The world's leading non-governmental organizations are all busy opening departments specifically devoted to the oil industry. The majors, which have up to now had to contend only with specialized groups like Global Witness or campaigns targeting a single country (RoyalDutch/Shell [.
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Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo made a lengthy tour of Latin America last week, visiting Brazil and Mexico. The latter country [...]
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Equatorial Guinea defense minister gen. Antonio Mba Nguema and his counterpart from Sao Tome, lieut.-col. Oscar Sacremento da Souza, signed [...]
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Sao Tome's natural resources minister, Deolindo da Costa, announced early in September that a consortium made up of Portugal's Galp [...]
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According to La Lettre du Continent, sister newsletter of Africa Energy Intelligence, Congo president Denis Sassou Nguesso is due to [...]
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The Khartoum government and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) have failed to reach an agreement on naming an energy [...]
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Africa Energy Intelligence understands that state-controlled China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), which tried to buy Unocal this summer before [...]
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The Congo national Alain Mizelle has formed his own oil company and plans to float it on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
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The American oil services group Bechtel has been contracted by Amerada Hess to enhance production on its Gassi, Zotti and El Agreb fields.
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Several majors appear interested in a call for bids for construction of a GTL plant at Tinhert that was issued in the spring.
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Tethyhs Oil, a firm listed in Stockholm, has been awarded a reconnaissance license in the center of Morocco.
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Bamako has just pegged out four new licenses in the west and east of the country and is to put them on the auction block.
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South Africa's Ophir company owned by businessman Tokyo Sexale has just been handed two licenses in Nigeria in partnership with well-connected local groups.
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Already active in Sudan, the Videocon conglomerate has just won its first license in Nigeria.
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To thank Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo for his mediation in the Darfur crisis, Sudan has awarded the Nigerian firm Express Petroleum stakes in block 15 alongside Petronas.
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Although it failed in a bid to win acreage in [...]
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After selling off part of its African network to Libya's [...]
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Amerada Hess has contracted Stolt to install the pipelines and [...]
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Chevron announced last week that work on the West African [...]
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Long stymied by Societe Nationale des Petroles du Congo which [...]
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In addition to make its debut on license 15 alongside [...]
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Asmara is to shortly put several offshore concessions on the [...]
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Several groups recently approached the National Oil Corporation of Kenya [...]
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The former Yugoslav engineering company Energo Invest, now controlled by the Bosnian government, is landing contracts in Africa where it [...]
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Holding the concession to generate and distribute power in Togo, Franc's Elyo group has a bone to pick with Togo's new government.
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The private Nigerian group Rockson has won work on major power projects in the Niger Delta.
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The World Bank last month agreed to put up around $95 million towards a $132 million power project for Ethiopia.
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Already holding rights to produce natural gas, the private concern Zambezi Gas is seeking to generate power as well.
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A U.K. labor court has thrown out a case that lawyer Peter Felter launched six months ago against his former [...]
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The French bank BNP Paribas has been picked by OilInvest to sell off nearly 60% of Tamoil, the Libyan oil [...]
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Just as Chevron announced the start of construction work on the West Africa Gas Pipeline between Lagos in Nigeria and [...]
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The only country in the Gulf of Guinea to have yet to open its doors to Chinese or Indian oil [...]
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Fighting with Britain's Soco over ownership of the Marine XI concession, Energem has threatened to launch arbitration proceedings against Congo-Brazzaville. [...]
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The South African oil services firm Murray & Roberts has increased its stake from 30 to 49% in Australia's Clough [...]
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CEO of ENAGEO, the Sonatrach affiliate that specializes in geophysics, Reda Rahal has just been appointed the group's exploration manager. [...]
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An American, Ann Pickard, is to head the Africa department of the Anglo-Dutch group RoyalDutch/Shell in the place of Chris [...]
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A former mining company that switched to the oil sector, Ireland's Petroceltic has just hired Eloi Dolivo, Phil Thompson and [...]
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The former governor of the Bank of Sierra Leone, Llyod During, has replaced the long-standing minister for energy and electricity, [...]
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Norway's Magne Andreas Meier was arrested by the police in Oslo at the end of August and indicted for fraud. [...]
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Global Pacific & Partners is organizing three distinct conferences in [...]
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State-owned Sonatrach is currently producing between 1.3 and 1.35 million [...]
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The Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation (TPDC) will shortly finalize contracts [...]
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Forty nine per cent owned by state-controlled NNPC, Nigeria LNG [...]
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A lot of money is shortly to be injected into [...]
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The Jefferson Waterman firm has just signed a contract to [...]
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The "Domaines Oceanique" laboratory at France's Universite de la Bretagne [...]
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