Chad’s decision to dump Taiwan and recognize Beijing this summer - it was one of the last African nations to maintain diplomatic ties with Taipei - will reshuffle the oil cards in the region. It ought to allow Chinese oil [.
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A group of Republican representatives led by Nebraska lawmaker Jeff Fortenberry has just set up a West African Congressional Caucus [...]
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Brazil’s state-owned oil group Petrobras touched base with a number of African governments this summer in the hope of fleshing [...]
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Although it was roundly denounced by several European countries, and specially Italy and France, a memorandum of understanding signed in [...]
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Angola is about to bring representatives from Cabinda into government following last month’s agreement between Luanda and Antonio Bento Bembe, [...]
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After arguing for several months with RoyalDutch/Shell over the amount of royalties it receives from oil pumped on the Bonga [...]
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Talks between Maurel & Prom and the Italian major primarily concern the sale of African concessions which the French firm has been unable to fully develop.
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As the American firm Hyperdynamics attempts to recover its concession in Guinea - so far unsuccessfully - a new U.S. concern has been awarded acreage.
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Several former associates of controversial American oil trader Marc Rich are investing in acreage in East Africa.
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Britain’s Soco group has just acquired concessions in Congo-K and Angola which present similar geological features to those on its concession in Congo-B.
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The Nigerian government has kicked off several investigations into the financial interests of Ibrahim Babangida following his decision to run in next year’s presidential race.
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The French major has beaten its British rival Centrica in the contest to buy Chevron’s stake in Brass LNG.
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Already a stakeholder in the American terminal that will be supplied by Angola LNG, Sonangol also intends to be involved in the construction of tankers that will carry the gas.
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According to our sources, Sonatrach has rejected the technical offers [...]
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ABB finished development work last month on the Bir Berkine [...]
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Britain’s BG group has acquired a 49% holding in the [...]
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Already a stakeholder on the offshore blocks 1, 7 and [...]
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Early this month the OK LNG consortium signed a memorandum [...]
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Right on schedule, the China National Petroleum Corp began pumping [...]
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Out of the 19 companies pre-qualified early last year to [...]
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Ireland’s Tullow Oil announced early this month that state-controlled Sonangol [...]
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Following disappointing results from two wells, Repsol and Nexen have [...]
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With the new CEO of Morocco’s Office National d’Electricite (ONE), Younes Maamar, about to launch several major projects, the United [...]
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After a two-year competition, SNC Lavalin finally carried the day over its German rival to build the Hadjret Ennous power plant.
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Highly active in west Africa, Finland’s Wartsila group has just signed a contract in Tanzania and is seeking to build up its business in Kenya.
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The British emergency power plant operator Aggreko now finds itself [...]
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Five consortia pre-qualified a year ago by South Africa’s Department [...]
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A new partner of Morocco’s ONA (see above), the U.S. [...]
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The British junior Equator Exploration has just raised $65 million from some of its shareholders by offering stock from its [...]
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Penalties for delays on a project in Nigeria but also unfavorable market conditions last month prompted Halliburton to cancel the [...]
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The United Kingdom has followed on the heels of the Securities & Exchange Commission and the French, Swiss and American [...]
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A year after revealing that the former boss of its international department, James Tillery, may have paid bribes to Nigerian [...]
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To comply with a requirement by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, Congolese president Denis Sassou-Nguesso announced that a [...]
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Criticized by president Teodoro Obiang Nguema for its performance, the entire government of Muguel Abia Biteo Borico resigned on Aug. [...]
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The financial director of Afren, the British junior active in Nigeria, Congo-Brazzaville and Sao Tome, Osman Shahenshaw has joined the [...]
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Following the departure of Michael Miller and Derrick Armstrong, the Canadian-Saudi oil company Centurion International has named Carmine Falcone and [...]
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The British junior Madagascar Oil has just appointed Alex Archila, former president of Chevron Canada, as its chief executive. Archila [...]
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After operating for two years, Equator Exploration, a firm active in Nigeria and Sao Tome, has finally gotten around to [...]
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Potential successors to BP’s chief executive, John Browne, are jockeying for position since he announced this summer that he would [...]
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Ali Ached, one of the leading architects of Sonatrach’s policy [...]
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Libya’s National Oil Corp will unveil details of its third [...]
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The World Bank is to conduct a full-scale oil audit [...]
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The lobbying concern of Congo-B president Denis Sassou N’Guesso in [...]
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Several small airlines are trying to start a service for [...]
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Formed out of a merger between Waterous & Co. headed [...]
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Global Pacific & Partners will organize a week-long conference on [...]
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