With major banks in the oil sector suffering from the credit crunch which makes it hard to syndicate loans on behalf of operators, a number of small financial firms which worked to build up specialized oil advisory practices businesses are [.
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Wang Jiarui, head of the International Liaisons Department (ILD), the leading political intelligence organization of the Chinese Communist Party, headed [...]
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During a visit to Tripoli, Indonesian energy minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro signed a memorandum of understanding on Feb. 7 with the [...]
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In Sao Tome’s tiny political class nobody can be kept out in the cold for long. A long-standing oil adviser [...]
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The leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), Henry Okah and another alleged member of [...]
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Sudan president Omar el Bechir has made sweeping changes in his government that affect eight ministerial posts. In what appeared [...]
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The enthusiasm that Gazprom has displayed for a project to build a pipeline between Algeria and Nigeria (see our report [...]
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The small Australian firm GB has been counting on several former executives of the Lundin family's companies for help in making its mark in West Africa.
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Two of the remaining three groups in the running for the Agadem block are due to kick off negotiations with the Niamey authorities this week.
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RoyalDutch/Shell’s rather theatrical announcement that it was pulling out of the Niger Delta onshore has stirred keen interest among gas operators.
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After withdrawing Tullow Oil’s rights on block 1 on the banks of Lake Albert, the oil ministry is now threatening to take back block 2 as well.
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Lundin and Petronas have followed in Total’s footsteps by awarding the southern Sudanese government a stake in their Sudanese acreage.
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Tanzania’s onshore has begun to attract firms with little, if any, experience of the oil industry.
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After making a move in Namibia, Japan’s Mitsui group has pressed ahead with its expansion drive in Africa by buying into a block in the Rovuma basin.
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Angola’s national oil company is putting together a fleet of tankers to carry its own oil and gas.
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In presenting its annual financial results last week in Paris, [...]
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Britain’s Bowleven will resume work in the spring after being [...]
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The South African national oil company PetroSA has been operating [...]
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Debuting in Nigeria less than two years ago, BG is [...]
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Officials from the Saudi conglomerate Al Rawabi Holding were in Congo-B on Feb. 12 to present president Denis Sassou NGuesso with a project to rehabilitate the Congolaise de Raffinage (CORAF), the refinery at Pointe Noire operated by the Societe Nationale
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The Swiss trader Guvnor is pulling out all the stops [...]
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The Republic of Mozambique Pipeline Investment Co (Rompco), which operates [...]
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Britain’s Aminex has announced that an exploration well it drilled [...]
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The Korea Electric Power Corp (KEPCO) has won a USD 450 million contracted linked to the Western African Power Pool [...]
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Several groups are intent on tapping into Lake Kivu’s methane gas reserves.
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Due to Eskom’s inability to supply the power they need, South Africa’s big industrial groups are seeking to build their own electricity stations.
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The General Electricity Company of Libya (GECOL) has awarded a [...]
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Portugal’s Soares da Costa company is to build and operate [...]
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Callixte Kampbanda, executive secretary of the Eastern Africa Power Pool [...]
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Mozambique has endorsed a project by the Brazilian construction company [...]
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The Nigeria National Petroleum Corp is expected in a few weeks' time to announce the name of the bank that [...]
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The European Commission has agreed to put up EUR 10 million towards a rural electrification program in Rwanda, with the [...]
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Originally to be spread over 10 years, repayment of a loan contracted by Mozambique to buy 67% of Hidroelectrica Cahora [...]
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Tanzania’s new prime minister, Mizengo Pinda, announced the composition of his government on Feb. 12. The energy portfolio went to [...]
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The managing director of the United Arab Emirates firm Dana Gas, Rashid Al Jarwan, and the group’s development director, Greg [...]
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The American company Hyperdynamics has bolstered its exploration team by hiring Jeffrey Sprain as its exploration director. He will work [...]
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Appointed in January, 2007 by the energy ministry at the time, Patrick Ramiaramanana, the director for energy, 53-year-old A. Andrianjafitrimo [...]
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Named oil minister last week in succession to Awad Ahmed el Jaz, who held the post for 12 years, Zubair [...]
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Citac is organizing the annual general assembly of the Association of African Refiners at the Westin Grand Hotel in Cape [...]
Global Pacific & Partners is staging a conference in London on April 10-11 on the latest oil developments in the [...]
Global Pacific & Partners is organizing the 6th Maghreb & Mediterranean Oil & Gas Conference at the Residence Hotel in [...]
Morocco’s Office National des Hydrocarbures et des Mines (ONHYM) is [...]
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Namibia’s national utility Nampower has issued an invitation to tender [...]
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Congo-K’s state-owned Societe Nationale d’Electricite has issued a call for [...]
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The Algerian police have questioned around 100 executives of state-owned [...]
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State owned PetroSA is thinking of building a new refinery [...]
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Highly active in Africa, the Canadian consultancy Manitoba Hydro was [...]
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Sasol’s lobbyist in the United States since 2005, the Livingston [...]
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The Paris office of the American law firm Dewey & [...]
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