1. Mauritania: Shell Q4 Wildcat

    ...two years, indicating the potential for additional wells on its Mauritania acreage or elsewhere. Mauritanian officials say the well will target oil as well as gas, with Block C10 surrounding Mauritania’s to-date only commercial oil discovery, the Chinguetti field which produced from 2006 to 2017...

    Volume: 66
    Issue: 26
    Published at Fri, 30 Jun 2023
  2. Tunisians Demand Oil Jobs

    ...Protestors clashed with police in Tunisia’s southern Tataouine province this week demanding the government hand jobs to the unemployed in the region’s oil industry. In 2017 protestors blocked the region’s main pipeline at Kamour, shutting in all oil and gas output from Tataouine and Ke...

    Volume: 63
    Issue: 26
    Published at Fri, 26 Jun 2020
  3. Exxon, Total Expand In Med

    ...Total (40% operator), ExxonMobil (40%) and Greece’s state Hellenic Petroleum (20%), have finally put pen to paper with Athens to take two deepwater offshore blocks, covering a total area of 39,926km², to the west and southwest of Crete. The award was initially made in 2017 but crippling Greek bu...

    Volume: 62
    Issue: 26
    Published at Fri, 28 Jun 2019
  4. Qatar: Long-Delayed Barzan Gas Approaches Start-Up

    ...shed startup well beyond the initially planned 2014 (MEES, 12 October 2012). Mr Kaabi told MEES in late 2017 that the latest delays were “because we have had issues with the pipeline. That is not a secret. The contractor did not perform as well as we wanted them to…we are proceeding to rectify the is...

    Volume: 62
    Issue: 26
    Published at Fri, 28 Jun 2019