TotalFinaElf has just lost its exploration permit on the Haute Mer concession, which covers most of the country's shallow offshore, but is seeking operating licenses for the Moho Bilondo and Nsoko fields
Subscribers only
Taking advantage of deregulation in South Africa's electricity market, the Rainbow Millennium Power Corporation has laid out plans to build [...]
Subscribers only
Determined to establish himself in Congo-K, the diamond trader Beny Steinmetz is offering to have his Bateman engineering group build power stations.
Subscribers only
Chinese firms are now set to build all of the Tekeze dam in Ethiopia.
Subscribers only
On December 26, the Ethiopian government tabled a project before [...]
Subscribers only
The British technical services firm Babcock has signed a $21 [...]
Subscribers only
Sudan finance minister Zubair Ahmed Hassan last week signed an agreement with his Saudi Arabian counterpart, Ibrahim bin Abdul Aziz [...]
Subscribers only
Sonatrach last week signed an outline agreement for a 3.2 billion Euro ($3.4 billion) loan from a syndicate of European [...]
Subscribers only
With the privatization of the Nigerian Electrical Power Authority (NEPA) looming large, the country's Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) began [...]
Subscribers only
In a memo drafted in 2001, the International Monetary Fund noted that Equatorial Guinea's ?oil revenue is paid into a [...]
Subscribers only
The Angolan government is reportedly talking with three French banks - BNP Paribas, Natexis Banques Populaires and Societe Generale - [...]
Subscribers only
The Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) and the Standard Bank have agreed to put up $62 million (550 million [...]
Subscribers only
Africa Energy Intelligence has learned that Congo-B president Denis Sassou Nguesso plans to take advantage of a session of the [...]
Subscribers only
On the heels of a visit in July by Australian trade minister Mark Vaile, Saif el Islam, son of Libyan [...]
Subscribers only
Muhammadu Buhari, an ultra-nationalist Moslem candidate who is seeking to unseat president Olusegun Obasanjo in April's presidential election, publicly made [...]
Subscribers only
Angolan president Jose Eduardo Dos Santos summoned his Congo-K and Congo-D counterparts, Joseph Kabila and Denis Sassou Nguesso, to Luanda [...]
Subscribers only
Negotiations between Sudan's government and the SPLA/LM rebel movement are to resume this week in Kenya under the auspices of [...]
Subscribers only
The head of Libya's National Oil Company, Abduhafif Zuletini, could soon be named economy minister in a government shuffle, according [...]
Subscribers only
Named boss of exploration and production at BPAmoco last week, Tony Hayward has climbed the corporate ladder with remarkable speed [...]
Subscribers only
Following the resignation of Brian Gilbertson as CEO of BHP Billiton early this month, the group's development director, the U.S. [...]
Subscribers only
Head of the U.S. affiliate of ExxonMobil since 1997, Mike Yeager was named vice president of the group last week [...]
Subscribers only
South Africa's Paul Mare has been appointed director of Eskom Uganda, an affiliate of Eskom Enterprises, the international arm of [...]
Subscribers only
In the wake of legislative elections, Malagasy president Marc Ravalomanan named a new government that consisted pretty well of the [...]
Subscribers only
The autumn session of the Algerian parliament is to wind up without legislators voting on sweeping changes in the country's [...]
Subscribers only
The small private South African company Rockover has followed the country's state-owned oil company PetroSA in gaining a foothold in Gabon's onshore.
Subscribers only
Chakib Khelil proposed a number of LNG partnerships with the U.S. when visiting the country early this month.
Subscribers only
Airlines are continuing to line up to serve the new oil-producing countries in the Gulf of Guinea.
Subscribers only
The U.S. firm Hyperdynamics has won control of Guinea's entire offshore and begun seismic campaigns.
Subscribers only
After selling three blocks in the deep offshore in ?closed? auctions the government is preparing to put another concession, OPL 242, up for sale before presidential elections scheduled for April 19.
Subscribers only
The British concern Euroil and Canada's Pan African are competing to acquire the Sanaga South gas field in the Douala/Kribi-Campo basin.
Subscribers only
The U.S. firm Forest Oil looks set to bring South Africa's national oil company Petro SA into its acreage in order to finance development of the Ibhubesi field.
Subscribers only
The authorities in the self-proclaimed state of Somaliland in Somalia seem to believe their land houses oil reserves.
Subscribers only
The German firm Wintershall, an affiliate of BASF that operates [...]
Subscribers only
Under an agreement with Amerada Hess, the Australian firm Fusion [...]
Subscribers only
ONGC Videsh, the international arm of India's state-owned Oil and [...]
Subscribers only
Already active in Libya, the Turkish Petroleum Corporation is seeking [...]
Subscribers only
Nigeria has lauded OPEC's decision to lift the quota on [...]
Subscribers only
The U.S. group Skidmore, which is locked in a legal [...]
Subscribers only
The French branch of Bureau Veritas has been mandated by [...]
Subscribers only
The British firm Nexant has been contracted by the Nigerian [...]
Subscribers only
The security firm Presidium International, which is registered in the [...]
Subscribers only
Nigeria's national oil company NNPC has unilaterally advanced the deadline [...]
Subscribers only
Oil output in Equatorial Guinea marked time in the third [...]
Subscribers only
After debuting in Tanzania's offshore in late 2002, the state-owned [...]
Subscribers only
Libya's National Oil Company is expected late this month to [...]
Subscribers only
The CWC Group is organizing the congres of the African [...]
Subscribers only
Global Pacific Partners is organizing a fourth annual Africa Insider [...]
Subscribers only