Monitor’s Senior Technical Advisor Robin Sutherland has been appointed a Non-Executive Director at Invictus Energy, an independent upstream oil and gas company currently focused in Zimbabwe. Robin will continue his valuable work at Monitor as before, leading our exploration efforts in Africa. We wish Robin all the best with his role at Invictus.  

Recon’s latest announcement from Nov 9, 2022, regarding the results of the Makandina 8-2 well, including predominantly gaseous hydrocarbons seen in the well, clearly reinforce the thesis that the oil found in their first two wells was not sourced from the relatively small Karoo Rift Basin in this eastern area but from the deeper Owambo

On 15 September 2022 the Environmental Commissioner at the Ministry of Mines and Energy of Namibia has signed the Environmental Clearance Certificate (ECC). The ECC is the ultimate Government document which authorises the application of the already deposited and approved Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and the Environmental Management Plan (EMP) to run a 2D seismic

Also this year, Monitor is present at the Africa Oil Week held in Capetown, South Africa. Our company is grateful for this opportunity.  Robin Sutherland will speak on October 6th – Thursday – at 12:00 am during the Prospect Forum. We look forward to meeting many senior delegates    there, representatives of Governments and companies across the world,

Today, Just 14th, 2022 the Ministry of Mines and Energy has positively assessed our timely request to extend the duration of our Initial Exploration Period, as the Covid-19 pandemic has significantly limited our ability to execute our business plan during the last two years. Monitor has been granted a 12-month extension. Now the Initial Exploration

Monitor Exploration eagerly await news of the latest ReconAfrica well, where we see a reasonable chance of a discovery at this location in the Karoo rift. We anticipate good quality basal sands in the rift with access to oil charge from the main Owambo Basin and that seal quality will improve in this central rift

Our neighbour ca. 100/200 km to the East – ReconAfrica – will imminently spud its debut wildcat onshore Namibia according to the company’s announcement from June 22, 2022. They are targeting a prospect that could hold 800 million barrels of oil in place and what is the first of a four-well exploration campaign in this

Robin Sutherland – Monitor’s Exploration Director – was excited to present Monitor at the AAPG in Windhoek, Namibia, which was held on 7 – 9 June 2022.   Here are his slides about Monitor’s main exploration project in the Owambo basin, onshore north Namibia.

Following the exciting announcements of Venus-1 (Total) and Graff (Shell) offshore Namibia, the market is showing increased interest in the country’s onshore exploration. While onshore oil and gas investments have marked a worldwide decline in the recent years, this may well be the world’s last prospect region and Monitor has set its foot here since 2018,

A Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) virtual meeting took place on March 23, 2022, with the purpose of revising Monitor’s work undertaken in the past 2 years and update the Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME) and NAMCOR, who partner with 10% in the licence. Both MME and NAMCOR expressed their satisfaction in Monitor’s progress and