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Namibia/Botswana: ReconAfrica preparing to drill the deep Kavango Basin 04 Jan 2021 Reconnaissance Energy Africa (ReconAfrica) has provided an operations update as the Company prepares to drill the deep Kavango Basin in the Kalahari Desert of North East Namibia and North West Botswana. Operations The well-site for the first well (6-2) in the Kavango basin and the associated camp were completed, on schedule, in mid-December. Utilizing a smaller local rig, the initial leg of the well-bore has be...

Tensions mount around ReconAfrica’s Namibia work Unesco’s World Heritage Centre has said it is “vigilant” over plans for exploration in Namibia and Botswana. Updated: 29/12/2020, 3:57 pm ReconAfricas acreage in Namibia and Botswana Register here for the Energy Voice daily newsletter, bringing you key news and insight from across the global energy landscape. Thank you for signing up to our newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Unesco’s World Heritage...

Worker housing high priority of Namibian table grape industry, but government inaction holds back new town There are roughly 12,000 to 15,000 permanent and seasonal workers in the Aussenkehr Valley and Noordoewer to grow, harvest and pack Namibia’s 7.5 million 4.5kg cartons of table grapes. Every year thousands of Namibians come from as far north as the Kavango Region to the south of Namibia in the hope of seasonal opportunities in the vineyards during the two months of the table grape season...

Could This Be The Top Oil Play For 2021? n an age where there’s not much oil left to discover on land and the supermajors have gone out to sea where development takes decades and costs are often prohibitive, there’s nothing more exciting than getting a sneak peek at what could to be one of the last giant onshore oil plays. Africa is the industry’s final frontier, and the final, final frontier is a geological system running from Namibia to Botswana. And while there are a lot ...

Future farmers will insist on data-sharing among service providers, predicts consultancy “I can well see how farmers in five years’ time will insist on interaction between data providers, service providers and consultants visiting their farms,” says Coenraad Fraenkel, CEO of Agrimotion Consulting, soon to be based at the University of Stellenbosch’s AgroHub at Welgevallen experimental farm, where they are the only commercial consultancy present amid leading research institutes. Luan le ...

Share this article Share this article VANCOUVER, BC, Dec. 21, 2020 /CNW/ - Reconnaissance Energy Africa Ltd. (the "Company" or "ReconAfrica") (TSXV: RECO) (OTCQX: RECAF) (Frankfurt: 0XD) is pleased to provide an operations update as the Company prepares to drill the deep Kavango Basin in the Kalahari Desert of North East Namibia and North West Botswana. Operations The well-site for the first well (6-2) in the Kavango basin and the associated camp were completed, on schedule, in mid-December...

Rain brings hope to subsistence farmers   HEAVY thunderstorms over the Kavango East and Zambezi regions for the last few days where as much as 80 millimetres of rain was reported at places between Rundu and Katima Mulilo brought new hope to crop farmers.   Besides the good rains in northeastern Namibia, more downpours were reported over large parts of eastern, central, and even southern Namibia over the weekend.     GOOD RAINS: Places in especially eastern and central Namibia have received ...

STAFF REPORTER WINDHOEK Swapo will regain the people’s trust when its leaders stop ‘cutting corners’ and become more honest and transparent, party politburo member Calle Schlettwein said. The party lost its two-thirds majority in the 2019 general election and key cities in the local authority elections held last month. Perceived corruption by members has cost Swapo dearly, but the party continues to deny this reality. The party has not internally dealt with rife allegations of corruption...

We cant sacrifice Africas Okavango Delta for oil Environmental activists warn that plans to drill in Namibia and Botswana pose significant ecological risks. By Lysander Christo “The day we die a soft breeze will wipe out our footprints in the sand. When the wind dies down, who will tell the timelessness that once we walked this way in the dawn of time.”   —Bushman Song from “Why Ostriches Don’t Fly”  “And there is an extraordinarily angry ...

KENYA KAMBOWE RUNDU For Swapo to make a positive comeback from its dismal performance at the polls recently, the party needs a ‘heart transplant’ in the form of the resignation of its top dogs. This according to professor Joseph Diescho, who said the party’s leaders must resign or risk making Swapo an opposition party after the 2024 elections. “Swapo needs a heart transplant. They are calling for a sick heart to pump and it cannot,” he said. Diescho, who is in self-imposed exile to Ge...