China's growing penetration of Africa's oil industry is based in large part on loans awarded by Export-Import Bank of China to African governments to push through major infrastructure projects, loans that are systematically paid back in oil.
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Lawyers are likely to arrive in greater numbers in Tripoli over coming weeks than oil men. Indeed, if American oil [...]
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A company founded by ex-executives of Energy Africa, Osrey, has been bought out by a Swedish junior.
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The stalemate over destination clauses is preventing Spanish companies from reaching agreement with Sonatrach on the purchase of gas to be carried on the future Medgaz.
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After lengthy talks, ExxonMobil has won a new concession in southern Chad and is making hay out of a production rise on its Doba fields.
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With an International Monetary Fund mission currently at work in Congo-B, the IFHR has published a new report slamming Brazzaville's management of its oil revenue.
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President Jose Eduardo dos Santos' visit to the United States allowed him to brush up Angola's image, make new friends and achieve headway in talks with the World Bank.
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Although most of its expertise concerns Equatorial Guinea, the new American junior Kosmos has won its first acreage in Ghana.
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As a result of Tullow Oil's acquisition of Energy Africa, the International Finance Corp. looks set to finance the Kudu oil project.
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Sonatrach last week announced a gas discovery in the Timimoun [...]
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A regular buyer of Nigerian crude, the U.S. refiner Vamero, [...]
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After awarding a second development contract on Amenam to Stolt [...]
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Libya's current efforts to increase its gas production isn't based entirely on the idea of exporting output. Hadud Hadud, head [...]
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It took nearly a year of hard bargaining to bring the government around, but Eskom finally obtained the guarantee it needed to take over Uganda's distribution company.
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The World Bank's board is expected to shortly examine a project to bankroll Djibouti's power grid but the institution has no definite idea about the sector's future.
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An invitation to tender by Mauritius' Central Electricity Board for renovation of the St. Louis power plant has attracted four bids.
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The Congress Party's victory in the Indian elections has put paid to the privatization of the state-owned Oil and Natural [...]
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With loans from Ex-Im Bank of China helping Beijing to secure a supply of African oil (see P. 1), Chinese [...]
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Chad president Idriss Deby announced on May 19 that forces loyal to him had quashed a mutiny aimed at overthrowing [...]
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Under pressure in the United States, Equatorial Guinea is beginning to talk tough in the United Kingdom. In mid-May, the [...]
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Seeking investors to help it renew its oil reserves, the Libreville government sent foreign minister, Jean Ping, to Moscow last [...]
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While China's trade officials were in Congo and Nigeria last week (see above), South Korea's trade minister, Yun Hwang, found [...]
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Postponed on several occasions, a vote by the World Bank's board on the Extractive Industry Review (EIR), a report that [...]
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An investment concern formed when Canada's Commonwealth Investment Corporation was restructured in January, Actis, has been appointed to manage the [...]
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Britain's Export Credit Guarantee Department is expected to quickly begin covering investment in Libya following talks between its head of [...]
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AEI understands that the British and French insurance firms Lloyds and AXA are acting as re-insurers for the state-owned Algerian [...]
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After spending nearly a year examining the best way to provide backing for African oil companies, and particularly those in [...]
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A partner in the Kaye Tesler & Co. law firm, the British lawyer Jeffrey Tesler was questioned on May 11 [...]
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Successively energy and mines minister (1996-1999) and justice minister (199-2003) in South Africa's government, Penuell Maduna has been hired by [...]
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The Bush administration is poised to nominate a relatively inexperienced diplomat, Cynthia Efird, as U.S. ambassador to Angola in succession [...]
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A former boss of Eskom Enterprises, Enos Banda, has just been named CEO of the financial consultancy First Africa. Banda [...]
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Former deputy chief executive for finance at the Volta River Authority, Joshua Ernest Kofi Ofedi was named CEO of the [...]
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A former employee of downstream affiliates of Total and ExxonMobil in Kenya, Andrew Kamau was named CEO of MagEnergy, the [...]
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Austria's OMV oil company submitted the winning bid to acquire [...]
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During the eighth "Oil & Gas in Africa" conference sponsored [...]
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Nearly 900 of the 1,500-strong staff of Kenya Electricity Generating [...]
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The lifting of American sanctions against Libya has resulted in [...]
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Hetco Consulting, an affiliate of the Hetco trading company established [...]
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The former head of Deutsche Bank's project finance department, Patrick [...]
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An investment fund set up by businessmen in the Gulf, [...]
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IBC Energy is organizing a conference on the latest oil [...]
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The CWC Group is organizing its annual conference on the [...]
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