West Africa

Operator TotalEnergies and rig owner Vantage Drilling form joint venture to purchase the Tungsten Explorer.

Oil price visibility, projects competing for funds, and regional market softness are all factors resulting in muted demand for deepwater rigs this year.

This paper provides insight into designing advanced well completions offshore West Africa with autonomous inflow control devices that enable maximizing the producing life of the wells under various challenging reservoir conditions.

Mooring operations underway following arrival of the GTA FPSO on-site at the maritime border of Mauritania and Senegal.

Updates about global exploration and production activities and developments.

Angola leaves OPEC after 16 years to leverage its oil resources for economic growth.

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.