Accompanied by a flock of lawyers, Nigeria and Cameroon will shortly appear before the International Court of Justice in The Hague to seek a ruling in their long-standing border dispute. Africa Energy Intelligence can reveal the timetable for the hearings [.
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The Portuguese oil company Petrogal is poised to sell its assets in Angola in order to concentrate on its distribution operations in Europe.
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The Australian firm Fusion Oil which acquired a series of concessions in West Africa is now seeking partners to develop them.
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After six months of negotiation (AEI 308/309) the Belarus company [...]
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The recent drilling of appraisal wells on block 14 operated [...]
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Agip Nigeria, an affiliate of ENI, has begun producing on [...]
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Anxious to encourage exploration in Gabon, the country’s oil minister, [...]
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The offshore arm of the Bourbon group owned by the [...]
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A 30-year sentence handed down in absentia against former president Pascal Lissouba in Brazzaville on Dec. 28 for swindling public [...]
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Oil companies will start moving seriously this year into parts of West Africa’s deep offshore that haven’t yet been fully explored.
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Now that Nigeria has completed negotiations with companies awarded acreage in December, 2000, and is planning a new bidding round for the country’s offshore.
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After agreeing to stop subsidizing NNPC, Nigeria is being prompted by the IMF to allow private companies to operate refineries.
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Among firms jockeying for position around Lake Chad, the U.S. concern RSM Production could well be the first to drill.
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Former U.S. assistant secretary of state for African Americans Chester Crocker is endeavoring to promote oil exploration around Lake Tanganyika.
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Frustrated by its failure to win a foothold in the Niger Delta, Ocean Energy has just won the status of operator on Angola’s block 10.
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Although Italy’s ENI group is highly active in Algeria it hasn’t yet made its debut in Morocco.
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Confronted with a series of disappointing results on wells in [...]
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The final count-down has begun in the choice of a [...]
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After signing up Hardman, Energy Africa and Heritage Oil & [...]
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Weighed down by debt (AEI 312), the Tanzania Electric Supply Company (Tanesco) put out a call late last year for [...]
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The forthcoming sell-off of Nigeria’s National Electric Power Authority (NEPA) has become a boon to consultants even before the company starts making money for its future franchise-holder.
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The World Bank is poised to lend Burkina Faso $63 million to facilitate the partial privatization of the national power utility Sonabel.
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In late December, the World Bank finally disbursed the final [...]
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A government panel has been set up to establish whether [...]
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After long decades of experience in the U.S. oil industry, 69-year-old Jack Grynberg has started a career in Africa. An [...]
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An oil specialist, Shokri Ghanem, was named Libya’s economy and trade minister on Dec. 29 in succession to Abdal Dalam [...]
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An engineer by training, Pierre Guyonnet inherited the sensitive job of security chief when Elf was taken over by TotalFina [...]
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A lawyer for Equatorial Guinea in its border dispute with Nigeria (see Spotlight), Derek Smith specializes in law of the [...]
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Long a director of oil trading at Marc Rich Investment, Nigeria’s Michael Prest has just founded his own trading company, [...]
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John McIntire, Senegal director at the World Bank, has written to Africa Energy Intelligence to state that, contrary to what [...]
Alphonse Myumba, head of the temporary management panel at Societe [...]
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Jeremiah Muriti, chairman of Kenya’s Electricity Regulatory Board, announced during [...]
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Andrew Uzoige, exploration director at Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), [...]
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Ron van den Berg, director of Shell Nigeria, will have [...]
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Mark Tomlinson, head of the World Bank’s office in Nigeria, [...]
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Sudanese oil minister Awad Ahmed Alijazz said the country would [...]
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Noureddine Bouzaher, an official in the ?electricity? unit in the [...]
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The head of Norway’s export credit guarantee agency Norfund, Per [...]
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The president of Nigeria’s supreme court, Mohamed Lawal Uwais, indicated [...]
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The chairman of Libya’s National Oil Company, Abdelhafid Mahmoud Zlitni, [...]
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Sudanese oil minister Awad Ahmed Alijazz unwittingly stirred a major [...]
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IBC Global Conferences is organizing a conference in Amsterdam on [...]
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