Although the Kribi oil terminal in Cameroon that enables crude from Chad's Doba fields to be shipped out via Cameroon was officially inaugurated only last month...
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Africa Energy Intelligence understands that efforts deployed by South Africa's foreign ministry and intelligence agencies to warn Equatorial Guinea about [...]
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Like its British counterpart, Italy's Edison Gas, which is highly active in North Africa, is now venturing into sub-Saharan Africa's deep offshore.
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After gaining a foothold in Eritrea, Libya's Tamoil is continuing to invest in Africa's downstream by snapping up Exxon's network in Niger. Nigeria is also in its sights.
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To rebuild the LNG plant at Skikda, Algeria is thinking of installing a huge train and is contracting a Chinese-led consortium to construct a condensate plant.
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As Nigeria's Conoil group struggles to push its output beyond the 50,000 bdp mark, part of its development budget could be tied up in costly litigation with France's CGG.
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The Equatorial Guinea government and U.S. firm Marathon are casting eyes at the reserves of neighboring countries for supplies for their future LNG plant at Punta Europa.
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Regularly postponed, the development of the northern part of Amerada Hess' block G will begin in coming weeks.
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The Joint Development Authority is about to award two new blocks in Sao Tome's joint zone with Nigeria, licenses 2 and 4.
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Africa Energy Intelligence has learned that talks between Gabon and Equatorial Guinea on establishing a joint oil zone in Corisco Bay are almost sewn up, to the relief of Petronas.
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Active in next-door Congo-B, Maurel & Prom is poised to sign a production sharing agreement in Gabon.
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Last month's talks between the Canadian junior TG World Energy [...]
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After abandoning a well on block 3 on Uganda's side [...]
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BP has picked FMC Technologies to supply the sub-sea systems [...]
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Former adviser to U.S. vice president Nelson Rockfeller and then to New York mayor Ed Koch, Robert Armao founded the [...]
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Appointed Kenya's new energy minister in a government reshuffle on June 30, Simeon Nyache is president of the Ford People's [...]
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Head of the holiday company Grupo HB which controls a dozen hotels in Sao Tome, Joao Gomes is also the [...]
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Under investigation by the SEC following the 20% downward revision of its reserves early this year, RoyalDutch/Shell has asked its [...]
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Eskom last week picked Bangani Nqwababa, former chief financial officer of Shell Southern Africa, to serve as its new financial [...]
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As Africa Energy Intelligence anticipated in May (AEI 370), the Kudu gas project in Namibia's offshore was revived early this [...]
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The sale of the Cahora Bassa dam to Mozambique's government is now a foregone conclusion. But the two sides have yet to agree on a price.
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Four companies have submitted bids to manage Madagascar's utility for a two year period.
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India's Tata conglomerate is thinking of investing in the power [...]
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The French oil firm Total looks like the winner of a battle for control of the Spanish oil company Cepsa, [...]
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Ethical investment funds managed by the firms Investec Henderson Crothwaite and Morley Fund Management have sold off their shares in [...]
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Based in Amsterdam, Sonatrach's international holding company has accumulated nearly $1 billion in its coffers, according to our sources. The [...]
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An investment bank that sprang from the merger between France's Credit Agricole and Credit Lyonnais, Calyon, has won a tender [...]
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Working on the fast-track development of its M'Boundi field, France's Maurel & Prom has just acquired an option to buy [...]
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According to AEI sources, Sudan has asked several European go-betweens to make contact with Western banks to mount a loan [...]
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After running into flak from the Justice Department last year, the Alien Tort Claim Act (ACT) that allows non-Americans to [...]
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The World Bank has published a number of documents in advance of this summer's vote by its board on a [...]
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A claim by the Salafist Group for Call and Combat - GSPC in its French initials - that it carried [...]
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Keeping keen watch on its territorial waters since the abortive putsch in March, Equatorial Guinea rather overdid things last week [...]
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South Africa's opposition party has launched a broadside against the close links between Thabo Mbeki's government and the regime of [...]
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An affiliate of the Anglo-Norwegian firm Inseis Terra, the ACG [...]
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Halliburton has asked Simon Ndiaye, a lawyer in the Paris [...]
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According to AEI sources, an airline controlled by Angola's Sonatrach, [...]
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Global Pacific Partners is organizing the 11th Africa Upstream conference [...]
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Operated by Sonatrach in association with BP and Statoil, the [...]
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Libya's National Oil Company plans to increase the country's oil [...]
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The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has told its six joint [...]
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The coast of Pointe Noire in Congo-B narrowly escaped an [...]
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Angola's output is expected to top the one million bpd [...]
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