Hardly a week passes without ENI on block 4 and Anadarko on block 1 (which lies is closer to Mozambique’s coast) announcing the discovery of new gas reserves. Total reserves are now estimated at over 60 TCF.
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Mines and geology minister Mohamed Lamine Fofana held a press conference in Conakry on March 23 to try to reassure [...]
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Put off since 2010, Algeria’s next licensing round will have to be successful. The country has become less and less attractive to foreign groups and its output is in free fall.
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Italy’s ENI and Sonatrach that own concessions in the Taoudenni basin, the most promising oil prospect in Mali, are facing long delays in working on their concessions.
Production sharing contracts are expected to be awarded by mid-July in the territorial waters of the breakaway province.
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The company must continue to deal with Congo-K’s environment minister, whose political future is uncertain but who has the backing of the international community.
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The managing director of Britain's Chariot Oil & Gas, Paul [...]
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Scotland’s Bowleven has packed its bags in Gabon by selling [...]
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Kenya, which has been gazing enviously at neighboring Uganda as [...]
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The Nigerian National Petroleum Corp (NNPC) recently informed its partners that the final investment decision (FID) on Brass LNG and [...]
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The Swiss company Geogas is the big winner from the construction of a new gas terminal in Abidjan by Petro Ivoire, its well-connected local partner.
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While waiting for gas from the Jubilee field to come on stream, the authorities in Ghana have no other alternative than to negotiate an increase in supply from Nigeria. There’s no saying they will succeed.
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Already holding a 10% holding in gas-rich Area 4 operated [...]
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The World Bank is expected to approve a $18.3 million loan to Guinea’s power sector at the end of May. [...]
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Aware that it can’t afford to invest in highly expensive power projects for the moment, South Sudan is seeking to buy electricity from Addis Ababa.
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South Africa is organizing a workshop on the Grand Inga dam in May. It could result in a downward revision of the potential of the dam that Pretoria hopes will supply the country.
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General Electric penned a memorandum of understanding on March 26 [...]
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Senegal’s new mines and energy minister, Aly Ngouille Ndiaye, was one of strongest backers of the country’s freshly-elected president Macky [...]
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Re-elected for a new term in office in December, Liberia’s president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, named her son Robert Sirleaf as [...]
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A cabinet meeting chaired by Niger president Mohamedou Issoufou on March 30 gave rise to an overhaul in the oil [...]
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According to our sources, Sylvain Ndoutingai, finance minister of Central African Republic, completed talks last week with Andrea Brown, boss [...]
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In addition to signing an agreement with Chariot Oil & [...]
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According to our sources, the firm Petro-Tec headed by Sudanese [...]
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Angola’s official journal Diario da Republica dated March 16 (see [...]
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According to our sources, the latest board meeting of Societe [...]
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Deliberations on the fate of Mbanie islet that’s claimed by [...]
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Uganda’s top police officer, general Kale Kayihura, has been in [...]
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Despite unyielding pressure from the United States to stop importing [...]
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Several European oil companies listed in the United States have [...]
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Russian lawyer Ednan Agaev, who had demanded $65 million in [...]
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A program by Standard Chartered Bank to put together a [...]
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The International Finance Corp., the private investment arm of the [...]
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Ali Boromand, a partner in the Paris office of Canada’s [...]
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A GBP 450,000 fine (EUR 545,700) that Britain's Financial Services [...]
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The consulting arm of the Canadian investment bank Canaccord Genuity [...]
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Amarendra Khatua, India's special envoy in north and south Sudan, [...]
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Carlos Liumba, legal director of Angola's oil ministry, attended the [...]
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Francisco Maria Lemos dos Santos, the new chief executive of [...]
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