French major TotalEnergies announced the sale of its stake in 18 Oil Mining Licenses (OMLs) in Nigeria – the majority of which are onshore – to Mauritius-based company Chappal Energies ( ) this month.

WE regret to have to record the death of two of the best-known African explorers—Colonel J. A. Grant and Dr. Wilhelm Junker; the latter comparatively a young man, and the former by no means old. They ...

With the United Nations secretary general calling for an end to new upstream investments, one could be forgiven for thinking that it is game over for oil and gas explorers. But judging by the speaker ...

The freshly-listed explorer, formed through the reverse takeover of Sterling Green Group by Terra Energy, has plenty of experience with operations on and off the African continent as it includes Cove ...

MR. STANLEY'S letter and the map in the Telegraph of Monday enable us to realise somewhat more fully the nature and extent of the discoveries made by the intrepid traveller. Mr. Stanley is bent on ...

CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - BHP Billiton , the world's biggest diversified miner, plans to drill for gas off South Africa's west coast and will get exploration permits by August, an official said. BHP ...

Esteban, York and James Beckwourth charted the American frontier between the 16th and 19th centuries History of Now Amanda Bellows - Author, The Explorers: A New History of America in Ten Expeditions ...

South African film-maker and National Geographic Explorer Noel Kok, co-founder of the Nature, Environment and Wildlife Filmmakers (NEWF) network, hosted the first-ever National Geographic ...

The golden city of Timbuktu, like the lost city of Atlantis, occupies a large place in the world's mythology, but resemblances pretty much end there. Atlantis was Plato's metaphor for the ideal ...

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