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RANDOLPH YOST TO DRILL FOR AGIP

Negotiations between Agip and R&B Falcon to have the jack-up [...]

Published on 14/04/1999 at 10:00 GMT

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Energy

ADDAX BUYS AGIP'S ASSETS

Addax Petroleum has signed an agreement with Agip to buy the latter's Tanzanian assets with the blessings of the government, [...]

CONGO Energy 01/09/1999

AGIP TO KEEP SCARABEO 3 UNTIL APRIL, 2001

Agip Congo has exercised its option to extend its contract [...]

ALGERIA Energy 28/07/1999

COOPERATION PACT WITH BHP

Australia's BHP group has signed a cooperation pact with Sonatrach [...]

AFRICA Energy 30/06/1999

EXATRADE-JOVENNA ON THE MOVE

Exatrade is interested in extending its activities to the mining sector, concedes the South African trading company. But in fact [...]

NIGERIA Energy 02/06/1999

AGIP AWAITING NEW BIDS FOR DRILLING ON BENIBOIYE

After a check in February for jack-up availability, Agip has [...]

CONGO Energy 05/05/1999

BRAZZAVILLE SEEKS GAS PARTNERS

The Congo's hydrocarbons ministry has joined with the energy and hydraulics department in seeking private partners willing to conduct a [...]

NIGERIA Energy 14/04/1999

SHELL, CHEVRON AND AGIP CEASE IN-SHORE OPERATIONS

The swamp barges Searex IV and Searex VI have been [...]

ANGOLA Energy 17/03/1999

AGIP POISED TO DRILL WITH THE RANDOLPH YOST Free

Following release by Chevron/Cabinda Gulf, the jack-up Randolph Yost is [...]

NIGERIA Energy 20/01/1999

AGIP SEEKING SAME TYPE OF RIG

Agip is also revisiting the market with a Nigerian shallow [...]

CONGO Energy 02/12/1998

AGIP DROPS OCEAN LIBERATOR

Agip has not exercised options to extend its contract with [...]

ANGOLA Energy 21/10/1998

NEW FINDS ON BLOCKS 14-15

Within a week of one other Chevron and Exxon each announced new discoveries on blocks 14 and 15 where they [...]

CONGO GABON Energy 21/10/1998

MARATHON GETS ITS RIG

Marathon has fixed the jack-up Glomar Adriatic I for a [...]

NIGERIA Energy 21/10/1998

AGIP SEEKING JACK-UP Free

Agip Nigeria is checking jack-up drilling rig availability for a [...]

ALGERIA Energy 26/08/1998

BHP CONFIRMS MAJOR PROJECT

Australia's BHP group is now waiting only for a green light from Algiers to undertake a first development on the [...]

CONGO Energy 08/07/1998

BUY-INS AND CHANGES

The following changes have been approved: Elf has acquired a [...]

CONGO Energy 24/06/1998

CONTRACTS ON KOMBI-LIKALALA

Elf Congo has just signed new integrated development drilling contracts with Horwell and Sedco Forex for the Kombi-Likalala project. Work [...]

LIBYA TUNISIA Energy 24/06/1998

ELF AND NIMR SHARE RIG

The semi-submersible Actinia will begin mobilizing from a yard in Singapore to the Mediterranean at the end of the month [...]

GABON Energy 13/05/1998

ADRIATIC 1 PROGRAM FOR AGIP TO START

The jack-up Glomar Adriatic I was being transferred late last [...]

CONGO Energy 29/04/1998

SCARABEO 3 BACK IN AFRICA

The semi-submersible Scarabeo 3 has arrived in Congo after mobilizing [...]

CONGO Energy 08/04/1998

AGIP'S NEW DISCOVERY ON MARINE VI

The first of six wells that the semi-sub Ocean Liberator [...]

EQUATORIAL GUINEA Energy 11/03/1998

AGIP KEEPS SEAREX IX Free

The tender-assist drilling unit Searex IX is being extended by [...]

LIBYA Energy 25/02/1998

LASMO SEES 500 MILLION BARRELS

Named simply Elephant, the field discovered by Lasmo last October in Block NC-174 in the Murzuk basin in the south-west [...]

TUNISIA Energy 25/02/1998

SAME CONSORTIUM COULD TAKE RIG 136 BACK NEXT YEAR

A consortium made up of seven operators that was formed [...]

CONGO Energy 11/02/1998

REAL OUTPUT FIGURES FOR '97

Confidential but complete figures for Congo's production last year show that Nkossa's oil output fell 25% short of what had [...]

CONGO Energy 11/02/1998

KITINA TO PRODUCE 42,000 BPD

Moving swiftly into action after its start in the second week of December (AEM 218), Agip's Kitina field in which [...]

