Industry Developments

French major Total's Nigerian subsidiary Total E&P Nigeria (TEPNG) has started its OML 58 upgrade project. While the security situation in the Niger Delta remains a concern... 2008-11-03

BP could be about to sign a preliminary deal with Jordan to explore the Risha tight gas field in the north-east of the country, the country's energy minister Khaldun Qteishat told... 2008-10-30

Iranian Central Oil Fields Company (ICOFC), a unit of state-owned National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), has announced that it will launch a tender for seven onshore oil fields... 2008-10-29

October 27 saw the official launch of Bahrain's deep onshore natural gas exploration licensing round.

Saudi Arabian oil minister Ali Al-Naimi has said the 1.2mn barrel per day (b/d) Khurais oil field development will start producing in June 2009. Naimi was speaking following the October... 2008-10-27

London-listed Chariot Oil & Gas has announced that mean prospective oil resources in its Namibian licences have increased by 34.2% to 5.24bn barrels (bbl), following pre-stack... 2008-10-24

Canadian explorer Heritage Oil and partner Anglo-Irish independent Tullow Oil have hit a 150 metre (m) thick hydrocarbons column at the Warthog-1 well on Block 1 in Uganda.

Bahrain will award a tender for a project to double output at the Awali oil field by December 2008, according to a statement by oil minister Abdul-Hussain bin Ali Mirza.

French major Total has reached an agreement with Korea National Oil Corporation (KNOC) to farm in to Block 70 in the south-eastern section of the onshore Marib Basin in Yemen. Yemen... 2008-10-21

The Nigerian government is expected to pass new laws reforming the country's state-controlled oil and gas company the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) by the end of... 2008-10-20