OPINION: Optimistic signs from the latest exploration well offshore Namibia have ignited wider excitement about prospects for hydrocarbons in Africa. The Jonker-1 probe by Shell on Block 2193A in the ...

BP plc BP, the British oil and gas major, has made a new hydrocarbon discovery in the Orange Basin offshore Namibia. The discovery was initially reported by Rhino Resources, an African exploration and ...

Reconnaissance Energy Africa Ltd. discovered hydrocarbons in the Kavango West 1X well in onshore Petroleum Exploration License (PEL) 73 in northeast Namibia. The well is the second test in the Damara ...

Rhino Resources has announced the completion of drilling of the Sagittarius 1-X well at the PEL85 license in the Orange Basin ...

Chevron has announced that its exploration well, Kapana 1X, located in Namibia's Orange Basin, did not yield commercial hydrocarbon reserves. The well, situated in Block 2813B, governed by petroleum ...

The African Energy Chamber (AEC) ( ) strongly welcomes the announcement by Reconnaissance Energy Africa of a successful hydrocarbon encounter at the Kavango West 1X well on Petroleum Exploration ...

BW Energy has announced that the Kharas-1 appraisal well, drilled within the Kudu licence offshore Namibia, has reached its total planned depth, intersecting multiple geological formations. The well’s ...

'In the Mopane complex alone, and before drilling additional exploration and appraisal wells, hydrocarbon in-place estimates are 10 billion barrels of oil equivalent, or higher,' Galp said. Image by ...

Cape Town-based independent Rhino Resources has hit hydrocarbons with its latest exploration well offshore Namibia, according to multiple sources. Although it is too early to know if this latest ...

Rhino Resources and partners will perform post drilling analysis following a successful test of a light-oil discovery offshore Orange basin, Namibia. The Capricornus 1-X well, spudded on Feb. 17 on ...