Several ex government officials have popped up as lobbyists and consultants for oil producing nations in the Gulf of Guinea and the U.S. oil companies that operate in them.
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The Algerian government has confirmed for the first time that a draft bill on the country's oil industry that was [...]
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With leaders in next-door Angola flying back and forth to China, Gabon's president, Omar Bongo, wasn't to be outdone: he [...]
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Equatorial Guinea president Teodoro Obiang Nguema flew to Kiev last week for lengthy talks with his Ukrainian counterpart, Leonid Kutchma. [...]
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Following the freeze on the handover of the Bakassi peninsula from Nigeria to Cameroon in early September (AEI 376), Abuja [...]
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Despite the abstention of China, Pakistan, Algeria and Russia, the U.N. Security Council adopted resolution 1564 on Sept. 18 that [...]
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Following the failure of talks in Paris between the Angolan government and Cabinda separatists to reach agreement last year, rebel [...]
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Since the late 1990s the Bulgarian Oil Co (BOCO) has lacked the finance to develop its two concessions in Libya, [...]
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In addition to Kellogg, Brown & Root, the British lawyer Jeffrey Tesler worked for other groups in Nigeria. At least one has been identified.
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The U.S. firm Ventech has signed an agreement with a Nigerian group to build a refinery at Calabar. The move comes after Ventech signed a first accord to construct a plant at Amakpe in Akwa Ibom state.
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Although it has kicked Nigeria's Famfa Oil out of the field, NNPC wants to see that half of development work on Agbami goes to Nigerian firms--even if that could hold up the process.
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Like the Famfa Oil company, South Atlantic Petroleum could well be evicted from OPL 246 just as Total is poised to start developing the Akpo field.
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Active in several sectors of Ethiopia's economy, the Saudi tycoon Mohamed Hussein Al Amoudi has turned his hand to oil exploration.
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ChevronTexaco and Total have resolved a lot of their problems in the country with a change of heart over the Angola LNG project. They're going to work actively on the program.
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A discovery by Total in Congo-B's ultra deep offshore raises the prospect of a joint development with block 31 in Angola.
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After year-long talks, the Angolan government has given its green light to the establishment of a joint oil zone with Democratic Republic of Congo.
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ConocoPhillips, Agip, Chevron and NNPC last week approved launching the [...]
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The U.S. firm Noble Energy has bought into block I [...]
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South Africa's state-owned PetroSA is to pick a company by [...]
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The World Bank is scheduled to approve an emergency loan worth $25 million to help Rwanda counter a sharp drop [...]
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Eskom Enterprises, the international arm of the state-owned power utility Eskom, is going to lose its independence because of financial setbacks.
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A regular supplier of crude to Zambia, Iran has just been awarded a contract to build a hydro power station in the country.
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Meeting two weeks ago, ministers from the Organisation pour la [...]
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The White House last week authorized the U.S. Export Import Bank to back American exports to Libya and to provide [...]
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The U.S. firm AES has just won a loan of $120 million to cover previous investment for nine gas turbines [...]
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The special committee that Congo-K's parliament set up to confirm agreements signed during the two civil conflicts in Democratic Republic [...]
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Three of the regulations making up Angola's new oil legislation were adopted by Parliament but the last regulation concerning bank [...]
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Chairman of Tamoil for a number of years, Omar Massoud has been succeeded by Mahmoud Naas at the Monaco headquarters [...]
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The government named Zvinechimwe Ruvinga Churu as boss of the National Oil Company of Zimbabwe on Sept. 10. The group [...]
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The Irish firm Tullow Oil has named David Bamford, who was successively BP's chief geologist (1990-95), West Africa director (1995-98) [...]
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Simon Mann, the alleged mastermind of an abortive coup d'etat in Equatorial Guinea in March, worked regularly in the past [...]
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Secretary-general of the Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation (EEPCO), Mesfin Hagos was stripped of his post last week in a purge [...]
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President Fradrique de Menezes fired prime minister Maria das Neves last week and asked ex labor minister Damiao Vaz d'Almeida [...]
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Global Pacific Partners is organizing the 11th Africa Upstream conference [...]
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State-owned Sonangol was advised by the Thomson & Knight law [...]
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Cameroon has signed a lobbying contract with the American firm [...]
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Norway's overseas development organization Norfund is one of three investors [...]
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Algeria's energy minister Chakib Khelil indicated during a conference in [...]
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Sonangol has pre-empted the 50% stake that ONGC Videsh, the [...]
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The Pipeline & Product Marketing Company, an affiliate of NNPC [...]
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