Equatorial Guinea contacted several American firms in May, 2000 to seek help in founding a state-owned oil company...
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Democratic Republic of Congo’s constituent assembly ratified an agreement with Pretoria on June 28 that provided for the supply of 120,000 tons of oil products to Congolaise des Hydrocarbures (COHYDRO) by the South African firm Tepco.
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Some quarter profess to see the outlines of a U.S./Sudanese arrangement over oil in this week’s visit by USAID director [...]
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Sooner or later Gabon is going to have to face up to a drop in its oil receipts and diversity [...]
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An agreement on how to sell part of the output from the future refinery at Lobito on the South African [...]
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The second phase of the rush on Mauritania’s offshore has begun. After the Australian junior Hardman made a discovery in [...]
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Two new companies have joined Heritage Oil & Gas and the China National Oil and Gas Exploration and Development Corporation [...]
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After meeting in late June in Luanda with officials from [...]
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A new invitation to tender for acreage in Nigeria’s deep [...]
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In snapping up the U.S. company Triton Energy early last week, Amerada Hess considerably beefed up its portfolio in the [...]
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The collapse of the Texas firm Coho Energy which filed for bankruptcy in September has been a boon to another [...]
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If the Canadian firm Talisman decides to pull out of [...]
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The Congolese affiliate of Maurel & Prom, Zetah M & [...]
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Like the cuckoo, a bird that sets up home in [...]
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The Burkina Faso government has promised the International Monetary Fund that it will shortly privatize SONABEL, the country’s power utility. [...]
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Is the U.S. firm Applied Energy Services Corp. (AES) in the process of becoming the strategic partner of the national [...]
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The Central African Republic and Kinshasa have resumed talks on constructing a 300 MW power station at Palambo on the [...]
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A 103% rise in electricity rates authorized by Ghana’s Public Utilities Regulatory Committee (PURC looks unlikely to improve matters for [...]
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An invitation to tender issued on July 9 for the second sell-off of Senegalaise d’Electricite (SENELEC) was largely inspired by [...]
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France’s Vivendi has once again come up for a roasting [...]
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Last year’s privatization of Energie du Mali has put an [...]
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Work on a project by the Norwegian firm Norpak to [...]
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Samuel Dossou-Aworet spoke of oil opportunities in Gabon in his capacity as ?president Omar Bongo’s oil adviser and executive president [...]
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A former executive of Elf Congo, Bruno Jean-Richard Itoua has emerged as one of the country’s most powerful men. Adviser [...]
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The former privatization minister, Abderrahmane Saidi, has crossed to the other side of the barricade. He has just been named [...]
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Appointed secretary to the board of directors at Kenya’s Electricity Regulatory Board in succession to Caroli Omondi, Catherine Kola and [...]
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The chairman of the Thebe Investment Corporation, Vusi Khanyile, strongly bolstered the position of his group, which is 74% controlled [...]
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The European Investment Bank that has done a lot to [...]
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The Islamic Development Bank (IDB), of which Algeria is a [...]
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Mali’s parliament has adopted a draft bill on inaugurating a [...]
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The govern-ment has cracked down on some officials from Societe [...]
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Libya’s General Electricity Company is counting on demand for electricity [...]
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Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe has long known he can count [...]
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A lot of sensitive issues were aired during a meeting [...]
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Kenya has begun to import oil from Sudan on the [...]
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The government has dug in its heel on what has [...]
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The CWC Group is organizing a conference on ?OPEC and [...]
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This event has been put ahead from Feb. 5/7 to [...]
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