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COMMENTARY
Renergen deal could help establish helium spot market 4
INVESTMENT
Fitch puts Kosmos on Ratings Watch Positive after Ghana deal with
Occidental 6
Head of CBOD says Ghana’s Tema Oil Refinery ought to be privatised 6
Sahara Group plans large investment in LPG in Africa 7
PERFORMANCE
Egypt on target to be self-sufficient in gasoline and diesel by 2023 8
Nigeria produced more crude oil in September, OPEC says 8
POLICY
Nigeria revokes licences of NOV subsidiaries amid labour dispute 9
Nigeria to probe refinery contracts 9
Nigerian government facing growing budget crisis over fuel subsidies 10
Kenya blasts ICJ ruling awarding disputed offshore territory to Somalia 11
Kampala submits bill that would ease UNOC’s access to oil sale
revenues 11
Petronas’ Sudanese woes mounting 12
PROJECTS & COMPANIES
SDX Energy spuds MSD-21 infill development well at Meseda field 13
Russia’s Tatneft resumes exploration drilling in Libya’s Ghadames
basin 13
Maersk Drilling to drill “world-record” deepwater well at Angola’s
Block 48 14
Shearwater GeoServices starts 4D survey at TotalEnergies’ Block 32 15
Shell Nigeria invites bids for field support vessels 15
Petronor secures extension for A4 licence offshore The Gambia 16
BUSINESS NEWS AFRICA PREVIEW 17
NEWS IN BRIEF 18
NEWSBASE ROUNDUP GLOBAL (NRG) 20
OUR CUSTOMERS 21
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