Spotlight | Sudan
Russian Offensive on Sudan’s Oil
While Talisman is doing its utmost to dump its assets in Sudan oil companies from the USSR are feverishly working to make headway in the country.
While Talisman is doing its utmost to dump its assets in Sudan oil companies from the USSR are feverishly working to make headway in the country.
An affiliate of Engen , the South African company controlled by Malaysia’s Petronas , Energy Africa is a ?major? on [...]
Officials from Cameroon’s Societe Nationale des Hydrocarbures (SNH) realized they are experiencing good times this year that may not come [...]
Shell ’s partner on the Kudu field in Namibia, [...]
The second-ranking producer in Congo-Brazzaville after TotalFinaElf , Agip will [...]
The state-owned Japan National Oil Corp . intends to leave [...]
Malaysia’s state-owned oil company Petronas appears best placed among three [...]
Faced with a significant drop in its oil revenue (AEI 306-303), Gabon is pulling out all the stops to raise [...]
With the privatization of Societe Ivoirienne de Raffinage (SIR) now underway (AEI 307), the company’s chairman, Joel Dervain , appears [...]
Mauritania’s oil bonanza looks set to fizzle out before it begins. The Australian group Hardman Resources has just announced it [...]
Although a call to bid for 24 marginal fields has been reserved for local companies in step with the Obasanjo [...]
Nigeria is mulling a whole new range of projects to export liquefied natural gas just as Nigeria LNG (NLNG) completed [...]
In making its debut in Angola’s onshore this month, the Australian company Roc Oil was accompanied by two partners unknown [...]
Heavily indebted – with a debt to equity ratio of 70/30—the U.S. firm CMS Energy announced on Oct. 26 that [...]
Royal Dutch Shell and British Petroleum have won the first round in the fight for Spain’s deregulated gas market. [...]
In addition to its interest in Sudan (see P. 1), Russia’s state-owned Rosneft company is increasingly active elsewhere in Africa. [...]
The French oil group TotalFinaElf and Libya’s Tamoil , which [...]
Angola’s national oil company Sonangol will proffer advice to Equatorial [...]
Any delay in World Bank approval of AES project to build a dam at Bujagali could cost the promoters up [...]
African countries tend to privatize a company only when it's in trouble. For the moment the Societe Nigerienne d'Electricite (NIGELEC) [...]
Algeria’s Sonelgaz company that sees to the production, transmission and distribution of power is facing the need to invest heavily [...]
An offshoot of OMVS , the Societe de Gestion de l’Energie de Manantali has just set up a committee to [...]
Minister of Justice in Uganda until this summer, Bart Katureebe has just joined a consultancy firm which is advising AES [...]
The president of PanCanadian Energy, the only North American company officially active in Libya, David Tuer, has just quit his [...]
David Conway , the president of Pecten Cameroon , which has been 80% owned by Shell since 1998, will [...]
Head of the Nigerian firm Yinka Folawiyo Petroleum , Tijani Folawiyo has just negotiated a deal with Canadian National Resources [...]
As president of the Canadian firm Acres International Ltd ., Clifford Brown finds himself running one of the busiest consultancies [...]
The pipeline linking Eldoret in Kenya to Kampala in Uganda [...]
Canada’s Acres International was picked by the Kenyan government to [...]
Under its new 2001-2007 cooperation program that it has just [...]
The project to build a dam at the tip of [...]
The Export Import Bank of China has just awarded a [...]
Swaziland’s energy ministry has just renewed a supply agreement with [...]
The Petroleum Agency of South Africa (PASA) that was set [...]
For the first time in the history of Nigeria’s oil [...]
The movement for the liberation of Western Sahara, Polisario , [...]
A meeting of the joint Russian-Libyan committee that is scheduled [...]
The CWC group is organizing a meeting in Casablanca on [...]
The Centre Francais du Commerce Exterieur is organizing a seminar [...]