In the space of just a few weeks, the United Arab Emirates group Al Thani Investments has sold off almost all of its African assets, an oil portfolio that the firm essentially accumulated over the past three years.
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Steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal is preparing to set up a new company to look after his energy interests. Since 2006 [...]
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After planting its flag in Somaliland, the company controlled by Lukas Lundin has just bought into a license in Madagascar.
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Set up in 2002, the 4D Global Energy fund specialized initially in oil services firms before striking out on the exploration side in 2006.
The Dutch firm Delta Hydrocarbons has just made its debut on a concession in Tunisia’s offshore.
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Buying into three licenses in Ivory Coast last year, the American concern Jarikuma is reportedly on the verge of losing its assets.
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Australia’s Beach Petroleum has won the most coveted acreage on offer in a licensing round organized by Tanzania’s government.
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The British firm GB Energy announced it would withdraw its [...]
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France's Total group has begun production on its Moho-bolondo field [...]
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The Canadian concern Heritage has acquired majority stakes in two [...]
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A probe into bribes paid by Halliburtin in connection with the construction of NLNG ’s liquefaction plant has widened to [...]
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After exploring in Africa, the joint Algerian-Tunisian firm Numhyd is focusing on North Africa itself and has been awarded two new gas concessions.
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Exploration on Sterling Energy’s Ntem gas license remains at a standstill because of a border dispute between Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea.
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With a new management team now in place (AEI 462), [...]
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Following an agreement reached last November by Gazprom and ENI [...]
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A number of companies are in talks with the National [...]
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France’s Alstom group won the competition for the construction of a 400 MW combined cycle power station at Gannouch in [...]
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An Australian mining group has plans to build a power station with a capacity of 2000 MW.
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Now that the U.S. group AES has pulled out from the project, a new call for bids for two power stations may have to be issued.
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Ghanaian president John Kufuor took part in a ground-breaking ceremony [...]
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State-owned NamPower is to build a diesel-powered station in the [...]
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The European Investment Bank is thinking granting a EUR 18 [...]
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Thomah Jabez-Nhabay has just been appointed director of the Petroleum Resources Unit, the department in charge of awarding oil licenses [...]
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Lawyer Leonard Toboroff is one of three candidates alongside Clarence Cottman and France’s Julien Balkany that the activist fund Nanes [...]
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Since Burren was bought out by ENI, Keith Henry, who had chaired the British firm's board, has found himself much [...]
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Like numerous Irish oil executives before him, the financial director of Tullow Oil, Tom Hickley, announced last week that he [...]
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The Hidroelectrica de Cahora Bassa group which manages the dam [...]
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The chief executive of Sonatrach, Mohamed Meziane, said on April [...]
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Morocco's Office National des Hydrocarbures et des Mines has awarded [...]
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Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika carried out a tour of the [...]
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Nigeria’s Parliament has decided to open an investigation into the [...]
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Phil Heilberg’s Jarch Management Group has marked a point in [...]
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The president of Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government(TFG), Abdullahi Yusuf, seized [...]
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During a visit to Libya in early April, Ukrainian president [...]
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For want of being able to raise the money needed [...]
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Soco International, a firm that was long headed by the [...]
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The European Investment Bank is considering lending EUR 110 million [...]
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Having finally won confirmation of its rights in the breakaway [...]
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The small New York investment bank SMH Capital has been [...]
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Founded by the former spokesman for Margaret Thatcher, Timothy Bell [...]
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Sonatrach's petrochemical projects that are expected to cost a total [...]
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Buyelwa Sonjica, the South African energy minister, will take part [...]
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Victor Lorents, the chairman of the oil services firm StroyTransgaz, [...]
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Reinaldo Bolivar, deputy foreign minister of Venezuela, called on African [...]
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