The ruling MPLA party won’t be in any danger of losing power in legislative elections at the end of this year but the day is fast approaching when Luanda will have to give others as bigger piece of Angola’s oil [.
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A no-holds-barred fight could well be shaping up over the debt of Pipelines & Product Marketing Co. (PPMC) which holds [...]
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Well-established in East Europe, the Russian-Swiss trading company is working at building up its business in Africa, and particularly in Ivory Coast and Gabon.
Nigeria’s Taleveras has been awarded three highly promising blocks in Ivory Coast’s offshore just as PetroCI is about to begin working as an operator in its own right.
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China’s CNPC and the government are attempting to resolve their many differences and secure the future of the Djermaya refinery. But there’s no saying they will succeed.
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PetroTrans, already active in Ethiopia’s Ogaden area, has linked up with a Hong Kong billionaire to explore blocks that Khartoum is putting on sale.
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Two wells are to be drilled in the first half of this year in the breakaway province of Puntland, which also wants to lure ConocoPhillips back to the territory.
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According to our sources, officials from International Petroleum (a subsidiary [...]
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Congolese oil and gas minister Celestin Mbuyu Kabango has delivered [...]
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In a position to become a leading exporter of LNG in 10 years thanks to discoveries by Anadarko and ENI, [...]
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Seeking gas for their power stations, Asian companies are bidding to acquire shares in the British explorer Cove which has holdings in Mozambique's offshore.
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Sasol had to ditch its plan to explore for shale gas in South Africa but has launched itself into exploring for coal gas in Botswana.
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Several gas infrastructure projects that had been planned for years [...]
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A project to displace the gas plant at Bonyere to [...]
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The last delegation of France’s Alstom which visited Abidjan in January flew home with the promise of numerous contracts that [...]
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The European Investment Bank is to lend €29.5 million instead of the €40 million that had been expected for the construction of the Kribi power plant.
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A lot of circumstances, mainly technical, are working in favor of building a Grand Inga dam rather than Inga 3.
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The French energy group Alstom has been chosen alongside Austria’s [...]
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Geologist Max de Vietri, who was the first to believe in the oil potential of Mauritania in the 1990s, has [...]
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Hoping for better luck than her predecessor, Nigeria's oil minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, has given a Special Task Force until February [...]
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One of the leaders of armed militants in the Niger Delta, Ebikabowei Victor Ben, who is better known under the [...]
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The shakeup in the management of South Africa’s Ophir Energy is continuing following Alan Stein’s withdrawal chief executive officer. Ophir [...]
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The China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC) reached an agreement with [...]
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The United States is turning up the heat on Angola’s [...]
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Ghana National Petroleum Corp has received some bad news. Production [...]
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The amount of money set aside for the amnesty of [...]
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Following a cut in gasoline subsidies on January 1 (a [...]
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The €700 million in assistance the European Union has offered [...]
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Out of the 420,000 bpd that South Africa’s economy needs [...]
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The private investment arm of the World Bank, International Finance [...]
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A court in Texas will hand down a sentence this [...]
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Revealed by Africa Energy Intelligence, an international loan worth $1.5 [...]
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The Tanzania Electric Supply Co (Tanesco) has retained Citi in [...]
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Ivory Coast has picked a third lobbyist to defend its [...]
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The Nigerian auditing concern was retained last week to conduct [...]
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Since early this year, the Amarante firm headed by Pierre-Antoine [...]
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William Fitzgerald, The U.S. under secretary of state for African [...]
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Diezani Alison-Madueke, Nigeria's oil minister, will represent her government at [...]
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Jan Willem Eggink,Shell’s director in South Africa, will take part [...]
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