Spotlight | Africa
How China's Sinopec Makes its Way
In the space of a few months and with a leg-up from China's leadership, the refining company Sinopec has made its mark in the Gulf of Guinea...
In the space of a few months and with a leg-up from China's leadership, the refining company Sinopec has made its mark in the Gulf of Guinea...
AEI sources say the U.S. independent Grynberg Petroleum, which has held a gigantic, 13.7 million acre concession along the border [...]
Revelations by the Baghdad daily Al Mada on traders who gained from contracts with Iraq are continuing to make waves in Africa.
Set up in 2001, a joint venture between Soco International and Oilinvest will shortly start negotiating its debut in Libya's offshore.
Without waiting for U.S. companies to return to their old stamping grounds, the European firms Repsol and OMV are negotiating for new licenses in conjunction with Wintershall.
NOC would like to take advantage of the expected return of U.S. oil companies to make up for lost time in gas projects.
Following the Lone Star debacle, Morocco finds itself once again playing host to Texan independents.
An unknown financial firm based in Las Vegas, 8 Investments, acquired an oil concession in Sierra Leone's offshore last summer. Here are some details about the company.
To help it raise funds for its Songo Songo project, Pan Ocean plans to unbundle its Tanzanian operations which are to be managed by a separate firm.
A partner of DiamondWorks, the small Canadian firm Gulf of Guinea Petroleum is staffed by men long versed in exploring for oil in Africa.
Underway since late last year, the sale of Engen's stake in Energy Africa has entered a critical phase.
A company specializing in developing stranded gas reserves, Syntroleum, has [...]
Algerian energy minister Chakib Khelil made a special effort during [...]
RoyalDutch/Shell has just increased production at its Forcados complex from [...]
ExxonMobil has made a 17th find on block 15, named [...]
The leading producer in Angola, ChevronTexaco, is planning a major [...]
As the Senegalese government's unofficial adviser in the power sector, the World Bank is discreetly preparing two loans to enable [...]
The International Finance Corp., private investment arm of the World Bank, is going to invest nearly $60 million in converting the Takoradi power station.
South Africa's state-owned utility Eskom has just sealed a strategic alliance with MagEnergy, an affiliate of the MagAlloys mining company, to supply its operations in Congo-B with power from the Inga dam in Democratic Republic of Congo.
While waiting for the West African Gas Pipeline to materialize, [...]
The Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) has finally agreed [...]
French groups are signing contracts here and there in Sudan's [...]
Prime minister Shukri Ghanem's bid to gain ascendancy over Libya's oil industry, initiated last year, gathered steam last week with [...]
Following the flap over RoyalDutch/Shell's over-estimate of oil reserves, the group's chairman, Philip Watts, and its exploration and production boss, [...]
ExxonMobil Nigeria, headed by Mike Fry, has just promoted a number of Nigerian executives, among them Wilfred Belonwu who was [...]
Canada's DiamondWorks which is pulling out all the stops to bolster its position in Africa's oil industry, has just hired [...]
Director of GEPetrol since it was formed in 2001, Domingo Mba Esono lost his job following the dust-up between Equatorial [...]
General Charles Wald, deputy commander of U.S. forces in Europe, carried out a tour of the Gulf of Guinea in [...]
Taking advantage of the gradual restoration of diplomatic relations between Libya and the United States, several Congressmen are positioning themselves [...]
Highly reticent about the idea at first, the governments of Gabon and Equatorial Guinea now seem resigned to submitting their [...]
A trading contract awarded in January to DiamondWorks was cancelled by Sao Tome's government at a cabinet meeting last week. [...]
After making several efforts over the past four years to break into Sudan's offshore, the Romanian authorities received Sudanese energy [...]
Sonatrach and Sonelgaz used a special purpose vehicle dubbed Shariket Kahraba Skikda to put together funding for the 823 MW [...]
The investigation that French authorities launched into commissions paid in the NLNG contract depends on the outcome of a request [...]
Congo-B's debt to Societe Nationale d'Electricite (SNEL) in neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo amounts to nearly $35 million and largely [...]
A move by Total last year to transfer the Likoula field to Congo-B reportedly enabled Brazzaville to mount a loan [...]
The African Development Bank will shortly issue an invitation to tender for a feasibility study next year on an interconnection [...]
With Angola already looking around for banks to put together its next oil-backed loan (see P. 1 in our last [...]
Officially to improve its productivity, the National Electric Power Authority [...]
After splitting the former Societe de l'Eau et de l'Electricite [...]
The Kaduna refinery began operating again in early April after [...]
Cameroon's government has retained a consultancy to suggest scenarios for [...]
In the process of becoming a specialist in oil investigations, [...]
Canada's CHC Helicopter Corporation that specializes in serving the oil [...]
According to our sources, the freeze on a $400 million [...]
One of Sonatrach's favorite law firms, the Paris branch of [...]
in Libya
The CWC Group is organizing a conference at the Nicon [...]