Unlike Nigeria, Angola had long lacked local oil companies despite its position as Sub-Saharan Africa’s second-ranking petroleum producer. But in the wake of new oil legislation in late 2004 that called for greater Angolan participation in the oil industry, a [.
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Chinese foreign minister Li Zhaoxing is due to begin a week-long tour of six African countries on Jan. 11: Mali, [...]
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In response to last week’s move by the Chad parliament to modify legislation on the use of oil revenue, the [...]
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Mauritanian oil minister Mohamed Aly Ould Sidi Mohamed indicated early this month that Nouakchott was still hunting for a partner [...]
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After signing an initial agreement with Portugal concerning Hidroelectrica de Cahora Bassa (HCB), the company that manages the dam of [...]
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Switzerland’s Cliveden group is disposing of its licenses in Chad and Sudan and has debuted in Congo’s offshore. Headed by [...]
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Listed on London’s AIM and run by several veterans of oil exploration in Africa, Australia’s Procarbon company has bought the CI-202 license. The acreage was withdrawn from Africa Petroleum last September.
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Chinese companies have begun doing serious business in Equatorial Guinea following president Teodoro Obiang Nguema’s lengthy visit to Beijing in November.
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In the wake of ONGC Videsh’s withdrawal, CNOOC is to buy up South Atlantic’s stake on Akpo.
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Nearly half of the consortia which won concessions in a bidding round last August seem certain to lose them.
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By acquiring a stake in the Akepo marginal field in Nigeria, Afran teamed up with a well-connected Nigerian businessman.
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An Australian retail and trading company, Origin, has taken the place of Woodside on Pancontinental’s concessions in the Lamu basin in Kenya.
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After trying for a number of years, Sonangol has finally acquired a piece of Portugal’s national oil company.
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Seeking for years to build up a portfolio in Angola’s offshore, Ireland’s Tullow Oil has debuted on block 24.
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Spain’s Iberdola has followed in Cepsa’s footsteps by signing a [...]
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Africa Energy Intelligence understands Sonatrach and Gaz de France have [...]
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The three members of the Oasis consortium - Marathon, ConocoPhillips [...]
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Like RoyalDutch/Shell, BP is negotiating a gas project directly with [...]
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According to its partner TG World Energy, the China National [...]
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Owned by First Africa Oil, the upstream subsidiary of Energem, [...]
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The drilling group Pride International has increased its stake in [...]
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Sonangol is currently pegging out Cabinda North and Central again [...]
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The U.S. oil company Pioneer has launched development of the [...]
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The World Bank is to unveil a $160 million funding program for power projects in Ghana dubbed Energy Development & [...]
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Like other private businesses in Nigeria, a conglomerate headed by Alhaji Aliko Dangote plans to build its own power plants in the country.
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A private Kenyan concern, Transcentury Group, has acquired a 3% holding in Kenya’s power company. This has chipped away at the government’s holding, leaving it just 48%.
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Brazil appears keen on building a second power plant in Angola after constructing a first station at Capanda.
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Early this month British journalist Pieter Tesch published a report [...]
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The Agence Francaise de Development is expected on January 10 [...]
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According to La Lettre du Continent, a sister publication of Africa Energy Intelligence, Mauritania’s Ben Camara is now an adviser [...]
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The U.S. insurance giant AIG sees to 38% of re-insurance contracts for Algeria’s state-controlled oil company Sonatrach and the U.S. [...]
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Sonatrach has indicated that its development plan for the years 2006-2010 calls for investments of roughly $32.2 billion. Some $20 [...]
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With the price of its stock plunging following the drilling of a dry well on its acreage, Scotland’s Bowleven now [...]
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The new chairman of the Nigerian Senate’s petroleum upstream committee, Lee Maeba, is working to push through a bill regulating [...]
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Two geophysics professors of Somaliland origin, Mohammed Yusuf Ali who teaches at the Petroleum Institute in Abu Dhabi and Ahmed [...]
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Nigeria’s representative to OPEC for the past 14 years, Mohammed Barkindo has been named secretary-general of the organization. On Jan. [...]
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Sasol has just named a prominent business woman, Hixonia Nyasulu, to its board. She is a representative of Sasol’s partners [...]
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Tanzania’s new president, Jakaya Kikwete, formed a government last week and named Ibrahim Msabaha to the post of energy and [...]
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A director of Baraka Petroleum, a firm set up last year by Max de Vietri and which operates in Mauritania [...]
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Ivory Coast’s oil minister since October, 2000, Leon Emmanuel Monnet retained his portfolio in a government re-shuffle in Abidjan in [...]
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According to our sources, Sanjivan Ruprah, a Kenyan businessman of Indian origin, is working with the Saudi company Petroco to [...]
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Former financial director of the British junior Nelson Resources that operates in Kazakhstan, Mark Callaway has been asked to fulfill [...]
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South Africa’s national oil company, PetroSA, is currently clinching a [...]
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Canada’s Rodrigue Hache, who had managed Madagascar’s power utility JIRAMA [...]
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An agreement creating the Algerian Petroleum Institute was signed at [...]
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Miguel Edjang Angue, deputy managing director of Equatorial Guinea’s state-owned [...]
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The carrier Virgin Nigeria, which is 51% owned by the [...]
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Stephen Flint and David Hodgson from the University of Liverpool’s [...]
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To mark the 10th anniversary of the execution of Ogoni [...]
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The CWC Group is organizing a conference at the International [...]
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