The big wave of mergers in the oil industry has somewhat reduced the workload of law firms specializing in Africa's oil business since the majors, for their part, often use their own staff.
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A small number of law firms specialize in power projects in Africa, as others do in the continent’s oil industry [...]
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Uncertainty and delays are piling up for the Bujagali dam project headed by AES and partially bankrolled by the World [...]
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Chronically in debt to Congo-Kinshasa’s Societe Nationale d’Electricite (SNEL) which supplies it power from the Inga dam, Congo-Brazzaville is trying [...]
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In announcing on Nov. 20 that the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) would sell off the National Electric Power Authority [...]
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France’s Vivendi finally won a 25-year concession to run Senelec on Nov. 20, putting an end to a privatization process [...]
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South Africa’s Eskom has signed a $3 million contract with [...]
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The Saudi Arabian firm Nimir Petroleum Company, controlled by the Bin Mahfouz family, is continuing to discreetly develop the ?November [...]
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The Concorp group whose boss, Jar El Nabi, is introduced everywhere in Ndjamena as president Idriss Deby’s ?Sudanese cousin,? was [...]
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The agreement that TotalFinaElf boss Thierry Desmarest signed with a lot of fanfare last month to re-schedule Congo-B’s debt guaranteed [...]
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A number of seismic campaigns are being planned in Senegal which remains largely unexplored even though four companies are active [...]
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Relations between oil companies operating in Equatorial Guinea’s offshore and the government are subtly changing as the authorities slowly set [...]
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ENI’s decision to dispose of its retail assets in West [...]
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West Africa figures among the oil producing areas that consumer [...]
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If the merger between Conoco and Phillips Petroleum that was announced on Nov. 18 is confirmed it will considerably beef [...]
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Founded in 1998 to market Congo-Brazzaville’s oil production -- it currently sells 30,000 bpd worth $200 million, or a third [...]
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Spain’s Repsol announced last week that it was negotiating with [...]
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Already active in Libya, the Austrian firm OMV has added [...]
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Agip Congo, an affiliate of ENI, has already reaped a [...]
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France’s TotalFinaElf wants to double the capacity of the Luanda [...]
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BHP Petroleum, the small oil affiliate of the Anglo-Australian group [...]
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Vice-president of the executive committee of TotalFinaElf and managing director of the French group’s trading affiliate, Bernard Polge de Combret [...]
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The appointment of Mohamed Abdouljawad as head of Odex Exploration (AEI 310), a new joint venture between Soco North Africa [...]
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With the appointment of former finance minister Chrisanthus Okemo as energy minister in Kenya’s new government, the ministry finds itself [...]
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After nearly a year of looking for the right man, the Equatorial Guinea government has named Domingo Esono, a former [...]
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Founded by Abdel Rahman and Khalid Bin Mahfouz, Nimir Petroleum Company (Nimir stands for Tiger in Arabic) is headed by [...]
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The Yinka Folawiyo Petroleum company wrote to Africa Energy Intelligence to point out that Wahab Folawiyo, father of the company’s [...]
IBC Global Conferences is organizing a conference on wind energy [...]
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Algeria’s plan to export power directly to Spain has been [...]
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The shake-up in Algeria’s oil industry that looks like giving [...]
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At the behest of the South African government, the Austrian [...]
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The Anglo-Australian group BHP Billiton is displaying an interest in [...]
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Increasing numbers of companies are eyeing the market for pollution [...]
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The European Union is poised to bankroll a series of [...]
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A trial that has pitted Nigeria’s southern states against the [...]
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In the wake of the Sept. 11 terror attacks in [...]
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According to information gleaned by Africa Energy Intelligence in Washington, [...]
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The U.S. state department has just renewed a ban on [...]
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