Spotlight | Africa
American Offensive on African LNG
Washington's strategy to diversify its imports of liquefied natural gas in Africa should become fully effective in the coming two years
Washington's strategy to diversify its imports of liquefied natural gas in Africa should become fully effective in the coming two years
The oil services companies bidding for the engineering, procurement and construction contract for the West African Gas Pipeline (WAGP) project [...]
Having dropped their fight with the government over the share-out of oil resources, several states in south Nigeria have been rewarded with marginal fields.
After bargaining over the issue for a year, the leaders of ria and Nigeria have made the first move towards building a gas pipeline between their two countries.
Chad is to become an oil-producing country before the end of the year. Africa Energy Intelligence reveals the timetable.
Sao Tome's government has finally settled its feud with Chrome Energy, a company that had rights on the Joint Development Zone between Nigeria and Sao Tome.
Although its obligations to develop fields in Equatorial Guinea are weighing heavily on its finances, the South African firm Energy Africa has taken a stake on a new concession.
In the works for over a year, an audit of SNPC's books finally began early this month during the visit of an IMF mission to the country.
After just four months of negotiations, Ireland's Tullow Oil has obtained a huge concession in Gabon's offshore - and highly advantageous terms, to boot.
In the midst of a major restructuring, Portugal's Galp Energia is considering changes in its gas operations and could tie up with Sonangol in oil.
The small American firm Frontier Resources has been awarded a huge concession in northern Namibia.
The Abo field located on OPL 316 and operated by [...]
Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering looks likely to build the [...]
According to reliable sources, officials from the World Bank are to present a $67 million project that aims to beef [...]
Several donors are putting together a program to revive electricity production in Zambia.
In holding on to the strategic electricity portfolio, the Kinshasa government is laying plans to restructure the utility.
During a visit by French president Jacques Chirac to ria two weeks ago, his rian counterpart, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, discreetly announced [...]
After a number of secret encounters in Vienna and Paris (outlined by Africa Energy Intelligence in previous issues no. 307 [...]
Last month's visit by Gabon's defense minister Ali Bongo - son of president Omar Bongo - to the island of [...]
The coup d'etat sprung by general Francois Bozize in Bangui over the weekend could have a major impact on the [...]
The lower house of Nigeria's parliament has thrown out a draft law governing work of an anti-corruption panel that president [...]
A meeting that was to bring together Angola's leading donors in Brussels this month has been discreetly postponed and no [...]
Canada's Talisman finally announced last week that it had concluded the sale of its 25% stake in the Greater Nile [...]
Kenya's new energy minister, Ochillo Ayacko, has unveiled plans to slash the price of electricity in the country by 50% [...]
Widespread investment by Eskom Enterprises, the international branch of South Africa's state-owned utility Eskom, has combined with the cost of [...]
In charge of Sonangol's negotiations with Western oil companies, Antonio Jose Martins Raposo has been replaced in the job by [...]
The former boss of Glencore's oil operations, the French national Franck Destribats, was placed under formal investigation by examining magistrate [...]
Combining the jobs of Equatorial Guinea's representative at the United Nations, ambassador to Washington and prime go-between for American oil [...]
Canadian Natural Resources has named Martin Cole as chief of its international operations, the biggest of which in Africa are [...]
The ?reconciliation government? that Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo formed two weeks ago brought in a number of ministers from [...]
The three partners in the Brass LNG project, NNPC, Agip [...]
Peter Clutterbuck, vice president of PanAfrican Energy, told the East [...]
In addition to the U.S. oil firm Frontier Resources International [...]
Sudan's national oil company Sudapet has signed a series of [...]
The East African Community has signed a contract with the [...]
The British concern Orrick, which has an office in Paris, [...]
After winning a contract to conduct an audit of Angola's [...]
The NGO Transparency International (TI), which was founded by former [...]
Representing RoyalDutch/Shell in the dispute pitting it against the Nigerian [...]
IBC Energy is organizing a conference in London between June [...]
EnegyNet Limited is organizing a conference in Lausanne, Switzerland between [...]