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Federal Government of Somalia Signs Oil and Gas Cooperation Deal with Türkiye

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Federal Government of Somalia Signs Oil and Gas Cooperation Deal with Türkiye Abdirizak Omar Mohamed, Somalia’s Minister of Petroleum & Mineral Resources (left) shakes hands with the Turkish Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar. (Photo: Somali Petroleum Authority – SPA) In a significant move bolstering energy cooperation, Türkiye has inked a cooperation agreement with Somalia focusing on …

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The Federal Government of Somalia has a new deal with Liberty Petroleum.

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Abdirizak Omar Mohamed, Somalia’s Minister of Petroleum & Mineral Resources (left) shakes hands with Liberty Petroleum chief executive Lane Franks after signing a groundbreaking upstream exploration deal. (Photo: Somali Petroleum Authority – SPA) The Federal Government of Somalia signed an oil exploration deal with the Liberty Petroleum, a respected American company based in Phoenix, Arizona. …

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Premier Oil plc (PMO LN) Oil & Gas – Exploration & Production

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Investment Thesis Although we see risks as now skewed to the upside, our cautious view on Premier is due to near-term uncertainty around the terms of the required debt and equity financing processes. ● Completion of the BP asset acquisitions would be positive for Premier, in our view. It would add cash-generative production to the …

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Public domain satellite gravity inversion offshore Somalia combining layered-Earth and voxel based modelling

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Introduction At the end of 2016, Spectrum Geo released two long offset seismic reflection profiles across the Somalian rifted margin, in the Juba Lamu and Obbia basins respectively – part of two larger 2D surveys acquired in 2014 and 2015/16 (Stanca et al., 2016;Figure 1). In frontier areas, potential field data interpretation, in particular public …

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Offshore Somalia: crustal structure and implications on thermal maturity

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The crustal structure along the passive margin of offshore Somalia has remained largely unknown, due to limited geological and geophysical data collection during the long period of political instability and civil war. The extent of geological information in the area has for many years been restricted to regional-scale features defined from poor quality legacy seismic …

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Offshore Somalia: Defining crustal type and its implications for prospectivity

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INTRODUCTION Exploration in Somalia began onshore in the 1950s with the drilling of several onshore wells, but no notable economic discoveries. Tragically, the collapse of the Government in 1991 ushered in a long period of political instability, where Somalia remained inaccessible to exploration companies for 25 years. During this time, the majority of Somalia’s legacy …

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Geology and hydrocarbon potential of offshore SE Somalia

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Abstract: Interpretation of a 20 550 line km 2D seismic survey acquired in 2014 by Soma Oil and Gas in the deep water offshore area of SE Somalia has identified three previously undocumented sedimentary provinces – Jubba Deep, Mogadishu. Deep and Mid Somalia High – all of which have distinctive geological characteristics. Well and stratigraphic …

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