Around 10 years after the Doba field began pumping oil, Chad is doing its utmost to limit its dependency on ExxonMobil, the country's lone producer. On the crest of Idriss Deby 's re-election to a fourth term in office with [.
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Brazil’s state-owned Petrobras is in the process of cutting a deal with Ophir Energy to acquire 50% of its Ntsina [...]
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The state-owned Chinese group is making its first foray into Congo-K’s oil sector in an attempt to acquire acreage on Lake Albert.
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Officials from the BHP Billiton mining group were in Kinshasa in early June to pen a new memorandum of understanding [...]
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The managing director of Cameroon’s Societe Nationale des Hydrocarbures (SNH), [...]
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The abnormally low level of the Congo river since May [...]
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The arbitration tribunal that has been examining the dispute between [...]
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The names of five companies bidding for the role of [...]
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Adolphe Muzito, the Congolese prime minister, travelled to Luanda in [...]
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Elisabeth Dipuo Peters, South Africa's energy minister, was one of [...]
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Assigned to sell the Azerbaijan government's share in country's total oil output of 1.1 bpd, Socar Trading is ramping up its operations in Africa from offices in Geneva.
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The British firm Ophir Energy appointed a new managing director in early June, Nick Cooper. He replaced Alan Stein who [...]
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Specializing in the funding of power projects in Africa, the [...]
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After several abortive attempts to break into West Africa, Noble has finally reached an agreement with Ophir concerning the joint zone between Senegal and Guinea Bissau. Addax is also interested.
NPDC's determination to take over blocks recently sold by Shell has sown panic among the new owners.
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The former managing director of state-owned PetroCI in Ivory Coast, Kassoum Fadika, is already hard at work in regaining a [...]
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The chief executive of Texas-based Hyperdynamics, Ray Leonard, is continuing to fish in the pond of his former company, Amoco, [...]
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After months of horse-trading in Ghana’s parliament, a bill named [...]
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Having won two blocks, T and U, in Equatorial Guinea’s [...]
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The boutique bank Stellar Energy Advisers managed jointly by David [...]
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Total and Norway’s Statoil figure among companies that put in bids to operate the Tanganyika North block on the lake of the same name.
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Without waiting to have the necessary reserves to make it function, the British gas group is seeking a site for a future liquefaction plant.
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A pro-active stance has helped the U.S. emergency generator supplier APR Energy to carve out a place for itself on the market - and emerge as a rival to Britain’s Aggreko.
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Clashes over property between farmers and oil companies could well [...]
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The bank is sponsor, global coordinator and joint bookrunner of [...]
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The re-gasification terminal at Pasacagoula in Mississippi, which is 20% owned by Sonangol, received its first cargo of LNG last [...]
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New investors are in talks with Windhoek on buying future production from a power station supplied with gas from the Kudu field.
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Nearly a year after a sale was launched by Malawi’s [...]
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The French major reached an agreement in late May with [...]
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A meeting in Paris between officials from Afren and Candax [...]
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. The British group Aggreko which specializes in supplying emergency [...]
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The World Bank’s board is due on June 28 to [...]
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The firm of Rosa Whitaker, former head of the Africa [...]
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To settle its long-standing dispute with Sonatrach, the Spanish group Gas Natural has set aside a stake for the state-owned Algerian firm in its business.
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Since early this month Pascal Mirville has been serving as new operations director of Candax Energy, in succession to Bertrand [...]
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Algeria's national oil company would like private companies to see [...]
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The Entreprise Tunisienne d’Activites Petroliers awarded a new exploration license [...]
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Nearly 18 months after their former boss Mohamed Meziane was [...]
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Nordine Cherouati, the chief executive of Sonatrach, didn’t take part [...]
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