Already active in nine African countries, the Nigerian explorer Oranto has just set foot in Namibia and in Sao Tome & Principe. For 20 years the group has been applying the same strategy which consists of buying licenses cheaply and [.
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Africa Energy Intelligence understands that Oriental has retained Bank of China, a private Asian establishment, to find a buyer for [...]
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Nigeria’s Sahara Energy and Taleveras Group have set up a joint venture with PetroCI to explore for oil and sell products in Africa.
The U.S. Justice Department is showing a keen interest in the fees paid to a former GNPC official by the Japanese oil services firm Modec, which built the FPSO for the Jubilee field.
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Ivory Coast’s CIPEM group has acquired the Lion butane plant from Afren along with the CI-11 block that supplied it.
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Production on Ghana's prime oil field hasn't increased as much as expected because of too much associated gas. And that gas is likely to prove a handicap until 2013.
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Initially estimated at €180 million, the cost of turning the Azito power station into a combined cycle operation will work out to € 300 million.
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The construction arm of Italy’s ENI, Saipem, penned a memorandum [...]
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After several months of talks that were complicated by the [...]
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Invited to Beijing by the China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC), [...]
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The Australian mining concern Cape Lambert submitted a written application [...]
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Anxious to buy Shell’s stake on OML 30 (AEI 661), [...]
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It was announced in mid-October that the French oil services [...]
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On February 7 of next year, the World Bank will [...]
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Six months after putting in the winning bid when Shell [...]
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A French consulting firm headed by Michel Billard de la [...]
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Capitalizing on the excitement over Anadarko’s discoveries in 2009 and [...]
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Operating between West Africa and Quebec, the small Senegalese consulting [...]
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The South Korean group is currently in talks with the oil and gas ministry to explore in the central basin and in the Tanganyika graben.
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N’Djamena has stopped buying diesel fuel abroad for its power stations. Inaugurated in July, the new Djermaya refinery has been [...]
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No company has stepped forward to bid for the management of SNEL, an operation deemed too risky in view of the work it would involve.
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In a letter to the Union Petroliere Gabonaise (UPEGA) dated [...]
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Congolese officials travelled once again to Luanda at the end [...]
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Workers for the Franco-British firm Perenco walked off the job [...]
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The Italian firm Franco Tosi Meccanica signed a contract with [...]
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The findings of a pre-feasibility report on developing the first [...]
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Javier Iguacel, the Angola manager for Argentina's Pluspetrol, was in [...]
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The chief executive of Ireland's Tullow Oil is working flat out to persuade legislators to reject a de facto moratorium on oil contracts.
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Uganda's parliament chose the chairman of its natural resources committee, Michael Kafabusa Werikhe, on Oct. 27 to head an ad [...]
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Ali Ahmed Osman, Sudan's oil minister, told the country's parliament [...]
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Africa Energy Intelligence understands that Namibian energy minister Isak Katali finally penned a production sharing contract (PSA) concerning the Kudu [...]
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In charge of Total’s service station network in Africa (formerly Total Outremer) since 2002, Alain Champeaux will shortly quit his [...]
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After pulling out of Ethiopia this year, Petronas is now thinking of disposing of other African assets which it views [...]
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Long at each other’s throats (AEI 619), China’s foreign ministry [...]
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After lengthy deliberations (AEI 656), Total has finally chosen its director in Bolivia, Jean-Daniel Blasco, to take over from Jean-Francois [...]
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In its annual report for 2010 published on October 25, [...]
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Prosecutors at the Sidi M’hamed court in Algiers have just [...]
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Accused by prosecutors in Munich in 2009 of paying bribes [...]
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Youcef Yousfi, Algeria's energy minister, has reportedly begun to consider [...]
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