When he presented his group's results for 2002 last week, TotalFinaElf boss Thierry Desmaret said his company would be re-named Total in May. The announcement came as the ?Elf scandal,? which kept the French financial police busy over the past [.
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In buying out Ocean Energy, Devon has won a substantial African portfolio and is expected to resume exploration on its [...]
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Boris Yeltsin's former oil adviser, Yuri Shafranik is in the process of teaming up with Canada's First Calgary to gain a foothold in Algeria.
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No less than 12 companies have put in bids for the Gassi Touil LNG project that will one day supply the U.S.
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The civil conflict that erupted between Ivory Coast's government and rebel forces in the north hasn't affected the country's oil industry. Canada Natural is continuing its drilling program and other operators are moving in.
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Twenty four marginal fields were awarded last week to 31 local companies, most of them controlled by former dignitaries of NNPC or even of the states.
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With CNPC continuing to block the transfer of Talisman's share on the Heglig fields to India's ONGC, the company - or rather a consortium to which it belongs - has just made significant discoveries on block 7.
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No less than five branch lines are to be built for the gas pipeline that Sasol is to build between Mozambique and South Africa. And a lot of local rivalry has sprung up around the lines.
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After protracted bargaining the Angolan national company's latest oil-back loan was signed and delivered last week with a consortium of French banks.
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Located on OML 104 and operated by ExxonMobil that holds [...]
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Following the partial failure of Operation Olearius - it involved [...]
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Officially launched last week, the development of the Kizomba B [...]
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The highly-indebted Swiss-Swedish consortium is thinking of selling its 50% stake - worth $1.6 billion - in the coal-fired power [...]
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A three-sided meeting concerning the Cahora Bassa dam will be held next month, officially to negotiate a rise in rates. But it appears each country involved in the talks is secretly pursuing its own agenda.
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After bargaining in vain for a renewal of its long-standing Power Purchase Agreement with VRA, Valco has asked that the case be put to arbitration before the International Chamber of Commerce in London.
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In the works for long years, a contract for the construction of the Nyagak power station in the north-west of the country has been awarded and will shortly be signed.
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Last week's summit of unaligned countries in Kuala Lumpur gave Malaysia an opportunity to consult with African oil producing countries, [...]
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With the United States thinking establishing a troika with Norway and the United Kingdom to spearhead the peace process in [...]
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Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo has just named a panel to inquire into a shortage of oil products that has hit [...]
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Angola's vote on a second American resolution on Iraq in the U.N. Security Council has been the object of intense [...]
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As reported by Africa Energy Intelligence last March, the World Bank is changing the system governing its trust funds, and [...]
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A panel set up by Nigeria's lower house last December to inquire into the damage caused to the Ijaw community [...]
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A $460 million financial package for construction of a second generation of tankers to carry LNG produced by Nigeria LNG [...]
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The dispute between RoyalDutch/Shell and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation over restoration of the Afam power station is dragging on [...]
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South Africa's Strategic Fuel Fund (SSF) that manages the country's fuel stocks has reached an out-of-court settlement with the Swiss [...]
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An increase in the number of law firms working for Congo-B that we revealed in our last issue has gone [...]
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Faced with a sharp drop in its profit last year, a shortfall that led to the dismissal of former chairman [...]
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Recently appointed to the board of the Canadian firm First Calgary (see P. 4), Russian businessman Yuri Shafranik is a [...]
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Lawyer for the families of victims of the downing of the Pan Am airliner over Lockerbie and chief go-between in [...]
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Named head of Spring Lights Gas, a joint venture formed by Sasol and the black empowerment company Coal Energy Power [...]
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With work on Luba Freeport due to be completed this [...]
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Libya's National Oil Company has signed an agreement with Senegal [...]
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Following the breakdown in the partnership between Libya's Tamoil and [...]
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Green Light for East Areas
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Tunisia's Societe de Transport d'Hydrocarbures par Pipeline (Sotrapil) has awarded [...]
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In putting together funding for its eight new tankers, the [...]
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The British consultancy Hamble Energy has joined the firm Europetrol [...]
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The legal battle between the Nigerian government and ex-president Sani [...]
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Global Pacific Partners is organizing a conference in Marrakesh between [...]
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IBC Energy is organizing a conference in London between June [...]
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