Spotlight | Africa
Oil Connections at the World Bank
A number of oil companies, banks and power utilities enjoy special access to the World Bank.
A number of oil companies, banks and power utilities enjoy special access to the World Bank.
As one of his predecessors, Loik Le Floch Prigent , was appearing on television to promote his book entitled "Affaire [...]
The merger between Chevron and Texaco that became effective on Oct. 10 has turned the new ChevronTexaco company into the [...]
As Africa Energy Intelligence anticipated in its last issue (307), the World Bank’s management of the Chad-Cameroon pipeline is going [...]
The privatization of Congo's Societe Nationale d'Electricite (SNE) and the Societe Nationale de Distribution de l'Eau (SNDE) has bounced back [...]
Two years after former Nigerian oil minister Dan Etete made an offer to buy the Societe Ivoirienne de Raffinage Nigeria [...]
The government of president Teodoro Obiang is finding it harder than expected to set up a national oil company – [...]
The Agence Francaise de Developpment has been asked to put together a funding package worth 160 billion CFA francs ($225 [...]
An agronomist by training, Severin Levi Gourenne Zadi was named director general of the state-owned distribution company Petroci Holdings (formerly [...]
Active in Ivory Coast (on the CI-11 and CI-1 permits), [...]
The Ivory Coast national oil company Petroci , which has [...]
Burkina Faso’s minister for energy, quarries and mines, Abdoulaye Abdoul [...]
To help Guinea deal with a dire energy shortage and [...]
Kenya has joined Tanzania (AEI 307) in planning to offer several offshore exploration licenses to small oil companies. AEI understands [...]
As Africa Energy Intelligence predicted in July, the Australian company Hardman Resources , already active in Kenya (see above), has [...]
Sonatrach has been champing at the bit to invest in oil exploration in Sudan ever since a joint Algerian-Sudanese [...]
The Russian firm Slavneft which has been holding talks with the Sudanese authorities since early this year (AEI 304) has [...]
As Africa Energy Intelligence reported, the World Bank approved a [...]
The U.S. group AES isn’t alone in waiting impatiently for [...]
The U.S. Trade and Development Agency has awarded a $500,000 [...]
The Italian firm Enerco has been negotiating with the Ethiopian [...]
Former governor of Gauteng province and current chairman of Mvelaphanda Holdings , Tokyo Sexwale is seeking to join forces with [...]
Director of Mvelaphanda Energy , the oil and gas affiliate of the Tokyo Sexwale Mvelaphanda Holding Co ., Philip Rhind [...]
TotalFinaElf ’s prime project on block 17, Girassol, is [...]
The privatization of the future "generation" division of Eskom will [...]
The monopoly that Zambia National Oil Co (ZNOC) has enjoyed [...]
Still seeking markets for Kudu's gas (AEI 302), Namibia has [...]
As public and private organizations sounded out by Zimbabwe on [...]
To avoid stealing any of the Palace’s thunder – Mohammed VI had just announced his forthcoming marriage to Salma Bennani [...]
A meeting held two weeks ago in Italy between Chakib Khelil , Algerian energy minister and boss of Sonatrach , [...]
Former adviser to Algeria’s energy minister and ex member of OPEC ’s board of governors, Ali Aissaoui has come forward [...]
The Chinese National Petroleum Corp is counting on the bidding [...]
Henri Philippe Reichsdul , chairman of the Brazilian company [...]
During a meeting with Algerian energy minister Chakib Khelil on [...]
Operator of the Tiznit Offshore exploration license, Energy Africa plans [...]
According to statistics from Algeria’s energy ministry, private investors are [...]
The CWC Group , the Arab Union of Producers, Transporters [...]
George Person Jr . has become the leading official dealing with Africa at the U.S. department of energy since [...]
A Belgian lawyer, Georges-Henri Beauthier , is representing three Congolese nationals who filed a suit on Oct. 11 against the [...]
IBC Global Conferences is organizing a conference on the [...]