CONGO Energy 28/01/1998

UPGRADING FOR OCEAN LIBERATOR BETWEEN WELLS

The Ocean Liberator left Gabon's offshore for the Congo for [...]

CONGO Energy 31/12/1997

KITINA ON STREAM

Agip announced on Dec. 22 that production had begun on [...]

ERITREA TUNISIA Energy 31/12/1997

AGIP IN ERITREAN OFFSHORE

Agip celebrated the Christmas holidays with a few days in advance by signing a stake-swap agreement with Anadarko that will [...]

TUNISIA Energy 10/12/1997

KEY SINGAPORE SWITCHES TO TUNISIA

The jack-up Key Singapore will mobilize from Egypt to Tunisia [...]

GABON Energy 10/12/1997

OCCIDENTAL DEBATES OMEGA PROGRAM

Having finished a well for Agip in Gabon, the semi-submersible [...]

CONGO Energy 10/12/1997

AGIP TO DRILL WITH OCEAN LIBERATOR

Diamond Offshore has agreed terms with Agip for a six [...]

ALGERIA Energy 10/12/1997

GHADAMES BASIN THE ENGINE OF GROWTH

More than ever, the Ghadames basin has provided the engine for the rise in Algeria's oil production. Exploration on the [...]

GABON Energy 26/11/1997

AGIP TAKES OVER REINS ON BIG OXY CONCESSION

Agip has acquired the 50% share that Occidental Petroleum had [...]

LIBYA Energy 12/11/1997

NEW DISCOVERY AND LICENCE NEAR MURZUK

A consortium led by Lasmo (33% alongside Agip and South [...]

GABON Energy 15/10/1997

AGIP COULD DRILL WITH ADRIATIC I

Agip has reportedly agreed terms for the fixture of the [...]

GABON Energy 01/10/1997

OMEGA DRILLS FOR AGIP

After fixing Scarabeo 3 in August for a minimum of [...]

CONGO Energy 17/09/1997

KOMBI PROJECT ON THE MOVE

Elf Congo has just begun work which will lead to a production start-up on the small Kombi oil field on [...]

WEST AFRICA Energy 03/09/1997

RACE FOR DEEP WATER RIGS

There has been no let-up in the race among operators to find slots in the timetables of rigs adapted to [...]

ALGERIA Energy 30/07/1997

QOUBBA'S RESERVES UPGRADED

The industry was already well aware that Anadarko's Berkine Est (BKE) discovery on its Hassi Berkine licence on block 404 [...]

Spotlight

NIGERIA Energy 02/07/1997

The decision by Nigerian oil minister Dan Etete to cancel Ashland's contracts indeed concerns the four licences on which it operated and wanted to sell to Perenco, sources have confirmed to AEM. The contracts involved not only its partnership with [.

ALGERIA Energy 02/07/1997

LIGHTER FOOT ON BRAKES?

Youcef Yousfi's appointment as energy and mines minister in succession to Amar Makhloufi didn't make much of a stir when [...]

NIGERIA Energy 18/06/1997

AGIP SEEKS RIG

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

ALGERIA Energy 04/06/1997

BHP DISCOVERY, AGIP PERMIT

On May 28 the Algerian government announced that BHP had made a discovery on Sif Fatima, one of two licences [...]

CONGO Energy 04/06/1997

AGIP TO DEVELOP DJAMBALA

The Djambala field, a small offshore oil discovery recorded by Agip at the end of last year and on which [...]

EGYPT LIBYA Energy 07/05/1997

AGIP SEEKS SEMI

Agip has issued a preliminary inquiry into semi-submersible availability for [...]

ALGERIA Energy 07/05/1997

NEW WELLS AND UNITISATION PACT

Phillips, Repsol and Pluspetrol are poised to undertake a series of exploration and development wells. Pride's Forasol-Foramer division has just [...]

ANGOLA Energy 07/05/1997

CHEVRON REPORTS 2ND ELEPHANT

Has Chevron discovered the second "elephant" field in Angola's offshore? It has certainly been hoping so since its first test [...]

CONGO Energy 05/03/1997

AGIP'S DEEP EXPLORATION WELL

Agip has issued a formal tender invitation for a semi-submersible [...]

CONGO Energy 19/02/1997

AGIP SEEKING DEEPWATER RIG

The Italian company has issued a preliminary inquiry into rig [...]

CONGO Energy 05/02/1997

AGIP FIXES GLOMAR ADRIATIC IV

Agip has negotiated a one well contract with Global Marine [...]

CONGO Energy 08/01/1997

AGIP SWITCHES DRILLING PLAN

Agip Congo has laid down a new drilling plan in Congo that could change the amount of exploration it carries [...]

GABON Energy 08/01/1997

AGIP TO DEVELOP LIMANDE

Agip is preparing to launch production on the small offshore [...]

