The ramparts that Africa's public power companies used for years to fight off privatization are falling one after the other. With their management often in the hands of presidential cronies, the utilities were considered part and parcel of a state's [.
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Royal Dutch/Shell is thinking of building a floating natural gas liquefaction plant to facilitate development of the Kudu field lying [...]
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Angola’s energy and mines minister, Luis Filipe da Silva, has confirmed that the 520 MW Capanda hydro-electric dam on the [...]
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Germany’s Siemens group is convinced that a privatization of the Botswana Power Corporation and the Botswana Telecommunications Corporation would give [...]
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The Mauritius government is still refusing the write off the Central Electricity Board’s debts as the Arthur Andersen consultancy recommended. [...]
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A government committee will shortly submit a series of recommendations to president Robert Mugabe following the unbundling of the Zimbabwe [...]
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Rui Gourgel, managing director of Empresa de Distribuicao de Electricidade [...]
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Twice in recent weeks, Sonangol Distribuidora has been unable to [...]
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Malaysia’s state-owned group Petronas group will shortly make its debut in Morocco. The company has acquired a 42.5% stake on [...]
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A black Republican representative from Oklahoma, J.C. Watts, Jr. has become the leading go-between for American oil companies in their [...]
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Global Business Network Limited is organizing a conference in London [...]
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Valco Gabon has signed a $30 million contract with the firms Olsen Energy ASA and Prosafe ASA to transfer their [...]
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At the bidding of donors, Cameroon has signed a contract with Schlumberger Oil and Gas Information Solutions to take the [...]
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Kazadi Mabika, the maintenance director at MIBA (Entreprise Diamantifere Miniere de Bakwanga) said the company had already paid back 60% [...]
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Former chairman of Societe Nationale d’Electricite (SNEL), Moussa Hemedi is highly unhappy about being fired this summer along with all [...]
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Seismic data acquired in deep waters of the Douala-Kribi-Campo basin [...]
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An underwater gas pipeline was installed between the E rig [...]
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France’s Perenco group which operates in the Democratic Republic of [...]
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After signing a 30-year contract to run Societe Tchadienne d’Eau [...]
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South Korea’s Samsung group, which won a contract worth around $300 million in 1995 to extend the Tema refinery, could [...]
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A plan by Chevron Nigeria to build a plant to convert gas to liquids at Escravos in the south of [...]
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Things are at last moving with regards marginal fields in Nigeria. Some years ago the government said it intended to [...]
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The managing director of Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), Fred Asane, has called for special courts to be set up [...]
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The fourth appraisal well drilled by Texaco on the Agbami [...]
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Ranger Oil, which operates on the Espoir field in Ivory [...]
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Shell is worried that a project by the Nigerian Liquified [...]
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Ghana’s government decided in late August to re-introduce an ex-refinery [...]
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The Canadian firm Canop Worldwide Corp didn’t have the financial resources to drill three exploration wells on the license it [...]
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Six months behind schedule, the pre-qualification process for the sell-off of the national utility, Uganda Electricity Board, has begun. In [...]
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Uganda energy minister Daudi Migereko declared last week that negotiations for an increase of exports to Kenya amounting to between [...]
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The World Bank may go back on its decision to [...]
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Libya’s former state secretary for energy, Abdallah al Badri, was appointed deputy prime minister after a week-long session of the [...]
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After winning authorization from the Algerian government in February to [...]
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ABB and Lummus have landed a contract worth $93 million [...]
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Yemen has become a test-bench country for cooperation between Sonatrach [...]
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