The Liberia Petroleum Regulatory Authority has announced the launch of its next offshore licensing round, expected to commence in April 2020. Nine blocks will be on offer in the Harper basin, one of the last unexplored and undrilled regions offshore West Africa. Geophysical company TGS holds a range of multi-client data across this acreage to support the licensing round, including 5,272 kilometers of 2D and 6,276 square kilometers of 3D seismic, gravity and magnetic data. Syn-rift structural traps can be…

Senegal has authorised the West African country’s first oil development, the $4.2 billion Sangomar offshore oil project, operator Woodside Petroleum said on Thursday. The approval from the Government of Senegal paves the way for investment decisions for the Sangomar project to proceed. Partners in the project are eager to push ahead even as they await the outcome of an arbitration over a dispute. Australian oil minnow Far Ltd, a minority partner in the project, has been mired in a legal…

Seismic services provider Shearwater GeoServices has been awarded a 3D Isometrix seismic acquisition project by FAR in the Gambia. Shearwater said on Tuesday that the one-month survey would cover parts of block A5 offshore Gambia in the rapidly emerging and prolific Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Conakry (MSGBC) Basin. The seismic company also said that the survey would be acquired by the SW Amundsen and provide new seismic over a shallow-water area and connect with existing seismic to provide full coverage…

The Government of Liberia through the Liberia Petroleum Regulatory Authority (LPRA) announces sale of several blocks here, beginning next licensing round.A statement from the Liberia Petroleum Regulatory Authority says the decision followed an unsuccessful ratification of negotiated petroleum sharing contracts in 2014, which climaxed the last round of bidding process. The statement issued over the weekend notes the Government of Liberia made a shrewd and progressive decision, through a robust reform process to provide efficient institutional governance system, maximize revenue…

Australia’s largest oil and gas producer Woodside is pressing ahead with its plans to develop Senegal’s first oil project, announcing the final field plan has now been submitted to the West African nation’s government for approval. Describing the move as a “major milestone”, Woodside chief executive Peter Coleman said the project’s development plan was the last outstanding regulatory submission required before Woodside and its joint-venture partners could make a final investment decision later this month. Mr Coleman said it demonstrated…

Woodside, as operator of the Sangomar (formerly named SNE) Field Development, is pleased to advise the Sangomar Development and Exploitation Plan and exploitation authorisation request were submitted to the Government of Senegal on 2 December 2019. The Development and Exploitation Plan and exploitation authorisation request are the last major regulatory submissions required before final investment decisions can be made by each joint venture participant, which is targeted to occur later this month subject to the grant of an exploitation authorisation…

Following on from last month’s official invitations that were sent by Mr Yaya Barrow, Managing Diretor, GNPC The Gambia, to all of the National Oil Companies from across West Africa, inviting their respective CEOs, Directeur Generals & Managing Directors to attend the first ever International Upstream Oil & Gas event in The Gambia which is taking place next June 17th – 18th 2020 in Banjul, The Gambia. News was received this morning from La Société des Pétroles du Sénégal (PETROSEN),…

ASKER, NORWAY – The National Oil Company of Senegal, PETROSEN, has announced the launch of the country’s first offshore licensing round. The round will be open for six months – until the end of July 2020 – and will comprise 10 offshore exploration blocks. Senegal’s MSGBC basin is home to several recent high-profile oil and gas discoveries, set in a variety of play types, both on and off the carbonate shelf. These include the Albian sandstone shelf edge SNE oil…

The Senegal North Ultra-Deep Offshore (SN-UDO-19) seismic will be carried out using the BGP Prospector vessel, with TGS saying the plan had the full support of Senegal’s state-owned oil company Petrosen. The work continues the SS-UDO-19 survey, which was recently concluded in southern Senegal. The seismic company said the shoot was intended to provide greater insight into the ultra-deep areas, building on the success of the Sangomar field, the Tortue-Ahmeyim fields and the Yakaar. Sangomar was previously known as SNE,…

FAR Limited, an independent Africa focused Australian oil and gas exploration and development company has obtained an additional ten percent equity in the highly prospective multi-billion barrel potential oil blocks A2 and A5 offshore The Gambia. The additional 10 percent gives FAR Ltd a 50% stage in the oil blocks effective 1st October 2019. The announcement was made in a Media Release on Tuesday, 1st October 2019. FAR Limited said in the release: “ FAR Limited (ASX: FAR) has acquired…