Kenya is preparing to put 10 multibillion-dollar oil and gas exploration blocks up for auction this September, marking its first licensing round since introducing a new petroleum law six years ago.

Uganda National Oil Company (UNOC) is on the lookout for a joint venture partner to help it explore and develop an oil block in the western part of the African country, a spokesperson for the ...

Nigeria currently has 220 open oil blocks scattered across its onshore and offshore basins, data from the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission has revealed. This is despite its growing ...

U.S. oil producer Hess Corp has announced its decision to exit Suriname’s offshore Block?59, returning operations to the national oil firm Staatsolie. Hess fulfilled its minimum exploration ...

A prominent Nigerian-led energy company, Walcot Group has signed a Production Sharing Contract (PSC) with the Angolan National Agency for Petroleum, Gas, and Biofuels (ANPG) to operate oil blocks. The ...