Tunisia has extended a welcome to British and Canadian juniors but it also remains one of the rare African countries to boast a real local oil industry. As a result, most Western oil companies join forces with Tunisian businessmen when [.
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The U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state for economic affairs, Paul Simons, was in Tripoli last week to set out [...]
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The speaker of the Russian Senate, Serguei Mironov, was in Algiers two weeks ago to negotiate several partnership accords with [...]
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Technip, KBR and Forster Wheeler have been short-listed to build a huge liquefaction train at the Skikda plant.
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Shell and BP alone picked up five of the ten concessions put out to tender by Algeria.
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Algeria's Sonatrach has just doubled the capacity of LNG it could export to the British market.
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Spain's Cepsa has just been awarded 2 million euros by the European Commission for technical and commercial studies on the [...]
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Scheduled to take place this month, the National Oil Corporation's second licensing round could unfold under new terms. A model [...]
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Algeria's Sonatrach has been talking with the Angolan authorities for [...]
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British Airways is to start flying three times a week [...]
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Well established in Algeria, Gaz de France has joined the [...]
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A fresh attempt by the United Nations to break the logjam over Bakassi has been blocked by Nigeria. Two weeks [...]
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On the heels of Woodside's project to build a LNG plant running on gas from Banda, a second field, Pelican, could supply a LNG unit.
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New concessions by Sasol and Chevron have resulted in the Escravos Gas-to-Liquids project being put back on track.
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The engineering affiliate of NNPC, Netco, is now systematically finding itself involved in leading development programs. Kellogg, Brown & Root (KBR) [...]
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Africa Energy Intelligence understands the World Bank is preparing a $110 million program in favour of Nigeria's power sector. Named [...]
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After several false starts, Senegal has finally found an operator to build a second IPP in the country.
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A partner of Woodside on the B block in Mauritania's offshore that contains the western part of licenses number 4 [...]
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The Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund (EAIF) that was set up by Britain's Department for International Development, the Standard Bank and [...]
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A former senior executive at Shell Nigeria Gas, the gas distribution affiliate of RoyalDutch/Shell in the country, Ben Ofodile has [...]
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Mauritania broke its former energy and water supply ministry into two separate portfolios last month and named Zeidane Ould H'Meida [...]
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The British firm Clearwater Research Service is organizing a conference [...]
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The U.S. oil firm Amerada Hess was sharply criticized in [...]
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Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo's oil adviser, Edmund Daukoru, organized a [...]
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The U.S. firm Pioneer has acquired a 51% stake on [...]
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After trying unsuccessfully in the 1990s to develop its OPL [...]
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The Agence Francaise de Development has issued an invitation to [...]
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The British law firm Pennington's has represented Equatorial Guinea since [...]
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Chosen last month to conduct an audit of Nigeria's oil [...]
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Filed in 2001, a complaint against Canada's Talisman for ?genocide? in Sudan can't constitute a class action, according to judge [...]
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New Plan for Tanesco
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After talks lasting a full three years Scotland's Dane Associates has penned an agreement to build a 34 MW plant running on methane gas from Lake Kivu.
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Russia has just written off most of Ethiopia's debt to the country, or $1.1 billion. Addis Ababa agreed to pay [...]
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The Uganda government has signed a three year contract with [...]
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Max de Vietri who is credited with discovering concessions in Mauritania now operated by Australia's Hardman and Woodside, is seeking [...]
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We understand the former chief executive of ENI, Guglielmo Moscato, could join the board of the French oil company Maurel [...]
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Former vice president and legal counsel at the Hanover Compressor company, Mark Berg is going to take the same job [...]
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Former chief of international operations at Unocal, John Imle has just succeeded Gene Van Dyke as boss of the American [...]
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Former Africa and Middle East manager for Chevron, which he left in 1999, Luigi Caflisch has been named to the [...]
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Global Pacific & Partners is organizing a conference in London [...]
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The CWC Group is organizing a conference on the Gulf [...]
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Total and Shell have just been awarded a new block in the country, where Cameroon is attempting to revive exploration in the Rio del Rey region.
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Two wells drilled by the American concern Murphy Oil, which [...]
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Several Angolan officials are doing the rounds to meet with Western juniors interested in marginal fields.
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Sold off to a private consortium last year, Vetco Gray, the former oil services affiliate of ABB, has bolstered its position in Angola.
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Issued last week, statistics from the International Monetary Fund concerning Angola show the government's share of oil revenue dropped from [...]
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