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Nigeria
Nigerian carbon credits leader banks on oil sector

Heine Melkevik, CEO of gas flaring reduction specialist Carbon-Limits Nigeria, wants to build on on his Nigeria experience as he branches out in central Africa

Free access Finance, Energy 19.12.2024

Gas flaring near Port Harcourt, Nigeria, in 2009.

Nigeria
Mele Kyari set to remain at helm of oil giant NNPC

The CEO of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corp looks set to remain in his post for the coming months after all. Despite pressure and rumours, this survivor of the previous administration still enjoys the support of the president.

Subscribers only Energy 13.12.2024

CEO of Nigerian National Petroleum Corp, Mele Kyari, in Houston, Texas, on 19 March 2024.

Namibia, South Africa
Oil junior Eco Atlantic prepares to sell stakes in Orange and Walvis basins

The Canadian oil and gas firm is trying to rustle up interest from industry leaders for its assets in South Africa and Namibia, the goal being to start selling shares in its blocks next year.

Subscribers only Energy 12.12.2024

Nigeria
Nigerian junior Green Energy close to completing new Rivers oil terminal

The oil company, headed by an ex-adviser to former president Obasanjo, is the first Nigerian firm to build such a terminal. It hopes to begin operations next March.

Subscribers only Energy 15.11.2024

Spotlight | Rwanda
Gold trader Alain Goetz sets legal guns on Rwanda and Western sanctions

The Belgian businessman, who specialises in refining and exporting gold from the Great Lakes region, claims Rwanda owes him tens of millions of dollars in compensation. At the same time, he is battling to persuade the US and EU to lift their sanctions on him.

Subscribers only Mining 14.11.2024

Belgian businessman Alain Goetz in Entebbe, Uganda, on 4 October 2018.

Spotlight | Africa
From Cape Town to Gulf of Guinea, Brazilian giant Petrobras' African renaissance

Brazil's state-owned Petrobas is making a comeback in oil exploration in Africa. A host of countries are jockeying to attract the oil giant, which has however reportedly reduced its investment budget for 2025 by several billion dollars.

Subscribers only Energy 21.10.2024

Brazil’s President Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva talks to Petrobras President Magda Chambriard, in Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil, on 13 September 2024.

Nigeria
Majors hit with fresh delays as NLNG Train 7 goes further off track

This facility, designed to produce eight million tonnes of liquefied gas a year, was originally scheduled to come on stream in 2025.

Subscribers only Energy 21.10.2024

Nigeria
Abuja awaits revised version of Shell's $1.3bn deal with Renaissance

No new plan for the takeover of Shell's onshore assets in the Niger Delta by a consortium has been submitted to the Nigerian regulator, which rejected the first one. The main issue is the number of blocks involved in the sale.

Subscribers only Energy 09.10.2024

Nigeria
Tullow Oil eyes maiden venture in Niger Delta

After 40 years of prospecting in Africa, the British junior is working behind the scenes to acquire a stake in Nigeria's oil-producing region for the first time in its history.

Subscribers only Energy 07.10.2024

Spotlight | Algeria, Nigeria
Equinor initiates drastic downsizing in Africa

In the coming months, the continent looks set to take a back seat in the portfolio of the Norwegian major amid plans to significantly curtail operations in Algeria and Nigeria.

Subscribers only Energy 07.10.2024

Anders Opedal, President and CEO of Equinor, in Doha on 26 March 2022.

Morocco
GE and Mitsubishi in the running for Al Wahda gas plant

GE and Mitsubishi are neck and neck to win a giant contract to build a gas plant in Al Wahda for the Moroccan power distribution bureau.

Subscribers only Energy 23.09.2024

Spotlight | Namibia
Oil majors jostle for Galp's golden opportunity in Orange Basin

A dozen energy firms including majors Shell and TotalEnergies are competing to buy the Portuguese group's licence and rights to operate in the largest discovery ever made in the Orange Basin off the Namibian coast.

Subscribers only Energy 12.09.2024

Galp Energia headquarters in Lisbon on 27 July, 2024.

Nigeria
TotalEnergies and Amni to invest over $1bn in Ima gas

The French major has ramped up its investments in Nigeria as it focuses on the gas sector and is now preparing to start production at the Ima field co-owned by Amni International.

