Engaged in an angry stand-off with the World Bank over control of oil revenue extracted by ExxonMobil from the Doba fields, Chad has turned to Taiwan and Dubai to escape supervision by the Bank. A Global Pact with Taipei.
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With Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva about to set off on his fourth trip to Africa, state-owned Petrobras [...]
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Dutch economic affairs minister Jan Brinkhorst traveled to Algeria and Libya last week to negotiate supply agreements for liquefied natural [...]
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Even as Beijing’s foreign minister, Li Zhaoxing, was paying a visit to Libya last week, Taiwan president, Chen Shui-bian, announced [...]
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As was the case in April, 2003, an Ijaw movement, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), [...]
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Africa Energy Intelligence understands that Ireland’s Tullow Oil is currently in talks with the Ivory Coast government for two licenses [...]
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Six months after organizing its first licensing round, the Polisario Front is negotiating the sale of acreage to British and South African oil companies.
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The American major and its South African partner, Sasol, have withdrawn from the running to build the Tinhert GTL plant.
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Canada’s Grove Energy has acquired two Tunisian licenses from a company owned by U.S. billionaire Philip Anschutz.
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Britain’s Premier Oil is about to sign for a concession on Congo-B’s offshore.
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With the help of South Africa’s PanAfrican firm, the government in Central African Republic has tried in vain to find new companies to develop Grynberg Petroleum’s concession in the north of the country.
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In acquiring a 45% holding on block 332, BG has teamed up with a number of influential local groups in the Delta region.
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Pipped at the post for the Akpo field by China’s CNOOC, India’s ONGC has resumed talks with the Nigerian authorities, this time to acquire two blocks initially promised to South Korea’s KNOC.
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The Ethiopian government has withdrawn the Calub gas concession from Jordan’s SI-Tech and will put it back on sale.
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South Africa’s state-controlled PetroSA is negotiating to acquire block 12 A in north-east Sudan.
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Now the lone operator on block C in the country’s south-west, Sudan’s Hi-Tech Group is looking for Western partners to help it develop the acreage.
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Active in China, Texas and Louisiana, First Australian Resources has [...]
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Even though it already has a host of local partners [...]
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Chevron has begun drilling a first exploration well on block [...]
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Australia’s Range Resources, which holds a contract enabling it to [...]
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According to our sources, the European Investment Bank is thinking of putting up $13 million for the first stage of [...]
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In competition with Siemens to build the huge Hadjret Ennous power plant, Canada’s SNC Lavallin teamed up with a state-controlled Abu Dhabi company in order to win the contract.
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Bending to pressure from the World Bank, Kenya has kicked off the process to privatize the state-owned power utility.
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In the wake of the Malagasy government’s approval of a [...]
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Germany’s Niels & Stanley power company has won a contract [...]
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The African Development Bank and the European Investment Bank have both pumped money into the EMP Africa Fund II which [...]
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The new Mauritanian government that came to power in a putsch on Aug. 3 headed by colonel Ely Ould Mohamed [...]
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An offensive by Congo-B’s creditors could well cost Brazzaville a re-scheduling of its debt to international financial institutions. According to [...]
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Listed on London’s Alternative Investment Market since September, 2004, Australia’s ROC Oil is about to issue 28 million shares at [...]
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Re-elected late last year, Gabonese president Omar Bongo named a new prime minister, Jean Eyeghe Ndong, on Jan. 20. Ndong [...]
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Installed last week as Africa's first woman president, Liberia's Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has named the first members of her government. The [...]
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After opening an office in South Africa last spring, the British security firm Erinys has inaugurated another in Houston. It [...]
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Chosen to take over from Terry Heneaghan as chairman of the British junior Bowleven, Robert Walvis, a former RoyalDutch/Shell executive, [...]
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Although France’s Total is chaired at the moment by Thierry Desmarest, the group could well appoint a second boss later [...]
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Former legal adviser to World Bank president James Wolfensohn, Suzanne Rich Folsom has just been named chief of the institution’s [...]
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The Virginia-based AES energy group has named Victoria Harker as its new chief financial officer. She served as senior vice [...]
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Spot sales represented roughly 10% of Algeria’s LNG exports in [...]
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The Nigerian government has signed the first contracts for concessions [...]
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Officials from the Oasis consortium (Amerada Hess, ConocoPhillips and Marathon) [...]
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An affiliate of the American financial services giant Marsh & [...]
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Chosen last spring to conduct an audit of oil operations [...]
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The CWC Group is organizing a conference at the International [...]
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