After standing aloof for several years, the International Finance Corp., private investment arm of the World Bank, has returned in a big way to the oil industry and particularly in Africa. In the space of less than 12 months the [.
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Several countries which want to see their oil groups set up operations in Libya are offering military cooperation to the [...]
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Approved by Algeria's parliament last month, new oil legislation will probably not come into effect until the autumn. The decrees [...]
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Belgium's Fortis bank has just put together a $100 million loan for Sonatrach to equip four gas pipelines serving Algeria's [...]
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Headed by Michael Wood, former chief executive officer of Heritage, Canada's Candax oil company has just been granted a $24 [...]
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Abdellhamid Zerguine, vice president of Sonatrach for pipeline systems, has just been replaced by Hocine Chekired who had previously been [...]
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Replaced as Sonatrach's upstream director by Belkacem Boumediene in February, Mohamed Rafaa Babaghayou has been put in charge of founding [...]
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Launched early this month by Sonatrach, a project to develop [...]
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The utility Gaz de France says it is interested in [...]
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Launched last year, the takeover of Algeria's Safir consultancy by [...]
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Global Pacific & Partners is organizing a conference on May [...]
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Before he traveled to the Asia-Africa summit organized last week in Bandung, Indonesia, Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo paid a visit [...]
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The Lebanese building company CCC is increasingly busy in Equatorial Guinea and plans to open a first local oil services yard.
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A tie-up between Shell and Chevron on a project to build an LNG plant in Olokola should double the facility's capacity from 10 to 20 million tons/year.
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Taking part in the development of Agbami, Nigeria's Deltatek also has a hand in several other big projects.
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Nigeria's Geometric Power is expected to win a loan from the International Finance Corp., private investment arm of the World [...]
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The government is now making it compulsory for the oil majors to generate electricity if they want a go-ahead for LNG projects.
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Several operators of private refineries in Nigeria are expecting to receive funding from the U.S. Export-Import Bank. Officials from the [...]
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Australia's ANZ bank has syndicated a $100 million loan on behalf of the Hardman oil group. The money will finance [...]
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Majors operating in Nigeria seized the occasion of the Nigeria [...]
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A fresh delay has cropped up in the awarding of [...]
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The Nigerian government has just approved the composition of the [...]
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Speaking at the Nigeria Oil & Gas conference organized by [...]
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One of the few airlines operating in Equatorial Guinea, the [...]
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Ivory Coast has renewed the concession of France's Bouygues to [...]
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Founded in 2001 by former executives of PGS, Britain's Terra [...]
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Global Pacific & Partners is organizing a conference in Dakar [...]
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Locked in a struggle with the central government in Khartoum for control of block B which is operated by Total [...]
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With former rebels in the South trying to seal an alliance with Britain's White Nile, the Khartoum government is bolstering its ties with Switzerland's Cliveden.
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The private Videocon conglomerate is about to debut on Sudan's block 13 in the Red Sea.
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Following Mechmar's sudden withdrawal from the scene, the Tanzanian government, Malaysia's Ranhill and the local VIP firm are all fighting for control of IPTL, operator of the Tegala power plant.
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After conducting seismic surveys in the region for two years, [...]
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Like Tanesco in Tanzania (see above), Kenya's state-owned utility Kengen [...]
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An extremely discreet company that isn't listed on the stock exchange, doesn't put out press releases or have a Web [...]
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Held last week in Paris, the latest meeting of signatories of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's Convention on [...]
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Chief executive officer of the British junior Ascent Resources which was founded last year and is listed on London's Alternative [...]
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In charge of natural resources at Lehman Brothers, Tony Durrant has moved over to Britain's Premier Oil to serve as [...]
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The CWC Group is organizing a conference on the Gulf [...]
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Ireland's Tullow Oil has sold its stakes in four key offshore concessions to Total.
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Known in France as the "Chicken King", businessman Gerard Bourgoin has indirectly joined forces with SNPC in Congo-Brazzaville's offshore.
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Africa Energy Intelligence has learned that the Societe Nationale des [...]
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Sunburnt Downs Pastoral, an Australian farming company that bought into [...]
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ExxonMobil announced last week it was dropping an option to [...]
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Vying with one another for every LNG project in Africa, the two oil services group have each been asked to conduct a study on Angola LNG.
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Africa director at the Australian junior ROC Oil, Antonio Vieira has been appointed boss of ROC Oil Cabinda, the group's [...]
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Specialized primarily in the Middle East up to now, the [...]
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