Cluff Energy Africa Ltd
55 Tufton Street
London, SW1P 3QL
United Kingdom
Tel: 44 (0) 7799 1717
info@cluffenergy.com
Cluff Energy is an oil exploration company investing in sub-Saharan greenfield and mid-life assets.
Headquartered in London, Cluff are focusing on assets in Angola, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, Liberia, and Mauritania with a strategy of acquiring low cost assets which can be brought into production quickly and efficiently.
History
Cluff Oil was one of the first successful companies active in the UK North Sea in the pioneering days of the 1970s and led the consortium which discovered the Buchan Oil Field, the 14th commercial oil discovery in the North Sea. Cluff followed this with oil discoveries in Australia, Canada, and the United States. In 1980, the China National Offshore Oil Corporation conferred operator status on Cluff Oil awarding the company two offshore blocks in the South China Sea and the Yellow Sea becoming one of the first foreign energy companies operating in China. The same year Cluff began a forty-year involvement in African gold mining which led rapidly to the discovery of major gold mines in Zimbabwe, including the largest measured by production Freda Rebecca Mine (100,000 oz per annum), the Ayanfuri Gold Mine in Ghana, and the discovery of the largest gold deposit in Africa for fifty years, the Geita Mine in Tanzania. Cluff continued to operate large scale gold mines in Burkina Faso as well as Cote d’Ivoire. In 2009, the company returned to offshore activity in the UK North Sea accumulating a score of licenses and negotiating a joint venture with Royal Dutch Shell in April 2019.
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