NIGERIA Energy 20/11/1996

AGIP BACK IN MARKET FOR BENIBOIYE RIG

Agip is again seeking a shallow-water jack-up for four wells [...]

ZAMBIA Energy 09/10/1996

BP AND AGIP MARKETING AFFILIATES PRIVATIZED

The government has completed the privatization of British Petroleum Zambia [...]

CONGO Energy 09/10/1996

AGIP PONDERS KITINA DRILLING DECISION

Agip Congo has requested an extension of bid validity to [...]

CONGO Energy 25/09/1996

BOOST IN RESERVES

Congo's recoverable oil reserves are now approaching the 1,65 billion barrel mark and production should be around 265,000 bpd in [...]

LIBYA Energy 28/08/1996

THE STAKES

The fact that the Europeans are showing concerted determination in facing up to the new US Iran and Libyan Sanctions [...]

CONGO Energy 26/06/1996

AGIP TO KEEP SCARABEO 4

As Kitina is planned to go into production next year [...]

ALGERIA Energy 12/06/1996

FOURTH PERMIT FOR AGIP

On June 3 Sonatrach signed a new exploration pact with Agip that brought to four the number of permits on [...]

LIBYA Energy 12/06/1996

AGIP CONFIRMS DISCOVERY 11 YEARS AGO

Flows totalling 2,238 bpd of oil and 36,817 cu.m./day of [...]

NIGERIA Energy 29/05/1996

AGIP SEEKS DEEP WATER SEMI

Agip has invited bids for provision of a semi-submersible for [...]

CONGO Energy 01/05/1996

SEAREX IX FOR AGIP Free

The tender-assisted drilling unit Searex IX is undergoing upgrading in [...]

EGYPT Energy 13/03/1996

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 [...]

NIGERIA Energy 28/02/1996

STATOIL RETAINS DRILLMAR I

Statoil has exercised an option that enables it to extend [...]

NIGERIA Energy 28/02/1996

AGIP SEEKING JACK-UP AGAIN

Agip has issued a preliminary inquiry into availability of a [...]

LIBYA Energy 31/01/1996

SCARABEO 3 TO RESUME LIBYAN OPERATIONS

Agip is expected to shortly finalize a new contract for [...]

CONGO Energy 17/01/1996

AGIP SEEKS TENDER BARGE

Agip has issued tender documents for a requirement for a [...]

NIGERIA Energy 13/12/1995

AGIP LOOKING FOR JACK-UP

Agip has tendered for a jack-up to operate in a [...]

CONGO Energy 29/11/1995

ELF AND AGIP PSAS SIGNED

Production sharing accords between Elf, Agip and the government for fields already in production were signed last week in Brazzaville, [...]

TUNISIA Energy 29/11/1995

AGIP TO CONFIRM KEY HAWAII

Agip is shortly expected to confirm the fixture of the [...]

NIGERIA Energy 15/11/1995

LNG PROJECT SHELVED AGAIN?

The execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other pro-Ogoni activists after they were sentenced to death on Nov. 6 on [...]

TUNISIA Energy 01/11/1995

AGIP TO DRILL WITH COMPACT DRILLER

Agip will shortly confirm the fixture of the Santa Fe [...]

CONGO Energy 18/10/1995

AGIP TO RETAIN SEMI SUBMERSIBLE Free

Agip looks likely to keep the semi submersible Scarabeo 4 [...]

CONGO Energy 18/10/1995

OXY PERMITS FINALIZED

The government has given a green light to a production sharing agreement signed between Occidental Petroleum and Hydro Congo in [...]

EGYPT Energy 04/10/1995

MORE GAS FOR AGIP

IEOC (Agip) has made a new discovery in Egypt's Mediterranean [...]

Spotlight

WEST AFRICA Energy 06/09/1995

30 DEVELOPMENTS BY YEAR 2000

In addition to 13 developments already underway, 17 will probably be carried out by the year 2000 in West Africa between Cameroon and Namibia. These 30 new fields can be expected to total 1.28 billion recoverable barrels but Congo and [.

ZAIRE Energy 19/07/1995

AGIP BETS ON STABILITY

The Italian oil company Agip has given what seems a clear sign of confidence in Zaire's march towards stability by [...]

Spotlight

RUSSIA SUDAN Energy 05/07/1995

RUSSIANS BACK IN BUSINESS

Having hung around too long for Arakis to raise the $300 million needed its the Heglig-Port Sudan oil line project, Sudan signed an agreement in April with the Russian oil company Yukos and an engineering firm to build the facility [.

LIBYA Energy 07/06/1995

AGIP REPORTEDLY ACQUIRES ZUEITINA

Several permits were recently awarded in Libya as the government pressed ahead with plans to grant new permits on more [...]

