Oil & Gas

KEY POINTS Shell is preparing to return to Namibia’s waters with a new exploration drive, setting April 2026 as the start date for a renewed drilling campaign in the PEL …

KEY POINTS The Dangote Petroleum Refinery has received its second cargo of crude oil from Ghana, marking a quiet but notable shift in supply patterns as Africa’s biggest refinery prepares …

KEY POINTS Shell Nigeria Gas has taken another step in widening its industrial footprint in the south-west after sealing an agreement to supply gas to SG Industrial FZE, a steel …

KEY POINTS The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited and Heirs Energies have taken a significant step toward curbing long-standing flaring of OML 17 across their joint onshore asset, sealing agreements …

KEY POINTS Exxon Mobil has announced a leadership change at the very top of its financial operations, confirming that Kathryn Mikells, the company’s senior vice-president and chief financial officer, will …

KEY POINTS Petrol deliveries from the Dangote Refinery climbed sharply in November, offering a temporary cushion to a domestic market still heavily reliant on imports and facing rising end-of-year fuel …

KEY POINTS Libya’s National Oil Corporation, NOC, has begun fresh talks with QatarEnergy as Tripoli pushes ahead with its national oil and gas bid round, hoping to draw back foreign …

KEY POINTS Nigeria’s upstream ambitions received an unexpected lift at the start of December as NNPC E&P Limited, the flagship exploration and production arm of NNPC Limited, pushed its crude …

KEY POINTS Tripoli is preparing to conclude its first upstream licensing round in 18 years, with an unexpectedly large group of foreign companies lining up to participate even as the …

KEY POINTS The standoff between the Dangote Petroleum Refinery and senior oil-and-gas, PENGASSAN, workers escalated again in November after the company stopped paying the salaries of engineers who were laid …