Taking over as oil minister in February, 2012, Etienne Ngoubou succeeded in making himself indispensable to president Ali Bongo and his chief-of-staff Maixent Accrombessi. And he has finally won the tug of war he began a year ago with China’s [.
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What exactly happened around Total’s platform on Girassol (block 17) on the night of January 18? Indeed, the question is [...]
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Some articles in the latest draft of Congo-K’s new oil code sound ominous to the only actual oil producer in the country.
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Still stalled by an injunction by Brittania U, the sale of Chevron's stakes has been completed with three companies rather than just one.
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A year behind the original scheme, Nigeria's Seplat group is expected to seek a listing on AIM in London in the first half of 2014.
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Having won a nod from the authorities in Niger in November to develop new fields on the Agadem block, the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) is pulling out all the stops.
The Geneva-based law firm Tavernier Tschanz is working increasingly on African briefs, some of which involve oil.
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During a cabinet meeting on Jan. 22, Ivory Coast president [...]
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Disappointed by bids it received to operate blocks it put [...]
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New projects are piling up to provide the Ivory Coast [...]
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Blocks EG-03 and EG-4 that cover all of the small [...]
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The appointment of a new oil minister in Nouakchott appears to have thrown a spanner into negotiations with Tullow Oil, [...]
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Hoping to break the cycle of failure that has dogged all of its rounds to allocate new blocks since 2004, the Algerian authorities are pulling out all the stops with a new auction.
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The national oil company is continuing to form joint ventures to push through infrastructure programs that will be needed by gas companies. The companies fear the programs could delay their developments.
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According to our sources, the government will endorse a 25-year concession for the Brazilian mining giant Vale for the 300 [...]
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With one of the smallest electrification rates on the continent, Burundi is being offered major-league assistance by multilateral donors. That makes it a paradise for consultants and builders.
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One of the donors for the 120 MW power plant at Nouakchott is thinking of pulling out its second phase because of allegations of corruption.
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The Irish boutique bank Raglan Capital, which has already backed [...]
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Patrick Hughes, partner in the firm Adams Jones Law Firm [...]
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Headed by retired general Pierre-Jacques Costedoat, who was successively in [...]
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