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 [...]
Ever since they were named mines and energy ministers in Democratic Republic of Congo in July, Eugene Diomi Ndongala and [...]
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.
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.
The World Bank is to finance construction of a 220 Kv line between Congo-K and southern Africa.
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 [...]
The British firm Exploration Consultant, special adviser to Equatorial Guinea's [...]
Africa Energy Intelligence has learned that Euroil, which was awarded [...]
After shaking up the Nigerian National Petroleum Company and paving the way for even more radical change in the oil [...]
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.
In addition to an agreement it has just signed with NLNG, France's Total is considering teaming up with Marathon in Equatorial Guinea.
In addition to a study on revamping Nigeria's oil sector (P. 3), the British consultancy Nexant did a study on [...]
Up to now strategic planning director at Ashanti Goldfields, Kweku Andoh Awotwi has been appointed head of the Volta River [...]
The latest exploration wells drilled on Mauritania's Chinguetti field by [...]
Operated by Canada Natural Resources alongside Ireland's Tullow, the Espoir [...]
The consultants Trutec Oil & Gas was hired by the [...]
IBC Energy is organizing a conference on Dec. 10-11 in [...]
The CWC Group is organizing a conference in Houston on [...]
Sudanese vice president Ali Osman Mohamed Taha and John Garang, leader of the SPLA, signed an agreement on security in [...]
Africa Energy Intelligence has learned that the Sudanese government will award the contract for turbines for the Merowe power station [...]
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 .
The new head of UNITA, Isaias Samakuva, is making a grand tour of Western capitals at the moment. Two weeks [...]
Nearly six weeks after flatly denying rumors that he would be fired as boss of state-owned Petro SA, Mpumelelo ?Joe? [...]
Sasol has begun talks with Eskom on selling gas from [...]
The Canadian law firm Fasken Martineau du Moulin is preparing [...]
Brito Mateus, exploration director at Sonangol, told participants in the [...]
The state-controlled South African utility Eskom plans to spend nearly [...]
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 state-controlled Algerian oil company Sonatrach has just borrowed 100 million euros ($115 million) from the Union of Arab and [...]
Energy minister Chakib Khelil named Mohamed Meziane as chairman of Sonatrach in mid-September. Since the death of the previous boss, [...]
Confirming its plans to bolster its international portfolio (AEI 351), [...]
Less than two years after triggering a crisis between Madrid [...]
Spain's Repsol has signed an agreement with Morocco's Office National [...]
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 board of Norway's Statoil has asked Kaci Kullmann Five, a former Norwegian trade minister and member of the committee [...]
In addition to drafting a report for Nigeria's Bureau of [...]
The CWC Group is organizing a top-level meeting in Cairo [...]