Long considered as a model of good governance of oil revenue, ExxonMobil's operation on the Doba field in Chad has hit a rough patch. In response to budget overruns, N'Djamena is putting pressure on the U.
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Regularly pipped at the post by their Chinese competitors, particularly in Africa, Indian and Japanese companies are planning to team [...]
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The Polisario Front which claims sovereignty over Western Sahara, published a statement last week saying that the security of employees [...]
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Nigeria and Cameroon negotiated a new timetable for the withdrawal of Nigerian troops from the Bakassi peninsula last week during [...]
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Equatorial Guinea president Teodoro Obiang Nguema was the only leader of a an oil producing country in the Gulf of [...]
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The prime minister of Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG), Ali Mohamed Gedi, wrote last week to the Australian Stock Exchange [...]
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Despite the French government's blandishments - it would like to see the two work hand-in-hand - Total and Maurel & [...]
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By snapping up Britain's Paladin, the Canadian group Talisman suddenly finds itself back on the African continent.
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Construction of the oil pipeline between Algeria and Spain won't begin until next spring.
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Having failed as yet to find enough reserves on their Agadem concession to launch its development, ExxonMobil and Petronas have asked for an extension on their acreage.
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A partner in the OK LNG program, BG Group has just acquired its first license in Nigeria.
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Nigeria's South Atlantic company is about to make a lot of money out of agreeing to reduce its stake in the Akpo field operated by Total.
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Britain's Hardy Oil & Gas, which works exclusively in India, has teamed up with two Nigerian firms to make its debut in the country.
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Britain's White Nile and the Moldavian firm Ascom have both kicked off seismic surveys on their concessions in southern Sudan.
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Active in Ethiopia in the 1990s, the U.S. firm Afar Exploration is seeking to return to the country.
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An oil-backed loan put together by Calyon on behalf of Sonangol was over-subscribed and the French bank is now mounting a second operation in Angola.
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The U.S. firm Noble has found gas on block O [...]
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Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas last month issued a call for [...]
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The British junior Aminex has been awarded the Manja block [...]
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After preparing it for long months (AEI 401), Sonangol officially [...]
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Testing at 5, 956 bpd, Hebe is the ninth discovery [...]
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The owner of 50% of Zambia's Indeni refinery, Total has [...]
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Thailand's private Electricity Generating Company (EGCO) has joined forces with the state-owned utilities Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand and PTT [...]
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Several Nigerian companies have taken advantage of deregulation in the electricity sector to promote projects for private power plants. The latest comes from Negris, which has launched an IPP scheme in the Ikorodu industrial zone in Lagos state.
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Turkey's ENKA, Salini of Italy and China's Gezhouba have all submitted bids to build a 96 MW power plant.
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Norway's Jacobsen has followed in Norpak's footsteps in seeking to build a power plant in Uganda.
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Manager of the national utility Sonel, the U.S. group AES [...]
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Initially mounted in June, a loan put together by ABN Amro, Bank of Scotland and BNP Paribos on behalf of [...]
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ExxonMobil is about to call on commercial banks to put up $600 million to finance development of Ehra's satellite fields. [...]
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The Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation has contacted several Western banks for advice on setting up a fund to help finance [...]
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Only half of the 44 companies which won licenses in Nigeria last month have been able to produce performance bonds [...]
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Although the administration in South Sudan now has a government it still hasn't won access to oil revenue which would [...]
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An extensive musical chairs operation is taking place at present among the main subsidiaries of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation [...]
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Former director of Bounty Oil & Gas, an Australian company active in Tanzania's offshore in partnership with Aminex and Romania's [...]
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Chairman of the private oil firm Oriental Petroleum Resources, Mohamed Ndini has taken over as boss of the Nigerian affiliate [...]
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Former CEO of InterGen North America, a gas trading joint venture between Shell and Bechtel, Steve Weyel has been named [...]
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A severe shortage of oil products over the past two weeks in Zambia has cost energy minister George Mpombo his [...]
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Work on developing the Zarzaitine oil fields in the Illizi [...]
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Owed money by the private distribution company Africa Petroleum, the [...]
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Thanks to the rise in oil prices, Sonatrach is counting [...]
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The American firm Devon has just made a discovery on [...]
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According to La Lettre du Continent (Indigo Publications), a sister [...]
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The U.S. secretary of energy between 2001 and the beginning [...]
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On the eve of its flotation on London's Alternative Investment Market, Al Thani Investment has appointed the American investment bank Merrill Lynch as its financial adviser.
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The London-based Standard Chartered Bank last month hired Rob Tims, [...]
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Global Pacific & Partners is organizing three distinct conferences in [...]
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