The following is a list of notable Gas and Oil Exploration Companies that are engaged in gas and oil exploration and production in Africa.

1. Sonatrach: Gas and Oil Exploration Companies

Sonatrach is Algeria’s national oil corporation, which is controlled by the government.

Today, it is the biggest oil corporation in Africa with 154 subsidiaries and is sometimes referred to be the first African oil “major.”

Sonatrach is the 12th-largest oil consortium in the world, with 154 companies working in all stages of the oil value chain, from upstream to midstream and downstream.

It made 175 billion Algerian dinars in net profit in 2002 on sales of 1,530 billion Algerian dinars.

The corporation contributes 30 percent of Algeria’s GDP with its 120,000 employees making it one of the biggest oil and gas exploration companies in Africa.

For the Algerian domestic market, it generates 206 million Tonne Oil Equivalent (ToE) annually. This includes 24 million ToE (or 11.7% of the total).

Algeria’s biggest oil field, the Hassi Messaoud, was operated by Sonatrach in 2006 and produced around 440,000 barrels of petroleum per day (70,000 m3/day).

On the other hand, Sonatrach is also responsible for the Hassi R’Mel oil field (north of Hassi Messaoud, south of Algiers) which produces roughly 180,000 bbl/d (29,000 m3/d).

Haoud Berkaoui/Ben Kahla, Tin Fouye Tabankort Ordo, and Ait Kheir are only a few of the big fields Sonatrach manages.

More than 3,900 kilometers (2,400 miles) of crude oil pipelines are operated by Sonatrach.

Crude oil is transported from the Hassi Messaoud field to export ports through the most major pipeline network.

Oil condensate and LPG pipeline networks operated by Sonatrach connect Hassi R’mel and other fields to Arzew.

Sonatrach plans to extend the country’s longest pipeline, the Hassi Messaoud-Azrew pipeline.

A second, parallel line will be built that will more than quadruple the current line’s capacity.

In countries like Libya, Mauritania, Peru, Yemen, and Venezuela, Sonatrach has made certain concessions.

2. Exxon Mobil: Gas and Oil Exploration Companies

Texas-based Exxon Mobil Corporation, stylised as ExxonMobil, is an American oil and gas conglomerate.

When Exxon and Mobil merged on November 30, 1999, it became the biggest direct descendent of John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company (formerly the Standard Oil Company of New York).

Exxon, Mobil, Esso, and ExxonMobil Chemical are some of ExxonMobil’s most well-known trade names. .

From 1996 to 2017, ExxonMobil fluctuated from being the first to the sixth biggest publicly listed business in the world in terms of market value.

In 2016, Forbes rated the corporation third on its list of the world’s largest publicly traded companies.

In 2017, ExxonMobil ranked as the Fortune 500’s tenth most profitable corporation.

According to Fortune’s 2018 rankings, the firm was the second-largest U.S. corporation in terms of revenue.

It ranks 14th in the world in terms of oil and gas reserves making it one of the biggest oil and gas exploration companies in the world.

As of the end of 2016, ExxonMobil has 20 billion BOE of oil reserves that were estimated to last for more than 14 years at the 2007 production pace.

ExxonMobil is the world’s seventh-largest refiner, with refineries in 21 countries with a daily refining capacity of 6.3 million barrels (1,000,000 m3).

Activities in Africa

Upstream activities are focused on Angola, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, and Nigeria, where it holds 0.4 million acres (1,600 km2) offshore, 46,000 acres (19,000 hectares), and 0.1 million acres (400 km2) offshore, respectively.

Liberia and the Ivory Coast will also be the focus of Exxon Mobil’s exploratory efforts.

After a series of disappointing findings in Madagascar, ExxonMobil halted its exploration activity there.

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3. TotalEnergies

One of the world’s seven “supermajor” oil corporations, TotalEnergies SE was formed in 1924 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

All aspects of the oil and gas industry are covered by the company’s operations, which range from crude oil and natural gas exploration and production to electricity generation, transportation, refining, and the sale of petroleum products.

In addition to being a large-scale chemical producer, TotalEnergies is also an energy company.

La Défense, west of Paris, is where the headquarters of TotalEnergies are located, in the Tour Total. The stock of the corporation is included in the Euro Stoxx 50 index.

Forbes Global 2000 placed it the 29th-largest public corporation in the world, while Fortune Global 500 ranked it the 25th-largest firm of any kind, making it one of the biggest oil and gas exploration companies in the world.

Activities in Africa

• Total has downstream operations only in the following African countries: Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Morocco, Namibia, Niger, Republic of Guinea, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
• It has upstream operations only in the following African countries: Angola, Libya, and South Sudan.
• It has upstream and downstream operations in the following African countries: Algeria, Côte d’Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Gabon, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Mauritania, Mozambique, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, South Africa, Swaziland, and Uganda.

4. Shell

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