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It started in a small town called Tullow, about 35 miles south of Dublin, Ireland.
In the 80s there were loads of companies starting off in the North Sea and Irish Celtic Sea.
I was talking to a friend of mine in the bank one day and he was talking about small oil fields in Africa, which had been left behind by the majors and had no-one to work them.
That is where the idea came from.
I contacted another friend of mine in the World Bank who told me about a project in Senegal.
They had some small gas fields that they were trying to get people to develop, so I setup Tullow Oil to rework those old fields.
I knew nothing about the oil and gas industry at the time, which made it more challenging.
No one thought Tullow would succeed because of my lack of knowledge of the industry, no major backers and I was starting a company in a country with no oil industry
Hermes Datacommunications International Ltd., a company providing Wide Area Network communications to the upstream oil and gas industry, won a contract to support Tullow Oil plc. for their operations in Africa. The 24-month deal sees the company…
Kosmos Energy KOS 0.00% today provided an update on the company's drilling of the Cedrela-1 exploration well offshore the Republic of Ghana. The "Transocean Marianas" semi-submersible drilling rig, under contract to another operator in Ghana…
BMT ARGOSS (BMT), a subsidiary of BMT Group, has announced the award of a number of metocean assessments for Tullow Oil Plc., including comprehensive overviews of meteorological and oceanographic conditions in West Africa and South America,…
Oil and gas producer Tullow Oil Plc said it had plugged and abandoned a well in the Norwegian North Sea after it failed to find any hydrocarbons. The company said it did not encounter hydrocarbons in the Lupus exploration well, located 35 kilometres…
Uganda said it repossessed an oilfield that belonged to Tullow Oil Plc after the period allotted to appraise the site expired. The London -listed exploration company said the field was uneconomical. Uganda expects to start pumping…
