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TPDC to build five CNG filling stations in Dar es Salaam
Tanzania Petroleum Development Corp. (TPDC) has announced plans to build five new CNG filling stations in Dar es Salaam before the end of the current fiscal year.
Martins: Sonangol will keep its stake in Galp
Sebastião Gaspar Martins, the CEO of Angola’s national oil company (NOC) Sonangol, has said that his company does not intend to sell its minority stake in Portugal’s Galp Energia.
Total CEO, Mozambican president discuss security for LNG project
Filipe Nyusi, the president of Mozambique, met with Patrick Pouyanné, the chairman and CEO of France’s Total last week to discuss security conditions in the northern Cabo Delgado province.
Woodside successfully pre-empts FAR’s sale of Sangomar stake
Australia’s Woodside Energy has moved forward with its bid to pre-empt the sale of a minority stake in RSSD, the joint venture that is developing the Sangomar block offshore Senegal, to an Indian firm.
Shell Egypt commits to explore for oil and gas in concession area 4 in the Red Sea deepwater
BW Energy increases stake In Kudu gas field
BW Energy (Norway) has concluded a farm-in and carry agreement for Kudu, an offshore natural gas field, with the National Petroleum Corporation of Namibia (NAMCOR).
ReconAfrica prepares for deep Kavango Basin survey
Canada’s Reconnaissance Energy Africa (ReconAfrica) has announced plans to carry out a 2D seismic survey of its acreage in the deep Kavango basin.
NRG AfrOil: News from Namibia
This week’s AfrOil takes a look at recent upstream developments in Namibia.
Libya prepares to restart pipeline, but labour dispute may interfere with exports
Libya’s National Oil Corp. (NOC) is working to resume regular shipments of crude oil from fields in the Sirte basin to the coastal terminal of Es Sider, but an ongoing labour dispute may complicate its efforts.
Heavily indebted Zambia slashes fuel tax to ease shortages
A look back at Nigeria’s “Year of Gas”
Nigeria’s grand plans for the "Year of Gas" were disrupted but not derailed by the pandemic.
Algeria’s Sonatrach plans to invest $40bn over the next 5 years
East Med players to build gas pipeline for Egypt flows
Sudan to help South Sudan boost oil production
South Sudan has agreed to accept assistance from its northern neighbour Sudan as it works to increase production rates at oilfields in the northern part of the country.
NRG: LNG spikes, political swings and new technologies
Sonangol set to sell off stakes in two foreign assets this year
Angola’s national oil company (NOC) Sonangol is due to begin the process of divesting its stakes in two foreign assets before the end of this year.
Kenyan MPs to seek update on Uganda’s Entebbe terminal project
The Kenyan National Assembly’s Public Investments Committee (PIC) is gearing up to seek more information about Uganda’s plans for completing its part of a planned network of fuel terminals on the coast of Lake Victoria.
Nigerian company acquires 45% of OML 17 from Shell, Total, Eni
TNOG Oil & Gas, a company established by Heirs Holdings and Transnational Corp. of Nigeria (Transcorp), has completed the acquisition of a 45% equity stake in Oil Mining Lease 17 (OML 17).
Shell, NNPC subsidiaries sign domestic gas supply deal
Shell Nigeria Gas (SNG), an affiliate of Royal Dutch Shell (UK/Netherlands), has signed a 20-year domestic natural gas supply agreement with a subsidiary of Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. (NNPC).
Guinea-Bissau confirms negotiations with Senegal on sharing of joint fields
Umaro Sissoco Embaló, the president of Guinea-Bissau, said his administration was in negotiations with Senegal on the joint development of oil and gas discoveries straddling the maritime border between the two countries.
Pipeline leak causes Libyan oil output to dip
Libya’s National Oil Corp. (NOC) said on January 16 that the country’s crude oil production had dropped by around 200,000 bpd following the shutdown of a key pipeline.
Botswana downplays risk of fuel shortages
Mmetia Masire, the permanent secretary of Botswana’s Ministry of Mineral Resources, Green Technology and Energy Security, said last week that he did not expect South African refinery outages to lead to fuel shortages in his own country.

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