Over the past few months oil operations in Congo-B have been severely hobbled by a host of disputes between Brazzaville and France's Total group, the country's creditors and the IMF. Africa Energy Intelligence has looked into the way the obstacles [.
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Africa Energy Intelligence understands that Equatorial Guinea has let it be known to several banks specializing in oil-backed loans that [...]
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The holder of a dozen African concessions that it couldn't afford to develop, Australia's Fusion has been regularly selling them off since last year.
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Libya has just signed a first contract with a European consortium stemming from the bidding round in 2000, a sign of growing Libyan impatience with the U.S.
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While the U.S. hesitates over resuming ties with Tripoli, the European Union declares energy links with North Africa to be an absolute ?priority.?
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The European Parliament will serve as forum for a debate over the presence of OMV in Sudan, just as India's ONGC appears poised to bid for the Austrian firm's assets there.
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A lot of bargaining is surrounding the development of the Ebodje block on which Perenco operates.
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The status quo on the boundary between Angola and Congo-K could well be blown away because of Kinshasa's disappointment over its oil prospects.
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A project by the South African government to supply Cape Town with gas from the Kudu field in Namibia has had to be dropped because the field's reserves aren't sufficient.
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The U.S. firm Anadarko has been authorized to develop block [...]
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The China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) has made a series [...]
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After signing a fiscal accord concerning the West African Gas [...]
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Canada's DiamondWorks company says that a contract between its indirect [...]
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Although bribery accusations no longer hang over AES' project to build the Bujagali dam, as Africa Energy Intelligence reported in [...]
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By doing a lot to promote Tunisia's interest, British Gas has managed to consolidate its position in the country and obtain permission to build its own power station.
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The Senegalese president wants to double the capacity of the Manantali dam which Eskom operates.
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Cairo has stepped in two years after Vivendi's withdrawal to manage the national utility.
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President of ChevronTexaco Pipeline Company up to now, James Blackwell is to replace John Gass as head of the American [...]
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Chief executive officer of AIG Infrastructure Fund, an investment fund controlled by the U.S. insurance giant AIG and the International [...]
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After a vain attempt to buy Nigeria's flag-carrier, Nigeria Airways Ltd., the Indian businessman Prem Sawyney is now endeavoring to [...]
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A Scottish lawyer who stoutly defended two Libyans accused of carrying out the Lockerbie bombing, Abdel Basset al Megrahi and [...]
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In a brief issued by assistant attorney general Robert McCallum, the U.S. Justice Department has slammed the use of the [...]
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In addition to efforts by ONGC Videsh, the international arm of India's state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) to [...]
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The Atlantic Council, a think tank close to Republican Party circles and to America's oil and aeronautics industries, has just [...]
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South Korea's trade, energy and industry ministry is organizing a trip to Nigeria, Angola and Libya in August in the [...]
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A strike that has dragged on for over a month at the NigerDock shipyard in Nigeria is threatening to disrupt [...]
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Still highly active in Africa two years ago, Veolia - the new name of Vivendi Environnement - is reportedly poised [...]
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A report by the Nigerian parliament's Petroleum Resources Committee on the transfer of OPL 245 from Malabu Oil & Gas [...]
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The Equatorial Guinea government and the country's state-owned oil firm GEPetrol last week penned an agreement with BG and Marathon [...]
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South Africa's Energy Africa is seeking a fresh, $75 million loan to meet some of its development obligations in 2003, [...]
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The state-owned South African utility Eskom was forced late last month to wipe out nearly 1.4 billion rand ($188 million) [...]
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The U.S. firm Taylor-DeJongh has been picked by ChevronTexaco and [...]
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The American firm Leboeuf, Lamb & Greene represented the state-owned [...]
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The California-based law firm Traber & Voorhees is leading the [...]
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Nigeria's state-owned NNPC and particularly NAPIMS, its affiliate that handles [...]
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Congo-Brazzaville's national oil company SNPC could be quickly forced to [...]
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Madagascar's Office des Mines Nationales et des Industries Strategiques (Omnis) [...]
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The state-owned oil company Sonangol seized the occasion of a [...]
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CWC Associates is organizing a presentation in London on June [...]
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IBC Energy is organizing a conference in London between June [...]
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