Possessing an office in Houston for some years, the state-controlled Angolan company Sonangol has just linked up with a group of American businessmen with excellent connections in both the White House and in Middle East capitals to build an LNG [.
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The government of Brazilian president Luiz Inacio "Lula" da Silva has sealed a number of oil cooperation agreements with African [...]
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The Chinese government has just set up a new agency to regulate the operations of various state-controlled companies both domestically [...]
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Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo met in Geneva last week with his Cameroon counterpart, Paul Biya, in the presence of U.N. [...]
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The Nigerian government and oil companies are mulling new policies concerning the Niger Delta as unrest continues in the area: [...]
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The Chinese firm CITIC Resources is counting on becoming a big player in Africa's oil industry. Sixty percent controlled by [...]
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The third liquefaction unit that survived the disaster at Skikda in January, 2004 will resume production in June.
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China's CNPC, Total of France and Spain's Cepsa are all thinking of investing in petrochemical plants in
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Shell has teamed up with NOC to quadruple the capacity of the Marsa Al Brega LNG plant but the question of how the plant will be supplied isn't settled.
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The U.S. oil group Kerr McGee has come under fire from a Norwegian NGO for failing to copy France's Total and drop its concession in Western Sahara.
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In addition to the highly active Australian firm Baraka, several companies are applying to the Mali government for exploration concessions.
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Barred for two years from its Ngosso concession, Switzerland's Addax is planning a first seismic campaign on the acreage.
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Total has finally been able to award the development contract for the Akpo field but the dust-up with South Atlantic Petroleum and NNPC is far from over.
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After battling for control of block 18, Chinese and Indian oil companies are now poised to fight for relinquished acreage on blocks 15 and 17.
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The New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex), the world's top energy [...]
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The high oil price and growing interest of oil companies [...]
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Listed on London's Alternative Investment Market, the British independent Gulf [...]
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An affiliate of Britain's Bowleven, which floated on London's Alternative [...]
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Submitted early this year, the development plan for the Avouma [...]
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The French oil group Maurel & Prom tested a first [...]
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High demand for deepwater drilling platforms has compelled Australia's Woodside [...]
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The management of Compagnie Ivoirienne d'Electricite that is operated by France's Bouygues group announced after a meeting with president Laurent [...]
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The Aga Khan's holding company Industrial Promotion Services has won the contract to build the Bujagali hydro dam.
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Alstom has won a contract to rehabilitate Madagascar's prime power station but the island is still threatened with a major blackout.
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No less than seven groups have been short-listed to compete for the contract to build the 800 MW combined cycle power plant supplied by gas from the Kudu gas field.
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CEO of the juniors Mart Resources and Equator Exploration which operate in Nigeria and Sao Tome, Wade Cherwayko has just [...]
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Australia's Baraka Petroleum, a new company formed by Max de Vietri, has raised $Aus. 17 million ($13.2 million) through a [...]
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As reported by Africa Energy Intelligence (AEI 392), a loan from the International Finance Corp., private investment arm of the [...]
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OilInvest, Libya's state-controlled oil company, is seeking to sell off a major stake in Tamoil, a Monaco-based trading company. The [...]
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During an IMF mission he led to Brazzaville last week, Dan Ghura indicated Congo would shortly benefit from the Highly [...]
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The Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) has just paid off most of its debt to South Africa's Eskom after being [...]
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Head of the London office of Atrim, a Canadian firm, since early this year, Gerald Orbell is planning to set [...]
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Retiring from the State Department in 2003 after a long career in the foreign service, ex-diplomat Howard Jeter has just [...]
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A former head of operations for AES in the Middle East, Shahzad Qasim has just been named president of the [...]
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A former executive of Barclays Bank Group, Peter Bingham last week took a seat on the board of Afren, a [...]
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The Italian government, which owns just 30% of ENI but appoints the group's chairmen, has picked the CEO of Enel, [...]
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Former chief executive officer of the Swedish-Swiss engineering group ABB, Jurgen Dormann has just joined the board of the British [...]
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Global Pacific & Partners is organizing a conference on May [...]
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Global Pacific & Partners is organizing a conference in Dakar [...]
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The CWC Group is organizing a conference on the Gulf [...]
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Libya's National Oil Corporation launched its second international licensing round [...]
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Africa Energy Intelligence understands that Societe Nationale des Petrole du [...]
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The Kenya power-generation company Kengen has contracted the Hamilton Harrison [...]
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As Africa Energy Intelligence anticipated (AEI 388), the British consultancy [...]
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The private American logistics and security firm Dyncorp, which was [...]
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Under contract with the Equatorial Guinea government since last December, [...]
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