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OPEC+ to boost crude oil production in August
United Press International (UPI)
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A gas flame is seen in the desert at Khurais oil field, about 100 miles from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. File photo by Ali Haider/EPA July 5 (UPI) -- Eight OPEC+ nations on Saturday agreed to increase their crude oil production by 548,000 barrels per...
Africa News Live Updates: Two South African engineers released from Equatorial Guinea after two years in detention
Firstpost
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July 4, 2025
Africa News Live Updates: Welcome to our live blog covering the latest from across Africa. Follow real-time updates on political transitions, security and peacekeeping operations, regional integration efforts, economic innovation, climate impacts,...
Equatorial Guinea Sextapes: Baltasar Engonga risks 18 years jail term
Premium Times
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July 3, 2025
Remember Baltasar Ebang Engonga? The Equatorial Guinean who went viral in November after explicit sex videos involving him and multiple women surfaced online has returned to the spotlight, this time over allegations of financial fraud. On 7...
VAALCO Energy Scales Up African Operations, Joins African Energy Week (AEW) 2025 As Platinum Partner
MENAFN
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July 4, 2025
(MENAFN- African Press Organization) CAPE TOWN, South Africa, July 4, 2025/APO Group/ -- U.S. oil and gas company VAALCO Energy has begun refurbishing its FPSO facility at the Baobab field in Block CI-40, offshore Ivory Coast. The modernization is...
Equatorial Guinea releases arbitrarily detained South Africa engineers
JURIST
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June 23, 2025
Engineers Frik Potgieter and Peter Huxham returned home to South Africa on Sunday after serving more than two years in prison in Equatorial Guinea on seemingly arbitrary drug trafficking charges, according to a 2024 conclusion of the UN Working...
Free Frik and Peter: George engineer released after two years in Equatorial Guinea
George Herald
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June 26, 2025
Their relieved families confirmed their release on the evening of Saturday 21 June. Frik Potgieter and Peter Huxham are home safely. The Minister of International Relations, Ronald Lamola, and the two men's family members, gave them a hero's...
Engineers Frik Potgieter, Peter Huxham released from detention in Equatorial Guinea
Engineering News
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South African engineers Frik Potgieter and Peter Huxham, who had been detained in Equatorial Guinea since February 9, 2023, have been released and are back in South Africa, their families confirmed on June 21. Their release follows a pardon from...
Engineers unlawfully detained in Equatorial Guinea released
Times LIVE
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The families of Frik Potgieter and Peter Huxham confirmed on Saturday that the two South African engineers, who had been unlawfully detained in Equatorial Guinea since February 9 2023, have been released and are back in South Africa. “Their...
SA engineers released from Equatorial Guinea jail after diplomatic push and presidential clemency
IOL
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Two South African engineers, Frik Potgieter and Peter Huxham, have returned home after spending more than two years in prison in Equatorial Guinea on what their families and government officials have described as trumped-up drug charges. The pair...
Kosmos Energy And Partners Achieve Commercial Operations At Greater Tortue Ahmeyim (GTA) Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Project
MENAFN
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June 30, 2025
(MENAFN- APO Group) The project partners on the Greater Tortue Ahmeyim (GTA) LNG development – situated on the maritime border of Senegal and Mauritania – have started commercial operations. The Gimi FLNG vessel – owned by maritime infrastructure...
Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea Sign Deal to Advance Joint Natural Gas Pipeline Project
Pipeline Technology Journal
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June 24, 2025
Nigeria and Equatorial Guinea have signed a joint communiqué, moving closer to implementing the Gulf of Guinea Gas Pipeline (GOGGP) project treaty, which aims to bolster regional energy cooperation and economic development. The agreement,...
SBM Offshore engineers released from prison in Equatorial Guinea
Splash 247
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June 24, 2025
Two SBM Offshore engineers, detained for more than two years in Equatorial Guinea, have returned home over the weekend after receiving a presidential pardon. The two engineers, Frik Potgieter and Peter Huxham of South Africa, were arrested in...
SA engineers freed from Equatorial Guinea jail after diplomatic push
The Citizen (South Africa)
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June 24, 2025
South African engineers jailed on drug charges in Guinea have been released after diplomatic interventions and presidential clemency. The government’s behind-the-scenes diplomacy and engagements with the government of Guinea – including visits by...
South African engineers released from Equatorial Guinea prison
Mail & Guardian
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June 23, 2025
Frik Potgieter and Peter Huxham were jailed for more than two years after Vice-president Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue’s assets were seized in Cape Town South African engineers Frik Potgieter and Peter Huxham, detained for more than two years on...
Freed engineers held in Equatorial Guinea for two years begin journey to 'recovery'
IOL
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THE families of two South African engineers who were locked up in an Equatorial Guinea’s Mongomo Prison for two years have asked for privacy following the release of Frederik ‘Frik’ Potgieter, 53, and Peter Huxham, 55, at the weekend. The two were...
South Africa Welcomes Release of Citizens from Detention in Equatorial Guinea
South Africa Today
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June 23, 2025
The South African government has welcomed the release of two of its citizens, Peter Shane Huxham and Frederic Potgieter, from detention in Equatorial Guinea following a presidential pardon. The two engineers, who work in the oil and gas industry,...
South African engineers freed after two years in Equatorial Guinea jail
BBC
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June 22, 2025
Two South African engineers have returned home after spending more than two years in jail in Equatorial Guinea on what the UN has called "arbitrary and illegal" drugs charges. Frik Potgieter and Peter Huxham, both in their mid-50s, were arrested...
Ordeal ends for SA engineers unlawfully detained in Equatorial Guinea
BusinessLIVE
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The families of Frik Potgieter and Peter Huxham have confirmed that the two South African engineers unlawfully detained in Equatorial Guinea since February 9 2023 have been released and are back in SA. “Their release follows a pardon from the...
South African engineers granted clemency by Equatorial Guinea's President
IOL
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Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Ronald Lamola, has confirmed that Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, the President of Equatorial Guinea, has granted clemency for the two South African engineers imprisoned for drug trafficking...
SA engineers unlawfully jailed in Equatorial Guinea are ‘safely back home’
The Citizen (South Africa)
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June 22, 2025
Frik Potgieter and Peter Huxham were detained for more than two years after being accused of drug trafficking. Frik Potgieter and Peter Huxham, the two South African engineers who spent more than two years in jail in Equatorial Guinea, have...