Tradition has it in Nigeria that election years are always preceded by a huge sell-off of oil licenses. Looking ahead to legislative and presidential elections in 2015 the government of Goodluck Jonathan has just put 31 marginal fields on the [.
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The current political crisis in South Sudan that has spilled over into armed conflict between supporters of president Salva Kiir [...]
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Already entrenched in Congo-K where they work in oil exploration alongside diamond kingpin Dan Gertler, the Italian executives of Medea Development have knocked on Ghana's door.
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The French bank Societe Generale has put together a financial package that allows Ivory Coast’s refinery to buy crude. It had been a cliff-hanger for Societe Ivoirienne de Raffinage.
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Two Western majors put in very low financial bids to operate in Gabon’s deep offshore and, as a consequence, were spurned by Libreville.
Although Zambia’s government has weeded out a number of companies already holding licenses, new local and international firms debuted in exploration in early December.
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Two companies that signed production sharing contracts with Moroni are waiting for Parliament to confirm the award. It might not be all that soon.
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Tullow Oil, operator of the Banda gas field with its 1.3 TCF of reserves, is currently examining different bids to [...]
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While state-owned Sonatrach says it endorsed 14 development programs in 2013 other gas reserves are indeed available. But no production is possible in the short run.
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The South African firm Sunbird has penned a memorandum of understanding with Eskom to use gas from the Ibhubesi field. But marketing it lies far in the future.
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According to our sources, the second stage of the Hirgigo thermal power plant in Eritrea, which will increase output from [...]
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Mali’s slow economic recovery has led to a rise in power consumption which the country is hard put to satisfy. The solution appears to be to increase imports.
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With talks on the Inga 3 dam stepping up, restoration of the two existing dams is continuing to run into snags.
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A 30-month project of the Danish overseas development program Danida [...]
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Mauritania’s government moved on Dec. 26 to approve appointments that new oil minister, Mohamed Ould Khouna made to his staff. [...]
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Mauritania has been pumping oil since 2006 but up to now no local businessmen had crossed the Rubicon and formed [...]
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The oil and energy ministry in Niger has had a new secretary-general in office since Dec. 13. Halilou Kane, deputy [...]
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With Eskom finding it hard to push ahead with its the two huge coal-fired power plants of Medupi and Kusile [...]
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Fighting in South Sudan between supporters of president Salva Kiir [...]
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After Mozambique levied heavy capital gains taxes on the sale [...]
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Electricidade de Mocambique is to acquire new stakes in the [...]
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Holding talks in Abidjan on Dec. 18, the chief of [...]
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The first drafts of Gabon’s new oil and gas code [...]
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Despite criticism from NGOs and other representatives of civil society [...]
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Thailand’s state owned oil company PTT has become one of [...]
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It was undoubtedly the first arbitration case won by the [...]
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Submitted on Sept. 29, a request by the Fabbri family [...]
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Deeming that Kenya’s institutions aren’t sufficiently adequate to deal with [...]
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In late August, the World Bank will present its directors [...]
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Quick to espouse the most exotic causes, the Canadian-Israeli lobbyist [...]
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Nigeria has finally picked a lawyer to represent it in [...]
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Marketing chief for Chevron Nigeria since 2007, Hemant Patel and [...]
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Denis Chatelan, managing director of Perenco in Gabon, has come [...]
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Rajiv Shah, administrator of USAID, visited the Inga dam site [...]
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Ibrahim Mzimba, an opposition lawmaker, is one of three MPs [...]
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