Announced only last week, a flurry of top appointments at the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) had been planned long months in advance. Coming after Nigeria's presidential election, the overhaul in the state-owned company's management ushers in a period of [.
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Equatorial Guinea's government has approached a number of international banks to put together a $250 million oil-backed loan that would [...]
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After threatening action for the past two years, the U.S. firm Skidmore is finally poised to file suit against the Saudi firm Dallah Albaraka, its former partner in Morocco.
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Hit by financial crisis, Anadarko is seeking a buyer but may be forced to sell off its assets separately. Its Algerian portfolio seems likely to attract bids.
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Operating up to now in Tunisia's on-shore, Petro-Canada has just signed an agreement with Centurion Energy International to also work in the offshore.
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Abuja and Abidjan have agreed to ?normalize? their oil relations to ensure supply for SIR.
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After negotiating the terms in July, the Brazzaville government and Total finally signed an agreement in August that put paid to all the beefs between them.
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Malaysia's Petronas and the China National Petroleum Company have each firmed up their positions in Sudan, the first at Melut in the south and the second at Kodorfan in western Sudan.
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India's OVL company has bolstered its position in Sudan by acquiring stakes in two new blocks while Pakistan's Zafir has been awarded concession no. 9 in central Sudan.
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Empowerment companies are battling for a stake on Sable Fields.
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The Canadian firm Heritage Oil, which operates the Kouakouala field [...]
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Announced for some time as being imminent, drilling will finally [...]
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The Burundi government has decided to re-build the country's strategic [...]
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Africa Energy Intelligence understands Air France could open a line [...]
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Africa Energy Intelligence has learned that the World Bank is to reorganize Chad's electricity sector and particularly take charge of [...]
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The announcement by AES that it was pulling out of the Bujagali dam project which it had been promoting since 1994 sounded the death knell of the program in its present form.
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Mozambique and South Africa signed a memorandum of understanding at the end of August to build a dam at Mepanda [...]
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The state-owned utility Empresa Nacional de Electricidade (ENE) is pushing for a gradual rise in its rates and is awaiting [...]
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The United States increased its gas imports from Africa by 67% in the second quarter of 2003, with supplies coming [...]
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In the midst of negotiations for the return of U.S. oil companies to Libya, the Bush administration is showing its [...]
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Russia will lift a first Nigerian satellite designed to watch over the country's oil facilities into orbit on Sept. 26. [...]
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The island of Zanzibar has officially appealed to the federal Tanzanian government to consider that Tanzania's oil resources belong to [...]
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Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo signed a preliminary accord in late August that could put paid to a [...]
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Namibian energy minister Nickey Iyambo signed an agreement with his South African counterpart, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, that provides for the construction [...]
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Just like Ron Van den Berg, his predecessor as head of Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) in Nigeria, Chris Finlayson [...]
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At a board meeting of the National Oil Company of Zimbabwe (NOCZIM) chaired by the former state secretary for mines, [...]
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Sao Tome's new minister for natural resources and environment, Tome Vera Cruz, who took over from Rafael Branco in the [...]
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In the new Togo government set up following the re-election of president Gnassingbe Eyadema, the most interesting portfolio on the [...]
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A former health minister who went on the hold the portfolio for international cooperation and foreign investment, Fethi Merdassi has [...]
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Unipetrol Nigeria Plc., a company owned by Wale Tinubu's powerful Ocean & Oil group, has acquired a 51% holding in [...]
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Our sources indicate that International Finance Corp., the private investment arm of the World Bank, could involve itself in funding [...]
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AES' withdrawal from the Bujagali dam project was a costly matter for the American company. AES said it was writing [...]
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The National Oil Company of Zimbabwe (NOCZIM) is thinking of launching a new subscription round following the success of a [...]
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The International Finance Corp., private investment arm of the World Bank, has finally decided to acquire just a 5% stake [...]
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The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) ordered the Pipeline Product [...]
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The Lonrho group has given its blessings to the National [...]
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Morocco's new state-owned company Office National de Recherche des Hydrocarbures [...]
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An appeal by the Canadian engineering company Acres against its [...]
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The Ugandan government has just signed a lobbying contract with [...]
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A conference on the problem of compensation was organized last [...]
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IBC Energy is organizing a conference on Dec. 10-11 in [...]
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The CWC Group is organizing a conference in Houston on [...]
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The CWC Group is organizing a top-level meeting in Cairo [...]
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