Oil companies like big sports events because they offer a way for firms to treat their customers to a free ticket to attend games or to win publicity by sponsoring individual athletes or teams. A group of traders and financiers [.
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Asked to appear before the Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee on Sept. 28, general James Jones, commander of U.S. Forces in [...]
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Launched with considerable fanfare last December (AEI 382), India’s "oil diplomacy" has run into obstacles and has failed to help [...]
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Nigeria’s cabinet late last month approved the procurement of 12 Chinese F7 fighter aircraft from the China National Aero Technology [...]
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Angolan president Jose Eduardo Dos Santos announced the news himself at the start of a meeting of the ruling MPLA [...]
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Sonatrach’s petrochemical complex in Skikda, which was partially destroyed by a blast last year, caught fire again last week. One [...]
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The British junior Aminex has formed a joint venture with the Mocoh trading firm which is highly active in Africa.
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Japanese companies won six concessions in Libya and the country is about to plant its flag in Algeria as well.
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Despite a lot of lobbying, Russian groups have found it hard to win acreage in Libya. So far only Tatneft has been lucky.
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A stake-holder in a company active in the Joint Development Zone between Nigeria and Sao Tome, financier George Soros is also financing an inquiry into the awarding of licenses in the area.
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Several firms are seeking to win acreage in Kenya’s offshore in the wake of Woodside and Dana.
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The junior Range Resources has just signed a contract covering the entire sub-soil of Puntland while South Africa’s Ophir has finalized a PSA in Somaliland.
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Already working alongside Sinopec on block 3/05, the private Angolan firm Somoil has just been awarded 15% of block 4.
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Chevron has unveiled plans to build an LNG terminal in the same port in Mississippi which Sonangol has chosen to construct its first liquefaction plant in the U.S.
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After largely favouring American companies in its first international licensing [...]
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Already owner of the CI-112 concession in Ivory Coast’s deep [...]
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After exploring it for a year, France’s Maurel & Prom [...]
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A South Korean businessman has been working overtime in recent [...]
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The American oil company Pioneer Natural Resources has signed a [...]
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Speaking at the World Petroleum Congress last week in Johannesburg, [...]
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The Iranian and American governments are each investing in Mali‘s power sector. The U.S. Trade & Development Administration has offered [...]
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Managed by Zimbabwe since the 1980s, the Kariba power station on the Zambezi river lies at the center of a squabble between Zimbabwe and Zambia.
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Thanks to funding from South Africa, Mozambique’s power utility is going to restore the electricity grid in Beira, the country’s second biggest city.
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The U.S. equity fund Blackstone has just acquired nearly 80% of a private company, Sithe Global Power which was set [...]
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Revealed by Africa Energy Intelligence last month (AEI 400), talks between the China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) and Energem [...]
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The privatization of Tunisia’s state-owned Societe Nationale de Distribution des Petroles, which operates the Agil service station chain, appears to [...]
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We understand the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) is talking with a consortium of investors to set up a fund [...]
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Initially planned for the third quarter of 2005, the flotation of Nigeria’s Ocean & Oil company on the Johannesburg Stock [...]
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Several companies active in South Africa’s offshore are worried about a lack of information about royalties in South Africa’s new [...]
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Son of a former navy minister during Felix Houphouet Boigny’s presidency, Kassim Fadiga, was appointed head of Ivory Coast’s state-controlled [...]
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Former managing director of Cliveden, an oil company owned by the Swiss trader Friedhelm Eronat, Peter Felter is seeking a [...]
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Former first secretary at the Mauritanian embassy in Washington, Kemal Ould Mohamedou has just been hired by the Australian oil [...]
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Senior vice president in charge of Africa at Technip since 2002, Philippe Barril found himself sidelined in a major overhaul [...]
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The American group Hyperdynamics which had its huge concession in Guinea cancelled this summer has just hired a Guinean with [...]
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In addition to his duties as head of Sonatrach’s upstream operations, Belkacem Boumediene has been appointed president of the SPP [...]
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The trading subsidiary of Sonatrach signed an annual contract with [...]
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Italy’s ENI and Sonatrach have formed a joint trading company, [...]
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South Africa’s state-owned PetroSA dispatched an oil exploration ship late [...]
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With the Chinguetti field slated to begin producing before the [...]
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Already working with other lobbying concerns, Ivory Coast has taken [...]
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The Societe Marocaine d’Industrie de Raffinage (SAMIR), an affiliate of [...]
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A former employee of Scott Pickford and the Anglo-Siberian Company, [...]
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