Nearly two years following a peace treaty between the North and South in Sudan, former rebels in the south and the ex-central government have reached agreement on the practical terms of sharing power in the oil sector.
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Recent allegations against two leading Nigerian oil figures, Tony Chukwueke and Edmund Daukoru, could prevent the Nigerian government from organizing [...]
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After showing Exxon the door, Niger is negotiating with several companies which appear keen on acquiring the Agadem block.
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Due to delays, it won’t be possible for the government to approve the OK LNG project before presidential elections in April, to the displeasure of Nigeria’s current leader who is the program’s leading backer.
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The Gas Authority of India has begun talks with several [...]
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Ukraine’s leading oil producer, UkrNafta, is about to debut in [...]
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Nigeria’s Bureau of Public Enterprises is poised to privatize two [...]
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CWC Associates is organizing a conference on Nigeria's oil industry [...]
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German foreign minister Frank Walter Steinmeier made a five-day, whistle-stop tour of North Africa between Nov. 14-19, visiting Libya, Tunisia, [...]
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While the French bank BNP Paribas is still in talks in London to sell Tamoil, Saif El Islam, son and [...]
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The Medgaz consortium, in which Algeria’s Sonatrach holds a 20% [...]
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Already busy in upgrading the Skikda refinery in Algeria, Engineers [...]
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The firm Global Pacific Partners is organizing a conference on [...]
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A compromise on the share-out of oil rights between north and south in Sudan (see Page 1) was due to [...]
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Like many of their African counter-parts, Kenya’s government is pushing for local groups to acquire oil acreage.
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Highly developed in the Indian Ocean islands, the use of sugar cane waste to generate power has now spread to [...]
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A year after being caught up in the Anglo Leasing scandal and being forced to resign, energy minister Kiraitu Murungi [...]
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An affiliate of the National Iranian Oil Co, Petropars is [...]
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Highly active in Sudan - it already controls Capital Bank [...]
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According to The Indian Ocean Newsletter (Indigo Publications), sister newsletter [...]
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In a matter of months, the small Swiss group Pilatus Energy has built up an African portfolio with the help [...]
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Object of a mysterious takeover bid, the British firm Equator, which is in tight financial straits, has asked others suitors to come forward.
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The American firm Anadarko was forced to backtrack on a previous announcement it was putting its Algerian assets up for [...]
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Less than a month after signing a cooperation pact with Angola’s state-owned Sonangol in Moscow, Gazprom is preparing to join [...]
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Although Premier Oil has been talking with Dubai Energy since mid-October, other would-be buyers are showing an interest in the [...]
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Initially scheduled for this summer, Dominion Petroleum’s flotation on London’s Alternative Investment Market is now being planned for mid-December. The [...]
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One of the most active American lobbyists in Africa in the 1990s, the former assistant secretary for African affairs of [...]
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As Africa Energy Intelligence anticipated six months ago (No. 420), Total announced on Nov. 14 that Yves-Louis Darricarre, the company's [...]
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Named chairman of Afren early this month, the former secretary general of OPEC and ex Nigerian oil minister Rilwanu Lukman [...]
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Up to now in charge of Murphy Oil's international operations, and particularly the firm's activities in Congo, David Wood has [...]
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Tara O'Connor and Dudu Douglas-Hamilton, two former heads of the [...]
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In its move to acquire the stake held by Gulf [...]
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The International consortium that bought the stakes of Duke Energy [...]
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Global Pacific & Partners is organizing a conference on the [...]
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Now that force majeure has been lifted in the north and central blocks of Cabinda, the consortiums which operated the two concessions are changing and bringing in new partners.
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Although Tullow Oil hasn’t yet begun developing its huge Kudu gas field, oil companies are displaying a keen interest in nearby areas.
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South Africa’s Constitutional Court has just put a halt to the judicial fight the American firm Global Offshore has been conducting for the past two years against South Africa’s Petroleum Agency for control of the Tugela basin.
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After being acquired by a local group in conjunction with Britain’s Aldwych last month, the Copperbelt Energy Corp plans to float some of its equity on the stock exchange next year.
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New turbines are to be installed on the Capanda dam that retains much of the Kwanza rapids.
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The state-owned South African firm Petro SA signed a memorandum [...]
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As part of its commitment to safeguard the environment, the [...]
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According to the pro-government newspaper Sunday Mail, the Russian firm [...]
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