PRIDE ANGOLA TO DRILL ONE WELL FOR BP AMOCO 

BP Amoco is to take advantage of a slot with [...]

DISCOVERIES ON BLOCKS 15 AND 17 

Earlier this month Elf confirmed its sixth discovery on block [...]

BP AMOCO CANCELS PEREGRINE DEAL 

BP Amoco has cancelled a three-year plus options drilling contract with R&B Falcon for the drillship Peregrine VII on the [...]

TEXACO-R&B FALCON CONTRACT CONFIRMED 

R&B Falcon has been awarded a three-year contract by Texaco [...]

TEXACO-R&B FALCON DEAL IN VIEW? 

R&B Falcon acknowledges that it is close to agreeing a contract for its planned newbuild deepwater drillship Deepwater IV which [...]

CHEVRON TO DRILL WITH OCEAN ALLIANCE 

Chevron has secured a new rig for drilling in Angola's [...]

AMOCO TO DRILL TWO MORE WELLS WITH OCEAN ALLIANCE 

The fourth generation semi Ocean Alliance left the UK in [...]

PSA'S SIGNED FOR THREE BLOCKS 

The government announced just before the New Year that it had signed three PSA's concerning blocks 21, 22 and 24 [...]

SEMI-SUB SHIFT CANCELLED 

Amoco has dropped plans to mobilize the DP drillship Discovery 543 from the U.S. Gulf of Mexico to drill a [...]

ELF AND AMOCO WIN DEEPWATER BLOCK 

After largely pulling out of Egypt, Elf Aquitaine has made [...]

DECISION ON IN SALAH NEXT YEAR 

The In Salah Gas consortium set up by BP and Sonatrach is continuing to assess reserves on the In Salah [...]

DOUBTS ON R&B FALCON/TEXACO DEAL 

The drilling contractor R&B Falcon may be negotiating the possible cancellation of a three to five year drilling contract with [...]

AMOCO TO PRODUCE 7 BILLION CU.M./YEAR OF GAS 

On June 29 Amoco signed a contract with Sonatrach to [...]

TWO DRILLSHIPS MOBILIZE FROM GULF OF MEXICO 

Exxon is planning to mobilize the drillship Discoverer Seven Seas [...]

PETROFINA, RANGER, UMC ON 19 

Petrofina will operate on block 19 in Angola's deep offshore with a 30% stake alongside four partners—Ranger Oil (25%), United [...]

ROBERT F. BAUER'S SIDE TRIP TO CARIBBEAN 

It has emerged that Amoco will take the drillship Glomar [...]

AMOCO TO DRILL WITH ROBERT F. BAUER 

Amoco has fixed the drillship Robert F. Bauer from the [...]

BRITISH GAS CONFIRMS HASDRUBAL 

British Gas announced a test flow of nearly 600,000 cu.m./day [...]

GAS PROJECT WITH ISRAEL REVIVED 

The Egyptian government recently put new proposals to Israel concerning a project to supply gas. The scheme had been put [...]

AGIP SEEKS RIG 

Agip affiliate Nigerian Agip Oil (NAOC) has issued a market [...]

SECOND DRILLSHIP FOR FALCON 

Falcon Drilling has bought a drillship to satisfy a three [...]

HARDMAN KNOCKS ON MAJORS' DOOR 

Taking its cue from UMIC in Ivory Coast which used a springboard tactic to promote the already-known Lion-Panthere prospect, the [...]

FORCENERY TO DRILL ON PHENIX WITH OCEAN LIBERATOR 

Diamond Offshore's semi Ocean Liberator will be assigned to Forcenergy [...]

SLIM PICKINGS IN DEEP OFFSHORE 

Gabon has awarded the T-93 permit to Houston-based Vanco and the only zone that remains to be awarded in Gabon's [...]

ASHLAND TOO... 

Ashland his issued formal tender invitations for provision of a [...]

EGYPTIANS SWITCH ROUTES 

An agreement to export Egyptian gas to Turkey in the form of LNG was announced on Nov 13, with Amoco [...]

