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Bangladesh seals power deal with Reliance Power, JERA

3 September 2019

Bangladesh is to buy 718 MW over 22 years from 2022 from a privately owned gas-fired power plant to be built by India's Reliance Power and Japan’s JERA.

Springfield Energy to use Stena Forth for Ghana’s first deepwater drilling deal

3 September 2019

Springfield Energy has arranged to use a drillship owned by Stena Drilling for the first deepwater drilling campaign in Ghana’s offshore zone.

Canadian regulator undergoes overhaul

3 September 2019

Canada has overhauled and renamed its energy regulator under a new bill that is not popular with supporters of the oil industry.

Sudan: What’s at stake

3 September 2019

This essay will take a brief look at what’s at stake – at the oil and gas infrastructure that Sudan still has, even after the loss of its most hydrocarbon-rich territories.

Canadian regulator seeks comments on Enbridge’s Mainline proposal

3 September 2019

In an early test, the newly renamed Canadian Energy Regulator has asked for comments on a change proposed by pipeline operator Enbridge to contracts on its Mainline system.

KPMG says Moldovan investor falsified financial statements to claim $500mn from Kazakhstan

3 September 2019

Auditor’s decision to withdraw three years of reports is likely to change the outcome of the $500mn international legal battle between businessman Anatol Stati and the Kazakh state.

NNPC head sees Nigerian oil output rising to 2.5mn bpd next year

2 September 2019

The new head of Nigeria’s national oil company (NOC) has expressed optimism about his country’s ability to increase oil production in the short term.

Noble Energy finds oil offshore Equatorial Guinea

2 September 2019

Equatorial Guinea’s Ministry of Mines and Hydrocarbons revealed last week that Noble Energy has discovered new oil reserves at Block 1, an offshore licence area that lies east of Bioko Island.

Tullow backs out of Ugandan farm-in deal with Total and CNOOC

2 September 2019

Tullow Oil has terminated a farm-in deal with France’s Total and CNOOC for the Lake Albert project in Uganda.