Now the proud owner of 184 TCF of gas, and thus ahead of Nigeria's with its 182 TCF, Mozambique became Africa's leading nation in terms of gas reserves this year. However, the two main operators, ENI and Anadarko, face a [.
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Local representatives of the Italian major ENI have been locked in negotiations for weeks with both the energy ministry and [...]
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The Chinese are trying to elbow their way into the construction and financing of a network of pipelines that will carry gasoline to Burkina Faso.
With its business in Gabon at a dead end, the Chinese company is seeking to raise its profile in the Niger Delta by tightening its ties with well-connected local interests.
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The national oil company is to exercise its option to become operator on three of the five licenses that Chevron is trying to sell.
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Having failed to regain control of their firm PanOcean, which has been administered for 10 years by its Nigerian partners, Italy’s Fabri family is trying to drag Abuja into the case via arbitration.
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The Nigerian firm Sapetro doesn’t seem particularly bothered that it is fleshing out its portfolio in highly unstable country shaken by insecurity.
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New finds by oil companies in Sudan have been few and far between but Star Oil seems to be pulling it off.
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. The American firm Kosmos Energy has shut down operations [...]
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Six months after Islamic extremists attacked the In Amenas gas field in southern Algeria, killing 40 persons - including five [...]
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The Amaya equity fund, which already owns a stake in Seven Energy, has invested in the firm Azura Power which is building a gas-fired power plant in Benin City. The supplier of the gas will be Seven Energy.
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Talks between Orca Exploration and the Tanzanian government to double the amount of gas produced on Songo Songo are dragging on.
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Initially held back by the Dutch government following accusations that [...]
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Only days before a meeting in Abuja on Sept. 18-19 to be attended by all of the consortiums pre-qualified to [...]
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Major power projects already awarded by the government are having trouble taking off, to the Abidjan’s irritation.
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Power projects bankrolled by mining companies are moving ahead little by little. But the situation still remains highly critical in the province.
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Mali’s new president, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, has decided to appoint a former World Bank economist as industry and mines minister [...]
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The current adviser to president Jose Eduardo Dos Santo for regional cooperation and a former chairwoman of the board of [...]
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Central African Republic’s mines, oil and energy minister Gontran Djono-Ahaba is to shortly start looking for a consulting concern to [...]
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The French oil firm Maurel & Prom has appointed a new chief to see to its business in Gabon in [...]
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There seems to be no end of good news for [...]
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Algeria's new legislation on oil and gas won't be enacted [...]
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The management of state-run Namcor have every right to feel [...]
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According to our sources, Niger's oil minister, Foumakoye Gado, was [...]
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The vice president of China’s CNPC remained personally on the [...]
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The arbitration procedure in Paris that went against Addax (Sinopec) [...]
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Will the state-run Angolan company Sonangol shortly begin prospecting in [...]
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Tullow Oil, Hess and the Equatorial Guinea government have been [...]
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Having already lent $53 million for the development of the [...]
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To finance its project for a gas-fired power station in [...]
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The World Bank is limbering up for a major investment [...]
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Jacques Jones, the executive in charge of arbitratation at the [...]
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With Nigeria's share in American oil imports continuing to fall [...]
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After running the oil and gas department of the Canadian law firm McLeod Dixon for over 30 years, Jay Park [...]
Oliver John Moss, managing director of the American firm Vaalco [...]
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Zainab Kuchi, Nigeria's deputy energy minister in charge of electricity, [...]
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Maimouna Ndoye Seck, Senegal’s new energy minister, served until early [...]
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