African Floating Rig Market Close to Sold Out

Teresa Wilkie, Contributor Research Director of RigLogix at Westwood Global Energy A noticeable recovery in the West African offshore floating rig market (semisubmersibles and drillships) has been slower to arrive than the other two points of the Golden Triangle – Brazil and the US Gulf of Mexico – but now appears to be well underway. As... Continue Reading →

AFC to Buy Ghana-focused Aker Energy

(OE) AFC Equity Investment has agreed to buy Aker Energy, a company working to develop the Pecan oil field offshore Ghana, from Aker Capital and The Resource Group Aker today holds 50.79 percent of the shares in Aker Energy, and TRG holds 49.21 percent.  AFC Equity Investment is owned by Africa Finance Corporation (“AFC”).  The... Continue Reading →

Saipem Bags Offshore Contracts Worth $650M

(OE) Italian energy industry services firm Saipem said Monday it had won three new offshore contracts and two competitive FEED contracts totaling around $650 million. Azule Energy has assigned the first contract for the Agogo Full Field Development project, a deepwater greenfield development, approximately 180 kilometres offshore Angola, about 20 kilometres west of the N’Goma... Continue Reading →

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