With presidential elections scheduled for May 10, Congo-Brazzaville's SNPC, which has remained largely in the shadows since it was set up in 1998, has been asked by the World Bank to open its books.
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Africa Energy Intelligence has learned that Mali's government is to issue an invitation to tender for 15 blocks this coming [...]
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The International Finance Corp., private investment arm of the World Bank, is to put money into a new company run by two former executives of Energy Africa.
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The U.S. firm Skidmore feels it was hard done by the drastic dilution of its stake in Lone Star, which has been re-named Maghreb Petroleum by the Saudi Arabian company Dallah Albaraka, and is reportedly planning legal action.
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Still locked in negotiations to sell its assets in Sudan, Canada's Talisman is doing its utmost to advertise the success of its venture in that country. Petronas has emerged as a strong bidder.
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A small, Cyprus-registered company that explores for oil in North Africa, Medex, has reportedly taken over the management of the Togo's Office Togolais des Phosphates.
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Ireland's Aminex company has stepped into Tanzania's offshore by acquiring the Australian firm Tanzoil.
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Triton could be ready to withdraw from Madagascar if it fails to find a partner for its Ambilobe license.
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The Europeans are unhappy about Libya's slowness in awarding oil concessions and let it be known at a Casablanca conclave.
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The merger between PanCanadian Resources and Alberta Energy Co will give rise to a new junior capable of taking on big projects in Africa.
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The China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) is bidding for two [...]
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Following our article on the conflicting estimates of potential reserves [...]
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The Societe Nigerienne des Petroles (SONIDEP) is one of Niger's [...]
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Guinea is the only non-oil producing nation in West Africa [...]
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CMS International has been awarded a 4,496 sq.km. concession in central Tunisia.
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African Intelligence Energy's sources in Washington report that the World Bank is planning a major overhaul of its trust fund [...]
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Several international investigative panels are intrigued by the absurdly low price that Democratic Republic of Congo asks Zimbabwe to pay for electricity.
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The privatization of two companies formed out of the break-up of the national utility UEB has been halted in its tracks, and South Africa's Eskom could win from the resulting confusion.
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Active up to now chiefly in refining and oil products, the group owned by the Saudi-Ethiopian tycoon Mohamed Al Amoudi has launched itself into oil exploration, with Africa as its prime target.
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Formed out of a merger between the French concerns Entrepose [...]
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The U.S. firm Environmental Remediation Holding Corporation (ERHC) which owns [...]
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Amerada Hess, which bought Triton last year, has made a [...]
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The Spanish utility Endesa intends to cut its investment budget [...]
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Spain's second-ranking power utility, Iberdrola, has inked a contract to [...]
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A Canadian, Ian Wright, has been put in charge of overhauling the Trust Funds system at the World Bank which [...]
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Former Mauritanian minister of health, justice and energy, Mohamed Salem Ould Merzoug has just been named high commissioner of the [...]
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Head of the international department at the lobbying concern Foley, Hoag & Eliot, Michael Glanz is going to work on [...]
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Following the merger between Conoco and Phillips (AEI 311), Robert McKee III, vice president of Conoco since 1996, will run [...]
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Chairman of Eskom since 1997, Reuel Khoza will shortly be named chairman of the South African utility's board of directors. [...]
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Head of the Nigerian firm Vision Reservoir Management Technologies, Jude O. Amaefule has benefited from a government ruling that local [...]
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Edward Ayensu, chairman of the World Bank's inspection panel, wrote to Africa Energy Intelligence to indicate that, contrary to what [...]
A mistake appeared in the story entitled ?How Vivendi Struck Out on Senelec? Spotlight section of our last issue. The [...]
IBC Global Conferences is organizing a conference on Angolan oil [...]
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The CWC Group is organizing a conference in London on [...]
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The U.S. group AES faces a lot of financial troubles [...]
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Several Arab development funds are to put up half of [...]
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The U.S. ExIm Bank has signed an agreement with six [...]
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Announced last week, Nigeria's rejection of the monitoring accord it [...]
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In April the World Bank will examine a $30 million [...]
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Keen on having the IMF initiate a program in Equatorial [...]
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The Kenyan Power and Lighting Corporation (KPLC) posted a $28 [...]
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Russia's Lukoil and Surgutneftgaz could well follow their fellow Russian [...]
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Anxious to reduce its dependency on the Gulf for its [...]
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Australia and Cameroon have just established diplomatic relations and Australia's [...]
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Libya could help Somalia restore the power station at Mogadishio [...]
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