Tempers between Kinshasa and Luanda recently flared concerning the delineation of their maritime boundaries, which will determine their respective shares of petroleum reserves. Angola's expulsion of thousands of Congolese living in the country as well as the suspension of flights [.
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Reacting to an announcement on Nov. 23 that ENI had struck a preliminary agreement to buy Heritage Oil’s stakes in [...]
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The two majors have decided to call on consultants to weigh prospects on blocks 5A and 6A before a potential trade of the blocks.
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On Nov. 15, Ethiopian prime minister Meles Zenawi inaugurated the [...]
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According to our sources, a member of Ellipse Projects, an [...]
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The British NGO Platform published a brief report entitled "Uganda’s [...]
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The British investment banking concern is assisting Heritage Oil in [...]
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Jakaya Kikwete, the president of Tanzania, discussed the question of [...]
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Holding five exploration concessions in Morocco, the private British oil company is about to float on the AIM.
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According to our sources, the Algerian firm KOUGC headed by Redha Kouninef figures among the 80 companies pre-qualified to operate [...]
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The Geneva arbitration court decided in favor of Sonatrach in [...]
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Australia's Woodside announced during an investor briefing on Nov. 24 [...]
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Traders in Africa are on tenterhooks concerning the government’s decision on who will win a new contract to lift the Chinguetti field’s oil.
All would-be buyers of Kosmos’ stake in the Jubilee field are waiting for an agreement signed by the company with Exxon to run out. With no guarantee of success.
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On the heels of the U.S. firm Hyperdynamics, Poland’s Summa is the second oil company to engage in talks with Guinea’s military masters.
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The Nigerian concern Linetrale Gas is raising funds to set up a private LPG distribution system.
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Malabo is mulling new gas projects which could involve Britain’s Gasol, E.ON of Germany, Spain’s Fenosa and the Portuguese group Galp
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Through its Nigerian affiliate Mobil Producing Nigeria (MPN), ExxonMobil has [...]
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Ivory Coast and Ghana are to negotiate the delineation of [...]
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Benin’s mining and petroleum research minister Barthelemy Kassa organized a [...]
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French prime minister Francois Fillon, who visited Nigeria at the [...]
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Ghana’s government has retained the British law concern Freshfields Bruckhaus [...]
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Rilwanu Lukman, the Nigerian oil minister, visited the headquarters of [...]
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A project to build a robust north-south electricity line between Tete and Maputo (AEI 610) aims at nothing less than [...]
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The state-owned utility hasn’t enough electricity to supply new copper mines that are shortly to start operating in the country.
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The South African power utility Eskom has radically overhauled its executive ranks following the simultaneous resignation of its chief executive, [...]
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The uncle of Andry Rajoelina, president of Madagascar’s ruling High Transition Authority, Serge Lucien Rajoelina, has been named vice president [...]
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The Sino-Angolan concern China-Sonangol has just signed a USD 8 [...]
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Norwegian foreign minister Jonas Gaher Stoere dropped in on Luanda [...]
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The French major has asked oil services firm competing to [...]
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According to our sources, the South African firm Gigajoule still [...]
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By deciding on Nov. 26 to lend USD 2.8 billion [...]
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Mittal Investment, the Luxembourg-based holding company of the Mittal family, [...]
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Joeli V. Lalaharisaina, the managing director of Madagascar's Office des [...]
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Burundi’s government has dismissed its energy minister in the run-up to elections because of his mishandling of a debt to the country.
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Published in the United States last month, the biography of the legendary trader Marc Rich (The King of Oil, published [...]
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Three years ago Soco had to fight to get into [...]
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The International Finance Corp., private investment unit of the World [...]
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Appointed European commissioner for development on Nov. 27, Latvia's Andris Piebalgs will hold sway over the European Union's funding of [...]
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