With a government that lacks the least control over its soil, Somalia is nonetheless attracting oil companies interested in its largely similar geography to Yemen’s. But foreign investors are preferring to deal with the break-away governments of Somaliland and Puntland [.
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Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez’s government is currently working on organizing an Africa/Latin America oil conference that would be held in [...]
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Led by the CEO and vice-president of the group, Alexei Miller and Alexander Medvedev, a delegation from Gazprom was in [...]
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Since the end of last year, the new south Sudanese government has been receiving its share of Sudan’s oil revenue, [...]
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A delegation of officials from Portugal’s finance ministry last week signed a technical agreement in Maputo concerning the transfer of [...]
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Africa Energy Intelligence understands that the Halliburton affiliate Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) and Japan’s JGC are likely to share [...]
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Western Sahara’s Oil Authority has just awarded its first concessions in the region claimed by both Morocco and the Polisario Front to several British juniors.
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Although it lost its contract to operate the Onne oil terminal, the British-Italian group Intels is still highly active in the area.
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An agreement that the Nigerian junior Midwestern signed with Canada's Mart Resources has split the company's board.
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The increase in oil prices and a growing number of incidents in petroleum regions have prompted governments in the Gulf of Guinea to improve maritime surveillance.
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The French-British concern Perenco, which is already present on Congo’s coast, has joined the scramble for acreage in the coastal basin zone.
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South Sudan’s government isn’t unanimously in favor of the province’s tie with the British oil firm White Nile.
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The British junior Aminex has just penned an exploration agreement on the L9 and L10 concessions that had previously been operated by Woodside and Dana. It will work on the acreage with Kenya’s TAL group.
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Agip, an affiliate of ENI, has put the Rom oil [...]
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A visit by South Korean president Roo Moo-hyun to Nigeria [...]
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After a long series of delays, the Joint Development Authority [...]
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After its setback in Nigeria (see above), India’s ONG Videsh [...]
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Ireland’s Tullow Oil and the Australian group Hardman, partners on [...]
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Africa Energy Intelligence has learned that the European Investment Bank is preparing a EUR 50 million loan to Sonel to [...]
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The International Finance Corp is preparing to invest in restoring the big Congolese dam that supplies the entire sub-region.
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Ireland’s Electricity Supply Board International appears best placed to win the contract to manage the Kenya Power and Lighting Company.
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A British group has proposed that South Africa test a new technology allowing for waves to generate power.
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Craig Dobbin, the chairman and leading shareholder (with a 62.7% stake) in the Canadian firm CHC Helicopters, which specializes in [...]
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A former mining company that recently switched to oil, Ireland’s Petroceltic has just signed an agreement with the RAB Capital [...]
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Companies interested in acquiring a 60% holding in Libya’s Tamoil submitted their bids to the French bank BNP Paribas two [...]
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The Saudi Iron & Steel Co., a subsidiary of Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC), has just acquired a 14.8% holding [...]
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In a report on its operations issued on March 6, Sasol indicated that Igas, an affiliate of South Africa’s Central [...]
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Due to his difficult relationship with mines, energy and oil minister Richard Auguste Onouviet, the director-general of the oil department, [...]
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Forced to stand down as chief of Regal Petroleum when it was discovered he had been convicted of drug trafficking [...]
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Former deputy managing director of the Societe de Recherche et d’Exploitation de Petroles en Tunisia (SEREPT, a joint venture between [...]
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As a prelude to a change at the top of France’s Total group, Christophe de Margerie, the present managing director [...]
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President of the French football club AJ Auxerre (AJA) since 1963 and holding the concession for Renault Trucks in Auxerre, [...]
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As Africa Energy Intelligence anticipated (AEI 407), Gaz de France [...]
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Taking its cue from Algeria’s Sonatrach, Entreprise Tunisienne d’Activites Petrolieres [...]
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After fighting with RoyalDutch/Shell six years ago to control OPL [...]
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Cameroon’s Societe National des Hydrocarbures has awarded the Bomana exploration [...]
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Following a first-ever audit of Congo’s oil revenue by KPMG, [...]
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British trade minister Ian Pearson was accompanied on a trip [...]
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The American NGO International Rivers Network has just published a [...]
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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 at the International [...]
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