Following the success of its 2012 and 2014 bidding rounds, the Ministry of Mines, Industry and Energy of Equatorial Guinea has announced it will launch a new bidding round for all remaining deep and ultra-deepwater blocks in 2016.

Eni announces the success of the "Nidoco North West 3" well drilling, appraisal of “Nidoco NW 2 Dir‘ discovery, in the Nooros exploration prospect, located in the Abu Madi West license in the Nile Delta.

Statoil has completed a farm-in transaction with ExxonMobil Exploration and Production South Africa Limited (ExxonMobil), acquiring a 35 percent interest in the ER 12/3/154 Tugela South Exploration Right.
The remaining interests are held by the operator ExxonMobil (40%) and co-venturer Impact Africa Limited (Impact Africa) (25%). 

ERHC Energy Inc. (OTCMKTS: ERHE), a publicly traded American company with oil and gas assets in Sub-Saharan Africa announced today that it has reached an agreement with Kosmos Energy (NYSE: KOS), a leading independent oil and gas exploration and production company focused on frontier and emerging areas to transfer all ERHC's rights to Block 11 of the São Tomé and Principe Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) to Kosmos. 

Golar LNG Limited ("Golar") announces its' Cameroon FLNG project has today received approval and signature of the binding Tolling Term Sheet thereby confirming the commercial terms for the FLNG vessel Golar Hilli.

Engen, the African energy multinational, will add two new service stations to its retail network in the Democratic Republic of the Congo this year.

FAR Limited (‘FAR’) and its Senegal joint venture partners have executed contracts for the use of the Ocean Rig Athena drillship for a drilling program in FAR’s highly prospective offshore Senegal Blocks starting in the coming weeks.

Today, 14 October 2015, the Commission is conducting a search and seizure (dawn raid) operation at the premises of African Oxygen Limited, Oryx Oil South Africa (Pty) Ltd, EasiGas (Pty) Ltd and the Liquefied Petroleum Gas Safety Association of Southern Africa (LPG Association) in Gauteng and Kaya

VAALCO Energy, Inc. (NYSE: EGY) today announced a re-sequencing update to its drilling and workover program offshore Gabon in the Etame Marin block.

Eni has been awarded with two new exploration licenses located in the Egyptian offshore of the Mediterranean Sea, North El Hammad and North Ras El Esh, as a result of the competitive 2015 EGAS bid round.

Eco (Atlantic) Oil & Gas Ltd. ("Eco Atlantic" or the "Company") (TSX-V:EOG, NSX:EOG) is pleased to announce that it has completed the processing of the 1,097 km2 3D Seismic Survey (the "Survey") (as announced on October 16, 2014) on the Cooper Block, PEL 30,  (the "Block") located in the Walvis Basin, offshore Namibia. 

Swala Energy Limited (“Swala” or “the Company”) is pleased to advise that its partly-owned subsidiary company, Swala Oil and Gas (Tanzania) Plc (“Swala Tanzania”) and Tata Petrodyne Limited (“TPL”) have finalised the outstanding terms of their farmout agreement for the Kilosa-Kilombero and Pangan

Tullow Oil plc (Tullow) is pleased to announce that it has reached agreement with the Government of Gabon over its licences in the Onal Complex Fields. Following negotiations, Tullow has regained its 7.5% stake in the Onal Complex producing fields and the Ezanga block (formerly the Omoueyi exploration block). 

Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company Ltd (SNEPCo) has announced the start-up of production from the Bonga Phase 3 project.

SacOil Holdings' AGM was held on Thursday, 01 October at their head office in Bryanston, Johannesburg. All resolutions were passed with a high degree of accord, with the total resolutions enjoying an average of 99.53% of votes in the affirmative.