In an oil industry hit by the free-fall in crude prices and the credit squeeze, the financial firepower of the state-owned United Arab Emirates group Dubai World has helped it to become a force to be reckoned with in Africa.
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Leonidas Hatungimana, spokesman for Burundi’s president, told the Burundi parliament in early January that Nigeria was about to double its [...]
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With the withdrawal of companies from E&P operations beginning to make itself felt in Africa, Oando is continuing to systematically buy up acreage.
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Instead of organizing a third licensing round, Liberia has opted to award reconnaissance licenses. The first company to step forward is a mining group specializing in sulfur.
In the past several years Equatorial Guinea has been seeking gas reserves that would warrant building a second train at [...]
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Mauritania’s government and Shell have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore the possibility of producing gas in the country. That could spark competition between Shell and GDF Suez.
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Up until the end of 2007 the Compagnie Ivoirienne d’Electricite (CIE) supplied the north of the country without being paid. The World Bank is going to make up the shortfall.
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In late January, Godwin Ukpaima Billy Agha was appointed director of Nigeria’s Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) that awards oil [...]
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As Africa Energy Intelligence had anticipated (AEI 478), the appointment of Rilwanu Lukman as Nigeria's oil minister at the end [...]
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The Canadian firm Exile Resources has named BP veteran John Orange to its board. Orange is already a member of [...]
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Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has just sent two generators producing [...]
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Sao Tome president Fradique de Menezes travelled to Nigeria in [...]
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In mid-January Bello Suleiman, vice president of the state-owned Power [...]
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Highly active, like its countryman ArmorGroup, in the Niger Delta, [...]
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Kenneth Julien, a special envoy of the prime minister of [...]
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Emmanuel O Egbogah, adviser to Nigerian president Umaru Yar’Adua, seized [...]
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The Japanese group is about to put a new field into production in Gabon, its main production center in Africa.
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Equatorial Guinea has by no means dropped its project to centralize gas production in the Gulf of Guinea and has formed a consortium with E.On, Galp and Union Fenosa.
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Congo-K’s parliament is examining a contractual dispute between Societe National d’Electricite and MagEnergy over the rehabilitation of the Inga dam.
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The Canadian mining concern First Quantum has been chosen as [...]
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For the past two years, the American firm FG Hemisphere [...]
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With Tullow Oil and Heritage making discovery after discovery on Lake Albert, it seems Neptune can start drilling as well.
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The small Canadian company is seeking to make the most out of the huge reconnaissance license it was awarded some months ago in north-east Ethiopia.
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Sudanese president Omar el Bechir will officially inaugurate the Qamari [...]
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Zambia has decided to carve much of the country into blocks so that exploration can begin. But companies aren’t banging on the door for licenses.
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The former boss of the AngloGold Ashanti mining group, Robert Godsell, who was called in urgently in July to take [...]
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Contrary to what Africa Energy Intelligence has reported on several [...]
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A German consultancy headed by Gerhard Gauff, Gauff Ingenieure, is [...]
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Miguel Trovoada, former president of Sao Tome y Principe, travelled [...]
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James Buckee is scheduled to replace Ed Story, the chief executive of the British firm Soco, as a non-executive director [...]
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The state-owned Algerian company Naftal which distributes gasoline will no [...]
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The state-run Algerian oil and gas company Sonatrach and its [...]
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New legislation is making its way through Morocco's parliament to [...]
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While waiting for the Agence Nationale pour la Valorisation des [...]
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International Enterprise, a government agency that helps Singapore’s companies to [...]
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The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Government (SADG) in Western Sahara officially [...]
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France's Autorite des Marches Financiers revealed on Jan. 21 that [...]
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The Irish group Tullow Oil took only one day to [...]
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The corporate law firm Fulbright & Jaworski has just hired [...]
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