Ever since the National Petroleum Commission confirmed its rights on block B in the south of the country. France’s Total has been planning to resume its operations in Sudan by negotiating with both the northern and southern administrations.
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Russia’s Lukoil and the state-owned Chinese group China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) penned a cooperation agreement in Beijing on Sept. [...]
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A South Korean delegation consisting of a dozen officials representing industry, energy and the trade ministry as well as state-owned [...]
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Nigeria’s new energy minister, Henry Ajumogobia, announced on Sept. 1 that a new panel named National Energy Council and headed [...]
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The presidents of Uganda and Democratic Republic of Congo, Yoweri Museveni and Joseph Kabila, met in Arusha, Tanzania, on Sept. [...]
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The dispute between RoyalDutch/Shell and Nigeria’s Malabu Oil concerning OPL 245 proved to be a headache for Olusegunj Obasanjo during [...]
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Two businessmen already active in Africa, Guy Elliott and Harald van Hoeken, have listed their firm Polo Resources in London.
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Britain’s Cairn group, which has worked only in India up to now, has bought out two juniors active in Tunisia.
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The Canadian group is intent on extending its reach in North Africa and is specially targeting Algeria.
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For the first time, a number of independents figure on the list of firms pre-qualified for Libya's fourth licensing round.
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Nigeria’s new president wants to limit oil deals with governments and offer more contracts to traders operating in the country.
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Traces of oil have been identified by prospectors in several provinces of Democratic Republic of Congo. But the government wants to revamp oil legislation.
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Britain’s Tower Resources has found a partner to bankroll exploration of its block in Uganda.
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Mozambique’s energy minister, Esperanca Bias, has announced that a new exploration block is to be auctioned off at the end of September.
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State-run Sonatrach has broken off the contract for the development [...]
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France’s Total has published the results of its Gabon affiliate [...]
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The Australian explorer Roc Oil has discovered heavy oil on [...]
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After a full year of talks, Britain’s Dominion Petroleum finally [...]
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The British junior Aminex had its exploration license on the [...]
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Madagascar's Office des Mines Nationales et des Industries Strategiques (OMNIS) [...]
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Since the withdrawal of General Electric, the French-Egyptian consortium Alstom-Orascom has found itself the lone bidder for the construction of [...]
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AES, which has just landed a huge contract to build two power plants, has teamed up with a local company that belongs to people close to Eskom’s chairman.
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Japan's powerful Sumitomo group has announced its intention of acquiring a stake in the future coal-fired power plant at Mmamabula.
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The future hydro power plant at Semliki will generate twice as much electricity as initially expected.
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Madagascar’s national utility JIRAMA has just issued an invitation to [...]
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The Ugandan group Madhvani International is to build a power [...]
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As Africa Energy Intelligence had already anticipated would be the case (AEI 442), the reverse takeover of Equator Exploration mounted [...]
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World Bank officials plan to present a major project involving funding for a dam at Rusomo Falls to the institution’s [...]
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On Aug. 30, the Tanzania Electric Supply Co (Tanesco) contracted a USD 235 million loan from a syndicate of banks [...]
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Officials from Congo-K’s Societe Nationale d’Electricite (SNEL), the Empresa Nacional de Electricidade (ENE) of Angola and Congo-B’s Societe National d’Electricite [...]
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Britain's Standard Chartered Bank, which is the mandated lead arranger of an oil-backed loan for Angola worth USD 3 billion [...]
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The French oil company Maurel & Prom has appointed 57-year-old Michel Hochard as administrative and financial director in succession to [...]
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Upon his recent retirement, ConocoPhillips vice president for exploration and production, Bill Berry, was been replaced by two executives, John [...]
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Francois Groh, who headed Total Trading since 2001, will be replaced next month by Pierre Barbe as chief of the [...]
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A Rwandan engineer, Alois Kanamugire Makuzza, has been chosen to take over from his countryman, Jean-Claude Kayitenkore, as managing director [...]
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The International Quality & Productivity Center is organizing the 6th Acquisition and Divestiture in Oil & Gas: West Africa Summit [...]
Global Pacific & Partners and Africa Upstream 2007 are organizing a week-long conference on the African oil sector at the [...]
Algeria’s state-run Sonatrach is thinking of buying the Santander bank’s [...]
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The Kenyan utility Kenya Power & Lighting Co (KPLC) has [...]
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The gas subsidiary of Sonangol, Sonagas, is about to launch [...]
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The London office of Clifford Chance has been retained to [...]
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To gain ever-stronger clout in the energy sector, major banking [...]
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The so-named Somalia Petroleum Law Team, which put together a [...]
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