Yahoo Finance (Bloomberg) — Off a busy pier in Namibia’s main port of Walvis Bay, the seeds of an economic boom are being planted. As workers heave fish from boats, or unload cargoes of sulfur and Congolese copper, a massive cylindrical drilling segment is hauled by extended trailer to a storage area. Between the more typical consignments of raw minerals
World Oil Publisher’s Note: ReconAfrica will be a presenter at EnerCom Denver-The Energy Investment Conference on August 18-21, 2024. Register to attend and book your room at the Westin Denver Downtown. (WO) – Reconnaissance Energy Africa Ltd. and its joint venture partner NAMCOR (the state oil company of Namibia), announced the spudding of the Naingopo exploration well on Petroleum
World Oil Publisher’s Note: ReconAfrica will present at the EnerCom Denver—The Energy Investment Conference on August 18-21, 2024. Register to attend. (WO) – Reconnaissance Energy Africa Ltd. announced an operations update relating to Petroleum Exploration Licence 73 (“PEL 73”), onshore northeast Namibia. The move of the working camp and the drilling rig from the Wisdom Farm 5-1 location are wrapping
World Oil (WO) – The latest analysis from Westwood Global Energy Group reveals that despite favourable oil prices in 2022, high impact exploration drilling in 2023 declined by 21%, due to energy transition strategies, industry consolidation, rising well costs and reduced activity in former hotspots. Further 2023 analysis reveals that the commercial success rate is down seven percentage points on
World Oil (Bloomberg) – If you want to understand why the two largest U.S. oil companies are together spending in excess of $100 billion on acquisitions right now, look no further than the amount of crude they’re extracting from the two hottest oil fields on the planet. Exxon Mobil Corp. and Chevron Corp., which reported earnings Friday, are both predicting
World Oil (Bloomberg) – Namibia’s oil potential could one day match Guyana, where big discoveries have sparked an economic transformation and set the world’s biggest companies jostling for position. There’s a “big chunk of oil” in waters off Namibia, said Patrick Pouyanne, chief executive officer of TotalEnergies SE, which alongside several other companies has made significant discoveries in the African
World Oil Publisher’s Note: ReconAfrica is confirmed as a presenter at EnerCom Denver- The Energy Investment Conference on August 18-21, 2021. Register to attend. (WO) – In an operations update, Canadian oil and gas company Reconnaissance Energy Africa Ltd. (“ReconAfrica”) said that it plans to begin drilling its first Naingopo exploration well in Namibia’s Damara Fold Belt in June 2024.
Oil Price Investments in new oil production have been stalling since about 2014. This has led many to suggest that higher prices for longer are on the cards, supported by anti-oil industry energy policies in key jurisdictions that are home to the largest private producers. Yet a case might be made that although lower, the oil industry’s investments over the
Oil Price TotalEnergies and QatarEnergy are expanding their efforts to explore for oil and gas in the Orange Basin offshore Namibia by acquiring a nearby license in the basin in South African waters. TotalEnergies and its partner QatarEnergy have signed an agreement to buy participating interests in Block 3B/4B offshore South Africa from the companies Africa Oil South Africa, Azinam,
World Oil (WO) – Reconnaissance Energy Africa Ltd. announced an operations update. ReconAfrica continues to pursue activities as it prepares to start a multi-well drilling campaign in 2024. To date, all surveying activity has been completed, with demining activities complete on the Damara Fold Belt Prospect L, which is expected to be the company’s first drilling location with an expected
Oil Price One of the world’s exploration hotspots, Namibia, expects first oil from the recent major offshore discoveries by 2030, the country’s Petroleum commissioner Maggy Shino told Reuters on Wednesday. “For the oil project, deep water we are thinking of having an FPSO and then exporting the crude to the market,” the commissioner told Reuters on the sidelines of a petroleum
Nasdaq PARIS, Sept 22 (Reuters) – TotalEnergies TTEF.PA is expected to lay out the potential for its oil discoveries in Namibia at an investor day next week as the French energy firm continues to bet on oil and gas to boost profits while also growing its low-carbon business. The group said this month it is considering a $9 billion oil and gas project in Suriname. Analysts
