3 June — Talks to resume gas exports from Egypt to Israel through the East Mediterranean Gas Pipeline are continuing, almost two months after an explosion shut the pipeline down.

A gas valve station on the Egyptian side of…

1 June — Orca Exploration is set to spend $35 million this year on a land rig in Tanzania to drill the Songo Songo West (SSW) exploration field, and is assembling a drilling team in Dar es Salaam ready to…

31 May — Australian explorer, Rialto Energy, said it has restarted operations in the Ivory Coast as foreign companies return to work after the overthrow of former president Laurent Gbagbo.

The company has held meetings with the Director General…

27 May — Tullow Oil is to buy EO Group’s interests offshore Ghana for $305 million. The acquisition will increase Tullow’s interest in the West Cape Three Points licence by 3.5% to 26.4%, and in the Jubilee oil field from…

27 May — The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC) have set up a committee to oversee development of the Calabar-Ajaokuta-Kano gas pipeline, local newspaper The Nation reported.

Senior executives from both sides…

27 May — Spain’s Gas Natural and Algeria’s Sonatrach are still locked in discussions trying to resolve a dispute over pricing, despite a report in the Spanish financial daily Cinco Dias that a resolution had been found…