With the majors jockeying for position in the race for acreage in Libya, a handful of traders has taken a different tack. They've opted to set up joint ventures with Tripoli to explore in Africa but also with the idea [.
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Unlike its rivals Marathon and Amerada Hess, Devon doesn't have any direct ties with Tripoli and works in Libya alongside [...]
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Less than a week after awarding eight new licenses, Sonatrach has kicked off a sixth licensing round. It mainly concerns gas basins and excludes the offshore, which is being offered in direct deals.
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Energy Africa, which was recently bought by Tullow, is going to team up with Dana and Maurel & Prom on acreage off St. Louis.
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Barely had American sanctions against Guinea Bissau been lifted than ExxonMobil made its debut in the country's offshore.
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Giving up hope of persuading the majors to buy into its refineries, Nigeria has signed a contract with a consortium made up of two Chinese groups.
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The World Bank's board will decide in coming days on whether to endorse a funding package for the West African Gas Pipeline and clear the way for the project's take-off.
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Manoeuvres by oil companies and a standoff between president Menezes and his ex-prime minister are continuing to hold up the award of acreage in the Joint Development Zone.
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A board of inquiry in Kinshasa is taking a close interest in a package put together by BNP and Trafigura to allow Brazzaville to pay its debt to SNEL in Congo-K.
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Pakistan's Hashoo group has been awarded a second license in Sudan.
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Forming part of the East Area Additional Oil Recovery program [...]
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The Alba gas field operated by Marathon in the northern [...]
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The Malaysian firm Peremba Construction has won a $232 million [...]
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The seemingly endless bargaining over ownership of Hidroelectrica de Cahora Bassa (HCB), the firm that operates the dam of the [...]
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SNEL intends to invest on its own part and join ranks with Iran to boost power production in Katanga and Kasai, the two leading mining regions in Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Financed by overseas development institutions, the extension of EEPCO's distribution network has just generated nearly 40 million euros ($45 million) in contracts.
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The private firm that manages Tanesco has just had its contract extended to 2006.
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During a meeting with Uganda MPs, officials from the Electricity [...]
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Working on behalf of Gilbert Chagoury at South Atlantic Petroleum since he left Total in 2002, as Africa Energy Intelligence [...]
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Successively Statoil's vice president in charge of gas development and then the Norwegian firm's director for Azerbaijan, Terje Halmo last [...]
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After quitting Heritage last year, a Canadian junior founded by Anthony Buckingham and now run by Micael Gulbenkian, Michael Wood [...]
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The British junior Sterling, which bought Fusion Oil & Gas last December and now operates all of the African acreage [...]
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With oil companies showing an ever greater interest in Madagascar - Norsk Hydro, Exxon and Sterling recently acquired licenses in [...]
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Americans and Europeans are competing to make it to Tripoli following the lifting of American sanctions against Libya. The Libyan [...]
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Already openly suspected of fomenting an abortive coup d'etat in Nouakchott in early August, Burkina Faso came under fire again [...]
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The crisis that rocked Rivers State in the Niger Delta last week was eminently political even though it was presented [...]
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As a follow up to the Chinese Ex-Im Bank's opening of a $2 billion credit line for Angola in March, [...]
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Several groups involved in the ?Publish What You Pay? campaign (Global Witness, Catholic Relief Services and George Soros' Open Society) [...]
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Transmitted in early September to Justice Department officials and the French examining magistrate Renaud Van Ryumbeke, who are both investigating [...]
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After a lot of trouble in establishing itself despite strong support from the World Bannk, Chad's Comite Technique National de [...]
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According to the latest issue of La Lettre du Continent, sister publication of Africa Energy Intelligence, Sao Tome is negotiating [...]
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Global Pacific Partners is organizing the 11th Africa Upstream conference [...]
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Algeria's state-owned Sonatrach expects to boost its LNG production capacity [...]
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Total has made a fourth discovery on the Usan field [...]
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Germany's Siemens beat out Canada's SNC-Lavalin and the French firm [...]
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Holding a board meeting in Angola in late September, Chevron [...]
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Already highly active in Nigeria, Andrew Young, former mayor of [...]
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A lobbying concern that specializes in Africa, C/R International, signed [...]
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In late July, a week before the World Bank banned [...]
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