ICE OIL & GAS is an exploration and production company actively pursuing opportunities in West Africa.
We have a team of technical specialits
with 40 years of experience in exploration in West Africa and especially in Côte d’Ivoire.
ICE OIL & GAS is the Operator of the exploration block CI-705, offshore Côte d’Ivoire, covering an area of 2289 km2 with oustanding potential.
In November 2023, with the signing of a Production Sharing Contract (PSC) on block CI-705, ICE became the first Ivorian-led Exploration & Production Company to operate an offshore block. Block CI-705 covers approximately 2,300 km2 and is located offshore Grand Lahou at a water depth of up to 2,500 meters. Three wells have been drilled to date on the block.
In February 2025, after reassessing the petroleum potential of the block CI-705, ICE signed a farm out agreement with VAALCO ENERGY. Under the terms of the farm-out, VAALCO ENERGY will operate the block with a 70% working interest and a 100% paying interest as they carry ICE and PETROCI at commercial terms through the seismic reprocessing and interpretation stages and potentially drilling up to two exploration wells.
ICE is consistently engaged in the process of discovering potential exploration and production opportunities in Côte d’Ivoire and across West Africa.
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Bloc CI-705 Offshore Côte d’Ivoire
ICE OIL & GAS Technical team has extensive experience in the oil and gas sector, particulary in Africa.
ICE OIL & GAS is committed to conducting its operations in a way that promotes the highest standards of professionalism and governance and focuses on developing long-term...
ICE OIL & GAS is committed to conducting its business with integrity and honesty. We require our employees, subcontractors, suppliers and consultants to adhere to high standards of business ethics....
ICE OIL & GAS is committed to conducting all its operations in such a way as to protect the safety of all its employees and subcontractors, as well as the environment.
We aim to develop local skills and capabilities in the countries where we operate through training, knowledge transfer and support for the development of local businesses and infrastructure.
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Victor has over 30 years’ experience at Petroci .
He held the position of Laboratory Manager as a specialist in biostratigraphy. He participated in the work and drafting of the 1990 and 2010 Ivorian sedimentary basin petroleum assessment reports for the Côte d’Ivoire Ministry of Energy. He contributed to the preparation of documents for the promotion of the Ivorian sedimentary basin in Denver. As an expert in maritime boundary delimitation and a member of the National Maritime Boundary Commission, he has participated in numerous international workshops and congresses. Victor has published research articles in the international biostratigraphy press.
Victor holds a PhD in Geology of Mineral and Energy Raw Materials from PAU University in collaboration with ELF Aquitaine. He also holds a DEA in Geology, Geochemistry and Advanced Techniques from the University of Nice, and trained as a Biostratigraph specialist at the AGIP Laboratory in Milan.
Faustin has more than 30 years of experience in the oil & gas industry.
He was Engineering and Production Manager at Petroci. Faustin was Technical Advisor to Petroci’s CEO and Director of the LION GPL natural gas production plant, which supplies butane gas to the domestic market. Faustin is a lecturer in reservoir and production engineering at INP-HB Yamoussoukro. He holds a master’s degree in petroleum engineering and Technical Management from the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA.
Theodore has over 25 years’ experience in the oil and gas industry.
He was director of Petroci’s Center of Analysis and Research. This geological and petroleum analysis laboratory, a partner of Core Laboratories, offers a complete service in biostratigraphy, sedimentology, geochemistry and sequence stratigraphy. Theodore has been the lead geologist for most of the fields in the Côte d’Ivoire basin.
Prior to this, Theodore was a geologist with Phillips Petroleum in Oklahoma and Phillips Petroleum Côte d’Ivoire. Theodore is a geologist and graduated from the University of Abidjan and the Bartlesville Petroleum Institute, Oklahoma-USA.
Sergio has 38 years of energy industry experience.
At ENI, he held the position of General Manager Côte d’Ivoire in 2018 and was a major player in the discovery of the giant Baleine-1x field in 2021. Sergio was Vice President West Africa (Angola Congo CIV, Gabon Ghana Kenya Mozambique, Nigeria, General Manager Eni Ghana, Poland, India, Indonesia. Prior to this, Sergio was Exploration Manager at AGIP in London and Milan. Sergio LAURA earned a master’s degree in geology from the University of Genoa, Italy.
Philippe founded ICE OIL & GAS in 2022, bringing together experts in the upstream oil sector to lead exploration projects in West Africa.
For more than 10 years, Philippe has been developing his knowledge of the sector, particularly in exploration services and in the trading of petroleum products. He also developed local content for seismic acquisition projects in Côte d’Ivoire. Prior to this, Philippe began his career as a Credit Analyst at Natixis and Calyon, then as a Derivatives Broker at GFI Securities in Paris. Philippe holds a master’s degree in finance from London Middlesex Business school and a master’s degree in management from University of Paris XII.
Jacques has 40 years’ experience in the oil and gas industry.
He worked at PETROCI where he has held technical and management positions including Geophysical Department Manager, Foxtrot-Gas Project Manager and Director, Technical Advisor to CEO.
He actively contributed to the synthesis of the Côte d’Ivoire sedimentary basin and supervised the 1990 and 2010 Petroleum Evaluation Reports with Beicip and Petroci on behalf of the Ministry of Energy.
At Petroci, he negotiated and executed numerous PSCs and Seismic Acquisition Contracts that enabled the appraisal and production of oil and gas reserves in Côte d’Ivoire, in partnership with international oil companies.
Jacques is a geophysicist from IPG, Institut de Physique du Globe de Strasbourg, 1977.