Shell and Chevron Advance Namibia’s Offshore Exploration Plans
Shell is set to decide by the fourth quarter of 2025 whether to proceed with field development in Namibia’s offshore PEL 39 block, while Chevron nears completion of its seismic data interpretation in the Walvis Basin, according to a senior government official. “Shell and its partners are working hard to calibrate data from the nine wells drilled so far,” said Maggy Shino, Petroleum Commissioner at Namibia’s Ministry of Mines and Energy. She added that Shell
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