From a marginal debate a few years ago, the issue of transparency regarding oil revenue has marched to center-stage and forced African nations to give guarantees of good faith on the question.
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The prestigious Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) has recommended that the State Department appoint a special representative for [...]
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The ruling could have far-reaching consequences for oil companies that face the threat of a suit filed under the Alien [...]
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In the wake of the recent abortive putsch Malabo, Equatorial Guinea's government is working to improve ties with its neighbors [...]
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Businessman Pierre Falcone has launched a number of blistering attacks on the latest report of Global Witness which has focussed [...]
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Making its debut in Algeria's offshore in 2001, Russia's Rosneft has decided to pull out of the country in order [...]
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The conclusion of a gas agreement between NOC and Shell is bad news for Algiers, which is finding it hard to mount its Gassi Touil project.
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Sonatrach is to shortly proceed with a fifth licensing round that's designed to encourage exploration in new basins.
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ChevronTexaco and RoyalDutch/Shell have followed on the heels of ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, Agip and Devon in turning over concessions to the E&P affiliate of NNPC.
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After reducing its reserves Shell has announced a fresh delay on its Bongo field. But in the meantime Total has inaugurated Amenam with a lot of fanfare.
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A standoff between Marathon and GEPetrol seems to have been resolved, with the two agreeing to form a joint venture to push through their LNG project.
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Already the third-ranking producer in Gabon, France's Perenco is continuing to flesh out its portfolio in the country.
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Several Western groups have turned up in Kinshasa to offer to build pipelines for oil products.
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Despite Sonangol's every effort, the Angola LNG project is failing to get off the ground. Western oil companies are clearly dragging their feet over the scheme.
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The three companies developing the Ahnet gas field in the [...]
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The ROD oil fields located in the Berkine basin and [...]
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France's Total group won the latest call for tenders organized [...]
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Britain's Dana Oil, which operates three blocks in Mauritania's offshore [...]
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Highly active on the African market, the Libyan oil company [...]
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In late March, the Angolan authorities renewed ChevronTexaco's concession on [...]
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BP has made two new discoveries, Chumbo 1 and Cesio [...]
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Eskom Enterprizes, the international arm of the state-owned utility Eskom, looks set to knock on Nigeria's door via a task [...]
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Confronted by severe power cuts, Congo-B's national utility appears in line for a big loan from the World Bank.
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To put pressure on Egypt, Ethiopia has announced plans for a number of dams on the Blue and White Nile.
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The South Africa utility is working on two power plant projects, one in Mozambique and the other at home.
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Deputy prime minister since 2000, Abdallah Al Badri was named chairman of Libya's National Oil Company in succession to Abdulhafidh [...]
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Head of the black business concern Women's Investment Fund, Busi Mabuza has just been named to the board of the [...]
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Previously vice president of SONEL, Jean David Bile has been promoted to the top job in Cameroon's state-owned utility that [...]
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An executive at SAUR, the foreign affiliate of the services branch of France's Bouygues group, Michel Olivier Louis has been [...]
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President Fradrique de Menezes has named Ovidio Pequeno as foreign minister to replace Mateus Meira Rita who was fired last [...]
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The 16 banks which signed last year's Equator Principles Charter that committed them to adopting the social and environmental criteria [...]
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Long governed by concessionary contracts, oil operations in Gabon are now done mainly through production sharing agreements (PSAs), with visible [...]
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Like a number of state-owned African oil companies such as Sonangol and GEPetrol, Algeria's Sonatrach is thinking of raising funds [...]
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Hardman and ROC Oil, partners of Woodside in areas A and B in Mauritania's offshore, have both raised finance to [...]
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Announced rather grandly last month by Aguinaldo Jaime, Angola's deputy prime minister and former governor of the Banco Nacional de [...]
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According to our sources, Sonatrach is conducting technical talks with [...]
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Although the Nigerian parliament has yet to approve the Electricity [...]
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Libya's National Oil Company has initiated talks with Norway's Statoil [...]
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A South African oil delegation led by the state-owned concern [...]
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Run by the former chief-of-staff to Nelson Mandela, Jackes Gerwel, [...]
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The British training concern TTE Management has been contracted to [...]
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Already involved in Africa - it trains officials of the [...]
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With American companies poised to return to Libya, IBC Energy [...]
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The CWC Group is organizing a conference at the Nicon [...]
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