Congo-Brazzaville’s gradual return to the fold of international financial institutions has come with a price-tag: the overhaul of its oil industry. The country was granted two loans worth $5 million and $35 million by the World Bank in late July [.
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After dropping 90,000 bpd over two years to a low of 333,000 bpd in 1999, Royal Dutch/Shell’s African production (including [...]
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Hostilities have broken out at Lone Star Energy Corporation (LSEC), a Moroccan company set up by the Texan firm Skidmore [...]
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After preparing its debut in Sudan early this year, the [...]
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After preaching transparency in its Angolan operations and then discreetly [...]
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The second well drilled by a consortium headed by Australia’s [...]
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The fourth appraisal well drilled by Texaco on the Agbami [...]
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Although the Republican administration and Congress extended the Iran-Libya Sanction Act for five additional years with little debate in early [...]
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The crash of an aircraft operated by the American security company Airscan on July 16 has triggered concern among oil [...]
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In presenting its financial results for first half 2001, British Petroleum indicated that the project to develop the Kizomba field [...]
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The Petroleum Exploration and Extraction bill that is currently before Sierra Leone’s parliament puts virtually all powers concerning the country’s [...]
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Australian oil companies are continuing to display an interest in Mauritania’s offshore even though a second well drilled on block [...]
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"The development of fields in the In Salah region constitutes a new phase in the growth of Algeria’s gas industry", [...]
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A step-up in investigations into money that former Nigerian president Sani Abacha stashed away could have an impact on the [...]
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In the space of less than a month, AES Sirocco, affiliate of the U.S. group Applied Energy Service, signed three [...]
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Although the World Bank lent $100 million to the National Electric Power Authority (NEPA) in late July to renovate facilities [...]
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When the Okavango Basin Committee made up of Angola, Namibia and Botswana met in late July the Namibian delegation announced [...]
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Mauritania has issued an invitation to tender for the privatization of the Societe Nationale de l’Electricite et de l’Eau (SONELEC) [...]
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A project for a dam at Merowe on the Nile river north of Dongola that had been frozen for want [...]
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An operating contract for the Manantali dam worth $84 million was signed on July 26 between the Societe de Gestion [...]
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The four turbines built by Alstom with a total capacity of 60 MW that Morocco’s Office National de l’Electricite (ONE) [...]
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Niger already receives 35 MW per day in power supplies from Nigeria and will shortly get a lot more in [...]
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After directing their ire on the Manantali dam (see above), [...]
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Named energy minister on Aug. 14 in succession to Albert Pahimi, who held the post for only four months, Allahou [...]
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Environment minister in Indonesia for 15 years, Emil Salim was named head of the World Bank’s ?consultative group on oil, [...]
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The promotion of Engen’s financial director, Rhidwaan Gasant, as head of Energy Africa has put paid to a long period [...]
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Chairman of Societe Nationale d’Electricite du Cameroun (SONEL) for the past 25 years, Marcel Niat Nmjifenji stood down in late [...]
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Carl Valestein from the U.S. law firm Arent Fox has written to Africa Energy Intelligence to indicate that, contrary to [...]
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The CWC Group is organizing a conference in London on Sept. 24-25 on investment in Nigeria, and particularly in its [...]
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The Corporate Council on Africa is organizing a gathering on [...]
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Nearly six months behind schedule, the management of the Overseas [...]
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The International Monetary Fund says the majority of targets in [...]
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The initial version of the Sudan Peace Act, a bill [...]
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Three of the leading creditors of the Ghana National Petroleum [...]
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During a seminar on bringing more Nigerians into the oil [...]
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An invitation to tender for the construction of a 2000 [...]
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On the heels of an audit of Democratic Republic of [...]
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Libya’s National Oil Company and the Egyptian General Petroleum Company [...]
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Kenya’s energy ministry issued a decree in late July that [...]
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Putting changes it had promised to the International Monetary Fund [...]
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