Namibia’s Kudu back in favour


Issue 243 - 15 Nov 2012 | 2 minute read

Prospects for development of the Kudu gas field offshore Namibia have improved despite the withdrawal of Russia’s Gazprom as an upstream partner. Tullow Oil chief executive Aidan Heavey told African Energy that Gazprom pulled out of Kudu earlier this year, leaving upstream partners Tullow and Itochu looking for a new partner. However, the Namibian government was showing new enthusiasm for developing the field to supply a gas-to-power project and was now treating Kudu as a priority project in its future energy planning, Heavey said.

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