Four years after an agreement was penned, a project by Libya’s Tamoil to build a pipeline for oil products between Kenya and Uganda still hasn’t won a final seal of approval from the two governments.
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Africa Energy Intelligence has learned that an opposition legislator, Rufin Mpaka, met with a Green party senator in Paris, Jean [...]
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In conjunction with India Oil Corporation, the state-owned group Oil India has been trying for years to buy companies operating in Africa. With not the least success.
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The Anglo-Dutch giant is exploring the Sicilian channel that lies between the Italian island and Tunisia and Libya.
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The European Investment Bank has finally agreed to let Chad pay back its loans ahead of schedule. That leaves N’Djamena free to market its own oil.
Saudi Arabia's BinLadin Group is bidding to acquire a 34% holding in the Dakar refinery which could pick up new contracts to supply oil products in the region.
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A refinery project could well undercut Total’s positions in Equatorial Guinea. The French group imports and distributes all of the country’s gasoline.
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Exploration work in the Bourrahat area in the Illizi basin, [...]
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A delegation of Gabonese officials travelled to the headquarters of [...]
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The Zurich-based Transocean group has blamed Libya’s recent embargo on [...]
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A delegation from Mali led by mines minister Abou Bacar Traore and Mamadou Simpara, director of the l’Autorite pour la [...]
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RoyalDutch/Shell is reportedly ready to build an LNG plant in Gabon but only on condition it holds a monopoly over reserves and the new facility.
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Angola wants to join the Gas Exporting Countries Forum even though it won’t start producing gas until 2012.
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After any number of delays, the Medgaz pipeline linking Algeria [...]
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Last week’s publication of a confidential in-house report by Eskom on the web site of the main opposition party, Democratic [...]
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France’s Alstom group has entirely fitted out Shell’s Afam power plant in Port Harcourt and has just landed a new contract for a turbine in the city.
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Mozambique’s government has issued a call for bids to rehabilitate two very old hydro power stations.
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Britain's Globeleq Generation. has acquired the 32.85% stake that Electricite [...]
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Maurel & Prom has appointed its Nigerian partner, Ambrosie Bryant Chukwueloka (ABC) Orjiako, to its board in Paris. One of [...]
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According to our sources, ExxonMobil, which operates the Doba fields, finally managed to put the skids under Chad’s oil minister, [...]
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Unlike the majority of his cabinet colleagues, the minister in charge of the Delta region, Godsday Orubebe, retained his post [...]
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Named oil minister last month (AEI 626), Deziani Allison-Madueke belongs to a particularly well connected family in leading circles in [...]
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Libya's National Oil Corp appears unable to meet the rise [...]
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During a visit to Accra on April 18, the chief [...]
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Nigeria's acting president, Goodluck Jonathan, will next month personally unveil [...]
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In mid-April acting president Goodluck Jonathan launched a sweeping review [...]
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Uganda's minerals development minister, Peter Lockeris, who is acting increasingly [...]
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According to our sources, an independent auditing firm will be [...]
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State-run Chinese oil companies aren’t the only ones interested in [...]
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The European Investment Bank (EIB) is planning to grant a [...]
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The announcement of a partnership between Australia’s Rialto Energy and [...]
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The Texas-based Hyperdynamics company is to shortly issue 8,076,925 new [...]
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To put a halt to legal action undertaken two years [...]
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Two years after agreeing to sell 70% of its Ovambo [...]
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Founded in Johannesburg in 1997 by Robert Matana Gumede, the [...]
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Boss of the oil department at the Canadian banking consultancy [...]
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The Swiss financial consultancy Mirabaud raised USD 120 million on [...]
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Jacques Marraud des Grottes, the vice president of French major [...]
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Mahmud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, signed several agreements with his [...]
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Tim O'Hanlon, vice president of Ireland's Tullow Oil in charge [...]
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