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Libya's decision to renounce the use of weapons of mass destruction that led to last week's agreement between Tripoli, London [...]
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The French government has stepped in after Spain (AEI 359) in an attempt to resolve a conflict that has pitted [...]
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Negotiations between Sudan vice president Ali Osman Taha and the leader of the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA), John Garang, [...]
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The MPLA party congress held in Luanda in the second half of December re-elected Jose Eduardo dos Santos as its [...]
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Africa Energy Intelligence has learned that Sinopec, which presently draws most of its revenue from six oil fields in China [...]
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Old Africa hands at the majors or independents are increasingly setting up their own companies.
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Juniors are increasingly making their first international debuts in Tunisia. This is the case of two newcomers, Ireland's Petroceltic and Canada's Storm.
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Italy's ENI has made a further move to withdraw from Mauritania's offshore just as a first development in the area looms larger.
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After replacing Talisman on the Heglig fields and then OMV on blocks 5A and 5B, the state-owned Indian company ONGC is negotiating its debut in the Melut basin.
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Nigeria's decision to try to woo investors by lifting price controls on gasoline has backfired, bringing runaway prices and shortages but no high-profile bidders for its refineries.
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Petrobras and RoyalDutch/Shell have finally signed production sharing contracts for blocks which were respectively awarded to them in December, 2000 and May, 2002.
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Already partners in Sudan, Petronas and ONGC appear ready to team up in Angola to replace RoyalDutch/Shell on block 18.
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AEI understands that foreign companies working in partnership with Sonatrach [...]
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The Danish firm Ramboil Energy won the contract for the [...]
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France's Technip and the Italian group Snamprogetti have submitted bids [...]
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The lone foreign company to operate in Guinea Bissau's offshore [...]
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The Canadian concern TransAtlantic Petroleum, which recently teamed up with [...]
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Twenty four marginal fields relinquished by RoyalDutch/Shell, Chevron-Texaco and Total [...]
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Already the winner of contracts to build the 300 MW Tekeze dam in Ethiopia and the giant, 1,250 MW Merowe [...]
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Police in Belgium are investigating allegations of fraud against a Japanese firm active in the Congo-K's power industry.
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After serving regularly as a consultant of EEPCO, the Austrian firm Verbundplan is now seeking the contract to manage the Ethiopian utility.
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AEI understands that the World Bank's board will examine a [...]
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The International Monetary Fund appears full of praise for Equatorial Guinea in the wake of a rash of highly critical [...]
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Record of the Swiss-based bank of Elf, Rivunion, are continuing to turn up fascinating information about the circle of go-betweens [...]
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Nigerian finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala appears to be pulling out all the stops to impose her department's authority over the [...]
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The Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has asked its partners in major joint ventures to help finance its share in [...]
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An audit of the Kenya Power and Lighting Company that was ordered early this year by Mwai Kibaki's government following [...]
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With a street already named after him in the embassy district of Lagos, Walter Carrington, former American ambassador to Nigeria, [...]
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Present boss of the Norwegian paper manufacturer Norsk Skog, Jan Reinas is to succeed Egil Myklebust as chairman of Norsk [...]
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CEO of Burren Energy, the partner of France's Maurel et Prom oil company on the Congolese concessions of Kouilou and [...]
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Acting CEO of the Australian oil company Woodside since John Akehurst was fired, Keith Spence has been taking a lot [...]
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Author of a report by Human Rights Watch that came out in mid-December and highlighted the relationship between violence and [...]
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President of George Soros' Open Society Institute, Aryeh Neier flew to Angola in mid-December to continue talks that his organization [...]
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Senegal's state-owned oil company Petrosen has signed several partnership accords [...]
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The standard production sharing contract that prevails in Nigeria's offshore [...]
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After signing deals with Tractebel, Statoil and BP, Sonatrach now [...]
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To be built by the firm China Water Resources & [...]
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Manager of the state-owned utility Tanzania Electric Supply Company (TANESCO) [...]
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The American firm Landmark Graphics, an affiliate of Halliburton, signed [...]
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The American consultancy Tusk LLC, which has experience in working [...]
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Global Pacific & Partners is organizing a forum at the [...]
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The CWC Group is organizing a conference in London on [...]
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