Profiting from repeated delays in gas liquefaction projects in Nigeria and with backing from the World Bank, Equatorial Guinea is positioning itself to process the associated gas of its neighbors in a new train at its EG LNG plant.
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The Nigerian capital, Abuja, played host on Nov. 30-Dec.1 to the first Africa/Latin America summit gathering. No less than 25 [...]
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Angola and Sudan formally applied to join the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries on the eve of OPEC’s 143rd summit [...]
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The director of Nigeria’s Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), Tony Chukwueke has returned to his post following a three week [...]
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American military experts have begun installing radar equipment on the island of Sao Tome and on the neighboring island of [...]
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Equatorial Guinea’s mines and energy ministry said on Nov. 24 that new oil legislation had been approved by Parliament and [...]
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Initiated this summer (AEI 422), talks between ENI and Maurel & Prom on the latter’s M’Boundi field wound up successfully [...]
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The Hungarian oil group MOL is on the lookout for opportunities in North Africa
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Gaz de France is seeking to bring state-owned Sonatrach into several of its gas liquefaction projects.
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The French gas group is reportedly on the verge of bidding for BG’s assets in Mauritania’s offshore.
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A company owned by the brother-in-law of the governor of River state in Nigeria was recently awarded a block in Ghana’s offshore.
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The representative of the trader Arcadia in Nigeria, Mohamed Asibelua has joined forces with a number of Western partners to set up an oil group with interests in Nigeria and elsewhere in the region.
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Accused of acquiring a block that wasn’t put out to competitive bidding in Nigeria, businessman Emeka Offor has brought a well-connected Nigerian company into one of his licenses in Sao Tome.
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The French major has begun to display an interest in gas reserves under Lake Kivu.
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Highly active around Lake Albert, Tullow Oil is also interested in Lake Tanganyika and other firms are seeking a foothold in the region as well.
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Algeria’s Sonatrach and NOC in Libya have retained the consultancy [...]
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Britain’s Wood Group has just been awarded two contracts worth [...]
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Although Britain’s Dana found a 65 foot gas column on [...]
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The Canadian junior Exile Resources has acquired a 40% stake [...]
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Woodside began drilling the Pomboo 1 well on block L-5 [...]
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Long operated by the explorer Dubai Zarara Oil & Gas, [...]
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In a bid to help China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) acquire exploration acreage in Uganda (see P. 5), the [...]
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Germany’s Voitch group has won a contract to modernize Kenya’s Masinga dam.
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Canada’s SNC Lavalin has submitted a plan to the Angolan authorities to rehabilitate the Matala dam.
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Malawi is to start buying power from Hidroelectrica Cahora Bassa (HCB) in 2009.
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A joint venture with the acronym UMEME that was formed [...]
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The construction of an interconnection system between Namibia and Zambia [...]
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Over the past month would-be suitors as varied as Dubai Energy, India’s Reliance Industries, Kuwait Energy and ONGC Mittal Energy, [...]
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Although it announced last month that Elf's former exploration and production chief Jean-Luc Vermeulen would be joining its board, the [...]
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With the Libyan government's sale of Tamoil apparently stuck in the sand (AEI 428), new would-be suitors have suddenly appeared [...]
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The Nigerian National Petroleum Corp last week officially launched the "Nigeria Content Support Fund" to which all the majors operating [...]
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The UK Appeals Court will hand down its finding on the case involving White Nile on Jan. 17. Last June [...]
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Britain’s Edward Walsh, a veteran oil industry executive, has been named to the board of the engineering group Bateman Litwin [...]
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Technical director and member of the board of Britain’s Grove Energy, Feroz Abdul Sultan has left the company which he [...]
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Appointed chairman of Tower Resources in February, Peter Kingston is to replace Russel Langusch as chief executive of the company. [...]
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The exploration director at Ireland’s Tullow Oil, Angus McCoss, has been named to the company’s board. McCoss, a 44-year-old Scot, [...]
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A long-standing employee of Compagnie Generale de Geophysique (CGG - he has spent most of his career at the firm [...]
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Alfred Sambu was fired as chairman of the board of Kenya Power & Lighting Co (KPLC) last week and replaced [...]
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Africa Energy Intelligence misstated a first name when it reported in its last issue (420) that Yves-Louis Darricarrere would replace [...]
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Algeria’s state-owned Sonatrach has announced it will shortly open a [...]
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The chairman of Libya’s National Oil Corp, former prime minister [...]
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The chairman of Sonangol, Manuel Vicente, was unable to meet [...]
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Highly active on issues involving Africa in Washington, the lobbying [...]
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Holding stakes in a number of oil juniors operating in [...]
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The firm Global Pacific Partners is organizing a conference on [...]
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Global Pacific & Partners is organizing a conference on the [...]
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CWC Associates is organizing a conference on Nigeria's oil industry [...]
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