Already working with West African armies which it advises and trains, the Pentagon also harbours an interest in the Gulf of Guinea's offshore. A company which it bankrolls, Syntroleum, inventor of a technology to covert gas into liquid, operates in [.
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India has followed in China's footsteps in taking a close look at Maurel & Prom's M'Boundi field in Congo-B that [...]
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After casting a covetous eye at Algeria's onshore for years, South frica's PetroSA has finally made its debut on the Menzel Ledjmat field.
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A lot of companies that have yet to work in Algeria attended the presentation of 10 blocks put up for sale in the country's sixth licensing round.
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Australia's Fusion group sold it assets in the Chinguetti field in 2003, but a company that bought out Fusion has returned in force.
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Long the monopoly of Australian juniors, Mauritania has caught the eye of big European groups. They've submitted bids to Nouackchott
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Although Australia's Max de Vietri was to have acted as path-finder for China's CNPC, another Chinese firm, Sinopec, looks set to plant its flag in Mali.
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In the gun-sights of the Nigerian government, the South Atlantic Petroleum company owned by Gilbert Chagoury is ready to do battle but has placed its partner Total in an awkward situation.
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A company set up by former executives of Triton is apparently poised to plant its flag in Nigeria's offshore after debuting previously in Ghana.
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Over a year after launching a tender on nine blocks, only Chevron has actually been awarded acreage. All the other blocks will be put up for sale again.
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The French group's eviction from block 3 is apparently good news for Chinese groups.
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An opportunity for independents wanting to break into Angola could come through ROC. The lone owner of Cabinda South, it is seeking a partner to develop the block.
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Highly active in Algeria, Germany's Siemens signed its first contract in Libya at the end of October. Officials from the [...]
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Facing the prospect of power shortages, South Africa has injected fresh impetus into the project for a pan-African consortium to exploit the Inga dam and supply the entire sub-region.
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The Swiss-Swedish firm ABB is prospecting for contracts in Kinshasa.
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South Africa's looming electricity crunch has attracted companies keen on building new power stations or restoring old ones running on coal.
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In the midst of a shopping spree in Africa (see P. 4), the China National Petroleum Corporation (SNPC) is bracing [...]
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British Gas announced last week that a 500 MW gas-fired power plant that it wants to build at Barca near [...]
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On the heels of investigations in France and the United States, Britain has decided in its turn to look into [...]
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Speaking at an oil conference in Port Harcourt last week, president Olusegun Obasanjo's adviser for oil affairs, Edmund Daukoru, floated [...]
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The partial sell-off of Sasol's distribution network to black companies is scheduled to be announced in coming months under a [...]
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A former diplomat, Scott Spencer, is to serve as acting head of Hardman while waiting for the Australian group to [...]
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Only months after their firm Osprey was bought out by Sweden's P.A. Resources, John Bentley and Jim Rutland have quit [...]
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Son of former Elf Aquitaine chairman Albin Chalandon, Fabien Chanaldon was appointed to the board of the French oil group [...]
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Former oil adviser to Chad president Idriss Deby and then to Central African Republic president Ange-Felix Patasse, Tidjani Thiam has [...]
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A member of Repsol's board since 1996, the CEO of Grupo Gas Natural, Antonio Brufau, was named head of Repsol [...]
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A second meeting of the joint Nigeria-Cameroon commission chaired by the U.N. envoy, Ahmed Ould Abdallah on Oct. 21-22 failed [...]
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Consultations on the share-out of jobs in state-owned companies began on Oct. 18 under the eye of the Comite International [...]
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Since the abortive putsch in March, Equatorial Guinea's foreign policy has branched out in three directions all aimed at bolstering [...]
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The project of the China National Petroleum Company in Nigeria will be overseen by a nine-member technical China-Nigeria committee chaired [...]
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The Canadian junior First Calgary, which operates the 405b permit [...]
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Working as a lobbyist for Libya since this summer, Randa [...]
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The recent overhaul at RoyalDutch/Shell that was designed to streamline [...]
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State-owned Sonatrach has conducted two seismic surveys on Algeria's offshore [...]
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Barely three months after the TSKJ consortium was awarded the [...]
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Speaking before the South African parliament's Energy Committee two weeks [...]
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The CWC Group is organizing a conference at the Noga [...]
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Global Pacific & Partners and the British Nigeria Business Council [...]
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