While waiting for the first oil to flow from the Chinguetti field some time around the end of the year both the majors and independents are continuing to display a keen interest in Mauritania. Several groups are trying to win [.
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The Brazilian government is doing its bit to help the state-controlled oil company Petrobras build up its portfolio in Africa. [...]
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Over a year after announcing they wanted to set up a Joint Development Zone in Corisco Bay, Gabon and Equatorial [...]
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Accused by Malabo of being one of the brains behind an abortive putsch against president Theodoro Obiang Nguema in March, [...]
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Following a year-long stalemate over the Bakassi peninsula, the authorities in Cameroon last week accused Nigeria of attacking Cameroon positions [...]
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Nigeria is expected to offer to deliver 30,000 bpd of oil to the SOCIR refinery in Moanda, in Democratic Republic [...]
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Backed by the Western NGOs Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace and the World Wildlife Fund, the Gbarain ethnic community lodged [...]
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The French judicial authorities have completed their investigation into Angolagate, an arms trafficking affair between Paris and Luanda, after a [...]
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Taking its cue from Addax and Glencore the Vitol trading company is trying to plant its flag in the upstream [...]
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Anadarko has picked Kellogg, Brown and Root to develop one of its leading oil fields in Algeria's Berkine basin.
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Some intermediaries between American oil groups and the Libyan government previously worked for the Department of Energy.
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As they've done in Sao Tome, Nigerian groups are investing significantly in Equatorial Guinea.
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Brazil's Petrobras is negotiating with Chevron to buy into its L block.
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Canada's Transatlantic has just sold its assets in Nigeria to the local firm Summit Oil.
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Britain's Sterling group is making moves in Gabon and in Congo-Brazzaville.
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After a rough patch in its relations with Congo-B's government, France's Maurel & Prom is about to bring state-controlled SNPC into its M'boundi permit.
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Ireland's Tullow Oil has become one of the first independents to debut on a marginal Angolan field.
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Sonangol has just lifted force majeure on two fields in Cabinda's onshore.
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Sonatrach unloaded a first cargo of 138,000 cu.m. of LNG [...]
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Sonatrach has picked Canada's SNC Lavalin International in conjunction with [...]
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After buying into the Didon and Zarat concessions late last [...]
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Holding a 10% stake in block 3 in the Joint [...]
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Speaking before Congo-K's Senate last week, finance minister Andre-Philippe Futa [...]
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On the heels of other big South Korean conglomerates active in Libya, the Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) has just [...]
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The China Aero Technology Import and Export Company is developing new coal mines to revive the Hwange power plant.
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The World Bank's board has just approved loans to complete construction of Sierra Leone's first hydroelectric plant.
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Already active in Nigeria, China's Shadong Power Construction Company has just been contracted to build three power plants in Sudan.
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The French affiliate of the U.S. equity fund Appax Partners [...]
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Ireland's Tullow Oil is currently negotiating a credit line worth nearly $800 million from three banks, ABN Amro, Bank of [...]
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Sonatrach has been forced to stop raising money from external sources following an order issued by prime minister Ahmed Ouyahia [...]
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Won by Italy's Snamprogetti early this year, the contract to modernize Morocco's Samir refinery has been estimated at $760 million. [...]
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Africa Energy Intelligence understands that one of Congo-B's creditors, Kensington Investment of the United Kingdom, is seeking help in recovering [...]
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Africa Energy Intelligence has learned that the U.S. affiliate of Angola's state-controlled oil company Sonangol has hired the services of [...]
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Total will name a man long accustomed to working in sensitive posts, Olivier Cleret de Langavant, to head its Angolan [...]
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Number two person in South Africa's trade and industry ministry for the past six years, Benedicta Lindiwe Hendricks has just [...]
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Togo's new president, Faure Gnassingbe, who served as the country's energy minister until the death of his father, Eyadema Gnassingbe, [...]
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The former director of Energy Africa, John Bentley has been working part time for the last few months for the [...]
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President of Ashanti Goldfields (now Anglogold Ashanti), one of the world's leading gold producers for nearly 20 years, Ghana's Sam [...]
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Chairman of Tamoil for 15 years until he was replaced by the former director of NOC, Hamouda al Aswad, Omar [...]
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The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation is thinking of setting up [...]
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Algeria's Sonatrach is on the verge of buying up the [...]
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The Joint Development Authority which administers the Joint Development Zone [...]
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The Entreprise Tunisienne d'Activites Petrolieres (ETAP) has signed two new [...]
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The production start-up next month on concessions 3 and 7 [...]
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The French law firm Gide Loyrette Nouel has just taken [...]
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Gabon's Direction Generale des Hydrocarbures has contracted Britain's Terra Energy [...]
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The Ukraine seismics concern Nadra Ukrainy has been asked by [...]
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Global Pacific & Partners is organizing three distinct conferences in [...]
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Global Pacific & Partners is organizing a conference in Dakar [...]
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