With Indian conglomerates already well entrenched in Africa, and specially in Nigeria and Sudan, their Pakistani counterparts are displaying a strong interest in the continent’s reserves as well. Some private groups have already picked up acreage in Africa, being faster [.
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Even before creating its future public investment agency, China has found a new way of operating in Africa by re-investing [...]
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The deputy assistant secretary of defense for African affairs, Theresa Whelan, was in Tunis on May 22-23 to chair a [...]
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Algeria’s higher energy council chaired by president Abdelaziz Bouteflika in person is to meet shortly to lay down guidelines for [...]
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The chief executive of Libya’s National Oil Corp (NOC), Shukri Ghanem, announced on May 23 that his group would unveil [...]
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All the oil companies which submitted bids in a licensing round in Equatorial Guinea’s offshore received a letter last week [...]
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With Democrats now holding a majority in Congress, African countries can hope to be rescued from the clutches of vulture funds.
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The decision to drop the project for a GTL plant at Tinhert followed delays in the LNG program at Gassi Toul and at the giant liquefaction train at Skikda.
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Tunis has awarded a dozen exploration permits to new companies with no previous experience in the country.
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Alongside established Nigerian companies like Conoil and Dangote, a number of unknown groups won concessions when acreage was auctioned off in early May.
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A consortium made up of leading Nigerian oil groups has won the bidding for the Port Harcourt refinery.
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A Norwegian foundation organized a seminar with Norwegian oil companies in the breakaway province of Somaliland.
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After working for state-owned oil companies in Kenya and Tanzania, the seismics company GX Technology has turned its attention to Comoros.
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After being investigated by the Russian tax authorities last year, [...]
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Sonatrach and the public Brazilian firm Petrobras penned a memorandum [...]
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Guinea’s parliament decided on May 21 to demand that the [...]
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Suntera Resources has been negotiating since last year with Summit [...]
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After acquiring the East Pande block south of Dar es [...]
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The 10th and 11th exploration well drilled by Total and [...]
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In advance of a visit by Indian trade minister Jairam Ramesh to Tanzania in August, the Indian conglomerate Bharat Heavy [...]
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A major force in the Libyan economy in the 1980s and 90s before its financial meltdown, South Korea’s Daewoo is back in business in Libya.
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During the course of a year-long tender, three foreign groups submitted bids to operate the Transmission Co of Nigeria.
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A Chinese forestry concern that has adopted the name “Nouvelle Societe de Bois” and owns two concessions to cut timber in Democratic Republic of Congo appears intent on investing in the power sector.
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The West African Development Bank (BOAD in its French initials) has granted a USD 8.1 million loan to Niger’s power [...]
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Several hedge funds have recently bought stakes in the Australian junior Range Resources which is active in the Nogal and [...]
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A consortium made up of the French investment bank Calyon and Portugal's Banco Portugues de Investimento (BPI) has won a [...]
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Engaged in a costly program to beef up its capacity, Eskom could win backing from the African Development Bank. The [...]
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As he was preparing to hand over the presidency to his successor, Unaru Yar’Adua on May 29, out-going president Olusegun [...]
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The oil services group Foster Wheeler has appointed Peter Rose as corporate treasurer, with the title of vice president, in [...]
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On May 17 the State Department appointed John Yates, a diplomat with expert knowledge of the African oil industry, as [...]
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Head of exploration for the past two and a half years at Pancontinental, Matthew Battrick, a geologist by training, has [...]
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The African Petroleum Producers Association is organizing a third congress at the Palais des Congres in Cotonou between June 19-21 [...]
EnergyNet is organizing a forum on the power sector in Africa at the Congres Center in Hamburg between June 27-29. [...]
Global Pacific & Partners and Africa Upstream 2007 are organizing a week-long conference on the African oil sector at the [...]
Algerian energy minister Chakib Khelil last week accused Spain of [...]
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The boss of Mozambique’s brand new Instituto Nacional de Petroleo, [...]
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Founded by Alan Bell, a veteran of Britain’s Royal Marine [...]
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The law concern Clifford Chance has made Nikolai Eatwell, who [...]
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A former executive of Indosuez, Jean Francois GrandChamp des Raux [...]
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