Friction is increasing between Nigeria and the majors over the question of OPEC quotas on Nigerian production.
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Ministers from member countries of the Organisation pour la Mise en Valeur du Fleuve Senegal (OMVS) spent their entire meeting [...]
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Despite pressure from the World Bank, the privatization of state-owned Senelec fell victim to the financial tribulations of Vivendi and AES.
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Ghana's parliament has approved a project for a 200 MW gas-fired power station at Effasu.
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An arbitration board in London will hand down its finding on the dispute pitting Shell against Malabu on OPL 245 this summer. Some embarrassing details are expected to emerge.
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Dominated up to now by Australian firms like Woodside, Hardman and Fusion, Mauritania's offshore and onshore oil resources are beginning [...]
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In a bid to end the standoff between states in the Niger Delta and the federal government over the share-out [...]
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Ever since he made common cause last month with the British NGO Global Witness in its campaign to get oil [...]
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The World Bank has just approved a $5 million loan to Conakry to help extend the power grid in the [...]
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Former head of the mining firm Sierra Leone International Trade and Investment Company Ltd. (SLITI), Robertson Safi is president Ahmed [...]
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Italy's ENI group has picked Andrea Forzoni to take over from Antonio Vella as managing director of its affiliate, Agip [...]
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The U.S. firm Amerada Hess plans to start developing the [...]
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Headed by Olukayode Senbore, KMPG Nigeria, which advises a number [...]
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Africa Energy Intelligence understands that Concorp, a group owned by Sudan's Jar El Nabi, is no longer in charge of [...]
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Bishops in central Africa have launched a campaign concerning the use of oil revenue. Given the church's influence in the region the movement is likely to pick up steam.
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The arbitration proceeding that pitted the American-Nigerian firm Chrome Energy against the Sao Tome government has wound up in London just two months before a call to bids is to be issued.
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SNPC set up a new oil logistics firm last week. The companies likely to benefit most are Intels and Tacoma.
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After approaching Glencore, SNPC is negotiating a loan against future production with Trafigura.
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Minister for mines and energy in the transitional Burundi government since August, 2000, Mathias Hitimi was replaced in mid-July by [...]
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The French independent Perenco has bought the last African acreage of CMS and, as a result, built up its holdings in North Africa and East Africa.
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Former chairman of the U.S. EximBank and president of the Corporate Council on Africa, James Harmon has just been appointed [...]
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The chairman of the Bouygues Group, Michel Derbesse, has left the board of Bouygues Offshore following Saipem's acquisition of a [...]
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The U.S. under-secretary of state for African affairs, Walter Kansteiner, is carrying out an oil-oriented swing through Africa at present. [...]
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The Chicago law firm Sidley & Austin and Brown & [...]
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IBC Energy is organizing a conference in London on Oct. [...]
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The Instit Francais du Petrole, SPTEC and PetroStrategies are organizing [...]
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Petrel Resources has just submitted an application for an exploration license in Sudan's offshore in the Red Sea. After Sonatrach and Slavneft, Petrel is the third company to display an interest in the area.
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An Israeli company is thinking of developing Lake Kivu's methane gas. A Rwanda-based company has a similar plan in mind.
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The cease-fire signed in Nairobi last week between the Sudanese government and the SPLA ought to enable oil companies in [...]
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The Islamic Development Bank (IDB) has just awarded a $1 million loan to Sudan to enlarge the reservoir of the [...]
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A finding that Uganda's High Court handed down on June 12 following a complaint by the ecology NGO Green Watch [...]
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As Africa Energy Intelligence predicted would be the case in March, South Africa's Eskom Enterprises proved to be only candidate [...]
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The Kenyan consultancy KK Consulting that specializes in advising East [...]
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The Russian pipeline company Zangas, which is highly active in Tripoli, has just changed hands.
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The government's announcement early this month that the oil products market in Morocco would be deregulated was very bad news [...]
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According to Maghreb Confidential, a newsletter put out by Indigo [...]
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Chinese president Jiang Zemin's visit to Tripoli in April has [...]
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This month should mark a reconciliation between Angola and France after two years of chilly relations linked to Angolagate, an [...]
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Hidroelectrica de Cahora Bassa (HCB), which manages the dam of the same name in Mozambique, intends to pay off part [...]
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A funding package for the 50% stake that the U.S. firm AES wants to buy in the Kelvin power station [...]
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The state-owned Russian firm Alamzy Rossi-Sakha (Al Rosa) is currently [...]
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James Hackett, chairman of Ocean Energy, has travelled to Angola [...]
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Igas, an affiliate of South Africa's Central Energy Fund and [...]
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Trans-Sahara Trading, an affiliate of Ottbea, a logistics firm controlled [...]
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On the eve of a verdict concerning his company in [...]
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The World Bank's decision to unblock a $100 million loan [...]
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