Although recent changes in Angola's government were largely covered by the press a subsequent revamp of the state-owned oil company Sonangol has passed off with hardly a peep. Africa Energy Intelligence has taken a look at the team at the [.
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Environmental considerations could well delay the Merowe project even though funding for the dam is practically sewn up and Khartoum [...]
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Germany's Siemens and the Spanish firm Iberdrola are going to build the huge Skikda power station designed to supply the domestic market.
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The Kigali authorities have drawn up a list of the power projects Rwanda would like to undertake and are due to approach financial institutions with the details.
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Nigeria's Parliament has not yet got around to voting on [...]
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The Ethiopian Electric Power Corp (EEPCO) has received several offers [...]
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Invited to the World Economic Forum in Davos, the chairman [...]
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The political and oil conflict pitting president Olusegun Obasanjo's government against Dan Etete, who was oil minister during Sani Abacha's [...]
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Already present in Chad, the World Bank is preparing to oversee oil operations in Mauritania where production is due to begin in 2005.
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Malaysia's state-owned oil company Petronas has made a discreet debut in Benin's offshore alongside Kerr McGee.
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Conflicting information concerning reserves has made it particularly difficult to re-negotiate contracts Sao Tome e Principe signed with ExxonMobil, PGS, Chrome and Nigeria.
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After bolstering its position on the Kouilou concession, Maurel & Prom has turned its attention to another concession in the northern part of the country.
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TotalFinaElf's tribulations on the Haute Mer concession have aroused the interest of several majors, particularly ChevronTexaco.
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For over a year RoyalDutchShell has been seeking a buyer for its stake on Angola's block 24. Ocean Energy has stepped forward to acquire the interest.
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Anadarko and Sonatrach, in partnership with Maersk Olie and ENI, [...]
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Spain's second-ranking power group Iberddrola is reportedly seeking to buy [...]
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OMV's move to acquire the assets of TUI AG, the [...]
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After selling most of its assets on the Croix du [...]
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ChevronTexaco and Statoil, partners on OPL 218, have confirmed the [...]
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TotalFinaElf is expected to award development contracts for its Dalia [...]
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A summit meeting of the Commission Economique des Etats d'Afrique Centrale held in Libreville on Jan. 24 gave Chad president [...]
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Negotiations between the Sudanese government and the SPLA/LM rebel movement that resumed last week at Machakos in Kenya broke down [...]
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In an attempt to break the stalemate concerning the share-out of oil revenue in the country, president Olusegun Obasanjo has [...]
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Given a go-ahead by the U.S. Supreme Court, a suit initiated by the family of the Ogoni leader Ken Saro-Wiwa [...]
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Angola's main donors are to meet with government officials in Brussels in March to negotiate the priorities of the poverty [...]
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The Canadian firm First Calgary has just raised $US 13 million to finance development on blocks 406a and 405b in [...]
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In addition to conferring on the Ivory Coast emergency, leaders from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) seized [...]
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Speaking before the Nigerian Parliament's Committee on Petroleum Resources on Jan. 23, Ombu Harry, financial director of the Nigerian National [...]
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Nigeria's Amni company that operates OML 112 is seeking to raise $50 million by the end of June to develop [...]
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The American independent Amerada Hess posted a $371 million loss for the last quarter of 2002 after a downward revision [...]
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The Zimbabwe government has borrowed $10 million from a Sudanese bank headed by Medhat Lotfy, the Arab Bank for Economic [...]
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As a close partner of Sonangol, Ted Giletti helped the Angolan national oil company win oil-backed loans when he worked [...]
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In the wake of Linda Cook's appointment as boss of Shell Canada, Malcolm Brinded has been named director of RoyalDutch/Shell's [...]
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Chairman of PanOcean, the only Nigerian company involved in a joint venture with Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Festus Fidiye could [...]
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Following the Marcoussis agreement negotiated in Paris last week, energy minister Leon Emmanuel Monnet could well be one of the [...]
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The new chairman of Petrobras, Eduardo Dutra, has announced a revamp of the company's management team. Nestor Cunat Cervero, who [...]
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The American law firm Walker International which holds a debt [...]
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The Norton Rose law firm which has advised Sonangol on [...]
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According to La Lettre du Continent (Indigo Publications), the French [...]
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The British firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore has been retained [...]
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Former Nigerian oil minister Dan Etete has chosen the French [...]
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In late January the upper house of Morocco's parliament began [...]
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Nigerian finance minister Mallam Adamu Ciroma called for the accounts [...]
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The Entreprise Tunisienne d'Activite Petroliere (ETAP) is working to improve [...]
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Under a border agreement with Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea's national oil [...]
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Efforts by Cameroon's national oil company SNH to develop the [...]
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The CWC group is organizing its second conference on funding [...]
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The secretariat of the East African Community made up of [...]
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