Long the "third man" in trading in Africa, Vitol is now competing on an equal foot with its two rivals, Trafigura and Glencore, which fought among themselves for years for oil business on the continent.
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The Liberia Petroleum Refining Corp called on the services of the Nigerian trader Sahara on July 22 to manage a [...]
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Rocksource is to test its technology to assess reserves between Senegal and Guinea Bissau in early 2011. The two countries are squabbling about rights over a discovery.
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Unhappy over some of the terms in new oil bill, Tullow Oil has appealed to the new oil chamber of commerce for help in modifying the wording.
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Caprikat and Foxwhelp were founded just three months before winning blocks on Lake Albert.
Since developing block 5 in the Albertine Graben will be a costly affair, Soco is selling off a minority stake in Nganzi as well as its assets in Thailand to drum up cash.
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Ophir has followed the geological trend of its blocks in Tanzania to Madagascar, and bought into Wilton Petroleum’s block.
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As we anticipated would be the case last month (AEI [...]
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According to our sources, the seven oil companies chosen in [...]
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The British oil company Afren has boosted its stake on [...]
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In response to our article "Perenco Gas for Forrest Plant?" [...]
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Africa Energy Intelligence has learned that the Songas company could shortly win a green light from Tanzania to double the [...]
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The Tunisian government has decided against renewing the rights of Candax on the Chaal exploration block.
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Negotiations between Congo-K’s oil ministry and Chevron to allow an Angolan gas pipeline to pass through Congolese waters have bogged down.
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The International Finance Corp.’s willingness to take part in funding the Soubre dam in the center-west of Ivory Coast has [...]
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Congo-K’s leading donors are to publish a study at the end of this year that will identify the priority power projects in the country.
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Seven donors are scheduled to lend money by the end of the month for a 667 km-long power line that will enable East African countries to buy and sell power in southern Africa.
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The Ethiopian Electric and Power Corp (EEPCo) is due to [...]
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There’s some question over who is the real chief of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MSOP). [...]
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Hyperdynamics has been continuing to beef up its management team since the American group signed a definitive agreement with Guinea [...]
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After serving for five years as technical director and then as head of operations at the Irish firm Circle Oil, [...]
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Retired British politicians are increasingly re-cycling themselves into African oil. After Mark Malloch Brown at Vitol (see Page 1), the [...]
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The Angolan national oil company Sonangol signed an agreement with [...]
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A new institute will shortly start training some of the [...]
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After a six month delay, the Petroleum Agency SA (PASA) [...]
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According to the latest figures from Nigeria’s National Bureau of [...]
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According to our sources, a delegation from Congo-K was in [...]
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Angola’s Sonangol is currently in talks with Occidental Petroleum and [...]
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The United Nations committee that examines limits of maritime boundaries [...]
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Launched last month, a bond issue by Maurel & Prom [...]
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On the heels of Technip and KBR (AEI 632), Italy's [...]
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After failing in its efforts to syndicate a USD 400 [...]
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The Canadian firm Africa Oil Corp has moved to raise [...]
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The Royal Bank of Canada unit was the lead manager [...]
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Having successively failed to acquire Maurel & Prom, Burren Energy [...]
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The American instrument company that measures flow in oil pipelines, [...]
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Tadahiro Matsushita, the deputy Japanese economy and industry minister, held [...]
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Amadou Toumani Toure, the president of Mali, is due to [...]
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Henry Bellingham, Britain's secretary of state in charge of African [...]
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