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Equatorial Guinea offers 13 blocks for negotiation

  • Märkte: Crude oil, Natural gas
  • 12.05.26

Equatorial Guinea's oil ministry, MHMD, is offering 13 oil blocks for direct negotiations, cancelling previously announced plans for a licensing round.

MHMD said the blocks on offer include four frontier, two onshore and seven offshore exploration blocks. The ministry previously said it would launch a licensing round last month, but has now said three years of direct negotiations have yielded seven production sharing contracts, 11 reconnaissance licences and four heads of agreement. "The government has decided to maintain this approach until further notice", the ministry said.

Two of the heads of agreement were signed with US firm ConocoPhillips for offshore blocks B4 and EG-27 in September 2025. The estimated 50mn–70mn bl of condensate and 500bn–700bn ft³ of natural gas in the Esmeralda field of B4 and the estimated 3.8 trillion ft³ of natural gas in the Ebano field of EG-27 are the targets of development. The Equatorial Guinea government previously said it also plans to spend $4.5bn building a 2.5mn t/yr gas liquefaction plant that will process gas from the planned developments.

Equatorial Guinea's vice president Teodoro Nguema has now said the country and ConocoPhillips have submitted a financing proposal to oil trading firm Vitol, "so that, subsequently, we can discuss the financing conditions".

MHMD also said that two blocks are currently the subject of talks as a result of the direct negotiations policy, but did not provide further details. Direct negotiations have led to "the successful conclusion of 24 agreements", the ministry said.


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