After long months of consultations, Nigeria’s new president, Umaru Yar’Adua, made a number of appointments over the summer to form the basis of the country’s oil administration. But the head of state, who claims to champion transparency when it comes [.
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Judge Susan Illston from the US district court for the northern district of California has ruled that a suit filed [...]
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Somalia plans to enact new oil legislation aimed at persuading oil companies that held acreage in the country before December, [...]
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Guinea’s government has decided to put back a licensing round it had initially thought of launching during a forum on [...]
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Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez plans to visit Namibia in the first week of September after dropping in on several countries [...]
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Each government change in Nigeria unfolds in the same way: the out-going administration awards oil contracts just before leaving office [...]
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KBR sold its stake in its joint venture with Sonatrach to the state-controlled group after being awarded a huge gas liquefaction deal.
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The Cygam group controlled by the Rigo family has brought a fourth Canadian concern into its Jorf concession in Tunisia.
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On the heels of BG and Premier, Australia’s Woodside is about to withdraw from Mauritania.
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The private Malaysian oil firm is poised to debut in Benin’s offshore.
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After leaving Gabon and Sao Tome, Pioneer Natural Resources has put its assets in Nigeria up for sale and plans to focus on Tunisia and South Africa.
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Founded this spring as an offshoot of Australia’s Sphere Investment group, Sphere Petroleum has assets in Mali, Guinea Bissau and Morocco.
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Receiving a Libyan delegation in Conakry, Guinea’s government offered Tamoil Africa a block in the country’s offshore.
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Growing tension between Heritage and the Congo-K authorities led to a clash that cost the life of one of the group’s employees.
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Unlike a number of juniors which have dealt with the breakaway authorities in Somaliland and Puntland, Medco has signed up with the central government.
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Harald van Hoeken, CEO of the Nigerian oil group Amber, [...]
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Contrary to what several articles in Africa Energy Intelligence have [...]
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In the wake of Anadarko, which struck oil on the [...]
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The French group announced it had acquired a 36% holding [...]
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The Nigerian junior Equator Exploration announced that it had sold [...]
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France’s Total group announced its fourth discovery on the Mer [...]
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The Norwegian concern Norsk Hydro and its partner, state-controlled Sonangol, [...]
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An affiliate of Globeleq, Sud Energy, has won the tender for the 200 MW power station on the N’tem river [...]
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A consortium headed by the U.S. group AES won the tender issued by South Africa’s mines and energy ministry to build two gas-fired power plants.
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The British group Aldwych has acquired a stake in the Kelvin power plant in Johannesburg.
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The Kenya Electricity Generating Co has awarded a contract for the construction of a 35 MW power unit.
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The oil company founded by former OPEC chairman Rilwanu Lukman, Afren, has borrowed USD 50 million from Nigeria’s First City [...]
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The Nigerian businessman Emeka Offor has quit the board of ERHC, the small American company that holds rights in the [...]
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Accustomed since the end of the Cold War to playing off East against West, Angola has continued to take its [...]
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The African Development Bank approved a USD 500 million loan to the South African power utility Eskom on Aug. 13. [...]
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The current president of Chevron International for exploration & production, John Watson, has just been put in charge of the [...]
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Banker Tajudeen Fola Adeola, founder and president of the Guarantee Trust Bank, was appointed chairman of Eterna Oil & Gas [...]
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A 59-year-old British national, John Bentley, was named chairman of the Canadian concern Artumas at the end of July. After [...]
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The Irish junior Circle Oil has hired a former adviser to Tunisia’s industry and energy ministry, Ali Chine, to act [...]
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The Swedish concern PA Resources has appointed 49-year-old Bo Askvik as its chief financial officer, with effect from Sept. 1. [...]
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The International Quality & Productivity Center is organizing the 6th Acquisition and Divestiture in Oil & Gas: West Africa Summit [...]
Global Pacific & Partners and Africa Upstream 2007 are organizing a week-long conference on the African oil sector at the [...]
The Central Electricity Board in Mauritius is currently in talks [...]
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State-owned Sonatrach has selected France’s Total group to form a [...]
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Algeria’s national power and gas utility Sonelgaz signed a turnkey [...]
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The British branch of the Baker Botts law firm that [...]
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The Africa director of the British consultancy Good Governance Group, [...]
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Already acting as a counsellor to several African capitals, and [...]
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