At loggerheads with the British junior White Nile over the ownership of block 5B in southern Sudan, Total has managed to negotiate an agreement with the South Sudanese government and the central administration and to elbow aside its rival by [.
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The Gulf of Guinea appears likely to gain in strategic importance for the United States in coming years. With any [...]
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Tempers are flaring on both sides of the Mediterranean. After accusing Spain last month of "blocking" negotiations on the price [...]
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While its oil revenue could reach the USD 1 billion mark in 2007, Chad will probably be unable to honour [...]
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Although the Supreme Court of Nigeria rejected an appeal by Dokubo Asari, leader of the Niger Delta Volunteer Force (NDVF) [...]
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Found guilty in March in a case involving fictitious jobs at Elf International, the former chief executive of Elf, Loik [...]
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Founded a year ago by a former Kuwait trade minister, KGL Petroleum has bought into Circle Oil and is seeking new blocks on the continent.
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Now that Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR) has quit the Algerian energy scene, Japan’s JGC is landing gas contracts from Sonatrach.
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The Libyan government’s a new strategy is to acquire stakes in exploration and production concessions through public holding companies.
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For the second time in six months, Equator Exploration, which has several concessions in Nigeria, announced it was on the point of being bought out, only to say that this wasn't the case.
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After more than a year of talks, China National Petroleum Corporation still hasn’t managed to sign an agreement on the Agadem field.
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The Congolese government is poised to award new acreage in the eastern part of the country and wants to force Tullow to accept new partners.
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The Hi-Tech group that is seeking partners for its block C in Sudan figures on a new list of firms hit by American sanctions.
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In late May the French construction group Vinci acquired a [...]
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Africa Energy Intelligence understands development of the In Amenas gas [...]
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The secretary-general of Guinea’s mines and geology ministry, Alimou Diallo, [...]
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After several years of talks, Sinopec finally signed an agreement [...]
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Congo-K’s environment minister, Didace Pembe, threatened Perenco in early June [...]
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After Halliburton and Baker Hughes in the past, the drilling [...]
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The American group Contour Global was originally slated to sign a power purchase agreement (PPA) with the Communaute Electrique du [...]
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A loan from India will help finance the electricity interconnection between Mali and Ivory Coast and give a big push to the WAPP.
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Although Tanesco has returned to the government’s fold, Tanzania no longer want to subsidize it.
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The state-run Mozambique utility Electridade de Mocambique (EDM) is due [...]
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The Italian group Salini Bujagali Team, prime contractor for the [...]
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The 75 MW Zongo dam located on the falls of [...]
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Elliot Associates, an equity fund that holds a lot of Congo-B debt, has found new political friends. The chairman and [...]
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The French tax authorities have been conducting a high-level audit of the finances of the oil group Maurel & Prom [...]
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After a year of abortive bids and counter-bids, the corporate finance department of France's BNP Paribas bank headed by Herve [...]
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The Organisation pour la Mise en Valeur du Fleuve Gambie (OMVG) that represents Gambia, Senegal, Guinea and Guinea-Bissau, hopes to [...]
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Africa Energy Intelligence understands that Angola’s Banco Africano de Investimentos has lent Falcon Oil the money needed for the group [...]
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The new director-general at the Malagasy energy ministry, which was formed following a separation of the mines and energy departments, [...]
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The British explorer Madagascar Oil headed by Sam Malin, which controls several bituminous sand concessions in Madagascar’s onshore, has just [...]
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The Canadian concern Talisman Energy has poached one of the top executives of BP to replace Jim Buckee, its chief [...]
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The current vice president for development at Australia’s BHP Billiton, Stephen O’Rourke has been named chief of the group’s exploration [...]
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The former vice president of the World Bank, Ngozi Okonjo-Iwela, is going to serve as an adviser to Wolfenson Capital, [...]
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The African Petroleum Producers Association is organizing a third congress at the Palais des Congres in Cotonou between June 19-21 [...]
EnergyNet is organizing a forum on the power sector in Africa at the Congres Center in Hamburg between June 27-29. [...]
Global Pacific & Partners and Africa Upstream 2007 are organizing a week-long conference on the African oil sector at the [...]
The state-run power utility Sonelgaz plans to invest USD 2.5 [...]
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Angola’s state-run oil company Sonangol acquired a 2% holding in [...]
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Cameroon’s Societe Nationale des Hydrocarbures (SNH) announced on June 5 [...]
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The Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) that represents 10 countries on [...]
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A longstanding adviser to Maurel & Prom's chief executive, Jean-Francois [...]
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The American law firm Morgan Lewis has just been chosen [...]
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