Subscribers only Energy 29.08.2024

Mali
MagForce International corruption case to go to trial in Paris

The French firm's founder Robert Franchitti and seven others are to go on trial in Paris over alleged money laundering and bribing African officials in order to bag security equipment contracts.

Subscribers only Business 23.08.2024

Spotlight | Ivory Coast
ENI forced to seek Gulf partners for mammoth Baleine project

The oil and gas field owned by the Italian oil major is so resource-intensive that new investors are already required, just months before the launch of the second phase.

Subscribers only Energy 23.08.2024

Claudio Descalzi, CEO of ENI, in October 2023.

Ivory Coast
TotalEnergies follows Shell's lead in exiting Société Ivoirienne de Raffinage

The Western majors are steadily pulling out of refineries on the continent, with Ivory Coast the latest to experience this, much to the government's chagrin.

Subscribers only Energy 23.08.2024

Presidents Alassane Ouattara and Emmanuel Macron at the Élysée Palace in Paris in November 2023.

Tanzania
January Makamba's AU chair ambitions prove to be his undoing

The Tanzanian president has initiated a major reorganisation within the ruling CCM party. Foreign minister Makamba, who had pondered a run to chair the African Union's executive branch, is the first to pay the price.

Free access Politics, Diplomacy 02.08.2024

The former Tanzanian foreign minister January Makamba in Dar es Salaam on 15 April 2024.

Nigeria
TotalEnergies negotiates gas price before committing to new investments

TotalEnergies’ signing on 20 June of a final investment decision worth $550m for the Ubeta gas field in Nigeria would not have been possible without another agreement, signed a few weeks earlier.

Subscribers only Energy 29.07.2024

Spotlight | Tanzania
Shell and Equinor lose patience as political games put brakes on LNG project

Tanzania's rich offshore gas reserves were discovered 14 years ago, but the ruling party is still dragging its feet over key liquefaction decisions, much to the frustration of the two oil majors involved in the project.

Subscribers only Energy 18.07.2024

Tanzania's Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Doto Biteko on 28 August 2022 in Manyara (northern Tanzania).

Inner circles | Africa
The powerful friends of star oil lawyer NJ Ayuk

With 20 years' experience in legal counsel and lobbying for African governments keen to secure their countries' place on the oil map, Cameroonian NJ Ayuk, a thorn in the side of anti-fossil fuel civil society, now fancies his hand at investment.

Free access Energy 12.07.2024

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Libya
From Tripoli to Benghazi, Turkish trader BGN's oil odyssey

Senegal
Guns and oil drive Russia's Dakar courtship

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Nigeria
Nigerian carbon credits leader banks on oil sector

Nigeria
Mele Kyari set to remain at helm of oil giant NNPC

Namibia, South Africa
Oil junior Eco Atlantic prepares to sell stakes in Orange and Walvis basins

Nigeria
Nigerian junior Green Energy close to completing new Rivers oil terminal

Spotlight | Rwanda
Gold trader Alain Goetz sets legal guns on Rwanda and Western sanctions

Spotlight | Africa
From Cape Town to Gulf of Guinea, Brazilian giant Petrobras' African renaissance

Nigeria
Majors hit with fresh delays as NLNG Train 7 goes further off track

Nigeria
Abuja awaits revised version of Shell's $1.3bn deal with Renaissance

Nigeria
Tullow Oil eyes maiden venture in Niger Delta

Spotlight | Algeria, Nigeria
Equinor initiates drastic downsizing in Africa

Morocco
GE and Mitsubishi in the running for Al Wahda gas plant

Spotlight | Namibia
Oil majors jostle for Galp's golden opportunity in Orange Basin

Nigeria
TotalEnergies and Amni to invest over $1bn in Ima gas

Mali
MagForce International corruption case to go to trial in Paris

Spotlight | Ivory Coast
ENI forced to seek Gulf partners for mammoth Baleine project

Ivory Coast
TotalEnergies follows Shell's lead in exiting Société Ivoirienne de Raffinage

