The operations of six oil traders that dominate the African market are being increasingly hampered by efforts to control and regulate their activity.
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The U.S. firm Kerr McGee is fast expanding in Gabon and Benin after teaming up last November with Energy Africa [...]
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Africa’s strong share in the output of TotalFinaElf group was confirmed when the French group released its results for first [...]
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Shell International Petroleum has just returned to the distribution sector in central Africa that has long been dominated by [...]
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Skidmore Energy is keeping absolutely mum after announcing in [...]
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Africa’s share in the order book of the French oil [...]
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After bolstering its portfolio in Tunisia by buying up some [...]
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Fearing to give the U.S. group AES too much sway [...]
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The U.S. Congress is preparing a draft bill that will oblige the Bush administration to change its oil policy and [...]
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A visit by Congolese president Denis Sassou N’Guesso to Luanda on Sept. 9-10 involved discreet talks on oil even though [...]
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After spending nearly $4 million drilling on the Semliki concession south of Lake Albert, Canada’s Heritage Oil and Gas company [...]
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A number of contracts for work on fields in Angola’s deep offshore have been awarded since Sonangol and the majors [...]
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During a visit to Oslo early this month, Angolan oil minister Jose Botelho de Vasconcelos and Norway’s deputy oil and [...]
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Tension between the federal government and Nigeria’s states over the share-out of oil revenue is mounting as the country awaits [...]
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Nigeria’s Senate Committee on Petroleum has just handed Parliament a report on deregulating the country’s oil products market that recommends [...]
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After three years of hard bargaining the South African government has finally approved Sasol ’s project to build a gas [...]
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A consortium headed by Australia’s Woodside that holds three exploration areas in Mauritania’s offshore plans a series of wells spread [...]
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Perhaps the swift rise in oil prices that followed the terrorist attacks in New York will boost Elf Gabon ’s [...]
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A few oil companies still believe Gabon’s offshore holds out the promise of significant finds even though exploration has tapered [...]
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Nigeria has managed to get a number of foreign operators [...]
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After awarding a loan worth nearly $100 million in late July for the renovation of NEPA’s facilities in Nigeria, the [...]
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On Sept. 11, Senegalese energy minister Macky Sall informed companies interested in the privatization of Senelec of the timetable for [...]
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According to Africa Energy Intelligence sources in Kampala, invitations to tender for the construction of a power plant that will [...]
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The Swiss-Swedish group Asea Brown Boveri has won a contract from the Uganda Electricity Board to build a 33kV transmission [...]
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A former advisor to Chad’s president on oil questions who learned his trade at Elf and the Institut Francais du [...]
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A specialist in the privatization of African power utilities for the consultancy National Economic Research Associates (NERA), Simeon Thorton is [...]
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Named president and CEO of the Canadian firm Tanganyika Oil Co on Sept. 15, Lukas Lundin is the second son [...]
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Executive director of Sahara Energy Resources which succeeded the Vitol trading company in Ghana (see P. 1), Tonye Cole has [...]
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It was oil minister Jean-Baptiste Tati Loutard rather than the head of SNPC , Jean Bruno Itoua , who accompanied [...]
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A Nigerian delegation headed by president Olesegun Obasanjo ’s all-powerful [...]
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A company owned by the Russian government and headed by [...]
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After disposing of its holdings in all other sectors than [...]
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Nigeria’s Special Commission for Human Rights which has played the [...]
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A once-abandoned project to build a gas pipeline to carry [...]
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Nigeria has just issued two directives setting 2008 as the [...]
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Sudan’s finance ministry said earlier this month that the country’s [...]
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The U.S. independent Burlington Resources has just awarded a contract [...]
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After getting parliament in May to adopt the Eskom Conversion [...]
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After having to give in on the question of a [...]
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In a letter of intent to the International Monetary Fund [...]
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Algeria’s national oil company Sonatrach and the Institut Algerien du [...]
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In conjunction with the government of Equatorial Guinea, the U.N.’s [...]
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