Arriving with much fanfare in Abuja in December, the Russia’s Gazprom can count on backing from Rilwanu Lukman, the Nigerian president’s leading adviser on oil and gas. And in its dealings in Nigeria, Gazprom could well link up with its [.
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On Feb. 4, Algerian energy minister Chakib Khelil reined in Russia’s enthusiasm about creating a cartel of gas exporting countries [...]
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Nigerian president Umaru Yar’Adua has proposed setting up an international security force to curb violence in the Gulf of Guinea [...]
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The Angolan government is continuing to undermine the unity of the Cabinda separatist movement by co-opting some of its medium [...]
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Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government (TFG) is presently in talks with the breakaway province of Puntland on a compromise concerning oil. [...]
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Uganda’s energy minister, Daudi Migereko, arrived in Tanzania on Feb. 4 to discuss the possibility of Dar es Salaam supplying [...]
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Africa Energy Intelligence understands that leaks in the Norwegian press on the findings of an internal investigation by StatoilHydro into [...]
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Arriving in Libya in the wake of Tony Blair’s ground-breaking visit, BP and Shell have each been promoting similar LNG projects in the country. Their efforts are paying off.
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The CNPC appears a good length ahead of its rivals to win the Agadem concession.
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The American concerns Summa and Energy Terralliance Technologies are both close to winning permits in Guinea.
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A leading South African mining entrepreneur, Mzi Khumalo, has acquired a stake in Societe Gabonaise de Raffinage (SOGARA).
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Thwarted in its bid to acquire Burren, the South Korean firm has picked up Tullow Oil's stake on M'Boundi.
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Two new companies are positioning themselves on acreage on the banks of Congolese lakes.
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Already a shareholder in the junior oil company Ophir, South African magnate Tokyo Sexwale has invested in another concern, New African Global Energy.
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A plan by the South African government to extract torbanite, an oil-rich type of coal, has run into opposition from environmentalists.
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Petronas last month began drilling an exploration well on its [...]
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Australia’s AuDAX Resources has bought the offshore Kerkouane block from [...]
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Ali Shamekh, chairman of the state-owned Libyan distribution group Tamoil [...]
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A critical review of development contracts awarded by former NNPC [...]
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Noble has made a new discovery on block O that [...]
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After a first partnership with the American concern Fusion Petroleum [...]
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Switzerland’s Addax Petroleum has completed drilling on its Oron-X1 well [...]
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The Indian company National Thermal Power Corp (NTPC) has asked the Nigerian government to give it a list of suitable [...]
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The Senegalese government has signed a power purchase agreement with a Swedish company to build a 128 MW power station.
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The World Bank is expected to put up USD 40 million towards construction of a gas-fuelled power station at Kribi.
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Reykjavik Energy is to take on a project for a geothermal power station in East Africa’s Rift.
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Now that Burren Energy is 84.97% owned by Italy’s ENI, which acquired it last year after a lot of hard [...]
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After more than a year of talks (AEI 423). Gazprom is about to acquire a stake in the Portuguese group [...]
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Two years after Wilbros, another American oil services company, Cameron International, has found itself under investigation by the Security & [...]
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According to our sources, Alberto Fernandez da Silva, an executive of Banco Nacional de Angola, is working on a project [...]
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Canada’s Centric Energy has just hired a British national, Malcom Brierley, to serve as its exploration director. Holding a geology [...]
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The former president of Shell Canada, Adrian Loader, has been named to the board of the Canadian concern Candax and [...]
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The operations and production director of Britain’s Soco International, Antony Maris, has just been promoted to the post of vice [...]
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Jon Cooper, financial director of the British firm Gulf Keystone, has been replaced by Kristian Ainsworth. Up to now the [...]
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Founded in the 1990s by Britain’s Paul Barrett and his wife Erika Syba, Europa Oil & Gas has just named [...]
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Major changes have taken place at the top at Britain’s Sterling. The financial director, Graeme Thomson, was named chief executive [...]
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The CWC Group is organizing a conference on the latest developments in Nigeria’s oil industry along with a related exhibition [...]
Citac is organizing the annual general assembly of the Association of African Refiners at the Westin Grand Hotel in Cape [...]
Global Pacific & Partners is staging a conference in London on April 10-11 on the latest oil developments in the [...]
The Entreprise Tunisienne d’Activites Petrolieres (ETAP) has just issued a [...]
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The Nigerian National Petroleum Corp (NNPC) has just founded a [...]
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The National Oil Corporation of Kenya (NOCK) is to stage [...]
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The South African utility Eskom, which has run into severe [...]
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Pascal Agboyibor from the Orrick law firm will supervise work [...]
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The Independent Power Southern Africa group (IPSA), which operates several [...]
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The Houston-based boutique bank Schnitzius & Vaughan and the Royal [...]
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