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Van Dyke Energy Company’s mission is to explore and develop international oil and gas frontiers.

Achievements

West Lake Arthur discoveries (South Louisiana, 1968)
One of the industry’s first independents to explore offshore Netherlands (1973-1996)
First horizontally completed field offshore Netherlands (Horizon P/9 Oil Field)
Discovered Netherland’s P/15 Rijn Oil Field (1982)
Acquired and operated over 20 million acres offshore deepwater Africa (1996-2011)
Introduced and operated under Senegal’s first Production Sharing Contract (1999)
Acquired and operated Madagascar’s first deepwater license (Majunga, 2001)
Drilled a record water depth for West Africa of 2,790 meters offshore Gabon (2001)
20 seismic surveys in 12 years offshore 8 West African countries (1998-2010)
First company to be awarded a license in deepwater Ukraine
Discoveries in deepwater Côte d’Ivoire (2011) and Ghana (2010)
The Dzata-1 discovery (2010) established Ghana’s first deepwater source of hydrocarbons based on a large structure.