Spotlight | West Africa
Six Decisive Months for West African Gas Pipeline
The West African Gas Pipeline (WAGP) was meant to be ChevronTexaco's answer to ExxonMobil's Chad-Cameroon line
The West African Gas Pipeline (WAGP) was meant to be ChevronTexaco's answer to ExxonMobil's Chad-Cameroon line
After receiving medical treatment in France in July, Chad president Idriss Deby returned to the French capital in mid-September to [...]
After shaking up the Nigerian National Petroleum Company and paving the way for even more radical change in the oil [...]
Ever since they were named mines and energy ministers in Democratic Republic of Congo in July, Eugene Diomi Ndongala and [...]
Sudanese vice president Ali Osman Mohamed Taha and John Garang, leader of the SPLA, signed an agreement on security in [...]
The new head of UNITA, Isaias Samakuva, is making a grand tour of Western capitals at the moment. Two weeks [...]
Africa Energy Intelligence has learned that Spain's Repsol is negotiating its debut on two concessions in Equatorial Guinea's offshore. The [...]
Completed in early September, a shake-up at NNPC was only the parting shot in a broader overhaul. A National Oil Council is to be formed.
ConcoPhillips' projects in Nigeria's LNG sector are likely to step up following the group's decision to build a terminal in the United States.
As ExxonMobil pushes ahead on the Doba concession - production began almost two months ago although the fields have yet to be inaugurated - the Canadian firm Encana is preparing to drill elsewhere in Chad.
In addition to an agreement it has just signed with NLNG, France's Total is considering teaming up with Marathon in Equatorial Guinea.
With NGO's preparing to mount a campaign concerning Congo-B's oil, the country's finance ministry has just published details on how much petroleum revenue the government raked in during the first half of this year.
A licensing round in the Joint Development Zone between Sao Tome and Nigeria has been singularly complicated by wrangling over bonuses and a number of technical factors.
Confirming its plans to bolster its international portfolio (AEI 351), [...]
Less than two years after triggering a crisis between Madrid [...]
The latest exploration wells drilled on Mauritania's Chinguetti field by [...]
Operated by Canada Natural Resources alongside Ireland's Tullow, the Espoir [...]
Sasol has begun talks with Eskom on selling gas from [...]
Africa Energy Intelligence has learned that the Sudanese government will award the contract for turbines for the Merowe power station [...]
With European companies banging on Libya's door for lucrative contracts, two Spanish firms have just won deals worth 301 euro ($346 million). This was seen as a reward for Spanish prime minister Jose Maria Aznar's visit to Tripoli.
The World Bank is to finance construction of a 220 Kv line between Congo-K and southern Africa.
In the heels of AES' withdrawal from the Bujagali dam project, the Ugandan government is trying to revive an alternative plan for a dam at Karuma .
AEI understands that the Agence Francaise de Developpment is looking at investing in two huge power projects in Africa. The [...]
Although it has sold most of its African portfolio, the Australian firm Fusion has found itself in a squeeze between [...]
The state-controlled Algerian oil company Sonatrach has just borrowed 100 million euros ($115 million) from the Union of Arab and [...]
In addition to a study on revamping Nigeria's oil sector (P. 3), the British consultancy Nexant did a study on [...]
When Total and Congo-B signed an agreement settling all of the outstanding issues between the French oil group and Brazzaville [...]
Re-named Total Gabon, the French oil group's Gabon-based affiliate saw its net earnings surge to $106.2 million in first half [...]
Nearly six weeks after flatly denying rumors that he would be fired as boss of state-owned Petro SA, Mpumelelo ?Joe? [...]
Energy minister Chakib Khelil named Mohamed Meziane as chairman of Sonatrach in mid-September. Since the death of the previous boss, [...]
Up to now strategic planning director at Ashanti Goldfields, Kweku Andoh Awotwi has been appointed head of the Volta River [...]
The board of Norway's Statoil has asked Kaci Kullmann Five, a former Norwegian trade minister and member of the committee [...]
The British firm Exploration Consultant, special adviser to Equatorial Guinea's [...]
The consultants Trutec Oil & Gas was hired by the [...]
The Canadian law firm Fasken Martineau du Moulin is preparing [...]
In addition to drafting a report for Nigeria's Bureau of [...]
Brito Mateus, exploration director at Sonangol, told participants in the [...]
The state-controlled South African utility Eskom plans to spend nearly [...]
Spain's Repsol has signed an agreement with Morocco's Office National [...]
Africa Energy Intelligence has learned that Euroil, which was awarded [...]
IBC Energy is organizing a conference on Dec. 10-11 in [...]
The CWC Group is organizing a conference in Houston on [...]
The CWC Group is organizing a top-level meeting in Cairo [...]