Much as the Great Powers carved up Africa at the Berlin Conference a century ago, the Gulf of Guinea's oil boundaries will be redrawn before the year's end in a series of trans-border accords.
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Already criticized in a report by the Inspection Panel, an independent arm of the World Bank, the project to build [...]
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Last month's agreement concerning the economic aspects of the West African Gas Pipeline project has sounded the opening shot in the fight for construction contracts.
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Nigeria is to conduct a new bidding round in its offshore next year. Several highly interesting blocks are to be auctioned off.
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The World Bank has offered a revolving credit worth $50 million to the Henry MacPepple group.
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An American research institute that advised both the Sudanese government and rebel movement in u the south on a share-out of oil revenue came up with a detailed figure for Sudan's reserves and potential revenue for its crude.
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TotalFinaElf is issuing invitations to tender for construction work on Dalia but doesn't yet have a go-ahead from Sonangol for its development plan.
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The state-owned Malaysian group Petronas which held a 57% stake in Energy Africa is now buying the remaining 43%.
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Following a complicated shuffle of stakes this summer, Nigeria's Atlas Petroleum has ended up holding 45% of Equatorial Guinea's H block.
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The contract for the construction of Tanzania's Songo Songo gas project will be decided next month. Two companies are in the running for the contract.
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The last exploration well that Italy's Agip, an affiliate of [...]
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As Africa Energy Intelligence reported in June, negotiations on the [...]
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Work on the Mewrowe dam, a project that got off the ground with loans from four development funds in the [...]
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Operating in a dozen African companies, the South African group Eskom plans to link up all of its networks by building two pan-African transmission lines.
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A project by then Niger president Seyni Koutche in the 1970s to build a dam at Kandadji could be revived. It had been gathering dust for 20 years.
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In a move to boost its generation capacity from 4000 MW at present to 6640 MW in 2007 Nigeria plans to launch four new IPP programs.
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With an eye on next year's presidential elections, Nigeria's Olusegun Obasanjo has taken a number of legislative initiatives to resolve [...]
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A French examining magistrate who is investigating the Elf affair, Renaud Van Ruymbeke, has begun looking into commissions that Elf [...]
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In late August, the opposition party Resistencia Nacional de Guinea Ecuatorial accused the government of lending nearly FCA 3 billion [...]
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During a meeting in Luanda last week with Angola president Jose Eduardo dos Santos, U.S. secretary of state Colin Powell [...]
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Accompanied by businessmen and oil industry figures, Japanese foreign minister Yoriko Kawaguchi began a tour of Africa last week by [...]
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British prime minister Tony Blair seized the occasion of the world summit on sustainable development in Johannesburg to launch an [...]
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A delegation from the London trading company Vitol headed by its African specialist, Enrique Castano, travelled to Khartoum last week [...]
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Equatorial Guinea's oil company, GEPetrol, has endorsed a plan by Marathon to extend its Alba field. GEPetrol holds a 3% [...]
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The head of South Africa's state-run supply agency Central Energy Fund, Renosi Mokate, has just been suspended following an investigation [...]
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BP and Sonangol confirmed a find on block 31 in the ultra-deep offshore. The Plutao well tested at 5,357 bpd, [...]
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The state-owned oil company National Nigerian Petroleum Corporation said it had received 106 million barrels of oil from its 57% [...]
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Revealed in May by Africa Energy Intelligence, Operation Snow - or Tamoil's acquisition of TotalFinaElf's network of 177 service stations [...]
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The Spanish firm Gas Natural, a partner in the Europe-Maghreb Pipeline alongside Transgas, an affiliate of Portugal's Galpergia, is poised [...]
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Over the next four years, Brazil's Petrobras plans to invest nearly $1.5 billion in developing its concessions in Nigeria, Equatorial [...]
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The Uganda government sent energy minister Syda Bbumba and the director of the Uganda Electricity Company, Eriasi Kiyemba to Washington [...]
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Despite a fall in the price of Gabon's oil, Elf Gabon posted net profits of $66.3 million for the first [...]
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According to the newsletter La Lettre du Continent (Indigo Publications), three of Congo's creditors - Walker International, Connecticut Bank of [...]
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South Africa's Sasol group has chosen the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) and the Standard Bank to put together [...]
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Vice chairman of ChevronTexaco until early this year, where he dealt primarily with the group's international projects, particularly in Nigeria, [...]
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Former head of upstream operations at Enterprise Oil which was acquired a few months ago by RoyalDutch/Shell, Chris Brown has [...]
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President Robert Mugabe has named Amos Bernard Midzi minister for energy and power development in the new Zimbabwe government. The [...]
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Appointed head of the Societe Tunisienne de l'Electricite et du Gaz (STEG) last month, Othman Ben Arfa replaced Moncef Boussen. [...]
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Director-general at South Africa's ministry of trade between 1994 and 1999 and former head of the ruling African National Congress' [...]
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A former executive from the Ericsson telecommunications group, Lars Josefsson has been named to the board of Eskom. An engineer [...]
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A former executive of Royal Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, James Pope went over to the London branch of Credit Agricole Indosuez [...]
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The German firm Lahmeyer International has been asked by Sudan [...]
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The German firm ILF Consulting Engineers was commissioned by NNPC [...]
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Pre-qualification of equipment and oil services suppliers for the construction [...]
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Operator on the 1711 concession in Namibia's offshore since June, [...]
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The British firm Allen & Overy has been appointed adviser [...]
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Global Pacific Partners is organizing a conference in Cape Town [...]
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Spearhead is organizing a conference in Tunis on oil exploration [...]
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