Southern African power companies are being forced to make ever-increasing power cuts because of low water levels due to the unprecedented drought that has gripped the south-east corner of the continent this year. In Tanzania, the Tanzania Electric Supply Corp.
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As Lasmo prepares to withdraw from the Seychelles offshore permit that it inherited when it took over Ultramar (AEM 91) [...]
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While Nigerian LNG's (NLNG) status with regard to the NNPC remains uncertain (see above) several developments have occurred regarding the [...]
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The Namibian energy ministry is expected to sign an exploration agreement with Sasol by early October that will make the [...]
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Equatorial Guinea is determined to see that its oil production will not be limited to the 5000 bpd of condensates [...]
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Fina Exploration Libya, subsidiary of Belgium's Petrofina group, has concluded farm-out agreements with two Canadian companies, Chieftain International and Westcoast [...]
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The government set up on Sept. 8 by prime minister Stephane Maurice Bongho-Nouarra following the victory of Pascal Lissouba in [...]
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Elf Nigeria has just contracted two new platforms for its development on the OPL-93-to-96 blocks (Afia, Odudu, Ime and Edikan). [...]
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Last June's shake-up in the Nigerian oil branch that affected the oil resources ministry and top management of the Nigerian [...]
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Tractebel Industrie, subsidiary of Tractebel Ingénierie (one of the Belgian [...]
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Genref is the former Wentworth Mobil Refinery at Durban which [...]
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Sasol has awarded the German company Linde the engineering work [...]
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Petrosen has signed a new agreement with First Seismic Corporation [...]
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In line with the EC's decision in April to lift [...]
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Kenya will suffer no interruption in oil supplies despite some [...]
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Although the first well was dry, Conoco appears to believe [...]
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That is the view of director-general Abdelbaki Banabdoun who added [...]
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Mining projects rank first among the financial committements undertaken during the 1992 year (which ended in June) by the International [...]
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Layoffs are continuing in South African mines, with 40 000 jobs lost over the past four years in the gold [...]
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President Omar Bongo declared in an interview on the TV [...]
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Moves to privatize Guinea's electricity branch are gathering steam. Brandishing their recent success in the Ivory Coast (see below) SAUR [...]
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Windhoek's decision on the construction of the Epupa hydro-electric dam situated downstream from the Ruacana dam on the Cunene river [...]
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Two years following an agreement giving the Compagnie Ivoirienne d'Electricité a 15 year concession on the distribution of electricity, a [...]
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The Botswana Power Corp. (BPC) plans to ask an international [...]
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Mashonaland Holding plans to start producing small wind power generators [...]
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A project by Regidesco to bring electricity to all major [...]
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