Five years after the first major discoveries in the country, Equatorial Guinea is seeking to increase its share of revenue from its offshore
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Japan's decision to close down 10% of its nuclear power stations for security reasons has compelled the government to re-open [...]
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A contingent of Libyan troops stationed in Bangui will shortly pull out after defending president Ange-Felix Patasse against an attempted [...]
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By a vote of 55 to 51, Sao Tome's parliament last week approved a plan to revise the constitution to [...]
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A meeting between Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo and his counterpart from Cameroon, Paul Biya, failed to resolve a dispute between [...]
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The ChevronTexaco oil group has joined ranks with an international agency, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) to set up [...]
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Two South African NGO's, Jubilee South Africa and a group representing victims from Khulumani, have filed suit before a federal [...]
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Last month's move by Hidroelectrica de Cahora Bassa (HCB), the company that operates the Cahora Bassa dam, to halt supplies [...]
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Since it was established in 1975, the Saudi Fund for Development has pumped the equivalent of $215 million into power projects in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Despite selling its oil assets to Perenco, the U.S. firm CMS hasn't managed to wrestle down its debt and now plans to sell its stake in Morocco's Jorf Lasfar power station.
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SNEL in Democratic Republic of Congo is hard at work negotiating new contracts with Congo-Brazzaville, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
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After selling its distribution network in Switzerland (117 service station) to Tamoil, France's TotalFinaElf is poised to negotiate once again [...]
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Siemens, Endesa and Morocco's ONE have raised 214 million Euros in a bond issue to finance construction of a combined [...]
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After the collapse of efforts to privatize Senelec, Abdoulaye Wade's government asked the World Bank to set up a commission [...]
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The Nigerian National Petroleum Agency is examining the possibility of paying $500 million in cash calls to the six joint [...]
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Gabon's finance ministry said last week that the decline in the country's oil production amounted to a third of its [...]
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Under pressure from the International Monetary Fund, Sudan's national oil company, Sudapet, has been forced to stop paying its taxes [...]
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A former ChevronTexaco executive, France's Jean-Paul Driot set up a trading company named Stag earlier this year that has since [...]
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Head of Equatorial Guinea's state-owned oil company GEPetrol since it was established, Domingo Mba Esono has, in the space of [...]
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Fired 18 months ago as chief of the Moroccan railway system, Office National des Chemins de Fer, by energy and [...]
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A director of Mobil Angola from 1990 until his company merged with Exxon, William Brambaugh has become ExxonMobil's leading adviser [...]
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Chad's fourth oil minister in less than a year, Mahamat Mamadou Ali, last week replaced Laoual Adji Gremma. The latter [...]
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Son of Saleh Kamel, head of the Saudi banking group Dallah Al Baraka, Mohamed Saleh Kamel is the main shareholder [...]
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The system of oil-backed loans which allowed traders to lift oil shipments under term contracts in return for bank loans [...]
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Increasing interest in West Africa's oil reserves has prompted a number of airlines to open direct services to capitals of the petroleum-producing nations.
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Africa Energy Intelligence understands that ExxonMobil will take part in a call for bids that the Mali government has issued for the Taoudeni, Lullemmeden, Goa and Nara basins.
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After knocking unsuccessfully on the door of Nigeria's offshore, Ocean Energy has finally been awarded OPL 256.
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Talks got underway early this month between Sao Tome and Nigeria on resolving the share-out of oil resources between the two countries. But Sao Tome is constantly upping the ante.
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Following an IMF mission to Brazzaville SNPC's operations are to come under tighter control.
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Sonangol appears set to put some marginal fields in its offshore on the auction block. It has been talking with a number of juniors since early this year.
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While oil services companies can gain favor with Luanda by forging joint ventures with Sonangol, the ties scare off the majors, which harbour misgivings about them.
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The group that bought a 11.2% stake in Energy Africa when Petronas launched its takeover bid is a coalition of African businessmen.
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The state-owned refinery Indian Oil is to obtain 10% of [...]
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Nigeria's EA field, which is located on OML 79 in [...]
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According to a study conducted by the International Finance Corp., [...]
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The Italian oil giant ENI has awarded contracts worth 1.39 [...]
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The state-owned oil company Sonatrach and BPAmoco have just signed [...]
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Following a trip by its boss Yuri Boyko to Tripoli [...]
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The new South African oil company PetroSA is to acquire [...]
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A report in our Oct. 23 issue on the debts [...]
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As an offshoot of its talks with Societe National d'Electricite [...]
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The Portuguese law firm Miranda, Correia, Amendoeira & Associados, which [...]
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A suit against five oil majors on accusations of collaborating [...]
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The Swedish consultancy SWECO and Denmark's Carl Bro firm are [...]
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Angola's finance ministry has finally agreed that a summary of [...]
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The CWC Group is organizing a conference in Luanda on [...]
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Simon Gore Consulting is organizing a conference in London on [...]
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