Spotlight | Angola
French Oil Lobby Deploys
The French oil group TotalFinaElf sponsored an "Angola Week" in Paris between Nov. 6-9 in a clear effort to wipe the slate clean of Angolagate.
The French oil group TotalFinaElf sponsored an "Angola Week" in Paris between Nov. 6-9 in a clear effort to wipe the slate clean of Angolagate.
Courted by the majors (see Spotlight) and partner of government-controlled companies in the region ( SNPC in Congo-B, Gepetrole in [...]
Already active on several fields in Gabon, Angola and Congo-B, Marathon , an affiliate of the American group USX , [...]
Pushing ahead with liquefied natural gas projects, Nigeria LNG has [...]
The Japanese conglomorate Itochu and the European firm Europipe have [...]
The British firm Star Petroleum that already works in tandem [...]
Chevron Nigeria , a joint venture between NNPC and [...]
The firm Independent Power Tanzania (IPT), a 70%-owned affiliate of [...]
The International Finance Corp., the private affiliate of the World Bank, teamed up with the French Credit Lyonnais bank in [...]
Russian and European companies are making ever-greater efforts to gain headway in Libya in the absence of U.S. firms which [...]
Active in Tunisia since 1999, the highly discreet company Hydrocarbures Tunisie has just landed its sixth permit, Jelma, in the [...]
Postponed following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the United States/Africa business summit staged in Philadelphia between Oct. 30 and Nov. [...]
France's TotalFinaElf is negotiating with both Angola and Congo-B on actively participating in exploiting giant fields containing over 1 billion [...]
At Africa Energy Intelligence reported in early August (AEI 304), the International Monetary Fund is going to audit the accounts [...]
Foreign companies are showing ever-mounting interest in the prospects for exploration and development in Equatorial Guinea. The U.S. firm Marathon [...]
James Prior , chairman of the U.K. firm British [...]
The promoters of the West African Gas Pipline (WAGP) which [...]
In addition to resuming work on the Merowe dam (AEI 304), Sudan has launched itself into a series of hydro [...]
Morocco’s construction of a power station in the Laayoune region in the contested territory of Western Sahara is a first-ever [...]
Published last week, a World Bank report revealing that the Kenya Power and Lighting Co (KPLC) would incur a staggering [...]
During an Africa/U.S. business summit in Philadelphia organized last month [...]
Member of the board of Britain’s Soco company, Rui de Sousa will be Soco’s representative at Odex, a joint venture [...]
A director of Sonangol , Antonio Jose Martins Raposo has just replaced Jorge Van Deste as the company’s chief negotiator [...]
Chairman of British Levant Petroleum , James Prior , who is working to obtain an exploration permit in the Abugota [...]
One of the discreet participants in the U.S.-Africa Business summit organized by the Corporate Council on Africa in Philadelphia in [...]
With "a little help from his friends," Jean-Baptiste Bikalou launched a gas distribution and oil products company in Gabon in [...]
The Zambia National Oil Co (ZNOC), the country’s main importer [...]
The Atlanta-based American firm Georgia Power and the Nigerian Electric [...]
Nigeria has asked the World Bank to consider carrying out [...]
Several companies have displayed an interest in the resumption of [...]
The Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) has just awarded [...]
The Agence Francaise de Developpement is poised to bankroll an [...]
The choice of a buyer for Senelec which was to [...]
A group of four Sudanese anti-slave militants headed by the [...]
Abdel Hafiz al Zaletny , secretary-general of Libya’s National [...]
During a conference named Electrical Industries in the Arab World [...]
IBC Global Conferences is organizing a conference in Amsterdam on [...]