BIG COMPANIES are gearing up to explore the deep-water potential of west African plays located beyond the traditional stamping grounds of Angola and the Niger Delta. Recent discoveries have revived confidence in prospects left in abeyance by an earlier dearth of data coupled with low oil prices. Companies are currently sizing up opportunities from Benin to Senegal with all eyes now shifting towards the untested geologies of the ultra deep.
Finds fever in Africa hot spot
Flurry of Gulf of Guinea successes sends explorers' pulses racing
28 April 2000 0:00 GMT
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28 April 2000 0:00 GMT