Equatorial Guinea has become the continent's third-ranking producer and now acts very much on its own, forcing its neighbors and oil mentors to bow to its priorities
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Libyan prime minister Mubarak al Shamek was replaced following a meeting of Libya's parliament by Shukri Mohammed Ghanem, the economy [...]
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Attributed to Mauritania's economic ills by the international media, last week's abortive coup d'etat in Nouackchott boiled down rather more [...]
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Although Nigeria's elections have been staged and the Army has quelled riots in the Niger Delta, the security situation in [...]
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K Structure, a 670 sq.km. concession straddling the maritime boundary Congo-B (Haute Mer license) and Angola (block 14) will be [...]
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Africa Energy Intelligence understands that the Malaysian oil company Pexco has begun talks with Gabon's Direction des Hydrocarbures to buy [...]
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After Repsol and OMV, Germany's RWE has just signed a contract for acreage that was put out to tender in 2000 but never awarded up to now. Libya had wanted to wait for the return of U.
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Repsol, Oranto and an unknown American company have just been awarded concessions in Sierra Leone's offshore.
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Following the dispute which has pitted RoyalDutch/Shell against Nigeria's Malabu Oil & Gas, ChevronTexaco now finds itself squabbling with local companies.
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In signing an agreement with Ethiopia on block G, Petronas tightened its grip on the Melut basin which it is already exploring on the Sudan side.
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France's Perenco group is expected to shortly be awarded the Marine IV concession relinquished by ChevronTexaco in 1999.
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The chairman of SNPC has announced that Congo-B will shortly stage a licensing round in its shallow offshore.
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The Transworld company owned by the legendary trader John Deuss is quietly building up an African portfolio by establishing direct contact with governments in the region.
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ChevronTexaco has taken its turn in starting to develop its Angolan fields, Benguela/Belize, following ExxonMobil's start on Kizombe B and Total's on Dalia.
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Initially delayed, development of the onshore gas fields of Wafa [...]
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The Canadian firm First Calgary, which is active on blocks [...]
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The American firm Vanco and RoyalDutch/Shell are preparing to drill [...]
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Ivory Coast energy minister Leon Emmanuel Monnet winged his way [...]
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BG has signed an agreement with the Tunisian government to [...]
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Highly active in West Africa where it has helped to finance the oil pipeline between Chad and Cameroon, the European [...]
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The Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development has just offered a $17 million loan to the Volta River Authority to [...]
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South Africa's state-owned Industrial Development Corporation is discreetly seeking investment opportunities in Nigeria. We understand that one of the projects [...]
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Africa Energy Intelligence has learned that the International Finance Corp., private investment arm of the World Bank, moved in early [...]
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Oil deliveries by Trans-Sahara Trading (TST) to the Indeni refinery in Zambia are now at the center of a huge [...]
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Oil minister until 2000 when the ministry was disbanded and its functions handed to Abdulhafid Zlitni, chairman of the National [...]
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Vice president of ChevronTexaco for power, technology and chemicals, Darry Callahan will go into retirement at the end of the [...]
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Chairman of the Port of Houston Authority and adviser to Houston mayor Lee Brown for international affairs, the American-Nigerian businessman [...]
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Chairman of the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA), Mandla Gantsho has joined the board of the South African oil [...]
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Boss of the Volta River Authority, Charles Wereko-Brobby, was forced to provisionally stand down from his job after a revolt [...]
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After putting a lock on Sudan's oil industry the Chinese are moving into the power sector. Nearly a year after [...]
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Listening to advice from the World Bank, Senegal is preparing to launch its first IPP early this summer rather than privatizing Senelec.
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A contract for equipment for a dam financed by the European Investment Bank will shortly be put out to tender by Swaziland's government.
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Since June 12, Gbadolite, capital of northern Congo and bastion [...]
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The South African affiliate of the Swiss-Swedish firm ABB has [...]
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Zambia's Copperbelt Energy Company is planning to import nearly 50 [...]
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The consultancy Hewitt Associates has been hired by India's state-owned [...]
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The fact that the Canadian consultancy Acres International was convicted [...]
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The British consultancy Jebco Seismic and Global Exploration Services (GES) [...]
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Maurice Dantas and Shem Ochuodo, who were respectively named chairman [...]
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The current showdown between the International Monetary Fund and the [...]
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Nigeria's national oil company, which failed to persuade OPEC to [...]
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CWC Associates is organizing a presentation in London on June [...]
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IBC Energy is organizing a conference in London between June [...]
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