TANZANIA Energy 19/04/1995

PERMIT UP FOR GRABS

The Tanzania Petroleum Development Corp. (TPDC) is seeking bids for a permit to be awarded on a production sharing basis [...]

NIGERIA Energy 05/04/1995

ESCRAVOS GAS PROJECT LAUNCHED

On March 23 Chevron Petroleum Nigeria signed the first contracts worth a total of $320 million for a project to [...]

CONGO Energy 05/04/1995

GOVERNMENT SELLS ELF CONGO STAKE

No sooner had a law been adopted to allow the government to sell its stake in Elf Congo than the [...]

CONGO Energy 22/03/1995

END OF THE OIL-STATE

The government last week took a major step towards privatization as championed by the IMF and World Bank when it [...]

Spotlight

LIBYA Energy 08/03/1995

Tshisekedi keeps close eye on Kabila ahead of presidential elections

Inside the business of illegal fishing testing the Beijing-Conakry axis

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ADDAX BUYS AGIP'S ASSETS

AGIP TO KEEP SCARABEO 3 UNTIL APRIL, 2001

COOPERATION PACT WITH BHP

EXATRADE-JOVENNA ON THE MOVE

AGIP AWAITING NEW BIDS FOR DRILLING ON BENIBOIYE

BRAZZAVILLE SEEKS GAS PARTNERS

SHELL, CHEVRON AND AGIP CEASE IN-SHORE OPERATIONS

AGIP POISED TO DRILL WITH THE RANDOLPH YOST Free

AGIP SEEKING SAME TYPE OF RIG

AGIP DROPS OCEAN LIBERATOR

NEW FINDS ON BLOCKS 14-15

MARATHON GETS ITS RIG

AGIP SEEKING JACK-UP Free

BHP CONFIRMS MAJOR PROJECT

BUY-INS AND CHANGES

CONTRACTS ON KOMBI-LIKALALA

ELF AND NIMR SHARE RIG

ADRIATIC 1 PROGRAM FOR AGIP TO START

SCARABEO 3 BACK IN AFRICA

AGIP'S NEW DISCOVERY ON MARINE VI

AGIP KEEPS SEAREX IX Free

LASMO SEES 500 MILLION BARRELS

SAME CONSORTIUM COULD TAKE RIG 136 BACK NEXT YEAR

REAL OUTPUT FIGURES FOR '97

KITINA TO PRODUCE 42,000 BPD

UPGRADING FOR OCEAN LIBERATOR BETWEEN WELLS

KITINA ON STREAM

AGIP IN ERITREAN OFFSHORE

KEY SINGAPORE SWITCHES TO TUNISIA

OCCIDENTAL DEBATES OMEGA PROGRAM

AGIP TO DRILL WITH OCEAN LIBERATOR

GHADAMES BASIN THE ENGINE OF GROWTH

AGIP TAKES OVER REINS ON BIG OXY CONCESSION

NEW DISCOVERY AND LICENCE NEAR MURZUK

AGIP COULD DRILL WITH ADRIATIC I

OMEGA DRILLS FOR AGIP

KOMBI PROJECT ON THE MOVE

RACE FOR DEEP WATER RIGS

QOUBBA'S RESERVES UPGRADED

OIL, HEADWAY DESPITE SNAGS

LIGHTER FOOT ON BRAKES?

AGIP SEEKS RIG

BHP DISCOVERY, AGIP PERMIT

AGIP TO DEVELOP DJAMBALA

AGIP SEEKS SEMI

NEW WELLS AND UNITISATION PACT

CHEVRON REPORTS 2ND ELEPHANT

AGIP'S DEEP EXPLORATION WELL

AGIP SEEKING DEEPWATER RIG

AGIP FIXES GLOMAR ADRIATIC IV

AGIP SWITCHES DRILLING PLAN

AGIP TO DEVELOP LIMANDE

AGIP BACK IN MARKET FOR BENIBOIYE RIG

BP AND AGIP MARKETING AFFILIATES PRIVATIZED

AGIP PONDERS KITINA DRILLING DECISION

BOOST IN RESERVES

THE STAKES

AGIP TO KEEP SCARABEO 4

FOURTH PERMIT FOR AGIP

AGIP CONFIRMS DISCOVERY 11 YEARS AGO

AGIP SEEKS DEEP WATER SEMI

SEAREX IX FOR AGIP Free

GAS PACT WITH ISRAEL BY JUNE

STATOIL RETAINS DRILLMAR I

AGIP SEEKING JACK-UP AGAIN

SCARABEO 3 TO RESUME LIBYAN OPERATIONS

AGIP SEEKS TENDER BARGE

AGIP LOOKING FOR JACK-UP

ELF AND AGIP PSAS SIGNED