With the Chinese government working rapidly to make friends in Africa , Chinese oil companies still rely largely on a small group of Western banks, lawyers and middlemen to help them win new oil acreage on the continent.
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When the third conference on the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) sponsored by the British government wound up in Oslo [...]
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Mauritanian president Ely Ould Mohamed Vall paid an official visit to Madrid on Oct. 30-31 to negotiate what could be [...]
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In the hope of giving a further push to an improvement in Madrid’s relations with Equatorial Guinea, prime minister Jose [...]
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Sudanese defense minister Abdelrahim Hussein met in Moscow on Oct. 19 with Russian foreign minister Serguei Lavrov. Khartoum wants Moscow [...]
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After putting its money on the possibility that the Nuers in the South Sudan Defence Forces (SSDF) would break with [...]
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Last week’s announcement by Zambian president Levy Mwanawasa that oil had been found in the northwest of the country was [...]
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Addax Petroleum has just teamed up with a well-connected Nigerian firm that acquired a promising block in Nigeria’s offshore without competitive bidding.
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Financial squabbles and supply headaches are continuing to cause delays in commissioning the West Africa Gas Pipeline.
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Gradually withdrawing from Africa over the past year, the Transworld group headed by Dutch trader John Deuss has brought Maurel & Prom into one of its concessions in Gabon.
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The sale of crude that Nigeria awarded to Burundi at a sharp discount is going into a special account of the country's president.
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A company controlled by one of the United Arab Emirates, Ras al Khaimah in the north, is seeking acreage in Tanzania.
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Concentrating on Tanzania up to now, the British firm Dominion is in talks to acquire a concession in the Lake Edward and Lake George region of Uganda.
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The French oil group is offering to trade former assets of Fina in return for a reduction of its bonus on relinquished acreage on block 17.
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Two major accidents occurred one after the other in the [...]
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Sonatrach has contracted the U.S. concern Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. [...]
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Like several Western airlines, Morocco’s state-controlled Royal Air Maroc (RAM) [...]
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The chief of Nigeria’s Department of Petroleum Resources, Tony Chukwueke, [...]
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Less than six months after acquiring a stake in OML [...]
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Making its entry on the onshore Cabinda South concession in [...]
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Portuguese president Jose Socrates and his Mozambique counterpart, Armando Guebuza, are to sign an agreement this week that will hand [...]
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Canada’s CIC Energy is to team up with Britain’s International Power for its project to construct a power plant in Botswana.
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The British firm Independent Power South Africa (IPSA), which has just floated on the Alternative Exchange in Johannesburg, has been unveiling a lot of eye-catching projects of late.
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Rwanda has kicked off an ambitious program to build power [...]
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In the wake of a round table on the future [...]
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The small Franco-African oil community had a mixed reaction last week when Total's number two man, Christophe de Margerie, was [...]
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Four ex-executives of Elf who took up jobs with Maurel & Prom won their case in mid-October against their former [...]
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Formed in June to invest in the upstream and run by Ahmed Sharaf, a former executive of ConocoPhillips, Dubai Energy [...]
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Equatorial Guinea has followed in Congo-B’s footsteps in finding itself confronting an equity fund that bought its debt from a [...]
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The leading stakeholder in Canmex International, Lukas Lundin, has left his job as chief executive of the Vancouver-based group. His [...]
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The Congo-K government named Augustin Simanga as new energy minister following a limited cabinet re-shuffle in mid-October. His predecessor, Salomon [...]
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Former vice president in charge of exploration at Canada’s PanOcean Energy, James Smith has been named a director of EastCoast [...]
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Germany’s Reiner Groh, managing director of Sasol Solvents for the past five years, is shortly to leave Germany for South [...]
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Fed up with the continuous drop in the price of shares of Equator Exploration - it plunged from 390 pence [...]
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Namibia’s state-owned concern Namcor is seeking to expand beyond the [...]
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Operated by the Mali government and IPSA, the branch of [...]
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Enafor, the drilling affiliate of the state-owned oil concern Sonatrach, [...]
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Issued in mid-October, the annual report of the South African [...]
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Arguing that it was not competent to hand down a [...]
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The geophysics consultancy Geo Experts has been handed a mandate [...]
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Global Pacific & Partners will organize a week-long conference on [...]
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