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Deepsea Mira starts 300-day drilling campaign off Namibia

Fossil Energy – Drilling Namibia

Offshore drilling rig owner Northern Ocean said Wednesday that its Deepsea Mira semi-submersible drilling rig had kicked off its drilling contract with TotalEnergies in Namibia, where the French oil major last year made a giant oil discovery with its Venus-1x well.

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Dutch companies signed MoU with Namibian entities

General – Green Hydrogen

On June 19, 3 Dutch state-owned companies, Port of Rotterdam, Invest International and Gasunie, signed an MoU with 3 Namibian state-owner entities the Inplementation Authrority, Namport and Nampower and the Hydrogen producer Hyphen to potentially extend previous cooperation on the port masterplan of Luderitz to a plan to develop the entire Southern Corridor of Namibia.

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TotalEnergies starts drilling vital well at golden block in Namibia

Fossil Energy – Drilling Namibia

TotalEnergies has started drilling a vitally important exploration well in its ‘golden’ block offshore Namibia, which if successful could double estimated resources of the Venus discovery to about 6 billion barrels of oil equivalent.

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Shell plans 10 additional wells offshore Namibia

Fossil Energy – Namibia

Shell has applied to amend its Environmental Clearance Certificate (ECC) with Namibia’s Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism to allow for the drilling of up to 10 additional exploration and appraisal wells on licence PEL 0039 off southern Namibia.

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Quest to confirm largest-ever oil discovery in Sub-Saharan Africa

Fossil Energy – Drilling

TotalEnergies is within days of starting a critical appraisal drilling campaign offshore Namibia to establish if its play-opening Venus-1 discovery holds the billions of barrels of oil and gas that many observers expect, while at the same time exploring for more hydrocarbons in this ultra-deepwater zone.

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Offshore Namibia is quickly becoming exploration hotspot

Fossil Energy – Namibia

Recent activity led by oil and gas supermajors, Shell and TotalEnergies, has confirmed Namibia’s deepwater potential, with the southern African country consolidating its position as a hydrocarbon exploration hotspot.

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QatarEnergy signs Cooperation Agreement with Namibia’s NAMCOR

Fossil Energy – Cooperation Agreement

QatarEnergy has signed a Cooperation Agreement with NAMCOR Exploration and Production, a subsidiary of the National Petroleum Corporation of Namibia.

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