Niger was long wooed uniquely for its uranium but ever since oil began flowing from the Agadem field oil companies from across the world have been banging on its door. So many requests for licenses have been piling up on [.
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A good number of oil companies are interested in the assets of Conoco Phillips that were put on the auction [...]
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A trip by the Ivoirian president to Tel Aviv could help some Israeli companies to snare offshore exploration licenses in Abidjan.
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The Chinese major keeps putting off informing the authorities about the results of drilling in the Joint Development Zone, to the irritation of both Abuja and Sao Tome.
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Accustomed to empty promises by executives of Sonangol up to now, Sao Tome could shortly see Angolan investors arriving in its offshore.
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The Argentine company Pluspetrol still hasn’t won the go-ahead it needs to become operator on the Yema and Matamba Makanzi blocks.
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Having negotiated the acquisition of three of Ophir’s licenses in Tanzania, South African national Moto Mabanga has filed suit against the group in London for short-changing him His case was thrown out but he has appealed.
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As Africa Energy Intelligence reported in January (AEI 666), Dana [...]
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Arriving last month in Abidjan with 11,000 tons of LPG, the tanker Maersk Harmony chartered by the Trafigura trading group [...]
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The authorities in Ghana realize the country won’t be producing gas this year and are struggling to increase imports from Nigeria.
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Under pressure from Rwanda, Congo-K’s new hydrocarbons minister is making fresh moves on the project to extract methane gas from Lake Kivu back on track.
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. The state-owned South African group PetroSA has issued a [...]
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According to sources at Jirama, Madagascar’s state-owned power facility, the Chinese group Sinohydro will install a third, 28 MW turbine [...]
Gambia’s president, Yahya Jammeh, can pride himself on raising a lot of money for the extension of the Kotu power plant in Banjul from funds controlled by Arab countries.
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A loan from Belgium will enable a generator near Kisangani to come back on line after lying idle for 15 years because of poor maintenance and structural damage.
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The former all powerful boss of Sonangol and current minister [...]
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Algerian energy and mines minister Youcef Yousfi has appointed a long-standing associate, Ahmed Mecili, to the post of secretary-general at [...]
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Uganda's Jimmy Mugerwa took over from British national Eoin Makie as boss of Tullow Uganda on June 25. A graduate [...]
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The appointment of Graeme Thomson as managing director of Britain’s Tower Resources would seem to underpin the group’s strategy in [...]
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Advisers to the prime minister are beginning to install themselves in Kinshasa. Although no appointment has been officially confirmed by [...]
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The state-owned Russian oil company Rosneft could very shortly buy [...]
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The Norwegian group is reportedly on the verge of winning [...]
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The agency tasked with awarding exploration licenses in Sierra Leone, [...]
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Although there’s an abundance of oil projects in the offing [...]
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The programs to train former militants in the Niger Delta [...]
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Does a visit to Juba by Yoichiro Iwasaki, managing director [...]
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According to our sources, Congo-K president Joseph Kabila gave a [...]
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Four months after reaching a compromise with Sonatrach on Algeria's [...]
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For the first time, the International Finance Corp (IFC), the [...]
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The saga concerning the sale of Shell’s stakes on OML [...]
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Despite the growing number of emergency power operators in Africa, [...]
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A small firm founded by a former employee of Herbert [...]
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Carlon Masters, the chief executive of the American lobbying concern [...]
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The French corporate law firm run by Laurent Marville is [...]
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Christian Endundo, project manager for Perenco in Democratic Republic of [...]
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Austin Oniwon, managing director of Nigeria's NNPC, dropped in on [...]
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Tim Fischer, former Australian diplomat, stopped over on June 15 [...]
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