The amnesty that late president Umaru Yar'Adua offered in 2009 to militants from the Niger Delta marked its second anniversary on Oct. 4. And the results are there for all to see in the oil region:
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Africa Energy Intelligence understands that several executives from Argentina’s Pluspetrol, including Julian Seldes, its development chief, and the company’s managing [...]
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There’s no end in sight for talks between N’Djamena and CNPC concerning the price of oil products turned out by Chad’s refinery.
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Highly coveted but still unexplored, a basin in Congo has become a battleground between two companies of the same name.
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Under pressure from unions, the government is checking to see whether oil companies are employing enough local staff. Addax is first in Libreville's cross-hairs.
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A dearth of studies on projects for the large-scale extraction of methane gas is holding the EIB back on financing schemes.
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Congo-K’s Senate has fired a broadside at the management methods of Societe Nationale d’Electricite (SNEL). A Senate committee set up [...]
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The conditions laid down by EIB to finance the Lom Pangar hydro-power dam seem to have been met.
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Appointments in Chad's oil sector have come one after the other since the presidential election in April. A new chairman [...]
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Chad’s government has been thinking for some months about forming [...]
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The confusion prevailing over development of the Inga dams is [...]
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Heritage is trying its luck on OML 30 in the hope of capitalizing on the withdrawal of Conoil's bid for the block. But the process involving the sale of Shell's acreage in the Delta remains highly confused.
It’s become a ritual whenever a new Nigerian president takes [...]
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During his first trip to Accra on Oct. 6, Ivory [...]
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Jackson Curtis, vice president in charge of drilling for Texas-based [...]
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The private Russian oil company Lukoil, which has been warned [...]
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Britain's Aggreko is negotiating a deal with Ivory Coast to [...]
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Directors of the International Finance Corp., the private investment arm [...]
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The Franco-Ivoirian financial consulting firm Marchal & Associes France headed [...]
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With state-owned NNPC refusing to approve the sale of Malabu [...]
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Barnaby Briggs,Shell’s director for strategic relations, attended the Niger Delta [...]
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Three ministers are being explicitly targeted by parliamentary investigators on suspicion they took bribes from Tullow Oil.
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A loan from China is expected to result in gas from Mnazi Bay being sent to Tanzania's economic capital by pipeline.
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In keeping with decrees issued by prime minister Ahmed Ouyahia, who wants to give precedence to local firms, the Algerian [...]
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BHP Billiton’s former Algeria director, Geoff Probert, has been hired as technical director of the firm Petroceltic International. The post [...]
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Bashir Elshahab, a director on the board of Waha Oil [...]
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According to Africa Energy Intelligence's contacts at the European Investment [...]
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The national power utility Sonelgaz was forced last week to [...]
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Stefano Saglia, the Italian under-secretary for industry, underlined the importance [...]
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The Indian company has reached an agreement with the government on building a coal-fired power station generating 2,620 MW. But key points remain to be resolved.
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Global co-head of commodity and infrastructure funding at France's Crédit agricole since 2008, Alain Fanale took over last month as [...]
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The U.S. Senate is continuing to seek ways of tightening [...]
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The arrival of a new boss often gives rise to [...]
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Britain’s Sterling Energy has finally found a successor to Andrew Grosse, current exploration boss who is leaving the company. Philip [...]
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Anxious to pursue growth in Africa, the Gunvor trading group [...]
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With American lobbyists working for foreign governments hurrying to comply [...]
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Thierry Monmont, an executive in Total’s Africa division, and his [...]
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