Vanco Energy

The Vanco Group is an independent oil and gas group whose mission is to explore for and develop oil and gas worldwide, emphasizing deepwater and frontier areas. Vanco holds a high-potential deepwater exploration portfolio in the highly prospective Transform Margin region of West Africa with approximately two million gross deepwater acres under lice... nse. The Group holds interests in and is the Operator of three large licenses in Cte d'Ivoire and Ghana, with co-venturer LUKOIL Overseas Holding and national oil companies Petroci Holding and GNPC (the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation). In addition Vanco as Operator holds an interest in a license in Equatorial Guinea with over one million gross deepwater acres. In the Black Sea, Vanco holds a significant interest in and is the Operator of the Prykerchenska block, in a deepwater frontier just south of the Crimean Peninsula, under Ukraine's first Production Sharing Agreement. Vanco also won the rights to participate in the exploration of two important offshore blocks in Romania's 10th Licensing Round. Vanco has developed an organization and culture to meet the demands of frontier international operations. Its people are high-energy, creative and proactive. The Vanco Exploration Company (VEX) management team is a dedicated group of individuals that possess a wealth of knowledge and international experience in the exploration and development of oil and gas. VEX's offices are based in Houston, Texas. In order to facilitate operating efficiency and good government relations, Vanco subsidiaries Vanco Cte d'Ivoire Ltd. and Vanco Ghana Ltd. maintain representative offices in Abidjan, Cte d'Ivoire, and Accra, Ghana, respectively. Vanco Prykerchenska Ltd., in which Vanco holds an interest, maintains a representative office in Kyiv, Ukraine. The Vanco Group believes in being a good corporate citizen and strives to contribute to the communities where it does business by working with governments and national oil companies to provide or support professional training, local ...Read More