{"id":20940,"date":"2025-12-11T17:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T15:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/shell-prepares-to-launch-new-drilling-campaign-offshore-namibia\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:32:07","slug":"shell-prepares-to-launch-new-drilling-campaign-offshore-namibia","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/shell-prepares-to-launch-new-drilling-campaign-offshore-namibia\/","title":{"rendered":"Shell prepares to launch new drilling campaign offshore Namibia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shell is preparing to launch a new drilling campaign in the Petroleum Exploration License (PEL) 39 exploration block offshore Namibia from April 2026 with its partners QatarEnergy and Namibia&#8217;s national oil company Namcor.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Shell&#8217;s Namibia country chair Eduardo Rodriguez said in a post on LinkedIn this Thursday that the London-listed energy group had awarded the contract for the Deepsea Mira drilling unit, operated by Odfjell Drilling and owned by Northern Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The company is circling back to the PEL 39 block offshore Namibia after writing down around $400 million in January over an oil discovery it deemed commercially unviable.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Orange Basin, where the block is located and which extends into South African waters, has been a global exploration hotspot for energy firms after discoveries by Shell, TotalEnergies and Galp.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Namibia is yet to produce any oil but is aiming for its first output by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14590,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-20940","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Shell is preparing to launch a new drilling campaign in the Petroleum Exploration License","published_date":"2025-12-11 19:14:46","news_description":"Shell is preparing to launch a new drilling campaign in the Petroleum Exploration License","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24792,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20940\/revisions\/24792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=20940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}