An international conference organized by the World Energy Council in Dakar in late June provided yet another occasion to stress how far Africa sits on the sidelines of the world energy scene. The statistics are eloquent.
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Only 24 hours after pre-qualification ended on June 29, Cameroon's technical commission for privatization and asset sales and its adviser, [...]
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The Ghana government has obtained funding from foreign sources to upgrade facilities for the supply of power to Accra and [...]
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Algeria's Sonelgaz is getting interested in energy conservation as part of a plan to diversify into other sectors. In tandem [...]
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The Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) has been forced to shelve plans to hook up new subscribers to the grid [...]
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The U.K. firm British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL) has acquired a [...]
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Uganda's energy ministry has issued a request for proposals to [...]
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Sonelgaz has issued an invitation to tender for the supply [...]
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Operator on Angola's block 18, BP Amoco is scheduled this month to start drilling Paladio, the fourth contractual well under [...]
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Studies for the Angola LNG export project are proceeding and the firm Gaffney Cline and Associates has assessed the country's [...]
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Soekor E and P is hoping that Gabon and a number of other African nations will provide it with an [...]
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The Canadian firm Tornado Resources, which has wholly owned blocks L-10 in the Lamu basin and block 1 in the [...]
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Kenya's National Oil Corporation is putting exploration acreage in 10 new blocks both onshore and offshore in the Lamu basin [...]
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As AEM predicted in its last issue (AEM 278), the development contract for Ohanet was effectively signed early this month. [...]
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A major overhaul is being planned at Sonatrach, AEM has learned. The future shake-up is linked to changes in the [...]
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The Zimbabwe government has set up a new company named Fuel Company of Zimbabwe Ltd. to raise money on behalf [...]
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Sonatrach is thinking of buying stakes in power stations in [...]
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The Algerian oil group Sonatrach is highly interested in Angola [...]
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Results of a study on the Namibe basin conducted by [...]
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The Benin government has denied that the oil facilities on [...]
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In the wake of the World Bank's decision to help [...]
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No less than 22 multinational oil companies have submitted bids [...]
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Talks on privatizing SOLIMA are far from completion and the [...]
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The Tanzanian government is expected to sell half of its [...]
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The battle for Kisangani in June has brought a big change in diamond trading patterns in the eastern part of [...]
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Any withdrawal of Uganda troops from Democratic Republic of Congo could see the Kilo-Moto gold mines falling under the control [...]
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Australia's Red Back Mining company plans to unveil new estimates for its Chirano gold project in Ghana to the Australian [...]
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Cash-strapped Southern Mining Corp's aim of building what could be the world's biggest titanium mine and smelter at Corridor Sands [...]
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The small Australian firm Kimberley Diamonds has been awarded one of the last areas in Western Cape province to be [...]
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The international mining giant Billiton has formed an alliance with a small Australian explorer, Equinox Resources, that will result in [...]
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Delta Gold has closed its Eureka mine in Zimbabwe and analysts in Australia doubt that it will be re-opened even [...]
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The Geita mine operated by Ghana's Ashanti Goldfields Company has produced its first gold more than three months ahead of [...]
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The French firm Rhodia Chimie has won a license to mine phosphates at Sukulu in eastern Uganda. The government had [...]
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Sitting in its first ordinary session, the Gabon parliament has adopted a new mining code to replace legislation dating from [...]
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The Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company, one of Africa's largest [...]
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MLC's national finance director Francois Mwamba told AEM that if [...]
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Barrick has increased its holding in Tanzania's gold belt by [...]
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