Now producing over one million barrels per day due to the production start-up on the Kizomba A field last August, Angola is going to take up a number of challenges facing oil operations in the country this year.
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Alongside a licensing round in Libya's onshore, Tripoli is negotiating as number of concessions directly with oil companies. Africa Energy [...]
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Sonatrach has just kicked off work to enhance the recovery rate on the Hassi Messaoud field.
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Not a week passes without new groups making their entry to London's Alternative Investment Market. The next on the list are Petroworld, Energem and Vanco.
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Long associated with Medard Bemba in Central African Republic and Guinea Bissau, Maurel & Prom has wound up a joint company it formed with the businessman.
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The investigation into bribes paid in Nigeria by the Halliburton affiliate KBR hasn't prevented the American group from winning the contract to build Chevron's GTL plant at Escravos.
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The U.S. firm Kosmos has finally teamed up with prince Arthur Eze and has named Adebayo Oguniesi, financial adviser to the Nigerian government, to its board.
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With three LNG plants already up and running or planned - NLNG, Brass LNG and Nwa-Doro - Nigeria is talking with Chevron and BG on building a fourth in the Niger Delta.
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Present in the Doseo and Salamat basins in Central African Republilc since 2000, Grynberg Petroleum has been seeking partners in a lot of corners.
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Thanks to backing from Pretoria, the state-owned oil company PetroSA has been awarded its first big international concession in Sudan.
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China's CNPC group announced it had produced 320,000 bpd in Sudan last year.
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The Rod oil field in the Berkine basin worked by [...]
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Active on the Agadem block in south-east Niger since 2002, [...]
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Total has made a fifth discovery on the Usan field [...]
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Inventor of a new GTL conversion system (see our article [...]
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Despite a full year of talks, a consortium formed by [...]
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Located on block 0 off Cabinda, the Bomboco field in [...]
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On Feb. 28 Uganda will announce the winner of a competition to get the Bujagali hydro power station project back [...]
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Algeria's Sonelgaz intends to call for bids for two new power plants after putting contracts for facilities at Arzew and Berrouaghia out to tender.
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An international Kuwaiti group, Kharafi Holdings, has won the management contract for Gambia's power and water utility NAWEC.
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Already dominating Sudan's oil sector, Chinese companies are winning a flurry of power contracts.
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Germany's Lahmeyer group has finalized its contract to manage Jirama after two months of bargaining.
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Accompanied by officials from the Korea National Oil Corporation (KNOC), Korea Gas and Korea Electric Power, South Korean foreign affairs [...]
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Officials from several Polish oil groups travelled to Libya early this month with prime minister Marek Belka. The two leading [...]
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Last week's visit to Nigeria by Iranian president Mohammed Khatami followed the signing of a memorandum of understanding in December [...]
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Highly controversial in Portugal, a visit by government spokesperson Numo Morais Sarmento to Sao Tome between Jan. 7-10 appeared clearly [...]
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Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf will shortly pay a visit to Sudan at the invitation of president Omar el Bechir. The [...]
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Africa Energy Intelligence understands the Antoine Tabet group has won the final round in Switzerland in its case against Total. [...]
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The Joint Development Authority that manages the Joint Development Zone between Nigeria and Sao Tome was due last weekend to [...]
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Norway has lent $30 million to Ghana's government to help it restructure the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG). As part [...]
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The arrest of Abba Abacha, the second son of former Nigerian leader Sani Abacha, by the police in Germany in [...]
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One of the main cases of back-in rights - rights that allow NNPC to pre-empt shares in Nigeria's offshore -appears [...]
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Competing for the favor of Congo president Denis Sassou N'Guesso with Bruno Itoua for several years, Denis Gokana is to [...]
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Like his predecessor, Congo-K's new energy minister, Pierre Muzumba Mwana Ombe, is a member of president Joseph Kabila's Parti du [...]
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According to The Indian Ocean Newsletter, sister publication of Africa Energy Intelligence, Bernard Cullet, a senior executive in Total's E&P [...]
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Executive president of British Gas until last summer, David McManus has just been named vice president for international operations at [...]
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Unlike France's Total, which allowed its Dakhla concession off Western [...]
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Italy's Agip, an affiliate of ENI, is currently fighting with [...]
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Algerian energy minister Chakib Khelil announced during a visit to [...]
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The New York firm Fulbright & Jaworski is highly active [...]
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A sister newsletter of Africa Energy Intelligence, La Lettre du [...]
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The British engineering firm Genesis carried out a pre-feasibility study [...]
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The British firm Clearwater Research Service is organizing a conference [...]
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Hosted by Global Pacific & Partners, organizers of the annual [...]
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The CWC Group is organizing a conference in Kuala Lumpur [...]
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