Financier George Soros and the British NGO Christian Aid have published a fresh report on the transparency of oil revenue in several countries, including Angola
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Last week's resignation of Clare Short from her job as secretary of state for international development and the appointment of [...]
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Brazil's new president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, will travel to Angola, Mozambique, South Africa and Namibia in late August. [...]
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Officials from Venezuela's state-owned oil company Petroleos de Venezuela paid a lengthy visit to Equatorial Guinea last week to resume [...]
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Olusegun Obasanjo's re-election as Nigerian president has whetted the appetite of many in his party for government jobs, and particularly [...]
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Africa Energy Intelligence has learned that a delegation from the South African Federation of Civil Engineering Contractors visited the Inga [...]
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Forming part of the troika both overseeing and participating in the Sudanese peace process alongside Britain and the U.S., Norway [...]
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Africa Energy Intelligence understands that the World Bank is working on a project to revamp Cameroon's energy industry and finance [...]
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No less than eight donors are lining up to finance the interconnections needed to set the West Africa Power Pool into motion.
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The national utility is preparing to cut off government departments which have piled up too many unpaid bills.
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Belgium is to finance restoration of the Tshopo power station that supplies Kisangi, a rebel stronghold.
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In a few months' time, Pennsylvania could well become the first American state to set up an agency to monitor [...]
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Several workers from the TransOcean oil services company who were taken hostage in Nigeria last month are planning to file [...]
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The Nigerian government has outlawed imports of baryte, a mineral form of barium sulphate used in the oil industry, and [...]
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The Irish oil company Tullow has borrowed $100 million to finance its African operations and particularly a recent acquisition in [...]
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Congo-K president Joseph Kabilia has reportedly refused once and for all to sign a production sharing agreement with Heritage Oil [...]
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The Tanzania Electric Supply Company is poised to adopt a number of cost-cutting measures as a prelude to the company's [...]
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At the behest of several Senegalese groups living in the United States, prime minister Idrissa Seck has agreed to the [...]
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The International Monetary Fund's attempts to introduce greater transparency regarding Angola's oil transactions and revenue clearly didn't get very far [...]
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After four years in the job, Kenneth Narebor quit his post as secretary-general of the union that speaks for executives [...]
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The energy ministry was handed to Papa Kwesi Nduom in a government reshuffle by president John Agyekum Kuofor. The previous [...]
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Keen on getting stalled legislation on deregulation in the oil industry back on track before elections in 2004, Algerian president [...]
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ConocoPhillips has just revamped its exploration and production division and split its Africa/Middle East region in two. Since the merger [...]
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The Namibian government has named Henock ya Kasita as energy and mines minister in a cabinet reshuffle. The post is [...]
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Manager of two successful presidential campaigns for Olusegun Obsanjo and leading figures in the president's People's Democratic Party, Tony Anenih [...]
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There's an Africa angle in last week's tie-up between Russia's Gazprom and the state-owned Korea Gas Corporation (KorGas). Indeed, the [...]
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The China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) has signed two agreements in one go, the first in Algeria and the second in Sudan, to rehabilitate and build refineries.
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Algeria has just put 28 blocks out to bid, including offshore acreage for the first time. But oil companies are expected to show greater interest in the onshore, which is far more familiar to them.
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After conducting a two-year-long study, an Australian-led consortium appears poised to develop the Chinguetti field.
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Companies have been speeding up the development of Ivory Coast's offshore fields since the outbreak of civil war last autumn.
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BG has been negotiating LNG deals with Nigeria for some months and now plans to also buy LNG from Equatorial Guinea.
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Cancelled on two occasions, an invitation to bid for the development of Agbami is expected to be issued by ChevronTexaco in coming weeks.
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As they have done in Mauritania, Australian firms are taking cross holdings in one another in a project to develop Kenya's offshore.
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After four straight months of rumors and speculation, Total has finally confirmed a find on block 32, the first in Angola's ultra deep offshore.
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According to the Spanish oil firm Cepsa, which is 45% [...]
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Tripoli recently presented oil companies with a new oil contract [...]
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The Swiss trading company Addax that works on OPL 90 [...]
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After admitting before the Securities and Exchange Commission that it [...]
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The British firm Wood Group announced last week it would [...]
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The oil services group Saipem, which recently bought France's Bouygues [...]
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Announced last September, a licensing round in South Africa's ultra [...]
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The Irish oil firm Aminex has contracted Dafora group of [...]
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ExxonMobil has halted production of condensate following a fire at [...]
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The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, which is preparing to call [...]
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The Nigerian and Sao Tome governments decided during a meeting [...]
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The state-owned South African oil group Petro SA could make [...]
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A contract signed last month between the U.S. firm Murphy [...]
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The British security firm NorthBridge Services had a battle plan [...]
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The Nigerian government has finally chosen Credit Suisse First Boston [...]
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An Australian bank, ANZ Banking Group, has been contracted to [...]
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The CWC Group is organizing a conference in London on [...]
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IBC Energy is organizing a conference in Houston between June [...]
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