The drop in the oil price has triggered a bidding war between Chinese groups which are seeking to acquire fresh reserves but, above all, producer fields in Africa. Although all the companies are state-owned, the Chinese groups don’t hesitate to [.
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To keep a close eye on the Niger Delta and Nigeria’s offshore oil zones, the Nigerian Navy needs nearly 35 [...]
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Controlled by Sonangol and China’s Beiya International Development, China Sonangol is discreetly present in Nigeria’s offshore.
The Yar’Adua government is about to issue a call for bids for nearly 60 marginal fields. A few Western oil companies are positioning themselves to win from the auction.
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The European Union and Nigeria have been conducting talks in recent months on forming a partnership for construction of the [...]
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Benin should theoretically be linked up to the West African Gas Pipeline (WAGP) in 2010 but in the meantime the [...]
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The missing link in the West African Power Pool between Ivory Coast and Ghana ought to shortly be spanned.
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On June 26, the Nigerian national Charles Osezua was named boss of a panel charged with developing a gas project [...]
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Reforms of the Seneglese power utility Senelec that the International [...]
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The Nigerian National Petroleum Corp (NNPC) has set up a [...]
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An amnesty offered by the government in June has opened [...]
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The human rights organization Amnesty International launched a worldwide campaign [...]
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Starting in November, and for the first time, Sao Tome [...]
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The World Bank is intent on preventing Ghana from finding [...]
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To get its Nigerian affiliate First Hydrocarbon Nigeria Company (see [...]
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Chakib Khelil, Algerian oil minister and his counterparts from Nigeria [...]
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Well connected in the Kremlin, France's Total has offered to bring the Russian gas giant Gazprom into its African projects.
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Bridas Corp could make its debut in Africa by buying out Sterling Energy. Bridas counts the World Bank among its stakeholders.
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Peter Voser’s arrival as boss of RoyalDutch/Shell on July 1 is expected to lead to sweeping changes among the group’s [...]
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African companies in the grips of vulture funds or oil [...]
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Africa Energy Intelligence has learned that the French-British oil company [...]
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For help in acquiring Addax (see Page 1), China's Sinopec [...]
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A subsidiary of the Georex oil services firm, the French junior Poros, has just been awarded two prospecting licenses in southern Tunisia.
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The Canadian petroleum group Canoel International Energy, which is present in Tunisia, is in the process of appointing an advisory [...]
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Algerian energy minister Chakib Khelil and his Tunisian counterpart, Afif [...]
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Algerian energy minister Chekib Khalil issued a new invitation to [...]
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Mozambique is keen on profiting from its gas so that it no longer finds itself at the mercy of market prices. The country is drafting a plan to build a network of pipelines.
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Russian president Dimitri Medvedev has just penned a memorandum of understanding with the Namibian authorities for the construction of a power station supplied by gas from the Kudu field.
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Chevron has just begun pumping oil on the Mufmeira field [...]
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On June 15, the National Energy Regulator of South Africa [...]
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Competition between banks in Angola is as rife as ever. [...]
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Britain’s Aminex is to shortly issue 116, 330,998 new shares [...]
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James Baanabe, who is in charge of water supply questions [...]
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A project for a dam at Kikagati will shortly take off following the Tanzanian government’s decision to free up land for its construction.
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The United Nations and the Sudanese authorities are displaying increasing [...]
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According to our sources, the American firm ContourGlobal recently acquired [...]
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In a new and sweeping cabinet shuffle, Cameroon president Paul Biya has named a technocrat to the energy and water [...]
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After issuing a string of provocative statements concerning its border [...]
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Like his counterpart in Niger, Chad president Idriss Deby has [...]
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Engaged in a legal dispute with Canada’s MagEnergy group (AEI [...]
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Mamadou Lamine Loum, former Senegalese prime minister, wound up his [...]
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