In a move aimed at strengthening collaboration between the French and U.S. energy giants, TotalEnergies, today said it will sell a 40% stake in two offshore exploration licenses in Nigeria to Chevron. “This new joint venture aims at derisking and developing new opportunities in Nigeria … to unlock new resources in the West Delta basin,” [&hell...
An NGO said today it had filed a legal complaint against TotalEnergies, accusing the French energy multinational of “complicity in war crimes” at its gas site in Mozambique. The complaint by the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), a German NGO, was filed yesterday with France’s national anti-terrorism prosecutor, accor...
French energy giant TotalEnergies is set to sell its onshore business in Nigeria, its CEO Patrick Pouyanne has said, noting that operation in the Niger Delta is a “real difficulty.” Another oil major Shell announced last month that it was selling its onshore property—the Shell Petroleum Development Company(SPDC)—after decades of operation in t...

