Taleveras, Exxon Mobil, Ophir win oil blocks in Equatorial Guinea

Nigerian oil giant, Taleveras, and three others have won oil blocks in Equatorial Guinea
The others are Exxon Mobil and  the UK-based  Ophir Energy.
A major announcement to this effect was made on Monday by Equatorial Guinea’s Minister of Mines and Hydrocarbons, Gabriel Obiag-Lima, at the African Oil and Gas Conference in Cape Town.
Exxon Mobil, in a statement, confirmed it has signed its Production Sharing Contract with Equatorial Guinea for Oil Acreage E.G.-11, hereby heading the list of acreage winners in Equatorial Guinea’s latest licensing bidding round.
Ophir Energy won Block EG 24, whilst Taleveras picked the highly potential EG-07 Oil Block and Clonterf Energy landed Block EG-18.
The West African nation’s Ronda 2016 open and competitive bidding round was declared a success by industry analyst and watchers.