By indicating in a letter to the British non governmental organization Global Witness that it would publish information on its operations in Angola every year, BP Amoco sent a shock wave through the oil industry that is likely to continue [.
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The Tanzania Harbours Authority (THA) plans to build an underwater oil pipeline with a 36 inch diameter to carry oil [...]
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Algeria’s invitation to tender for exploration rights on six blocks for which a deadline of Feb. 14 had been set [...]
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Five months after Sonatrach announced a major rehaul in its way of functioning (AEM 283) the changes that were to [...]
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Ghana’s Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) finds itself in dire financial straits with debts of 2,000 billion cedis (around $290 million). [...]
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Because of Nigeria’s dependence on oil, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) needs to be strengthened in a big way [...]
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An affiliate of Skidmore Energy, Lone Star Energy Corp. is due to spud a vertical well on the SBK prospect, [...]
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Sonangol’s retail affiliate is importing butane gas from Pointe Noire [...]
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SubSahara Services Inc. (SSI) has issued the first invitations to [...]
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Triton Energy Corporation, which operates Ceiba on block G, is [...]
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A delegation from India’s Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) [...]
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The Indian government recently informed Nigeria that it wished to [...]
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The firm Soekor E&P has decided to exercise an option [...]
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London-based MEC International Limited has just published a new report [...]
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If statistics published by the South African Petroleum Industry Association [...]
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During an official two day visit to Angola that began [...]
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Ocean Energy Inc. recently made the headlines in the trade press when it was kicked out of an exploration license [...]
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While the heads of ChevronTexaco’s upstream SBUs in Africa are Chevron men (see above), 52-year-old Jim Hawn, who has just [...]
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Although their merger is still subject to approval by the anti-trust authorities, Chevron Corporation and Texaco Inc. are wasting no [...]
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A feasibility study on an interconnection between the Inga hydro-electric dam and the Angolan province of Cabinda is underway, the [...]
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The Kakira Sugar Works plans to generate 20 MW of electricity from fiber residue of sugar cane and is currently [...]
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The East African Community (EAC) which groups Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, has made major headway towards a regional power interconnection, [...]
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The Volta River Authority (VRA) has closed down one of [...]
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Sonatrach is facing a major challenge in the gas sector, Ali Hached, the company’s vice president in charge of marketing, [...]
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A big push by Nigeria’s National Electric Power Authority (NEPA) had positive results in December and January but the improvement [...]
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In opening a session of parliament King Mswati declared the [...]
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This year is unlikely to be remembered with deep fondness [...]
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The National Oil Company of Zimbabwe (Noczim) has acknowledged that [...]
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The Uganda Electricity Board hopes to more than double its [...]
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The fishermen from the enclave of Cabinda have been up [...]
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The potentially explosive question of control of oil resources (AEI [...]
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The Tanzania Electricity Supply Co (Tanesco) has carried the day [...]
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The Japanese government is expected to help finance the second [...]
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For Niger’s power utility Nigelec the Niger government is both [...]
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Nine African energy ministers from South Africa, Angola, Ivory Coast, [...]
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