Angola

TEXACO TO FIX THREE DRILLING RIGS IN YEAR

Service company circles expect Texaco to charter three rigs for [...]

SOYO BACK IN PRODUCTION IN SPRING

Oil circles in Angola believe that on-shore fields in the Soyo region (Fina Petroleos de Angola, operator, Texaco, Sonangol) won't [...]

STEP-UP IN DRILLING

The oil services market has seen a flurry of invitations to tender and preliminary inquiries from oil operators in the [...]

SIGNS OF A REGIONAL PEACE FORCE

After two days of debate in Arusha (Tanzania) in a conference organized by the Southern African Development Community (SADC), defence [...]

INTERSHORE COUNTING ON SECOND ORDER

The Anglo-South African group Intershore feels it may have struck it lucky on the Angolan market. The Durban-based company set [...]

RANGER DRILLS

Ranger Oil has just started its first well in Block [...]

SHELL SEEKS SEMI SUB

Shell has put out a tender for a semi-submersible rig [...]

ELF PLANS SECOND WELL IN BLOCK 17

Elf's first well in the deep offshore Block 17, spudded [...]

POOLING REGIONAL ELECTRICITY

Although progress continues with building an interconnection of the electricity grids of southern African countries, South Africa's state-owned electricity utility [...]

DEVELOPMENTS RESUME ON BLOCK 2

Although Texaco's recent inquiries involving the drilling rigs it will need in Angola sowed some confusion in oil services circles [...]

1,700 BPD ON BLOCK 16

Shell obtained 1,700 bpd during tests on the first well ever drilled in Angola's deep offshore, the managing director of [...]

JULIUS NYERERE

The former Tanzanian head of state (1961-1985) told the South [...]

The Southern Africa Development Community's Mining Coordinating Unit and the [...]

NO STEP-UP FOR NEMBA

Cabinda Gulf Oil (Chevron) has dropped a plan for an early production system on the Nemba field because it failed [...]

MAJOR EUROPEAN UNION/SADC MINING FORUM

The European Commission and the 11-member Southern African Development Community [...]

PELERIN TAKES BREATHER

The dynamically positioned drillship Pelerin is undergoing engine repairs off [...]

KATHERINE MARSHALL

Ms Katherine Marshall has headed the Southern Africa Department of the World Bank since September 1, covering ten countries in [...]

RANGER TO DRILL NEXT MONTH

Ranger Oil is due to start a two well plus [...]

TEXACO PLANS EARLY PRODUCTION

Texaco, which operates on Block 2 alongside Total, Braspetro and [...]