Spotlight | Nigeria
Brothers Squabble Over Boundary
No sooner had Nigeria's dispute with Sao Tome been resolved than Nigeria found itself facing another conflict, this time with Equatorial Guinea
No sooner had Nigeria's dispute with Sao Tome been resolved than Nigeria found itself facing another conflict, this time with Equatorial Guinea
To help tide Benin over until the first deliveries of gas from the West African Gas Pipeline reach the country, [...]
South Africa's national utility Eskom has just formed a consortium to develop a power-production project at the Inga dam.
With Eskom working with the Kinshasa government on one side, another South African firm, Clackson Power, is building a power station for a former rebel movement.
CDC Globeleq, a wholly owned affiliate of the CDC Group [...]
Claude Froidbise, head of the Anglo Belgian Corporation, has written [...]
A shake-up of Morocco's Office National de Recherches et d'Exploitations Petrolieres (ONAREP) probably won't entail any change in the company's [...]
As an adviser to the Societe Nationale des Petrole du Congo (SNPC), Jean-Pierre Vignaud is in charge of energy issues [...]
President Mwai Kibaki has just fired the boss of Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC), Samuel Gichuru, and put Jasper [...]
Ethiopia's deputy defense minister, Hailemelekot Teklegiorgis, has just been named chairman of the board at Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation (ETC) and [...]
Former head of international operations at the U.S. firm Barrett Resources, which was bought out by Williams last year, Jeffrey [...]
The Canadian firm Stratic, an affiliate of Gentry Resources, has just opened an office in London and appointed Tom Mackay [...]
Africa Energy Intelligence understands that Garry Sullivan, a former lawyer from the Texas law firm Haynes & Boone which represents [...]
In the most discreet manner possible, the Malaysian national oil company Petronas has taken over from RoyalDutch/Shell on the Agaden concession.
Several gas liquefaction projects in Nigeria, and primarily those of Agip and Statoil, are shortly to be confirmed.
To put further pressure on TotalFinaElf the Congo-B government got the country's parliament to mull its dispute over the Haute Mer concession.
Nine months after winning a gigantic concession in eastern Congo-K, Canada's Heritage Oil still hasn't managed to sign a production sharing agreement for the acreage.
Following the withdrawal of RoyalDutch/Shell, a Nigerian company may knock on the door of the consortium that is to work the Kudu gas field.
The timetable for development of major fields in Angola's offshore is going to be decided by the end of June, with Exxon (Kizomba B) and TotalFinaElf (Dalia) kicking off first, followed by BPAmoco (Plutonio).
Renato Pozzi, technical director of Edison Gas, has been asked [...]
Scandinavian shipping groups have joined the competition to supply carriers [...]
Limbering up for his presidential campaign, Nigerian leader Olusegun Obasanjo [...]
After acquiring the 25% stake that Canada's Talisman held in [...]
Holding a 50% stake in the Indeni refinery in Zambia [...]
The South African oil and gas firm Sasol is seeking [...]
Last week's meeting between the European Union's energy commissioner, Loyola de Palacio, and Algerian oil minister Chakib Khelil failed to [...]
The U.S. Trade Development Agency is going to finance a series of studies on developing the Toukimt and Meskala gas [...]
The Nigerian Parliament's commission of appropriations has based the country's budget for 2003 on oil being worth $24 per barrel, [...]
According to AEI sources, a new delegation from the International Monetary Fund is to travel to Angola at the end [...]
The Angolan parliament adopted new legislation on investment two weeks ago that offers a 15-year exemption from customs duties to [...]
The break-up of Uganda Electricity Board into two companies - Uganda Electricity Generation Company run by Eskom and the Uganda [...]
The first workshop of the Extractive Industry Transparency project initiated [...]
Feeling the issue could harm his chances of re-election in [...]
A government reshuffle in Equatorial Guinea last week didn't bring [...]
A debate in Congo-B's parliament on TotalFinaElf's operating license on [...]
The third meeting between the Sudanese government and rebel forces [...]
After issuing a strike call two weeks ago, Nigeria's leading [...]
The Tanzania Electricity Supply Company (Tanesco), which has been managed [...]
Following a lengthy visit by Ivory coast energy minister Leon [...]
Sudan's national oil company Sudapet still hasn't reached an agreement [...]
A well-known Moroccan lawyer, Mohamed Naciri, was retained by Dallah [...]
Michael Zander, who had previously seen to oil transactions in [...]
The U.S. firm American Continental Group has been named Ivory [...]
The customary adviser to Equatorial Guinea, the U.S. firm Leboeuf, [...]
The firm Denton Wilde Sapte has teamed up with Collins [...]
The CWC Group is organizing the congres of the African [...]
IBC Energy is organizing a conference in Amsterdam on Feb. [...]