In the wake of state-controlled Asian oil companies - Petronas, Sinopec, CNPC, ONGC Videsh and the like - private Malaysian, Indian and Pakistani conglomerates are seeking in their turn to plant their flags in Africa's offshore.
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Inaugurated last October, the Center for Strategic & International Studies' (CSIS) Task Force on Gulf of Guinea Security has just [...]
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The Taiwan External Trade Development Council, a wing of Taiwan's government, is currently planning a tour of three African countries [...]
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The financial director of Petrobras, Jose Sergio Gabrielli, will take over as boss of Petrobras following the resignation of Jose [...]
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In charge of exploration & production at Kerr McGee since 2003, David Hager has just been named CEO of the [...]
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After serving for years as chief executive officer of Britain's Premier Oil, Charles Jamieson has been appointed non-executive chairman of [...]
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Devon has just appointed William Van Wie, chief of the American firm's operations in the Gulf of Mexico, as head [...]
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Global Pacific & Partners is organizing three distinct conferences in [...]
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Founded by David Carmen and his father, Gerald Carmen, former [...]
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The London office of Taylor-DeJongh which specializes in syndicating loans [...]
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With United Nations mediator Ahmed Ould-Abdallah acting as go-between, the Nigerian authorities last month proposed a compromise to Cameroon on [...]
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An adviser to the Cuban firm Prestoil which was awarded 50% of the Marine II and Tilapia concessions in Congo-B [...]
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The consortium on the Iris and Themis Marin fields in [...]
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The president of the U.S. firm Deblin Gas Ilc, Nigeria's [...]
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Four state-owned South Korean companies have announced their participation in a call to bids issued by Nigeria in the spring. [...]
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Spain's Repsol is on the verge of debuting in the Taoudeni basin.
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After two years of bargaining, France's Total has finally brought the E&P affiliate of state-owned NNPC into its OPL 223 concession.
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At the behest of the World Bank, Liberia's government is conducting an investigation at present into the companies that won [...]
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Inquiries into the payment of bribes by the TSKJ consortium (made up of Kellogg Brown & Root, Technip, Snamprogetti and [...]
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Russia's Lukoil has followed Sinopec of China and Libya's Tamoil [...]
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All the companies awarded acreage in the Joint Development Zone [...]
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Ghana's education minister, Yaw Osafo-Maafo, has called on Ivory Coast [...]
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The United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) is scheduled to be deployed in southern Sudan following the appointment of a [...]
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The Sudanese government is poised to award block 15 to Petronas, CNPC and to African companies.
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A former aide at the African Development Bank who holds Sudanese and U.S. citizenship, Luak Acuek Deng has been named [...]
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The Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation (EEPCO) has signed an agreement [...]
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Ethiopia's power utility has signed a series of agreements worth [...]
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After two years of trying in vain to win acreage in Libya, the Russian giant Gazprom could well join forces [...]
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State-owned ETAP has just penned an agreement with an American-Greek businessman who was long active in Kazakhstan.
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Sonatrach is stepping up exploration on the edges of Algeria's biggest oil field, Hassi Messaoud, in the far south of the country.
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Headed by Italy's Edison, the Galsi consortium that will operate the gas pipeline between Algeria and Sardinia is poised to award study contracts.
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Algeria's Sonatrach is conducting an in-house inquiry into 20 officials from the Arzew and Skikda petrochemical complexes who are suspected [...]
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A complaint filed by the U.S. group Skidmore in Texas in September, 2003 against the Saudi Arabian group Dallah Albaraka [...]
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The U.S. oil group Occidental announced late last week that [...]
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Preliminary statistics issued by Algerian customs indicate that Sonatrach's oil [...]
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Already holding two concessions in Madagascar's offshore, the American major has just acquired a further two.
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Sonangol boss Manuel Vicente has just returned from China where he negotiated new oil partnerships.
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The U.S. firm Global Resources has filed suit against South Africa's Petroleum Agency to oblige it to honor a technical cooperation pact in the Durban basin.
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An affiliate of Iran's energy ministry, Farab, as signed a flurry of agreements over the past six months with African [...]
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Germany's Siemens has been contracted to equip two power stations that Eskom intends to build in the next two years.
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A number of Arab donors are funding the extension of the Andekaleka power plant, Madagascar's prime supplier of electricity.
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Following six months of preliminary work, Jose Maria Dellemos, financial director of Sonangol, has withdrawn the mandate he gave to [...]
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