After dominating the 1990s, the race to explore Angola's ultra deep offshore, which generated huge front-end bonuses for the government, sputtered out from 2000 because none of the concession fulfilled their promise. But the contest could heat up again in [.
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The new Equatorial Guinea government appointed by president Teodoro Obiang Nguema after legislative elections looks very much like a family [...]
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With the Khartoum government and rebel SPLA forces beginning talks this week on finalizing the peace treaty they signed last [...]
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Although the American administration has always denied any intention to build a military base in Sao Tome e Principe, a [...]
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The French government is making every effort to mollify Angolan president Jose Eduardo dos Santos who is said to be [...]
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Several powerful Russian oil men are seeking to establish partnerships with South African companies in order to diversify in the [...]
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Taking its cue from the Chinese, Indian Oil is offering to build refineries on the continent in return for debuting in its offrshore.
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Despite the blast at the Skikda plant and delays in awarding the Gassi Touil project Sonatrach is continuing to invest heavily in LNG.
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The aviation units of state-owned African oil companies are intent on buying new aircraft.
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The head of Nigeria's Conoil used oil to guarantee a loan to finance his mobile telephone network.
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Midwestern Oil & Gas, a company controlled by the government of Delta state, has just teamed up with Britain's Mart Resources.
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The state-owned oil company Sonangol already owns an insurance company and is poised to invest in another.
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Blocks 3 and 7 in the Melut basin are going to be developed by Chinese and Malaysian oil services companies. Western firms will only get an indirect part of the cake.
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According to AEI sources, work designed to increase output on [...]
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Work is to begin in 2005 on developing oil fields [...]
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Engaged in legal proceedings against the government since it was [...]
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According to AEI sources, Total is finding it hard to [...]
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Financed by the U.S. firm Pioneer, Bravo 1, the first [...]
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The second well drilled by Canada's Heritage on block 3 [...]
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On the heels of the French concern Maurel & Prom, [...]
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The Algerian pipe distributor Alpitec has set up a joint [...]
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Now that the construction and supply contrats for the Merowe dam have been awarded, services companies are prospecting for new [...]
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Lesotho, which was granted a World Bank loan to privatize state-owned companies, has issued an invitation to tender for a controlling stake in Lesotho Electric Corporation.
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Since early this month a private power station in Rivers state has been selling its power to NEPA.
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The World Bank is preparing a funding program to help the national utility become a viable stand-alone company.
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A second turbine was added on June 8 to the [...]
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Nigeria's National Electric Power Authority (NEPA) has said it will [...]
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During a trip to Algeria two weeks ago, French finance minister Nicolas Sarkozy was accompanied by the bosses of Total [...]
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As Africa Energy Intelligence anticipated it would last September (AEI 352), the International Finance Corp., private investment arm of the [...]
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The U.S. Export-Import Bank has opened a $30 credit line for Nigeria's Standard Trust Bank headed by businessman Ferdinand Alabraba [...]
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On the strength of its agreement with the International Monetary Fund (AEI 371), Gabon won the blessings of the Paris [...]
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The British oil company Aminex has been squabbling since last summer with its partner on the Nyuni concession in Tanzania, [...]
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The Angolan government unveiled a $370 million, 10-year investment, program for Cabinda in Luanda on June 17. Angola clearly hopes [...]
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Already chief of the state-owned GEPetrol company, Atanasio Ela Ntugu was named oil minister in the new Equatorial Guinea government [...]
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CEO of the South African oil junior Exxoteq, Indian businessman Prem Sawney died in a car accident last week. Dividing [...]
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United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan has named Alvaro de Soto, a Peruvian diplomat, to replace James Baker who stepped down [...]
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Confirmed by the Senate last week, Niels Marquardt will be the next American ambassador to Cameroon and U.S. chief of [...]
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Former head of Kellog Brown & Root (KBR), an affiliate of Halliburton that took part in building the NLNG plant [...]
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Already dominating Sudan's offshore, the state-owned Malaysian group Petronas plans [...]
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With a substantial portfolio in Sudan already in hand, India's [...]
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Discovered in 1998, the Ungo field on Angola's block 15 [...]
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The U.S. group Conoco, a member of the Oasis consortium, [...]
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The latest meeting of the Joint Ministerial Council, a trans-national [...]
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Contacted by RoyalDutch/Shell in 2003 to assess the impact of [...]
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The U.S. law firm White & Case which is highly [...]
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An offshoot of the Commonwealth Development Corporation, CDC Globeleq, a [...]
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Energy Net is organizing a conference at the RAI Congress [...]
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The CWC Group is organizing its annual conference on the [...]
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