So when does Namibia actually start producing oil?

The short answer is 2029 to 2030. The longer answer involves a massive FPSO vessel sitting 290 kilometres offshore in 3,000 metres of water, a Final Investment Decision that TotalEnergies is targeting for late 2026, and a government that has publicly committed to this timeline on the record.

If Venus goes ahead on schedule, Namibia gets its first oil around 2030. Galp’s Mopane project could follow in 2031-2032. By 2035, the country could be producing 500,000 barrels a day and ranking as Africa’s fifth largest oil producer.

We put the full year-by-year timeline together with everything that needs to happen between now and 2030.

Namibia First Oil Production Date: The Complete 2026 Guide

Why Namibia’s ‘green hydrogen’ dream could be a red flag for penguins and succulents

A near pristine desert and coastal wilderness in Namibia could soon host a huge hydrogen production facility, raising hopes for jobs but also fears for the unique plant and animal life of the region, such as rare succulents and endangered African penguins.

It is part of the government’s plan to become a green hydrogen superpower, exporting a clean-burning fuel that could help cut emissions elsewhere.

Hyphen, a joint venture led by the Germany-based green energy group Enertrag, says Namibia has the “world class” solar and wind power potential needed for large-scale, competitive production.

Hydrogen, a highly flammable gas that produces heat and water when it burns, can be used to refine petroleum and make chemicals, metals and fertilisers. It is usually produced with fossil fuels, however when renewable energy sources are used instead the hydrogen is labelled “green”.

But the plan to build solar and wind farms in Namibia’s Tsau ǁKhaeb National Park, which means “Soft Sands” in the Nama language, is not supported by conservationists.

The 26,000 sq km (10,000 sq mile) park was established in 2004 out of what was known as the “Sperrgebiet” - German for “Restricted Area” - a vast swathe of land sealed off by the German colonial authorities to protect their mining interests when diamonds were discovered there at the beginning of the 20th Century.

The diamond rush came and went - allowing a unique richness of flora and fauna to flourish undisturbed, which the Namibian Chamber of the Environment (NCE) says is now in danger.

Succulents in particular thrive in this unforgiving landscape using ingenious strategies to survive, from water storage to light reflection.

The NCE has issued a report suggesting the project should be labelled “red hydrogen” as it risked driving many unique species on to the biodiversity “red list”.

Its head, Chris Brown, puts it more bluntly, saying industrialised countries like Germany, which is actively supporting the green hydrogen projects, are applying double standards.

“The Germans would never allow their top parks to be turned into industrial sites,” Brown says.

“But they seem to be quite happy to offshore not only the risk, but also the impacts on biodiversity to Namibia. And we find that totally unacceptable.”

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It should be noted that Europeans care about their environment at home but not anywhere else. See also fracking in the US, and EU banned chemicals sold elsewhere.

so here is a namibia oil thing that nobody is really talking about

you’ve heard about venus, mopane, graff. orange basin. totalenergies, galp, shell. that’s the main story and it’s a big one.

but chevron went and acquired 80% of a block in the walvis basin, which is directly north of the orange basin, separated by a geological ridge.

both basins have the same source rock. the walvis basin already had a well in 2013 that recovered actual light oil to surface. not a show. oil. 38 to 42 API.

chevron now has 9,500 square kilometres of 3D seismic over the block. they’re planning to drill the gemsbok-1 well in 2026 or 2027.

if that well works, namibia doesn’t just have one major oil province. it has two.

the full breakdown of the geology, the operators, the 2013 wells and what a discovery would change:

Walvis Basin Namibia: The Complete 2026 Investor Guide to Africa’s Next Oil Frontier

okay so here is a thing that does not get talked about enough

Shell drilled three oil discovery wells off the coast of Namibia. Graff in 2022, La Rona in 2023, Jonker in 2024. All found oil. All confirmed the same petroleum system.

Then in January 2025 they wrote down $400 million and said it was not commercially viable.

People acted like that meant the oil was not there. It is there. The issue is how fast it flows through the rock, and how much gas is mixed in with it.

Those are real problems but they are specific problems, not “there is nothing here” problems.

So now Shell has a new rig booked for April 2026 to test whether a different part of the block has better rock quality.

That is what the article covers. Worth a read if you follow energy or frontier market investing.

Shell PEL 39 Namibia: The Complete Guide to Africa’s Most Watched Oil License

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A team of scientists spent the majority of 2021 in Tsaobis Nature Park in Namibia, following chacma baboon families on foot from dusk till dawn. Every day, they would see adolescent baboons trying to steal their mother’s attention while a sibling, often a younger one, was being groomed.

Some would throw tantrums; some would try to wedge their way in between mother and sibling; and some particularly clever baboons would employ trickery. On one occasion, Axelle Delaunay, a behavioral ecologist now at the University of Turku in Finland, described seeing a young female baboon who lured her sister away from her mother with the promise of play, then took her spot in her mother’s arms.