says gas consumption payments in free zones to be paid in US dollars

Savannah Energy targets Nigeria’s gas sector expansion with $45mn project

Ghana boosts oil output with Afina appraisal success

Ghana has achieved a major milestone in its oil and gas industry after Springfield Exploration & Production (Springfield E&P) and partners completed appraisal testing at the Afina discovery in the offshore West Cape Three Points Block 2.

Egypt offers 1.64 trillion cubic feet gas field Salamat to foreign companies

Petrofac announces first oil flow at Erawin field in Libya

Ethiopia plans to open fuel market to private importers amid severe shortages

Galp Energia strikes light oil, gas condensate at Mopane-1A well in Namibia’s Orange Basin

Portuguese oil and gas company Galp Energia has discovered light oil and gas condensate in the first appraisal well of its second exploration and appraisal campaign in the highly prospective Orange Basin offshore Namibia.

Jordan signs agreement to utilise Egypt's gas infrastructure over next two years

Jordan and Egypt signed an agreement to utilise Egypt's gas infrastructure, through which Jordan will use Egypt's floating storage and regasification units (FSRUs) over the next two years.

AfrOil: ReconAfrica set to complete maiden oil, gas exploration drilling in Namibia

London court to rule on $400mn tax dispute between Tullow Oil and Ghana

Algeria's energy firm Sonatrach launches $2.33bn oil project in Hassi Rmel

Uganda to finance $4bn oil refinery project through equity

Nigeria looks to ramp up LNG production as TotalEnergies hints of sanctioning Ima gas project

French supermajor TotalEnergies hopes to approve the Ima gas project in Nigeria in 2025, breathing a breath of fresh air into the country’s struggling LNG sector, which has suffered from a lack of gas feedstock supply.

TotalEnergies to greenlight $750mn Nigerian gas project in 2025

Eni secures exploration rights for four Ivory Coast offshore blocks

Ghana sees drop in Jubilee oil field output amid operational challenges

Tullow Oil shares plunge as free cash flow forecast slashed amid payment delays

Ethiopia’s Amhara region fuel shortages hike prices to $3.50/litre, weekly quotas enforced amid black market boom

China’s Export-Import Bank should not back EACOP, says Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged China’s Export-Import Bank (Exim Bank) not to finance the East African Crude Oil Pipeline project which is being developed to transport oil from western Uganda's oilfields to the port of Tanga in eastern Tanzania

NNPCL to proceed with refinery privatisation plan

The Nigerian government has announced that it will be fully privatising the country’s state-owned refineries with 210,000 barrels per day (bpd) Port Harcourt, 125,000 bpd Warri and 110,000 bpd Kaduna on the list.

South Africa seeks LNG from Qatar as gas shortages loom