Burdened by debt that has its oil production tied up for the next five years (AEI 778), Congo-B has found an unexpected saviour in Iskandar Safa. The Lebanese industrialist and owner of Constructions mecaniques de Normandie (CMN), has offered to [.
Subscribers only
According to our sources, Nigerian junior Petralon Energy is hoping to sell the first barrels from the Nigerian Dawes Island [...]
Subscribers only
Behind the changing line-up of hydrocarbon ministers, the country’s oil sector is still under the thumb of the same powerful networks.
Subscribers only
Ready to do what it takes to diversify his partners, president Ali Bongo’s administration is forging oil ties with the powers-at-be in Moscow.
Subscribers only
Evicted by Total on its Rufisque Offshore profond permit, African Petroleum has found a partner for Senegal Offshore Sud profond but is being tight lipped over its name.
Subscribers only
Out of the seven new offshore permits granted by the Equatorial Guinean government to foreign firms in early June (see [...]
Subscribers only
The Kenyan government’s plans to start exporting crude from its permits operated by Tullow Oil in the Lokichar basin in [...]
Subscribers only
Emirati trading firm and oil product distributor Alsaa Petroleum and Shipping FZC registered a new affiliated in the Mozambican capital [...]
Subscribers only
Nigerian firm Sahara Group has decided to step up its game and expand its entire portfolio in Guinea, encompassing oil [...]
Subscribers only
Vital oil sector reforms, a lifeline for the regime, will need approval from the incoming president to have any effect.
Subscribers only
According to our sources, a new boss has been at [...]
Subscribers only
Ivorian minister of energy and oil, Thierry Tanoh, will travel [...]
Subscribers only
Irish junior Clontarf Energy is at last on the verge [...]
Subscribers only
South Africa’s state-run oil firm PetroSA has been paralysed by [...]
Subscribers only
The appeal hearing opposing Lagos-based junior Ontario Oil & Gas [...]
Subscribers only
So that it will have a pool of qualified local [...]
Subscribers only
As Africa Energy Intelligence was able to reveal, ENI held a ceremony in early June attended by all the oil bigwigs for the signing of its flagship project after knocking aside the last remaining hurdles.
Rhino Resources is banking on South African schist gas and is going all out to explore the subsoil of the [...]
Subscribers only
John Kachamila has found new investors to help carry his coal plant in the north of the country.
Subscribers only
Two years after signing a MoU with Cameroonian water and energy minister, local law firm Nyong Power Plants Corp (NPPC) [...]
Subscribers only
A group of Kivu citizens, led by Gilbert Kambale, a leading figure of Beni’s civil society, have been demonstrating against [...]
Subscribers only
Ethiopia’s minister of water, irrigation and electricity, Seleshi Bekele, drummed [...]
Subscribers only
Ron Weiss, the brand new boss of national power utility [...]
Subscribers only
As we announced (AEI 794), Equatorial Guinea's minister of oil, [...]
Subscribers only
Jeff Goodrich, the CEO of OneLNG (JV between Schlumberger and [...]
Subscribers only
In late May, Gabon’s minister of economy Regis Immongault took [...]
Subscribers only
Strategia Worldwide, a consultancy founded by two former British Army officers, has set up a new division entirely focused on oil and gas projects.
Subscribers only
With its shareholders demanding compensation for share price losses they blame on investigations into corruption in Luanda, Cobalt International is trying to get its insurers to help ease its finances.
Subscribers only
In late May, the African Development Bank (AfDB) validated the [...]
Subscribers only
British junior Elephant Oil is on the hunt for funds [...]
Subscribers only
Oman Trading International, which is controlled by the sultanate, has [...]
Subscribers only
In early May, American lawyers David Hesse and Peter Stewart, [...]
Subscribers only
While the Mozambican and Tanzanian governments have their sleeves rolled [...]
Subscribers only
Mustapha Guitouni can thank his good relations with the new head of government Abdelmadjid Tebboune for his appointment as energy [...]
Subscribers only
According to our sources, Addax Petroleum’s powerful legal director Guus Klusener may have his days at the company numbered. After [...]
Subscribers only
The former Ivorian energy minister Safiatou Francoise Ba-N’Daw has been hired by British firm Quest Energy to take over blocks [...]
Subscribers only
Minister of trade and industry since 2016, Charles Mwijage has now also been asked to temporarily oversee a portfolio he [...]
Subscribers only