Envied for its success and the ever-rising price of its shares on the Stock Exchange, the French junior Maurel and Prom wants to move into higher gear by expanding its portfolio and increasing its market capitalization.
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Named energy and water supply minister in the new government of prime minister Inoni Ephraim last week, Alphone Siyam Siwe [...]
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Amerada Hess has just inaugurated a new division to see to the acquisition of fresh acreage. Named Global New Business [...]
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A former executive at Conoco, Asamera and Anadarko, the U.S. national Kevin Lant has just been appointed exploration director for [...]
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Manager of Chevron's Nigerian affiliate for nearly eight years, George Kirkland, who had headed Chevron Overseas Petroleum since 2001, was [...]
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An engineer who studied in Germany, Olivier Andriamahefaparany, last week took over from Jacky Rabarison as energy and mines minister [...]
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The chairman of the Nigerian oil services group Adamac/Suffolk Petroleum, Henry McPepple was arrested and then released last month on [...]
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On the heels of Jacques Chirac, Silvio Berlusconi and Tony Blair, Canadian prime minister Paul Martin is visiting Libya in [...]
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Scheduled for Dec. 7, a meeting of the joint Cameroon-Nigeria commission to discuss the Bakassi issue has been put back [...]
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Chief of staff to president Jose Eduardo dos Santos over the past year, Carlos Maria da Silva Feijo, who had [...]
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A clash that claimed two lives at the Panthere Nze field operated by Canada's Panafrican Energy in the south-east of [...]
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Congo-K's government has lost little time in replacing the general managers of Societe Nationale d'Electricite (SNEL) and Congolaise des Hydrocarbures [...]
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After making headway in Nigeria, Angola and Gabon, Chinese oil companies are looking at the Logone Birni and Rio Del [...]
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Scrapped in 2001, the project to develop the Tinhert gas field south of Illizi will be the next to be put out tender to foreign companies by Sonatrach.
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The Algerian authorities ruled that CNPC's bid for the Skikda refinery project didn't conform to specifications and are organizing a new tender.
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A company owned by sheikh Abdullah Bin Saeed al Thani has made its debut in the country. It's the second group from the United Arab Emirates to plant its flag in Mauritania's offshore
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The DiamondWorks group run by Brian Menell and Tony Texeira has beaten Total and Chevron in acquiring relinquished acreage on Doba.
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Nigeria's South Atlantic group has made its debut on the only field in Benin known to house proven reserves.
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Nigeria has just hired the firm of David Goldwyn, former assistant secretary of energy for international affairs, to help improve transparency in Nigeria's oil industry.
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The Equator firm, which has just been listed on London's Alternative Investment Market, serves as Sao Tome's adviser, the only seismic operator in the country and the lone holder of rights in Sao Tome's offshore.
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Tests have identified oil reserves in the central province of Bandundu.
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Helped by the Australian government to gain a foothold in [...]
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Claimed as a victory by associations backing the Polisario Front, [...]
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The Sanha condensate project on Block O began producing last [...]
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With the Malagasy government in the final phase of talks to hand Germany's Lahmeyer the management of Jiro sy Rano [...]
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Facing an imminent threat of power shortages, South Africa is planning to build new coal-fired stations and has just put out a tender for IPPs.
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Malaysia's Mechmar that has operated the Tegela station since 2000 could quit the country.
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Finland's Wartsila is a big winner of a major World Bank project to back Burkina Faso's power sector.
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Pursued by the South African law firm Abrahams Kiewitz and the U.S. concern Cohen, Milstein, Hausefeld and Toll along with [...]
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After hiring Canaccord Capital and Lehman Brothers for advice on how to make the maximum out of their Algerian assets, [...]
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Switzerland has frozen nearly $100 million in several bank accounts in the country in the wake of an investigation by [...]
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Last week's decision by the International Monetary Fund to put together $84 million in funding for Congo-Brazzaville could be viewed [...]
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We mistakenly stated in our article on the sale of Nimir Petroleum (AEI 379) that Saudi Arabia's bin Mahfouz family [...]
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Sonatrach's export sales in 2004 will hover between $29 and [...]
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Amerada Hess, Marathon and ConocoPhillips, the three groups that form [...]
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New gas legislation calls for the break-up of the Nigerian [...]
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Gambia's petroleum commissioner, Lamin Nije, announced during the Africa Oil [...]
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Long lacking a lobbyist in Washington - the country was [...]
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The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation is reportedly on [...]
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Michael Dee, who had previously headed Morgan Stanley's branch in [...]
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The Swedish engineering concern Norplan has signed a contract with [...]
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The Dutch computer company Unit 4 Agresso has just supplied [...]
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The British firm Clearwater Research Service is organizing a conference [...]
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The CWC Group is organizing a conference in Kuala Lumpur [...]
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