The commercial pacts that Washington. has established with Africa in recent years are aimed essentially at importing more crude from West Africa. And the U.S. administration is now planning the next phase: a strategic alliance with the region's oil-producing nations, [.
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Former head of the Chase Manhattan Bank's global oil & gas division, Dod Fraser is to work as consultant to [...]
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A man who handled delicate issues for Angolan president Jose Eduardo dos Santos and was the country's ?third ambassador? in [...]
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Grandson of the trader Callouste Gulbenkian who made a fortune in selling Iraqi oil, Micael Gulbenkian has just been named [...]
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Previously in charge of the African brief at the state-owned oil company Petronas in Kuala Lumpur, Fawy Muhiyiddin will shortly [...]
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An African specialist in Electricite de France's international division, Stephane Garnier, will join the Africa department at the World Bank [...]
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Now ChevronTexaco's African expert, John Flynn addressed a recent conference on African oil staged by the Institute for Advanced Strategic [...]
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Founder and boss of the British firm Burren Energy which has specialized up to now in the Central Asian republics, [...]
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Head of protocol under president Pascal Lissouba, Maurice Mavoungou was appointed chief of the gas subsidiary of Societe Nationale des [...]
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A former officer at the Defense Intelligence Agency, the American army's intelligence branch, Barry Schutz was the prime organizer of [...]
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The China National Offshore Oil Company (CNOOC) is seeking to [...]
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The British government has just set up an Emerging Africa [...]
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As Africa Energy Intelligence predicted last August (AEI 304), the [...]
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Cameroon has promised the International Monetary Fund that it will [...]
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Before being sold off to the private sector, the Societe [...]
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A parliamentary panel set up to inquire into NNPC has [...]
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The African Development Bank has just approved a $47 million [...]
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Despite its problems in financing the 257 MW power station [...]
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The World Bank's plan to bring power to northern Togo, [...]
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Algerian energy minister Chakib Khelil issued an angry protest over [...]
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Initially planned for Sept. 11 and immediately cancelled following the [...]
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The Sudanese government is seeking to forge oil partnerships in [...]
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The Institut Francais du Petrole is organizing the 3rd International [...]
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The former governor of Gauteng state and now a formidable business force, Tokyo Sexwale could well be positioning himself to [...]
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Apart from staging legislative elections this year, Algeria will experience a lot of action on the oil front with four invitations to tender and wider deregulation.
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China's Soinochem group has managed to gain a foothold in Tunisia by acquiring Atlantis, an affiliate of PGS.
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Trumpeted as a victory by both Rabat and the Polisario Front, the U.N.'s ruling on the legality of oil exploration off Western Sahara will effectively curb operations in the region.
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Equatorial Guinea's new national oil company Gepetrole has just won the equivalent of a 15% stake on a block. When the government was negotiating with oil companies the most it got was 5%.
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Bruno Itoua, boss of Societe Nationale des Petroles du Congo, is putting pressure on foreign oil companies in a bid to increase the government's share in the cake.
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Two Russian companies are trying to horn in on the Calub gas project as the field's owner, the U.S. concern Sicor, puts a financial package together to develop the scheme.
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Embroiled in a scandal in Belgium in which it is [...]
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Africa Energy Intelligence predicted in its previous issue, the Espoir [...]
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According to information gleaned by Africa Energy Intelligence in Kampala, [...]
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At the behest of the Mozambique government, the International Finance [...]
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The U.S. firm Global Energy has won permission to convert [...]
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Long a diversified company – it dealt in farm goods, real estate and the like – the firm Maurel & Prom run by the Credit Lyonnais bank's former financial wizard, Jean-Francois Henin, has thrown itself exclusively into the energy sector.
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Like its rivals, the oil services company Stolt Offshore is seeking to pick up major development contracts expected to be awarded in West Africa this year. And a crucial factor in the competition will be forging partnerships with local firms.
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Amerada Hess has made a third find on the Ebano [...]
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In late January, the South African group Sasol picked the [...]
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To reduce the risk of being taken over by Italy's [...]
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The drilling program of the U.S. firm Pioneer Natural Resources [...]
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Agip Gas, an affiliate of ENI that has teamed up [...]
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Since the Sept. 11 attacks in the U.S. power companies operating in Africa have found it extremely hard to finance [...]
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For want of money to swing the deal, Vivendi has missed the deadline to sign the contract for the acquisition of Senelec. The Senegalese government has given it 10 days to find the cash.
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Sudan's National Electric Company is planning four major projects in addition to the Merowe dam and Khartoum power plant.
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Officials from Vivendi who are having so much trouble in [...]
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