West Africa

The contractor will install flexible pipe and subsea structures on the field in Block 17 offshore Angola.  

Oil production from West Africa has fallen from last year’s depressed levels and will remain down without increased investment.

This paper compares project economics of floating liquefied natural gas, onshore liquefied natural gas, and gas-to-wire processes.

Eni seeks to apply to Africa and the Middle East the pioneering JV strategy it used in Norway to cut debt and earn profit while repositioning itself in a future carbonless world. It starts with Africa’s biggest foreign oil and gas producer shedding its assets.

ExxonMobil’s Kerry Moreland, a geoscientist, managed breakthrough discoveries in the early stage of her 15-year career that have positioned the company for decades to come in South America. Now she is pursuing similar goals in Africa and Asia Pacific, as she explains in a moderated interview at this week’s IPTC in Kuala Lumpur.

TGS, with the support of TGS’ Russian partner DMNG, has completed its second phase of processing in the Russian Sea of Okhotsk.

The Agidigbo find follows the Kalimba, Afoxé, Agogo, and Ndungu discoveries. The five discoveries combined hold an estimated 1.8 billion bbl of light oil in place.

A major operator manages multiple deepwater projects in the Gulf of Guinea. This paper describes one of these, a recent 44-well project.

The French major is racking up barrels of deepwater production as part of its large-scale West African push.

Despite a trend toward renewables and low-carbon energy production among European majors, Total remains wholeheartedly committed to deepwater production.