Already present in Sudan, Chad, Gabon, Angola and in Algeria, Petronas has added assets in four other African countries to its portfolio since last autumn.
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A stalwart supporter of American oil firms operating in the Gulf of Guinea, the Democrat representative from Louisiana, William Jefferson, [...]
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Sierra Leone's new energy minister, Emmanuel Grant, seems certain to play a key role in the bidding round for a [...]
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Named boss of the Canadian junior Mart Resources in late May after the company's founder, Vince Hamilton, stepped down, Wade [...]
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A former business intelligence expert at the National Security Council during Ronald Reagan's presidency, Roger Robinson now heads the Conflict [...]
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Chairman of the United Bank of Africa (UBA), an establishment particularly active in the oil industry, Hakeem Belo-Osagie has just [...]
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Attracted by the possibility of new concessions on marginal fields being put on the auction block in the Gulf of [...]
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Anxious to focus on its power and gas projects and faced with a series of investigations into its hand in California's energy crisis, CMS plans to sell its oil division.
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After sealing an agreement with Canada's Encana, Cliveden Petroleum is now negotiating with two state-owned Japanese firms.
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Reacting to an agreement signed between Polisario and Fusion Oil, Onarep has penned a contract with the seismics company TGS Nopec in its turn.
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Set up last summer to work the Adar Yale fields, the Sudanese firm Petrodar is scheduled to re-launch production work later this year.
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One of Congo's creditors, Walker International, attempted to ?trap? SNPC boss Bruno Itoua in Washington on June 6. AEI outlines the case.
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After two of its wells turned up dry in the Kwanza basin, BHP has decided to pull out of Angola, leaving the way open for Anadarko.
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After winning blocks 3B/4B in the Orange Basin in February, the U.S. firm Global Energy has just sold 90% of the acreage to BHP Billiton.
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The international arm of India's state-owned Oll and Natural Gas [...]
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On June 4 the Ghanaian government signed a letter of [...]
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Deeply concerned by the problem of giving local industry and [...]
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The Abo field on OPL 316, operated by NNPC and [...]
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Contrary to what we indicated in our previous issue, the [...]
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The prime minister of the Yugoslav federal republic, Dragisa Pesic, paid a lengthy visit to Nigeria last week in the [...]
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Mozambique's project to build a dam at Mepanda Uncua on the Zambezi river aims to undercut Eskom's dominating position at Cahora Bassa.
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Work on re-habilitating the Biopio power station is expected to be completed in August, a full year behind schedule.
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More than a year after being pre-qualified for the construction [...]
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With a leg-up from the deputy speaker of the Duma, Georgy Boos, some 25 Russian oil and mining companies – [...]
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Since it was launched in Dakar in April, the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), which aims to promote democracy [...]
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The Australian government continues to back the country's oil companies in their advance across Africa. After opening embassies in Cameroon, [...]
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The Sao Tome e Principe government has found itself the object of loving attention by both western nations and its [...]
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With both Norsk Hydro and Statoil both voicing eagerness to boost their output in Angola –this despite a dry well [...]
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To counter the current wariness of banks and financial institutions about committing themselves to power projects in Africa, the World [...]
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To honor its drilling commitments on several of its African licenses, Ocean Energy, which operates in Angola, Equatorial Guinea and [...]
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In a finding on June 4, the European Union's Court of Justice ruled that the French government's golden share in [...]
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France's Societe General bank negotiated a new loan of $250 million against Congo-Brazzaville's future production in late May. According to [...]
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Funding for the gas pipeline operated by Sasol that will run from Mozambique to South Africa is expected to come [...]
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South Africa's Rand Merchant Bank has been mandated by AES to find the $17 million needed to take its purchase [...]
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The Canadian firm Collins Barrow Securities has been mandated by [...]
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The organizer of a conference entitled ?African Oil: a priority [...]
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The London branch of the Herbert Smith consultancy advised a [...]
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In an interview in the Swiss daily Le Temps, businessman [...]
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The New York law firm Kreindler & Kreindler, which represents [...]
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The American firm Power Engineers Inc. is going to carry [...]
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IBC Global Conference is organizing a conference in Johannesburg on [...]
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The CWC Group is organizing a meeting with top level [...]
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The Sudanese Petroleum Corporation is scheduled to award two blocks [...]
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The state-owned Nigerian oil company NNPC met part of the [...]
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AEI has learned that the national oil company SNH is [...]
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The Algerian oil company Sonatrach has finally put all of [...]
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After nearly a year of bargaining, Sonangol has agreed on [...]
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