Just as the first of Mauritania’s petroleum fields is about to swing into production, oil companies and the government find themselves in an angry fight over the conditions in which Mauritania’s crude will be extracted.
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Led by Alexander Medvedev, deputy chairman of Gazprom’s management committee, a delegation from the Russian energy giant visited Algeria and [...]
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The standoff over the control of the Chad’s oil revenue appears to be heating up despite talks aimed at narrowing [...]
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Production sharing contracts in number 2, 3, 4 and 5 concessions in the Joint Development Zone (JDZ) between Nigeria and [...]
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Africa Energy Intelligence has learned that Total and the China National Petroleum Company (CNPC) are vying to build and operate [...]
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The private Pakistani group Hashoo has just been awarded a concession in Mauritania.
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The Niger Delta is beginning to replace Iraq as the leading market for private security concerns.
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The Nigerian government is seeking a company to replace Chevron following its withdrawal from the highly political Brass LNG project.
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Negotiating with India’s IOC on one hand, the French group is fighting with Total on the other.
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With backing from the South African government, businessman Tokyo Sexwale’s group, Ophir, is poised to make its debut in Congo-B’s offshore alongside Premier Oil.
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Around 10 Western oil companies are competing for acreage put up for sale in the Rovuma basin last July.
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Holding rights on the entire sub-soil of the autonomous region of Puntland, Australia’s Range Resources has sent out a team to map the country’s basins.
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For years Madagascar’s OMNIS negotiated contracts directly with companies. Now it is preparing its first licensing round on the west coast of the island.
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A contract awarding construction of a giant liquefaction train at [...]
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The Canadian-South African oil company Energem has transferred its rights [...]
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India’s ONGC Videsh has been awarded OPL 321 and 323 [...]
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According to our sources, the French major is negotiating a [...]
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The first train at Marathon’s LNG plant on Bioko island [...]
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Begun on Jan. 14, drilling on a first well on [...]
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The British group White Nile is about to kick off [...]
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The Benguela-Belize block which forms part of the huge Benguela-Belize [...]
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Initially scheduled for December, drilling on the first well in [...]
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Leading officials in Nigeria’s power industry were in London last week to take part in a workshop organized by the [...]
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Four international groups submitted bids to develop coal reserves at Oromia and to supply a power plant.
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A contract for a combined cycle power plant at Oranjemund is expected to be awarded in coming months.
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Begun at the end of 2004, construction of the Chicapa [...]
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The World Bank’s board will decide in June whether to [...]
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Uganda’s Electricity Regulatory Authority has authorized the American group Africa [...]
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The World Bank is seeking to find partners to help [...]
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Halliburton plans to sell a stake amounting to nearly 20% in its oil services group Kellogg Brown & Root in [...]
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Specializing in sub-sea systems, the Norwegian oil services group Stolt Offshore will change its name to Acergy in March. The [...]
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Ever since prime minister Ahmed Ouyahia issued a ban last April on state-owned Algerian groups borrowing money from foreign banks, [...]
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The World Bank will ask its board in June to approve plans to finance infrastructure in Guinea Bissau, particularly in [...]
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Fitch Ratings has just issued its first credit rating for Nigeria (BB-) which puts the country in the same category [...]
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Living in Switzerland since 2004 - he sits on the board of the British-Russian TNK-BP oil company - the former [...]
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Sonatrach has named Mazari Mohamed as director of Mariconsult, a joint venture formed between the Algerian company and Italy’s ENI [...]
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Canada’s MagIndustries group has just appointed Moustapha Niasse, who was twice prime minister of Senegal and also served as U.N. [...]
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Former British defense secretary Michael Portillo has been appointed to the board of the American oil company Kerr McGee which [...]
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Tower Resources, which was formed by Russel Langusch, boss of Elixir Petroleum, and Hugh Warner, director of Ascent Resources, has [...]
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The American company EHRC, which is controlled by Emeka Offor’s Chrome group in Nigeria, has named a German national, Walter [...]
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In the wake of an article we published in our last issue (AEI 409), Sanjivan Ruprah, a Kenyan businessman of [...]
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Although the authorities have hinted on several occasions that Libya [...]
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As it did previously with Norway’s Statoil, Sonatrach has just [...]
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The Sudanese government has begun sharing revenue from oil extraction [...]
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The Africa specialist at the Paris-based international law firm Coudert [...]
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The lobbying concern of Rosa Whitaker, formerly in charge of [...]
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The under secretary of state for African affairs between 2004-2005, [...]
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Global Pacific & Partners is organizing a seminar in London [...]
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The CWC Group is organizing a conference at the International [...]
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