Spotlight | Nigeria
Dan Etete's Case in U.S. Court
Dan Etete, oil adviser to the late Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha, could return to his country's petroleum and political arena.
Dan Etete, oil adviser to the late Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha, could return to his country's petroleum and political arena.
Still under embargo and obliged to seek U.N. approval to export its crude, Iraq has increased the number of its [...]
After winning three licenses in Kenya, companies controlled by Henry David Kennedy, president of Pancontintal, look set to keep expanding in Africa.
Shell's proposed acquisition of Enterprise Oil, the last British independent, would give it a foothold in Morocco's offshore and onshore.
With tension rising constantly between Nigeria and Cameroon – the two are slugging it out in court in The Hague and on their borders – Abuja is busy sewing up oil pacts with its other neighbors.
Underway since Bill Clinton was in the White House, a move to establish closer ties between Washington and Equatorial Guinea looks likely to soon win the blessings of the Republican administration.
The settlement of the dispute between Angola and Congo-B on their maritime borders will benefit ChevronTexaco most of all. It's going to explore "Structure K" that straddles the two countries.
Managed by the South African trading company Thebe Petroleum, a contract to supply Congo-K with oil products looks like being ditched.
Rivalry between Russia's Methanol and the U.S. firm Sicor to extract gas from the Calub field has boiled down to how the projects are to be funded.
A delegation from ONGC Videsh, the international arm of India's [...]
The deadline for bids for nine offshore concessions that were [...]
If the deal goes through, Lundin's acquisition of the small French oil company Coparex will give the Swedish group significant assets in Tunisia.
After completing the development of Girassol, France's TotalFinaElf group must meet a number of development objectives in Nigeria, Angola and Congo-B this year.
Spain's Repsol YPF has just made a first discovery on [...]
Italy's ENI group has begun developing its Wafa field on [...]
Already active on Anaguid in Tunisia, which it bought from [...]
On ice since the merger between Chevron and Texaco, the [...]
Sasol's gas fields in the Temane region in Mozambique will [...]
South Africa's Central Bank has opened an investigation into Sasol's [...]
Anadarko and Sonatrach have just put a fourth train into [...]
On the eve of Chinese president Jiang Zemin's visit to Nigeria two Chinese firms have just won a $390 million BOT contract.
Since the break with Vivendi concerning the privatization of Senelec, the government's negotiations with AES are unfolding in the deepest secrecy. Here are some details.
Speaking last week during a seminar concerning the Energy Regulation [...]
The South African affiliate of the Swiss-Swedish ABB consortium, ABB [...]
Washington's rapprochement with Equatorial Guinea (see report on P.4) owes a lot to Bruce McColm, president of the NGO Institute [...]
Currently representing Cameroon in its case against Nigeria on the delimitation of maritime and land boundaries (see our report P. [...]
Named by Jacques Sylla, prime minister of Madagascar's "self-proclaimed" president Marc Ravalomanana, Elise Razaka has been appointed Madagascar's energy and [...]
The mandates of ENI president Gian Maria Gros-Pietro and the managing director, Vittorio Mincato, will both come up for renewal [...]
The new president of Sao Tome e Principe, Fradique de Menezes, named Gabriel Costa as prime minister on March 27. [...]
Holding degrees in mathematics and management, 44-year-old Denis Ngokana might be named oil and energy adviser to president Denis Sassou [...]
Jean-Michel Runacher, managing director of Perenco, has written to Africa Energy Intelligence to correct a number of mistakes in our [...]
The CWC Group is organizing a conference in London on [...]
Natexis Banques Populaires, the investment bank of the French cooperative [...]
Barclay's Bank, which at present uses the services of the [...]
The U.K. firm Exploration Consultants Group, which operates in Africa [...]
Germany's Deutsche Bank and Morocco's BCME Capital are going to [...]
The European Investment Bank (EIB), the Agence Francaise de Developpement [...]
The U.S. Trade Development Agency has offered Office National Marocain [...]
Alan Fergusson, former Nigeria manager for the Baker Hughes oil [...]
Holding assets in the offshore area between Nigeria and Sao [...]
The Kenyan Power and Lighting Corporation has chosen a team [...]
Over the past six months U.S. government envoys and officials [...]
Nigeria's Supreme Court handed down its findings on April 5 [...]
South Africa's energy minister, Phumsile Mlambo, is presently leading a [...]