Washington's strategy to diversify its imports of liquefied natural gas in Africa should become fully effective in the coming two years
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The oil services companies bidding for the engineering, procurement and construction contract for the West African Gas Pipeline (WAGP) project [...]
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Having dropped their fight with the government over the share-out of oil resources, several states in south Nigeria have been rewarded with marginal fields.
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After bargaining over the issue for a year, the leaders of ria and Nigeria have made the first move towards building a gas pipeline between their two countries.
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Although its obligations to develop fields in Equatorial Guinea are weighing heavily on its finances, the South African firm Energy Africa has taken a stake on a new concession.
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The lower house of Nigeria's parliament has thrown out a draft law governing work of an anti-corruption panel that president [...]
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The former boss of Glencore's oil operations, the French national Franck Destribats, was placed under formal investigation by examining magistrate [...]
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Combining the jobs of Equatorial Guinea's representative at the United Nations, ambassador to Washington and prime go-between for American oil [...]
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The ?reconciliation government? that Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo formed two weeks ago brought in a number of ministers from [...]
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The Abo field located on OPL 316 and operated by [...]
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The three partners in the Brass LNG project, NNPC, Agip [...]
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Representing RoyalDutch/Shell in the dispute pitting it against the Nigerian [...]
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Chad is to become an oil-producing country before the end of the year. Africa Energy Intelligence reveals the timetable.
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Sao Tome's government has finally settled its feud with Chrome Energy, a company that had rights on the Joint Development Zone between Nigeria and Sao Tome.
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In the works for over a year, an audit of SNPC's books finally began early this month during the visit of an IMF mission to the country.
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After just four months of negotiations, Ireland's Tullow Oil has obtained a huge concession in Gabon's offshore - and highly advantageous terms, to boot.
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In holding on to the strategic electricity portfolio, the Kinshasa government is laying plans to restructure the utility.
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Last month's visit by Gabon's defense minister Ali Bongo - son of president Omar Bongo - to the island of [...]
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The coup d'etat sprung by general Francois Bozize in Bangui over the weekend could have a major impact on the [...]
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The NGO Transparency International (TI), which was founded by former [...]
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In the midst of a major restructuring, Portugal's Galp Energia is considering changes in its gas operations and could tie up with Sonangol in oil.
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The small American firm Frontier Resources has been awarded a huge concession in northern Namibia.
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According to reliable sources, officials from the World Bank are to present a $67 million project that aims to beef [...]
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Several donors are putting together a program to revive electricity production in Zambia.
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A meeting that was to bring together Angola's leading donors in Brussels this month has been discreetly postponed and no [...]
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Widespread investment by Eskom Enterprises, the international branch of South Africa's state-owned utility Eskom, has combined with the cost of [...]
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In charge of Sonangol's negotiations with Western oil companies, Antonio Jose Martins Raposo has been replaced in the job by [...]
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Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering looks likely to build the [...]
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In addition to the U.S. oil firm Frontier Resources International [...]
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IBC Energy is organizing a conference in London between June [...]
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During a visit by French president Jacques Chirac to ria two weeks ago, his rian counterpart, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, discreetly announced [...]
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After a number of secret encounters in Vienna and Paris (outlined by Africa Energy Intelligence in previous issues no. 307 [...]
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Canada's Talisman finally announced last week that it had concluded the sale of its 25% stake in the Greater Nile [...]
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Kenya's new energy minister, Ochillo Ayacko, has unveiled plans to slash the price of electricity in the country by 50% [...]
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Peter Clutterbuck, vice president of PanAfrican Energy, told the East [...]
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Sudan's national oil company Sudapet has signed a series of [...]
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Canadian Natural Resources has named Martin Cole as chief of its international operations, the biggest of which in Africa are [...]
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The East African Community has signed a contract with the [...]
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The British concern Orrick, which has an office in Paris, [...]
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After winning a contract to conduct an audit of Angola's [...]
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EnegyNet Limited is organizing a conference in Lausanne, Switzerland between [...]
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