The civil conflict between rebel forces that control all of northern Ivory Coast and Laurent Gbago’s government in the south doesn’t seem to have either affected the operations of big international companies present in the country nor discouraged others from [.
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The Pentagon is working with the backing of several senators to add an amendment to its Defense Authorization Spending Bill [...]
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Even as it battles Exxon and the World Bank in order to get an advance on its oil receipts (See [...]
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Increasingly active on matters pertaining to oil extraction (see P. 1, AEI 400), Amnesty International has just issued a new [...]
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After a two-week tour of China, Singapore and Malaysia, Equatorial Guinea president Teodoro Obiang Nguema indicated that he henceforth considered [...]
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Sudan’s vice president, Salva Kiir, who is also president of the South Sudanese government (see P.) traveled to Washington at [...]
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Like White Nile, Britain’s Greendale Universal, which is highly active in the mining industry, is converting to oil. Registered in [...]
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To flesh out its portfolio in North Africa and the Middle East, Japan’s Mitsubishi group has teamed up with Candax, a firm run by former Heritage boss Michael Wood.
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Highly present in Nigeria, the Arcadia trading company has been sold by its leading shareholder, Japan’s Mitsui, to shipowner John Fredriksen.
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State-owned Sonatrach has reserved capacity at the Sempra terminal in Louisiana.
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Small companies are continuing to buy up acreage in Tunisia’s onshore. The latest newcomers are Austria’s FAPCO and Canada’s Cygam.
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Another Nigerian firm, Frazimex, has followed in the footsteps of Arthur Eze’s Atlas company in acquiring a stake in Sierra Leone’s offshore.
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Owned by South African businessman Tokyo Sexwale, Ophir has won block R in Sierra Leone’s offshore.
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Several small companies are seeking to acquire acreage owned by the Polish company Kings & Kings
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The Congolese authorities want access to a Belgian geological data base in order to resume exploration in the northwest of the country.
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Switzerland’s Cliveden is going to sell its acreage to a Sudanese company.
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With ExxonMobil about to start drilling its first well in the country, Madagascar is putting new acreage on its east coast on the auction block.
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A shortage of aviation fuel has underlined the dominating position of Sasol and its local partner, Namibia Liquid Fuel, in the country.
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Operator on block 4 in the JDZ between Nigeria and [...]
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On the heels of Australia’s Woodside, the British firm Dana [...]
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Competing with one another to build a huge, 1,200 MW power plant at Hadjret Ennous near Cherchell in central Algeria, [...]
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South Africa’s Eskom, which has been involved in the management of Sierra Leone’s National Power Authority since 2002, has delivered a new 7 MW generator.
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Following the renewal of its concession to run state-owned Compagnie Ivoirienne d’Electricite (CIE) in the spring, France’s Bouygues group has [...]
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Seeking finance for the Memve’ele dam, Yaounde has asked the Equatorial Guinea government to invest in the facility.
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Strapped for cash, Madagascar’s Jirama has raised its rates by 30%.
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The International Monetary Fund took a close look at the debts of Societe Nationale des Petrole du Congo when compiling [...]
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After sewing up loan a worth nearly $3 billion from a banking syndicate headed by France’s Calyon (AEI 498), Angola [...]
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In response to the Chad government’s drive to change the terms of a law that controls the use of oil [...]
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Niger’s oil products company Sonidep has estimated at nearly CFA 5.5 billion ($8 million) its loss of revenue from the [...]
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The European Union is going to put up EUR4 million towards the cost of mediation between Cameroon and Nigeria concerning [...]
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According to our sources, energy minister Chakib Khelil has just chosen the leading officials who are to run the new [...]
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Chief director of South Africa’s Department of Minerals and Energy, Nhlanhla Gumede was suspended from his post last week for [...]
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Total’s former director in Angola, Hubert Loiseleur de Longchamps has replaced Jacques de Boisseson as chief of the group’s international [...]
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The chief of Algeria’s state-controlled gas pipeline concern Kanagaz, Rizou Hocine was dismissed last week. Hocine had joined an official [...]
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Named mines and industry minister in the South Sudan government that was set up in late October by the vice [...]
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The American independent Forest Oil, which had long been controlled by billionaire Philip Anschutz and operates in South Africa’s offshore, [...]
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Libya’s National Oil Corporation is preparing for a third licensing [...]
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After being beaten by the Chinese in the race for [...]
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The Societe Tunisienne d’Electricite et de Gaz has issued a [...]
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State-controlled Sonatrach has bought back debts worth $216 million owed [...]
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Sonatrach has set up a research center for the downstream [...]
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According to La Lettre du Continent, sister publication of Africa [...]
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Specializing in the oil, gas and chemical industries, the American [...]
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The U.S. group Honeywell has just been awarded a maintenance [...]
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Global Pacific & Partners is organizing three distinct conferences in [...]
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