Even as the development of the Doba fields looks like being delayed by an inquiry by the World Bank’s Inspection Panel oil companies are displaying an interest in two other areas in the region.
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Already partners in Senegal (see below), Vivendi and Morocco’s ONE are in the strongest position to win Mauritania’s Societe Nationale [...]
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Siemens and Endesa were officially awarded the contract to build the operate the Tahaddart power station near Tangiers on Nov. [...]
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Irritated by the ups and downs of Senelec’s privatization (AEI 311), the World Bank is hesitating about approving a $65 [...]
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The Tanzania Electricity Supply Company is staring at a mountain of debt as it prepares to invest in two IPP [...]
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A key component in the future West African Gas Pipeline (WAGP) project, the Societe Beninoise de l’Electricite et de l’Eau [...]
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The Sondu Miriu hydro-electricity generation project that has been stalled for over a year because of a dispute concerning the [...]
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During an official visit to France between Nov. 29 and [...]
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Last week’s collapse of Enron was bad news for Sasol which had been counting on the U.S. energy giant to [...]
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In the space of a single week, leading officials from two Russian oil giants have turned up in Algeria. On [...]
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Lundin Petroleum has decided to leave its concessions in Iran and Russia largely aside and pay priority instead to its [...]
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When ChevronTexaco and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) signed a production sharing agreement for OPL 250 on Nov. 28 [...]
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BPAmoco has joined ExxonMobil and TotalFinaElf on the list of groups that have seen the development of their fields halted [...]
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Why are taxes on oil cheaper in Congo-Brazzaville than among its West African neighbors? The question is intriguing and the [...]
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The planned merger between two big firms that specialize in seismic campaigns, Petroleum GeoServices (PGS and Veritas DGC will produce [...]
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According to Africa Energy Intelligence sources in Johannesburg, Sasol Petroleum International is seeking to sell its assets in Congo-Brazzaville in [...]
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France’s TotalFinaElf has acquired the assets of Agip Zambia, an [...]
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The first well drilled by BP Amoco on block 31 [...]
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Seeking to snap up Agip’s assets in Nigeria (AEI 311), [...]
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Anxious to build up its international portfolio and particularly in [...]
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France’s TotalFinaElf has teamed up with the Spanish company Cepsa [...]
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Already employing Jonathan Walters, a senior official seconded from the World Bank to run its operations in Angola (AEI 307), [...]
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Invited to the "P7 Summit" meeting of the world’s poorest countries that was organized by Green parties in the European [...]
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Alongside Andre Azoulay, Abdelaziz Meziane Belfkih is an advisor to king Mohammed VI who spearheaded the sensitive project concerning the [...]
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An energy technician who spent most of his career at Senelec, Alioune Fall has served as chairman of the Power [...]
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The director of Societe Comorienne des Hydrocarbures (SCH), the leading creditor of Societe Comorienne de l’Eau et de l’Electricite (CEE), [...]
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Nigeria plans to halt subsidies to NNPC for its fuel [...]
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A $30 million loan put up by the International Finance [...]
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Confronted with a debt amounting to 1 billion rupies ($33 [...]
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In tabling Angola’s budget for 2002 before Parliament on Nov. [...]
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On Dec. 7 the Belgian government endorsed a project to [...]
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The French bank BNP Paribas has just awarded a $53.3 [...]
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The oil transportation company Besora Oil Services has just been [...]
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Sudanese officials are turning up regularly in Moscow following Russia’s [...]
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The Niger Delta Development Commission that was handed a budget [...]
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Ondo state in the Niger delta has petitioned the National [...]
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Equatorial Guinea president Teodoro Obiang Nguema traveled to China and [...]
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Nigeria has signed an agreement with Burkina Faso to deliver [...]
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Global Business Network Ltd. is organizing a conference in London [...]
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