London-listed Tullow Oil is considering plans to provide back-up power from offshore wind and geothermal assets in Kenya to support its challenging South Lokichar oil project in the East African region.The Anglo-Irish operator, along with its partners Total and Africa Crude, is revisiting the original South Lokichar exploration scheme to minimise costs and intends to send a fresh development plan to the Government of Kenya by the end of next.... Read more »

Posted on : Monday , 16th November 2020

More than 500 experts, governments, civil society, academia and private sector representatives from Africa and other regions have agreed on the agenda for regional cooperation and accelerated geothermal growth in Africa, as concluded by the Eighth African Rift Geothermal Conference (ARGEO C8) on 6 November.Participants acknowledged the need for capacity development for geothermal practitioners to ensure the successful development of these.... Read more »

Posted on : Monday , 16th November 2020

Upstream oil and gas company Aminex, has declared completion of the Ruvuma farm-out through its entire subsidiary, Ndovu Resources, transferring 50% interest in, and operatorship of the Ruvuma PSA to ARA Petroleum Tanzania Limited.Over the past 12 months, the company has borrowed $3 million from ARA Petroleum which has now been compensated to ARA by means of US$5 million cash consideration payable to the company on completion of the farm-out.The.... Read more »

Posted on : Tuesday , 27th October 2020

South Sudanese oil marketing giant Trinity Energy Ltd is set to inject $10 million worth of new investments in its Kenyan operations and also plans to build a $500 million crude oil refinery in South Sudan to aid the region with refined petroleum products.The firm, which controls close to 40% of the South Sudanese oil market, is studying 40,000 barrels per day (bpd) modular refinery at Paloch in the oil-rich Upper Nile State, with the potential.... Read more »

Posted on : Friday , 23rd October 2020

Tanga-Hoima Pipeline All set now for the kickoff, with Tanzania looking to March 2021 for the initiate the construction of the $3.5 billion project.Confirmed after the agreement between French oil company Total and the Ugandan government over differences which forced the project to stall since 2018.An initial plan for Tanzania and Uganda to have first oil flow in 2020 through the Uganda-Tanzania Crude Oil Pipe Line (UTCOP) was postponed after.... Read more »

Posted on : Thursday , 1st October 2020

The pandemic has been very devastating for the oil industry globally. Explorers suspended drilling, producers, idled wells, Big Oil majors put up assets for sale. But the world continues to need oil, albeit lower amounts of it than a year ago, and it will continue to need it.  Exploration is not over. It is especially not dead in Africa—a hot spot in oil and gas before the pandemic.Earlier this month, French Total and the Uganda.... Read more »

Posted on : Monday , 28th September 2020

Kenyans will have to wait until after 2025 for petrodollars from Turkana oil fields to start trickling in after the government lengthened the exploration timeline for Tullow.The British oil explorer said it had allowed another 15 months for exploration phase of the Turkana oil project, essentially pushing ahead production timelines and extending the long-awaited final investment decision.Tullow in a statement following its half year results to.... Read more »

Posted on : Friday , 11th September 2020

Solo Oil PLC chief executive Tom Reynolds told shareholders in the company’s full-year results statement that they will be prioritized as oil and gas junior explores its options for its portfolio in Tanzania.His comment comes after the group's relaunch under the new name of Scirocco Energy PLC and its positioning towards the European energy market. The said name change will be voted on at an AGM on September 25."During an exceptional time for.... Read more »

Posted on : Wednesday , 9th September 2020

VisionRI, a global development consulting firm, recently organized a webinar for an ongoing project named 'Consultancy Services to Review and Update Oil and Gas Standards in Kenya'. The workshop was organized through the Webinar module of VisionRI's web-based project monitoring and evaluation tool Idea M&E. In about two hours of the 'Webinar-Validation Workshop-II', Team Leader Dr. Narendra Vashist addressed the workshop from VisionRI.... Read more »

Posted on : Thursday , 20th August 2020

Energy and Water Utilities Regulatory Authority (EWURA) Tanzania announced that there will be massive importation of fuel to cater for the high demand for petroleum products during the forthcoming General Election.Tanzania is organised to hold the General election on Wednesday 28 October, with campaigns set to stretch from August 26 up to October 27.The authority noted in Dodoma that there was always a fuel business boom during elections,.... Read more »

Posted on : Wednesday , 19th August 2020

Oil and Gas exploration fields now have every reason to smile after the government trained more than 350 youth on the fields that have been discussed with International Accreditation Certificates that enable them to work anywhere in the world.The training was taken place by the Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation (TPDC) in collaboration with the Vocational Educational and Training Authority (VETA) and International Oil Companies (IOC's).... Read more »

Posted on : Thursday , 20th August 2020

China Petroleum and Technology Development Co. (CPTDC) has won work to provide natural gas compressors to Orca Energy in southern Tanzania.The Chinese company will design, supply, install and commission natural gas compressors within the Songas facility, on Songo Songo island. Orca said the new equipment would work with previously installed refrigeration to tackle declining reservoir pressure and maximise production.Orca signed the agreement.... Read more »

Posted on : Thursday , 20th August 2020