African licensing roundup

Africa Oil Week takes a look at the current state of licensing round set to take place across the continent in 2020-2021. Recent analysis from Rystad Energy predicts that over 50 per cent of global upstream licensing rounds for 2020 will be cancelled or delayed, reflecting the dual effect of COVID-19 and oil price volatility….

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Why major oil and gas projects go wrong

The underlying causes of disruptions and disputes could be moderated by improving contracts, audits and controls Oil and gas projects are complex, usually large-scale and involve integrating complicated supply chains and diverse technologies. But this complexity does not explain the delays, disruption, defects, lost productivity and higher costs that afflict so many of these construction…

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