Tanzania
January Makamba's AU chair ambitions prove to be his undoing

Nigeria
TotalEnergies negotiates gas price before committing to new investments

Spotlight | Tanzania
Shell and Equinor lose patience as political games put brakes on LNG project

Inner circles | Africa
The powerful friends of star oil lawyer NJ Ayuk

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Libya From Tripoli to Benghazi, Turkish trader BGN's oil odyssey

Senegal Guns and oil drive Russia's Dakar courtship

Kinshasa's pan-African plans for Grand Inga

Cabo Delgado: a gas Eldorado and security nightmare

East Africa's hotly contested coffee sector

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Nigeria Nigerian carbon credits leader banks on oil sector

Nigeria Mele Kyari set to remain at helm of oil giant NNPC

Namibia, South Africa Oil junior Eco Atlantic prepares to sell stakes in Orange and Walvis basins

Nigeria Nigerian junior Green Energy close to completing new Rivers oil terminal

Spotlight | Rwanda Gold trader Alain Goetz sets legal guns on Rwanda and Western sanctions

Spotlight | Africa From Cape Town to Gulf of Guinea, Brazilian giant Petrobras' African renaissance

Nigeria Majors hit with fresh delays as NLNG Train 7 goes further off track

Nigeria Abuja awaits revised version of Shell's $1.3bn deal with Renaissance

Nigeria Tullow Oil eyes maiden venture in Niger Delta

Spotlight | Algeria, Nigeria Equinor initiates drastic downsizing in Africa

Morocco GE and Mitsubishi in the running for Al Wahda gas plant

Spotlight | Namibia Oil majors jostle for Galp's golden opportunity in Orange Basin

Nigeria TotalEnergies and Amni to invest over $1bn in Ima gas

Mali MagForce International corruption case to go to trial in Paris

Spotlight | Ivory Coast ENI forced to seek Gulf partners for mammoth Baleine project

Ivory Coast TotalEnergies follows Shell's lead in exiting Société Ivoirienne de Raffinage

Tanzania January Makamba's AU chair ambitions prove to be his undoing

Nigeria TotalEnergies negotiates gas price before committing to new investments

Spotlight | Tanzania Shell and Equinor lose patience as political games put brakes on LNG project

Inner circles | Africa The powerful friends of star oil lawyer NJ Ayuk

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About Africa Intelligence

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Africa Intelligence on social media

Indigo Publications' websites

Libya
From Tripoli to Benghazi, Turkish trader BGN's oil odyssey

Senegal
Guns and oil drive Russia's Dakar courtship

Nigeria
Nigerian carbon credits leader banks on oil sector

Nigeria
Mele Kyari set to remain at helm of oil giant NNPC

Namibia, South Africa
Oil junior Eco Atlantic prepares to sell stakes in Orange and Walvis basins

Nigeria
Nigerian junior Green Energy close to completing new Rivers oil terminal

Spotlight | Rwanda
Gold trader Alain Goetz sets legal guns on Rwanda and Western sanctions

Spotlight | Africa
From Cape Town to Gulf of Guinea, Brazilian giant Petrobras' African renaissance

Nigeria
Majors hit with fresh delays as NLNG Train 7 goes further off track

Nigeria
Abuja awaits revised version of Shell's $1.3bn deal with Renaissance

Nigeria
Tullow Oil eyes maiden venture in Niger Delta

Spotlight | Algeria, Nigeria
Equinor initiates drastic downsizing in Africa

Morocco
GE and Mitsubishi in the running for Al Wahda gas plant

Spotlight | Namibia
Oil majors jostle for Galp's golden opportunity in Orange Basin

Nigeria
TotalEnergies and Amni to invest over $1bn in Ima gas

Mali
MagForce International corruption case to go to trial in Paris

Spotlight | Ivory Coast
ENI forced to seek Gulf partners for mammoth Baleine project

Ivory Coast
TotalEnergies follows Shell's lead in exiting Société Ivoirienne de Raffinage

Tanzania
January Makamba's AU chair ambitions prove to be his undoing

Nigeria
TotalEnergies negotiates gas price before committing to new investments

Spotlight | Tanzania
Shell and Equinor lose patience as political games put brakes on LNG project

Inner circles | Africa
The powerful friends of star oil lawyer NJ Ayuk