Paul Burkhardt
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TotalEnergies Plans $10B in Angola Oil Investments (opens the original)
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TotalEnergies SE and its partners plan to invest $10 billion in Angola’s oil sector over the next five years in order to sustain production in the country. The French energy company produces about 450,000 barrels of oil a day in Angola, more than 40% of the nation’s output, Chief Executive Officer Patrick Pouyanné said at a conference in Luanda on Wednesday. Continued investment is needed to maintain that level and the funding will go toward existing developments and exploration, he said. Total’
Shell Loses Long Court Fight for South African Exploration (opens the original)
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Shell Plc lost the latest round of a five-year legal fight with environmental activists over a South African oil-exploration campaign that went all the way to the nation's top court. The oil major won't be allowed to renew an exploration right off South Africa's rugged Indian Ocean Wild Coast, the Constitutional Court ruled on Friday. The decision comes as other offshore South African oil searches are challenged, while Namibia approaches the development of crude discoveries just over the maritim
South Africa Plans First Oil Reserves Boost Since Apartheid (opens the original)
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(Update) July 13, 2026, 2:39 PM GMT+1: Article updated with state oil company managing stocks in third paragraph, infrastructure costs in penultimate. South Africa plans to increase its strategic oil reserves for the first time since the apartheid government stockpiled crude, adding to measures across the continent to mitigate supply shocks. The Department of Mineral and Petroleum Resources proposed that 60 days of demand be covered by reserves, of which about two-thirds will be crude and the re
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