After watching its production and reserves shrink year by year, Congo-Brazzaville has suddenly announced a number of major discoveries. At the same time, several juniors working to develop marginal fights can be expected to contribute to an eventual increase in [.
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Headed by Rory Campbell, deputy economic development minister of the Canadian province of Alberta, a delegation of Canadian oil men [...]
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With Libya about to award 40 new oil concessions in early October, a turf war seems to have broken out [...]
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Filed in London in the summer of 2004, a complaint by Equatorial Guinea against several businessmen suspected of backing an [...]
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After a lot of hard bargaining, Sudanese president Omar El Bechir’s side managed to retain the energy portfolio in the [...]
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With a visit by Mozambique president Armando Guebuza to Lisbon scheduled for next month, the Portuguese government sent its finance [...]
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Wooed for over a year by oil companies (See P. 1, No. b386), Madagascar is poised to open its offshore [...]
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The Indian steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal has joined forces with state-owned ONGC to explore in Africa.
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Global Environmental Energy, a firm connected to former Irish prime minister Albert Reynolds, has just landed a license in Nigeria.
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Pexco, the oil arm of Malaysia’s Usaha Tegas conglomerate owned by Ananda Krishnan, hopes to debut in Equatorial Guinea and Ethiopia.
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Italy’s ENI group has just joined forces with two Nigerian groups with very good connections in the country.
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After fighting for over a year against the Nigerian government and some of its shareholders, South Atlantic has resigned itself to disposing of its assets.
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A number of juniors are seeking to take the Polish firm Kings & Kings’ place in Congo-K’s offshore.
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Angola is scheduled before the end of the year to issue a call for bids for relinquished acreage on blocks in its shallow offshore.
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After teaming up with Ireland’s Tullow Oil in Gabon, Sonangol is also present alongside Devon on OPL 256 in Nigeria.
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The development of the In Amenas wet gas fields in [...]
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The Swiss-Swedish concern ABB is due to finish developing the [...]
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In presenting his company’s annual financial results last week, the [...]
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General Electric last week landed a $400 million contract to build and equip five power stations in the Niger Delta. [...]
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A panel was appointed last week to mediate in a dispute between Togo Electricite, controlled by France’s Elyo, and the Togolese government.
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The European Union is to finance the rehabilitation of power infrastructure in the Ituri region in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
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A British businessman who specializes in the sale of second-hand power plants has just set up a company to operate in southern Africa.
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The International Finance Corp., the private investment arm of the World Bank, is about to lend $30 million to Infraco, [...]
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The U.S. Trade and Development Agency, which finances preliminary studies on projects that could be of interest to American groups, [...]
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Fed up with being beaten by Beijing in the race for African concessions, India has decided to copy China’s strategy [...]
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Seeking to invest in Congo-K’s electricity potential for years, the South African government plans to invest in a project to [...]
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A former Elf executive, Roman Gozalo is due to be shortly named managing director of the French oil firm Maurel [...]
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Former chief of the research division of Societe National d’Electricite Senegalaise (Sinelec), Ibrahima Thiam has just been named chairman of [...]
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A former RoyalDutch/Shell and BG executive, John Morrow was appointed technical director of Bowleven, a British group headed by Philip [...]
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The Namibian government’s mines and energy minister for 10 years, Andimba Toivo Ya Toivo has just been taken on by [...]
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Former head of global exploration and reserves management for Austria’s OMV group, Britain’s Nick Johnson has taken up work with [...]
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Ex vice president for exploration and production at Ocean Energy, which was bought out by Devon in 2003, John Schiller [...]
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Algeria’s Sonatrach has just inaugurated its first offshore terminal for [...]
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The state-owned South African oil company PetroSA last week posted [...]
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The Entreprise Tunisienne d’Activite Petroliere (ETAP) has just awarded two [...]
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Founded and run by former diplomat Robert Cabelly, who worked [...]
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Controlled by Australian businessmen Terry Donnelly and Anthony Black, the [...]
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On the heels of an announcement by the international law [...]
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