The development frenzy in Nigeria's gas industry at the moment presents a number of risks - operational, political and commercial - as well as a huge question mark, who is going to finance the government's share?
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In an attempt to put an end to long-standing rivalry between the Libyan government departments that deal with the oil [...]
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With less than eight months to go before the first round of Nigeria’s presidential election, incumbent president Olusegun Obasanjo and [...]
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President Joseph Kabila could ask parliament to examine production sharing agreements that have yet to be finalized by his government. [...]
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Published last week, a draft of the Darfur Peace and Accountability Act which will be tabled before the Senate’s foreign [...]
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After a six month battle, France’s Total managed last month to acquire Chevron’s stake in the Brass LNG project. But [...]
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The Chad government wants to resolve its problems with oil companies working the Doba fields before the end of the month, which marks the beginning of Ramadan.
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The Canadian oil group Encana has found a buyer at last for its concession in Chad but is finding it hard to finalize the deal.
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Following a full year of talks, Canada’s Buried Hill group has been awarded two extensive concessions in Gambia’s offshore.
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Talks between Central African Republic and Grynberg Petroleum have been broken off anew. The American group says CAR’s lawyers represent a conflict of interest.
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The French oil group has acquired holdings in acreage owned by countryman Prestoil.
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ExxonMobil and Total are taking an interest in the government’s prospecting operations in the Congo River’s basin.
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The Canadian group is trying for the second time to explore in Democratic Republic of Congo. But it has a lot of hoops to jump through to get its permit endorsed.
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The names of the companies chosen to kick off eight [...]
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The Nezla development well, the first of seven wells that [...]
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After examining the project for several months, Liberia’s new president, [...]
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A year after it debuted on the Marine XI concession [...]
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Total is poised to award a series of contracts to [...]
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The War on Want anti-globalization NGO has just published a report slamming Britain’s Globeleq company for helping to bump up [...]
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Tunis and Rome have dusted off an old project for an IPP headed by ENI and ENEL at Cap Bon.
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Dating from the colonial period, a project for a dam on the Konkoure river at Souapiti is to be bankrolled by a Chinese fund and built by Sinohydro.
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In the wake of Total, Agip and RoyalDutch/Shell, Chevron will build a gas-fired power plant.
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The Communaute Electrique du Benin (CEB) has been granted a [...]
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After its involvement in a case in Nigeria in which bribes were allegedly paid to land a contract to build [...]
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A 51% stake in state-owned Credit Populaire d'Algeria that will be put on the auction block in November is arousing [...]
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The French bank BNP Paribas has become the first Western bank to open a branch in Mauritania. The group will [...]
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Jarch Capital, a firm owned by the U.S. national Philippe Heilberg, has just transferred its rights on block B in [...]
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The European Investment Bank (EIB) is in the final stages of putting together a EUR 300 million loan for Eskom [...]
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After serving for over 10 years as boss of Burren Energy, the partner of Maurel & Prom on the M’Boundi [...]
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Managing director of Gambia’s National Water Electricity Company (NAWEC), Abdoulie Jobe was arrested and jailed early this month for "economic" [...]
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A year after resigning as managing director of Maurel & Prom to become boss of Pebercan, French businessman Frederic Boulet [...]
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With the group under attack by a NGO in the United Kingdom (see P. 5), Globeleq has beefed up its [...]
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A former operations chief for Berkley Petroleum Corp. in Western Canada, Jim Dalsin has been hired by the mining group [...]
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Initially set for Aug. 31, the deadline for companies to [...]
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Libya’s National Oil Corp and its Algerian counter-part, Sonatrach, have [...]
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State-owned Sonatrach has signed a one year contract with the [...]
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Lawyers for six Sudanese anti-slavery militants who accused Talisman of [...]
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Entitled "Operation Kissonde: the Diamonds of Humiliation and Misery," a [...]
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Global Pacific & Partners will organize a week-long conference on [...]
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