Now approaching the status of a major, the Anglo-Irish concern Tullow Oil won considerable praise during the 16th Oil Week laid on by Global Pacific & Partners in Cape Town. But the company is struggling to digest its success in [.
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Incorporated in Singapore, the Burmese company Silver Wave Energy is making its first incursion into Africa. The group bid for [...]
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The Chinese oil company Sunpec has just hired Yves-Roger Rajoelina as a special adviser.
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Eight local and foreign companies have submitted bids to explore some of the 23 blocks the government has put up for sale.
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As the production start-up on the Ibhubesi and Jabulani gas fields is constantly being put back, South Africa finds itself [...]
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For the first time a Zambian national is going to run the Ideni refinery in Nodola in northern Zambia’s copperbelt. [...]
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With a cash injection this summer from Waterford Finance & [...]
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After a five year honeymoon with China, Luanda is about [...]
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The small boutique bank was retained by Sterling to help [...]
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Before Sao Tome puts blocks in its exclusive economic zone on the auction block, ERHC and Equator, which both have rights on the area, are demanding their dues.
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Congo-K’s government is currently offering blocks to companies wishing to exploring for methane in Lake Kivu to produce electricity.
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Africa Energy Intelligence has been told that Congo-K’s Societe Nationale d’Electricite never paid the USD 100,000 that was to have [...]
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Having failed to woo the least oil company to the [...]
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Often considered but always put back when Omar Bongo ran [...]
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Fradique de Menezes, president of Sao Tome y Principe, was [...]
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A former audio equipment company, Solo Oil has ventured into the petroleum sector under its boss, David Lenigas.
After Eritrea experienced a setback with the Chinese last year, Centric Energy has put in a bid to explore one of the country’s offshore blocks.
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Work looks set to begun on the Karuma Dam after 10 long years on the drawing board.
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The Tanzanian government, disappointed by the results of its deregulation [...]
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Uganda's energy minister, Hilary Onek, announced on Nov. 12 that [...]
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Jiang Jiemin, president of the China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) [...]
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Backed by Nigerian go-betweens, South Korea’s KNOC, which has been locked in litigation with Nigeria’s government since early this year, has offered to negotiate an amicable settlement.
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Failing to find a company capable of beefing up the capacity of the Arafat power plant, Nouakchott has put out a call to France.
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President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf still hasn’t decided exactly what to do about her friend and the former director of the [...]
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Like several West African countries, Senegal harbors dreams of serving [...]
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According to our sources, the drilling of a well by [...]
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A 5% holding in joint ventures between the Nigerian National [...]
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Torn by conflict between its two shareholders, the ONGC-Mittal energy [...]
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Re-activated in July after a three year stoppage because of [...]
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Regularly postponed for want of sufficient gas reserves, the project [...]
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After locking in its rights on Guinea after long years [...]
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After a dispute lasting nearly three years, Lonhro and Incat [...]
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Kwabena Donkor, Ghana's deputy energy minister, will take part in [...]
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The American power company AES has promoted Cameroon native Jean-David Bile who has been heading all of the group’s African [...]
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Former president of Paradigm Geotechnology, geologist Jorge Machnizh took up work early this with the Anglo-Danish security firm Group 4 [...]
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After a disappointing investment in Madagascar (IOL 604), the small [...]
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Long-standing financial adviser to Afren, the American investment bank Merrill [...]
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Shareholders of Verenex and the National Oil Corp (NOC) of [...]
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A report from the oil information and consultancy concern HIS [...]
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Specialized in advising family offices in the Gulf, the Gulf [...]
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