Unlike Nigeria’s big offshore oil projects, the construction of liquefied natural gas plants - all of them built on land - are not immune to political maneuvering. The choice of a region as venue for the plant and the selection [.
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After dropping in on the White House this week, Chinese president Hu Jintao will pay a visit to Morocco between [...]
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Repeated attacks by rebels from the Front Uni pour le Changement (FUC), who briefly made their way into N’Djamena last [...]
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The Nigerian government is negotiating the terms of a memorandum of understanding with the five Western majors with which NNPC [...]
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Portugal has followed on the heels of China in offering a credit line to the Angolan government to finance various [...]
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According to our sources, Switzerland’s Cliveden group finalized the sale of its huge concession in Chad a few weeks ago [...]
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Sonatrach is going to inaugurate a new oil pipeline by the end of the year to enable oil companies operating in the Berkine basin to increase their output.
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The World Bank is thinking of financing a gas pipeline that would supply northern Nigerian from gas in the Delta.
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Following the mixed results of its licensing round last August, Nigeria has just put 14 licenses on the auction block for groups ready to invest in the downstream.
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Already operating in Angola, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) built by Israel’s Aeronautics Defense Systems group are to protect oil facilities in the Delta.
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A national oil panel that sprang out of last year’s peace treaty between Khartoum and rebels in the south is slowly being formed. It will begin by examining all oil concessions awarded by north and south.
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The opening of a new pipeline will combine with production start-ups on new fields to help Sudan boost production from 300,000 bpd to 600,000 bpd by year’s end.
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A report by the geology firm Degloyer MacNaughton to be unveiled this week reports a 40% drop in reserves on the M’Boundi field, the leading asset of France’s Maurel & Prom.
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The majors are testing their creative powers in bidding for relinquished parts of the oil-rich block 15.
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Bids for other blocks in Angola’s offshore have been coordinated in remarkable fashion. Just one western oil company and a number of local concerns have put in a bid for each license on offer.
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Italy’s ENI is going to put the El Ouar field [...]
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The Italian group Edison announced on April 3 that it [...]
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Nigeria’s Orient Oil has signed a contract with the U.S. [...]
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The Swiss oil group Addax has increased its stake in [...]
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France’s Total drilled a dry well, Cassiopee Marine 1, on [...]
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The state-controlled Pakistan Oil & Gas company has submitted a [...]
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ExxonMobil is scheduled to hand in block 33 to the [...]
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Africa Energy Intelligence understands British Gas has offered to build a power station in the suburbs of Lagos and supply [...]
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Like BG, Agip submitted a project for a gas-fired power plant to the government in order to qualify to participate in the licensing round in Nigeria’s offshore.
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The American group and its German rival have put projects for private power plants to the government.
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The World Bank has prepared a financial stabilization plan for Sinelac which operates the Ruzizi power station on the border between Rwanda and Burundi and in which Congo-K, Rwanda and Burundi hold stakes.
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Inhabitants of the Amri area who are to be displaced [...]
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In the wake of a number of scandals involving oil companies quoted on London’s Alternative Investment Market new and tighter [...]
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A listed affiliate of the Canadian-South African group Energem, First Africa Oil announced last week that it didn’t have enough [...]
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Nigeria’s licensing round for relinquished acreage on 10 offshore concessions (see P. 3) could well ignite a number of dormant [...]
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Ugandan businessman William Kalema, a partner of South Korea's Hyundai group in the Electro-Maxx consortium, has protested over a government [...]
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Number two man at the State Department when Colin Powell was secretary (2001-2005), Richard Armitage, who now runs his own [...]
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A long-serving executive of RoyalDutch/Shell, John Conlin was appointed to the board of the Australian oil group Hardman Resources last [...]
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South Africa’s Sasol group has named a third black as an executive director following the appointment of Nolita Fakude in [...]
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Former drilling manager for Encana in Chad and Yemen, Kerry Fulton has been appointed chief operating officer of the Canadian [...]
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The director of trading operations at the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) up to the end of the 1990s, the [...]
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Former strategy boss at the Nigerian firm Ocean & Oil (Oando), the American accountant of Nigerian origin, Franklin Ihekwoaba, has [...]
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Equatorial Guinea’s oil company GEPetrol issued a call for bids [...]
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According to our sources, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation is [...]
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The Entreprise Tunisienne d’Activites Petrolieres (ETAP) signed an agreement on [...]
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On April 11 the secretariat of the Nigeria Extractive Industries [...]
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The US-Libya Business Association founded by Amerada Hess, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, [...]
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Global Pacific & Partners is organizing a seminar in London [...]
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Global Pacific & Partners is organizing a forum at the [...]
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The CWC Group is organizing a conference on the Gulf [...]
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