While most of the oil nations in the Gulf of Guinea are multiplying discoveries and Ghana is ready to join the region’s club of producer countries, Cameroon has seen its production fall little by little to hover for some years [.
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After talks lasting nearly a year, Sinopec and China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC) have managed to make their debut [...]
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Ubiquitous on the Angolan oil scene, the Swiss group Exem Holdings is run by a discreet financier of Congolese origin.
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According to our sources, Hanna Keyserlingk, who had held power of attorney for ExxonMobil in Madagascar since 2005, will shortly [...]
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South Africa’s Stuart Clarkson replaced Siegmar Proebstel as chief executive of the South African branch of Siemens on July 1. [...]
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The South African company Sasol has just landed a top-level recruit for its board. Colin Beggs joined both the company’s [...]
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Zambia Electricity Supply Corp (ZESCO) could increase its electricity rates [...]
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The Chissonga 1 well drilled by Maersk Oil on block [...]
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The private South African company Gigajoule has applied for a [...]
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Mozambique's energy minister, Salvador Namburete, has accepted a request by [...]
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The energy ministers of the South African Development Community (SADC), [...]
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As Africa Energy Intelligence anticipated would be the case in [...]
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Jose Botelho de Vasconcelos, Angola's oil minister and president of [...]
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The British firm Gulf Keystone is seeking to sell its Hassi Ba Hamou block in Algeria in order to finance developments in Iraqi Kurdistan.
Russia’s Stroytransgaz has decided to focus exclusively on its traditional business of building gas pipelines.
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The state-owned Algerian company has just penned five contracts worth [...]
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France's GDF Suez and the Algerian group Sonatrach reached agreement [...]
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Chinese groups active in Angola are turning their attention to Guinea.
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The United Nations has compared all illicit trade in West Africa and found that the smuggling of oil is indubitably the most profitable - and most destabilizing - traffic of all.
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Nigeria’s presidential staff has a list of people who back mobs in the Delta. But Abuja hesitates to publish it.
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Beijing is already exploring the Agadem oil field and is about to build a dam on the Niger River.
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Guinea’s leader, who seized power in a putsch, has summoned leading officials in the power sector to explain the increasingly critical electricity situation in the country.
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An American executive search firm, Preng & Associates Inc., can be credited with seeing Pasquale Scaturro appointed to the board [...]
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In coming weeks, the Niger Delta minister, Elder Godsday Orubebe, [...]
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No less than three versions of the highly controversial Petroleum [...]
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The latest report of the National Hydrocarbons Monitoring Committee issued [...]
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Although Kosmos Energy has officially put its stake in the [...]
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The World Bank has announced a flurry of loans to [...]
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To drum up the funds needed to develop its Jubilee [...]
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The trial pitting Ivory Coast inhabitants against Trafigura, the owner [...]
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The American bank is advising India’s state-owned ONGC in its [...]
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The Norwegian junior Asante, which is present in Somaliland, must make a decision about its future next month.
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The Songo Songo West and Nyuni fields in Tanzania could supply a power plant in Kenya.
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Officials from the Chinese group Sinohydro signed a memorandum of understanding with the Ethiopian government in early July providing for [...]
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The chief executive of the Sudanese state-owned oil company Sudapet, [...]
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Uganda president Yoweri Museveni has ordered the police to provide [...]
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The authorities in the Zanzibar archipelago have withdrawn the rights [...]
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Expected in May, a USD 25 million loan from the [...]
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Edward Njoroge, the chief executive of the Kenya Electricity Generating [...]
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Nasser Al Ahmad Al Jabir Al Sabah, the prime minister [...]
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In 2006, the British oil company Burren, which held a stake on the M'boundi field operated by Maurel & Prom [...]
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The American concern Murphy Oil has just made a second [...]
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The U.S. Justice Department has begun an inquiry into the [...]
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Israeli businessman Dan Gertler, who is active in the mining [...]
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