AMOCO SEEKS DEEP WATER UNIT 

Amoco is examining bids in a tender that closed on [...]

AMOCO TO START DRILLING 

The Ocean Liberator drilling rig has finished two firm wells [...]

GUPCO TENDERS FOR FLOATER 

Gupco, an affiliate of Amoco and EGPC, is in the [...]

GAS PACT WITH ISRAEL BY JUNE 

Italy's ENI expects an agreement "in the next two or three months at latest" between Egypt and Israel on a [...]

AMOCO AND APACHE TO DRILL WITH OCEAN LIBERATOR 

Under the terms of new contracts, Amoco in Gabon and [...]

AMOCO SEEKS SEMI-SUB 

Amoco has issued a pre-qualification inquiry, which will close on [...]

ELF SHOWS INTEREST IN EXPLORATION 

A delegation from Elf recently turned up in Asmara. The [...]

DEEP WATER PLANS FOR MOBIL AND AMOCO 

Mobil is planning two wells in the deep Angola offshore in late 1995 and 1996 in depths of 600 and [...]

AMOCO BUYS INTO AGIP, ESSO AND MOBIL BLOCKS 

Amoco has made what appears to be its debut in [...]

PERMIT FOR WALTER-NUEVO 

A partnership set up by Walter International and Nuevo Energy to buy Amoco's (operator) 43.75% stake on the Yombo field [...]

ELF PLANS FRESH SELL-OFF 

Elf intends to sell off further non-core assets in Gabon following the sale of its interests on the Malembe permit, [...]

AMOCO TO DRILL IN DELTA  Free

Amoco is planning an offshore well in the Nile delta [...]

TANO ENTIRELY OFFSHORE 

Just as the Tano gas field will be developed by a floating rig so the turbine power station that will [...]

AMOCO SEEKS PARTNER FOR DANAKIL BLOCK 

Rumours that Amoco is preparing to drill appear to true [...]

TEETHING TROUBLES FOR PRIMA OIL 

Prima Eritrea Oil Company looks like seeing its very first contract put in question. The Eritrean petroleum company set up [...]

SONANGOL DROPS GNPC 

Sonangol has signed two agreements to put field 4/26 into production. They take the place of an accord Sonangol had [...]

AMOCO PULLS OUT OF YOMBO 

Operator Amoco has announced that it will sell its 47.75% [...]

OIL IN THE PICTURE? 

Do oil considerations lie behind Washington's change of heart concerning warlord Gen. Mohamed Farah Aideed in Somalia? The Italian daily [...]

AMOCO DISAPPOINTED, AMOCO RETURNS 

Amoco has taken a $170 million charge against revenue in [...]

BP DUCKS OUT 

After making contact in December with oil companies, Eritrea's energy minister, Tesfai Selassie, is considering proposals for changing existing exploration-production [...]

ELF AIMS FOR 10 MT IN 1996 

Set to reach 6 million tons this year, Elf Congo's output of crude could hit the 10 Mt mark by [...]

CHEVRON DROPS EXPLORATION 

The Congolese news agency ACI reported that Chevron had withdrawn [...]

AMOCO LEAVES BLOCKS 1 AND 10 

Amoco and Texaco have withdrawn from block 1 as the postponement of the first well on the permit in late [...]

TWO DISCOVERIES 

Amoco has continued to successfully explore the areas that remain to be developed on the structure in the October offshore [...]

AMOCO: SECOND THOUGHTS. 

A closedown in Amoco's production in Gabon remains a possibility after the suspension of its exploration activity in the country. [...]

GOMBE BETA TO CLOSE DOWN AFTER EIGHT MONTHS 

After deciding to suspend exploration in Gabon (AEM 82) Amoco will wind up all production operations as well. The Gombe [...]

Amoco has confirmed to Prime Minister Casimir Oye Mba that [...]

TIFF WITH AMOCO 

A squabble has broken out between the Gabon government and Amoco. The U.S. company wants to merge the operational headquarters [...]