Italy’s Eni acquires new exploration block CI-707 offshore Côte d’Ivoire

HOUSTON, TEXAS (By Isaac Silvestre, Energy Analytics Institute, 1.Oct.2025, Words: 240) — Italy’s Eni and the Ivorian Ministry of Mines, Petroleum and Energy signed the exploration contract for the CI-707 offshore block in Abidjan. 

The license covers an area that spans 2,926 km2 in the Ivorian sedimentary basin where water depths are between 1,000m and 3,000m.