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SBM Offshore engineers released from prison in Equatorial Guinea

SBM Offshore engineers released from prison in Equatorial Guinea

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...

African Energy Chamber (AEC) Reaffirms Support For West African Energy Summit (WAES) 2025 Delegation Heads To Aberdeen

African Energy Chamber (AEC) Reaffirms Support For West African Energy Summit (WAES) 2025 Delegation Heads To Aberdeen

(MENAFN- APO Group) The African Energy Chamber (AEC) ( ) – the leading voice of Africa's energy industry – is proud to reaffirm its support for the West African Energy Summit (WAES), scheduled for November 18-19, 2025, in Aberdeen, Scotland. In...

SA engineers freed from Equatorial Guinea jail after diplomatic push

SA engineers freed from Equatorial Guinea jail after diplomatic push

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

South African engineers released from Equatorial Guinea prison

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'

Freed engineers held in Equatorial Guinea for two years begin journey to 'recovery'

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 Welcomes Release of Citizens from Detention in Equatorial Guinea

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

South African engineers freed after two years in Equatorial Guinea jail

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

Ordeal ends for SA engineers unlawfully detained in Equatorial Guinea

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

South African engineers granted clemency by Equatorial Guinea's President

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’

SA engineers unlawfully jailed in Equatorial Guinea are ‘safely back home’

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...

Families hail release of South African engineers from Equatorial Guinea prison after two years

Families hail release of South African engineers from Equatorial Guinea prison after two years

The two South African engineers who were locked up in an Equatorial Guinea’s Mongomo Prison for two years, have finally been released. Frederik ‘Frik’ Potgieter, 53, and Peter Huxham, 55, were arrested at their hotel in Malabo in Equatorial Guinea...

Oil Workers Detained in Equatorial Guinea Return to South Africa

Oil Workers Detained in Equatorial Guinea Return to South Africa

(Bloomberg) -- South African contractors jailed in Equatorial Guinea after working in the country’s offshore oil fields returned home on Saturday following more than two years of detention. Peter Huxham and Frik Potgieter, both South African...

2 SA men unlawfully detained in Equatorial Guinea return home after presidential pardon

2 SA men unlawfully detained in Equatorial Guinea return home after presidential pardon

JOHANNESBURG - Two South African men who were unlawfully detained in the Republic of Equatorial Guinea for more than two years have returned home following a presidential pardon. Frik Potgieter and Peter Huxham were arrested by Equatorial Guinean...

Govt welcomes release of two South Africans in Equatorial Guinea

Govt welcomes release of two South Africans in Equatorial Guinea

The South African government has welcomed the release of two South African nationals from detention in Equatorial Guinea. This release follows the granting of clemency by the President of Equatorial Guinea. Peter Shane Huxham and Frederic...

OPEC+ to boost crude oil production in August

OPEC+ to boost crude oil production in August

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...

BACK HOME AT LAST! – SA engineers freed after 860 days in Equatorial Guinea hellhole

BACK HOME AT LAST! – SA engineers freed after 860 days in Equatorial Guinea hellhole

Frik and Peter have been released! After more than two years of wrongful detention in Equatorial Guinea, the two innocent South African engineers, Frik Potgieter and Peter Huxham, are finally home! Frik and Peter were returned to their families...

VAALCO Energy Scales Up African Operations, Joins African Energy Week (AEW) 2025 As Platinum Partner

VAALCO Energy Scales Up African Operations, Joins African Energy Week (AEW) 2025 As Platinum Partner

(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...

Kosmos Energy And Partners Achieve Commercial Operations At Greater Tortue Ahmeyim (GTA) Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Project

Kosmos Energy And Partners Achieve Commercial Operations At Greater Tortue Ahmeyim (GTA) Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Project

(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...

'Africa's reparations call no longer a whisper' - President Mahama

'Africa's reparations call no longer a whisper' - President Mahama

President John Dramani Mahama has made a powerful declaration when he presented a progress report in Malabo on the AU’s 2025 Theme, “Justice for Africans and People of African Descent through Reparations”. He said, “Africa’s call for reparative...

Africa means business with reparations fight – President Mahama

Africa means business with reparations fight – President Mahama

The President of Ghana and the African Union (AU) Champion for Reparations, John Dramani Mahama, has declared that Africa's call for reparative justice is no longer a whisper but a unified demand grounded in historical truth, moral clarity, and an...

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