The next G8 summit meeting to be held in Evian, France in the spring will mull a British proposal to improve the transparency of oil transactions in the developing countries
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The government and Nigeria's Senate are locked in a new battle concerning the share-out of oil revenue between the federal [...]
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France is making a number of political moves in Sudan in step with the European Union's decision last week to [...]
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A joint committee set up by Cameroon and Nigeria under United Nations auspices to negotiate application of the International Court [...]
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The Petroleum Agency of South Africa has just been handed a $2.5 million budget to prepare an application to the [...]
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According to our sources, over half of a World Bank package worth a total of $103 million for Democratic Republic [...]
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In the pipeline for long years, a gas-fuelled power station in Pointe Noire was inaugurated last week.
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Congo's energy minister cited a list of ?immediate investment opportunities? in the power sector when a delegation from MEDEF International, a branch of the French employers' federation, turned up in Kinshasa.
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Only two candidates remain in the running for a civil [...]
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None of the oil services firms that worked for Lone Star in Morocco has been paid despite a promise by [...]
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The Volta River Authority has just won a $30 million loan put together by a banking consortium - Standard Bank, [...]
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The African Development Bank has awarded a $15.6 million loan to Nigeria to help finance its interconnection with Benin via [...]
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Just a day before the Dec. 15 deadline set by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) ran out, Nigeria's parliament [...]
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The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation last week paid off part of its debts arising from cash calls connected to its [...]
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The European Investment Bank has just approved a 25 million Euro loan to the Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation (EEPCO), the [...]
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Delays in Angola's payment of its debt to Portugal have stirred tension within the Portuguese government. According to the Lisbon [...]
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Appointed oil minister last week in succession to Jose Bothelo de Vasconcelos - who became water resources and power minister [...]
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Up to now managing director of Bouygues Offshore, Jacques Leost has replaced Herve le Bouc as CEO of the French [...]
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A legislator from Delta state, John Agoda, was named chairman of the Nigerian parliament's powerful Committee on Petroleum in succession [...]
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Recently head of the U.S. branch of the American independent Burlington Resources, Randy Limbacher has just been named chairman of [...]
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Secretary-general of Algeria's energy ministry, Abdelhadi Benzaghou, has been sidelined by his minister, Chakib Khelil. According to Maghreb Confidential (Indigo [...]
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A long-time rival of Glencore for trading contracts with SNPC, Vitol has gained ascendancy in recent months over the former [...]
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Anxious to strengthen its position in Europe, Nigerian LNG has just bowed to European Union legislation by abandoning destination clauses in its contracts.
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The Swiss trading firm Addax has just been awarded a huge concession lying off the Bakassi peninsula that both Nigeria and Cameroon have claimed as their territory.
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After the discreet sale of blocks OPL 245 and OPL 256, Nigeria has begun closed-door bargaining concerning a third block in its deep offshore, OPL 221.
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Equatorial Guinea is going to make its debut on the LNG market ahead of Angola.
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South Africa's state-owned oil company Petro is endeavouring to put down solid roots on the continent but has only made progress so far in Gabon.
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After stating that it viewed ChevronTexaco's future LNG plant as a priority project, the Angolan government has provided some details about the feasibility of the scheme.
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A partnership between South Africa's state-owned oil firm Petro SA and the trading concern Transworld could shortly come to an abrupt end.
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OPEC's move last week to increase the production quotas of [...]
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The Canadian firm Atrim and Australia's Horizon Oil are poised [...]
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The Swedish concern Lundin Oil, which stopped work on block [...]
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In the works since early this year, the sale of [...]
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According to its boss, Pat Davies, Sasol is going to [...]
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The Chinese National Oil Corporation (CNOC) has begun work on [...]
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Sierra Leone's public utility National Power Authority last week cut [...]
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The Libyan trading company Tamoil, an affiliate of OilInvest, the [...]
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A $293 million contract that state-owned Sonatrach signed with the [...]
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Ghana's chronic power shortage could be partially offset by last [...]
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Brazil's state-owned oil company Petrobras which is present in Nigeria, [...]
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Former lobbyist for Triton Energy in Equatorial Guinea, the American [...]
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A $2.2 million fine that the High Court of Lesotho [...]
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The Indian consultancy Prayas Energy Group has conducted a study [...]
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The Australian bank ANZ Banking Group has been picked by [...]
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IBC Energy is organizing a conference in Amsterdam on Feb. [...]
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The secretariat of the East African Community that represents Kenya, [...]
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