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Angola
ENI bets on infrastructure-led exploration to cut production costs

The Italian major's two recent discoveries in Egypt and Angola were made thanks to wells drilled near existing infrastructure, a low-cost way of increasing output. [...]

Published on 13.04.2021 at 05:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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Guinea
Behind the scenes of Mamadi Doumbouya's offensive on Russian miner Nordgold

DRC
Dan Gertler's billions of dollars in royalties at heart of huge legal battle

Angola
ENI bets on infrastructure-led exploration to cut production costs

Gambia, Liberia, Sierra Leone
Would-be producing states hope to emulate Namibia's oil and gas success

Ivory Coast
Behind the scenes of ENI's Block CI-101 find

Spotlight | Angola
BP and ENI merger plan could threaten Total's position as top dog

Africa
TechnipFMC keeps African subsea goals alive

Mozambique
TechnipFMC leaves ENI in the lurch on Coral FLNG

Spotlight | Nigeria
Relations with Beijing cool over Addax ouster

Spotlight | Egypt
Netanyahu and Zohr oilfield bring an end to ENI-Cairo dispute

Nigeria
Milan acquittal on Malabu case spurs ENI into action against Abuja

DRC
Surestream still covets Ndunda block after ENI's exit

Tunisia
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