The campaign for Algeria's presidential elections next April has already begun and the ballot is weighing on the operations of state-owned Sonatrach and, more widely, on the country's entire oil sector. Following the failure of his efforts to deregulate the [.
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Africa Energy Intelligence understand that Total and Congo-Brazzaville wrapped up negotiations on the terms of a general agreement settling all [...]
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Amerada Hess has run into delays in developing block G in Equatorial Guinea while Marathon is making gas finds.
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Vanco has sold part of its Senegalese reserves to Energy Africa.
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Congo-B and the World Bank have struck a deal: oil transparency in return for debt reduction and a promise of help in negotiating with Brazzaville's ?vulture? creditors.
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The Petrodar consortium's discoveries in the Melut basin have been assessed as holding reserves of 600 million barrels.
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As it has already done in Chad, the World Bank is going to provide a social and financial safety net for a new pipeline project: Sasol's gas pipeline between Mozambique and South Africa.
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Indian companies have joined with South Africa, Malaysian and Norwegian groups in displaying a keen interest in Mozambique's gas.
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On the eve of an IMF board meeting, the Angolan government has published a report by the KPMG accountancy on its oil revenue. More than an accusation, the report amounts to an admission of powerlessness.
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The Swiss-Swedish firm Asean Brown Bovery last week won the [...]
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The Amenam/Kpone field operated by Total on two concessions, OML [...]
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Closed since April because of a fire, ExxonMobil's condensate plant [...]
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The American-Japanese joint venture Modec which won most of the [...]
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Several big power projects in Libya had been stalled because of delays encountered by the General Electricity Company of Libya [...]
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After being stalled for two years, talks between RoyalDutch/Shell and NEPA on extending the Afam power station are about to resume.
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Several companies are already jockeying for position to win contracts from SONEL's emergency plan.
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Maintenance work on several turbines at power stations are currently [...]
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Despite the Bush administration's opposition to any resumption of relations with Tripoli, the Libyan government is continuing to make conciliatory [...]
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Chad president Idriss Deby was unable to witness the production start-up on the Doba oil fields in mid-July. Deby found [...]
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The abortive coup d'etat by soldiers in Sao Tome had a number of consequences even though the week-long putsch ended [...]
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Last week's visit to South Africa by Iranian foreign minister Kamal Kharrazi - he turned up just days after president [...]
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Nigeria's Parliament has authorized Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation to disburse $3.5 billion to meet cash calls to cover its contribution [...]
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The Amenam/Kpone field, which began producing in mid-July, is the first acreage to come on line under Nigeria's ?alternative funding? [...]
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While U.S. diplomats have been handling Angola with kid gloves for months, the U.S. commerce department has a far more [...]
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The African Development Fund, an affiliate of African Development Bank, has just approved a $3.5 million loan to finance a [...]
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In its turn, the World Bank has arrived in Malabo to try to wring a promise out of the Equatorial [...]
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France's Total group overhauled its management team last week, handing its African brief to Jean Privey in succession to Michel [...]
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After a battle that lasted for over two years, chief Modupe Alakja, chairman of Famfa Oil, has had to admit [...]
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Last week's resignation of Sao Tome oil minister Rafael Branco is going to deprive the island's future government of the [...]
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Chief executive officer of Heritage Oil, a Canadian junior founded by Anthony Buckingham and active in Angola, Uganda and Congo [...]
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Appointed director of Nigeria's Bureau of Public Enterprises that sells off state-owned assets, Julius Jibril Bala had previously been director [...]
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Global Pacific Partners is organizing the annual Africa Upstream conference [...]
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Specializing up to now in East European nations and Russia, [...]
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The South African firm Acer, which has already worked for [...]
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The Malagasy accountancy Mazars et Guerard are about to publish [...]
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Alongside the gas liquefaction project that ChevronTexaco, Sasol and Foster [...]
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The Entreprise Tunisienne d'Activite Petroliere (ETAP) has joined forces with [...]
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A lot of bad luck with drilling in Angola's ultra [...]
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