Kenya will confirm the procurement of offshore oil and gas analysis blocks by Qatar Petroleum, a State-owned company of the energy-rich Arab nation, Petroleum Principal Secretary Andrew Kamau has said.   Qatar Petroleum, mid last month, said it has signed a deal with French multinational oil and Gas Company Total and its Italian peer Eni to take over three offshore exploration blocks in the Lamu Basin. On adding to a growing list of.... Read more »

Posted on : Wednesday , 21st August 2019

A State-owned company, Qatar Petroleum, of the energy-rich Arab nation, has gained a block of Kenya’s offshore oil and gas exploration fields, adding to a expanding list of global corporations eyeing to exploit huge fuel deposits believed to be underneath the Indian Ocean seabed. The company said it has signed an agreement with French multinational oil and gas company Total and its Italian associate Eni to take over three offshore.... Read more »

Posted on : Thursday , 1st August 2019

Kenya has signed a Head of Terms agreement with joint venture partners, Africa Oil, Tullow Oil plc and TOTAL S.A for the very first development of an oil processing facility and a crude oil export pipeline. The agreement signed by the Ministry of Petroleum and Mining on behalf of the government will see the oil majors build a 60,000 – 80,000 barrels per day (bpd) processing facility for oil identified in the country’s northwest and,.... Read more »

Posted on : Thursday , 1st August 2019

Qatar Petroleum has acquired three offshore blocks (L11A, L11B and L12) in Kenya after closing a deal with Eni and Total the company has announced. The partners comprising the consortium will consist of affiliates of each of Eni (the operator) with a 41.25% participating interest, Total with a 33.75% participating interest, and Qatar Petroleum with a 25% participating interest. Prior to the agreement Eni and Total held 55% and 45% interest share.... Read more »

Posted on : Wednesday , 24th July 2019

POWER & ENERGY AFRICA is back with the latest edition from the 25th – 27th of July 2019 at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre, Nairobi in Kenya. Co-located with the 8th edition of this event is also the 6th SOLAR and the 8th OIL & GAS Kenya, catering to greater number of audience from a wide industry base that is relative to the energy sector. The much awaited event will be inaugurated by Hon. Eng. John k. Mosonik, CBS,.... Read more »

Posted on : Tuesday , 23rd July 2019

Tanzania has deals for a consortium of oil companies to start construction of the $30bn liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in 2022.The liquefied natural gas processing plant will be based in the Lindi region. Regulatory barriers have delayed construction of an LNG export terminal near offshore natural gas discoveries to the south of the country. In March, the government declared that it planned to complete negotiations with a group of.... Read more »

Posted on : Monday , 24th June 2019

conveyance of crude oil from the South Lokichar basin by truck is expected to normalize following the permit of regulatory confirmation from Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (EPRA) (Formerly Energy Regulatory Commission) allowing the Amosing momentary production facility to be fully operational.   EPRA has granted the necessary licenses in early May allowing the commissioning of the early production facility (EPF) installed by.... Read more »

Posted on : Friday , 21st June 2019

NewAGE has discovered 1.6 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in a locality called Elkuran. The company has made the discovery near the site where the Chinse Poly GCL has started test gas production a year ago. Currently the Adigala and Ogaden blocks in Ethiopia are being operated by NewAge. Guang Tutlam (MD), the State Minister of Ethiopia’s Ministry of Mines and Petroleum. “We are now working on the gas commercialization and.... Read more »

Posted on : Thursday , 30th May 2019

The East African Community (EAC) summons for extended support from Canada, one of the leading development partners to Africa. The community is specifically pressing for assistance in the infrastructure and trade sectors to help it gain its intergrated agenda. Mr. Liberat Mfumukeko, the secretary general said, "There is an urgent need to upscale the EAC-Canada relations as well as Canada's support". He made the call when he met the.... Read more »

Posted on : Saturday , 11th May 2019

Endowed with untapped diverse energy sources including biomass, natural gas, hydropower, coal, geothermal, solar and wind power which are found in abundance in Tanzania. Out of the total energy supply Wood-fuel accounts for up to 92% hydro-electricity amounts for 2% and 7% is derived from oil products. The downstream oil industry is an important sector to the country’s economy that absorbs 55% of the country’s foreign exchange.... Read more »

Posted on : Wednesday , 1st May 2019

The opportunities lying in the oil and gas sector want to be utilized notes the Ministry of Petroleum and Mining, as Kenya looks to commercialize production of petroleum in 2021 with export already planned and scheduled for the year 2023. While only 10,000 square kilometers of its 85,000 square kilometers of oil and gas basin has been explored .i.e. only 12 %  found in the country has been revealed by the Kenyan government. If the reserves.... Read more »

Posted on : Thursday , 25th April 2019

OPEC is confident that the Dangote Oil Refinery will be serving to drive world crude oil refining capacity raise especially in Africa by 2020.   In the current edition of its World Oil Outlook (WOO), the Organisation said that the Dangote refinery, which is the first privately owned and functioned refinery in Nigeria, will refine 6,50,000 crude oil barrels per day at installed capacity. Currently, total world oil production in 2019.... Read more »

Posted on : Thursday , 25th April 2019