Equatorial Guinea has discreetly given itself a lot more elbow room by raising $400 million
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Unveiled with a lot of fanfare last week, a new type of exploration contract being introduced by Libya is likely [...]
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As expected, an agreement to proceed with Brass LNG was finalized at the end of October and Chevron joined the original partners in the venture.
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While the majors were conspicuous for their absence in the licensing round in the Joint Development Zone between Nigeria and Sao Tome private Nigerian firms led the bidding.
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The Equatorial Guinea government is moving to step up exploration of its offshore in order uncover fresh reserves.
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A project to build a refinery at Bata to supply the region with oil products has divided the government.
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The IMF has accused Brazzaville of using oil revenue for unscheduled purposes. Congo denies the charge. At stake is the country's debt, which amounts to 16 years worth of oil production.
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The government is going to try for the second time to privatize the state-owned CORAF refinery.
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After making a start in Chad, the British oil company Cliveden has won a big foothold in Sudan
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On the heels of the Russian firms Methanol and Stroytransgas and the U.S. company Sicor, a Jordanian oil concern is seeking to work on the Calub gas field.
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After trying to make a big splash in Zambia, where [...]
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ChevronTexaco will shortly announce the name of the oil services [...]
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Congo is planning a new project to help make up for its short-fall in power generation - a 30 MW [...]
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The World Bank is to earmark $53 million to support Mali's efforts to privatize the generation of power for its rural inhabitants.
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Rehabilitation of the main dam in Democratic Republic of Congo will begin next year with a flurry of calls to bid.
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Confronted by chronic supply problems, the Hwange and Kariba power [...]
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The U.S. Export-Import Bank approved a credit line worth $1 billion for Algeria's Sonatrach in late October to enable it [...]
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The Italian consortium Lavori Edili Stradali Industriale (LESI) and the Italian construction firm Dipenta have filed suit against Algeria before [...]
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Initially set at $100 million over a five year period (see our previous issue, No. 356), a loan to Gabon's [...]
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The Sao Tome government has approached the Trade and Development Agency in the U.S. to ask that it finance feasibility [...]
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In conjunction with the OPEC Fund which comes under the wing of OPEC, the Lebanese group Byblos has just opened [...]
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The African Development Bank has disbursed $15 million - of which $12.9 million in loan form and $2.8 million as [...]
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A partner in the Kaye Tesier & Co law firm, Jeffrey Tesler is also boss of Tristar, a Gibraltar-based company [...]
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Chairman of the Rio Tinto mining group and former head of oil products at RoyalDutch/Shell, Paul Skinner has just joined [...]
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Angola's oil minister, Desirio da Costa, is chairman of the board of CrossOil, a Swiss trading company whose operations intrigued [...]
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Named the new oil advisor to president Olusegun Obasanjo in succession to Rilwnu Lukman, Edmund Dukoru began his career as [...]
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Following the promotion of Martin Houston who was named British Gas' executive vice president for North America, the Caribbean and [...]
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Now that the first families of victims of the downing of the Pan Am airliner over Lockerbie have begun accepting [...]
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Nigeria took a major step towards change in its oil sector last with the replacement of NNPC chairman Jackson Gaius [...]
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After attracting South Africa's covetous eyes, Congo-K's power potential has begun to seriously interest the Americans as well. In the [...]
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Pressure is mounting on both sides to reach an agreement when SPLA rebels and the Khartoum government resume peace negotiations [...]
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Oil circles in Luanda will keep a close watch on the MPLA congress due to be held next month in [...]
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Involved in several new gas projects like that of Brass [...]
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The Societe Tunisienne d'Electricite et de Gaz (STEG) last week [...]
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ConocoPhilips has contracted IndigoPool, an affiliate of France's Schlumberger group, [...]
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An affiliate of OilInvest, a Dutch-based holding company of the [...]
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As Kenya and Uganda press ahead with the construction of [...]
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IBC Energy is organizing a conference on Dec. 10-11 at [...]
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The CWC Group is organizing a conference at the Intercontinental [...]
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A firm run by S.H. Lucas, a former vice president [...]
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The South African security company Erinys which has offices in [...]
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The state-owned oil group Sonatrach signed a framework accord with [...]
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Associations speaking for victims of apartheid which filed suit before [...]
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