Spotlight | Central Africa
An Asian Oil Enclave?
State-owned Asian companies are endeavouring to establish a true oil enclave straddling the borders of Chad, Sudan and the Central African Republic
State-owned Asian companies are endeavouring to establish a true oil enclave straddling the borders of Chad, Sudan and the Central African Republic
A visit to Luanda by Callisto Madavo, the World Bank's vice president for Africa, between Sept. 9-12 put the seal [...]
In addition to its own African assets, Petronas had been active on the continent through Premier Oil and Energy Africa.
Having acquired Bouygues Offshore to bolster its position on the African Market, Italy's ENI has already made hay out of the operation.
Taking advantage of frosty political relations between Morocco and Spain, Sonatrach has pressed ahead with its project for a gas pipeline running directly between Algiers and Madrid.
As the government prepares to award marginal fields to Nigerian companies, Canadian juniors are teaming up with local firms to get a piece of the action in Nigeria's offshore.
Equatorial Guinea is expected to unveil the terms of new oil legislation in London in November. The big winner is likely to be the national oil company.
In the medium term, the oil receipts that Cameroon will derive from royalties from the Doba/Kribi oil pipeline will top the money it earns from its own output.
The Industrial Development Corporation, a state-owned holding company, is bargaining discreetly to take positions in African oil ventures.
No major change in managing the Chad-Cameroon oil pipeline was [...]
An affiliate of Ocean & Oil, Gaslink, is poised to [...]
An investigation launched by the French examining magistrate Renaud Van Ruymbeck into commissions paid by Elf in Nigeria in 1995 [...]
President Olusegun Obasanjo began to mount a counter-attack last week against efforts by political adversaries to unseat him, a campaign [...]
A meeting at 10 o'clock at the Crillon hotel in Paris on Monday, Sept. 23 between TotalFinaElf chairman Thierry Desmarest [...]
Two figures close to Angola's Catholic church last week publicly called for the independence of Cabinda, which produces 700,000 bpd [...]
A black empowerment charter concerning the electricity sector will be drawn up in coming months on the heels of earlier [...]
The Canadian firm Acres was found guilty of bribery last week and another eight firms could also be sentenced for corruption and be deprived of World Bank contracts. Millions of dollars are at stake.
Now that Senelec's privatization has been called off the national utility is beginning to renew its equipment.
Initially planned for the end of this year, the privatization [...]
Having borrowed $1 billion in June to meet drilling commitments on its African licenses, Ocean Energy has just issued and [...]
Fusion Oil & Gas remained in the red between June 2001 and June 2002 despite selling 80% of its concessions [...]
The U.S. Trade and Development Agency is about to put up $1 million towards a feasibility study by Kellog, Brown [...]
The African Development Bank is to finance a master electrification plan for Guinea to the tune of $1.7 million. The [...]
Nigeria's decision to reduce NNPC's investment budget in the five joint ventures it conducts with TotalFinaElf, ChevronTexaco, RoyalDutch/Shell, ExxonMobil and [...]
The U.S. Trade and Development Agency is handing $1.3 million to Mintek, a semi-public South African organization, and PetroSA, the [...]
President of Chevron Canada Resources since 1999, Jim Simpson, a Canadian, has been appointed head of ChevronTexaco's Africa/Middle East division. [...]
A former member of the House of Lords, Timothy Byng (formerly Lord Torrington), has taken over as head of the [...]
The new head of the Societe Nationale de Raffinage du Cameroun (Sonara), following the death of its chief, Bernard Eding, [...]
A professor of international law at Georgetown University, Edith Brown Weiss has just been named to the World Bank's Inspection [...]
Information minister in Yakuba Gowan's government in the early 1960s, Edwin Clark was arrested by the Nigerian police last week [...]
Chairman of Rio Tinto and former member of BP's board, Robert Wilson has been named to the board of British [...]
The state-owned Equatorial Guinea company GEPetrol is preparing to set [...]
Nigeria's national oil company, NNPC, signed a series of agreements [...]
The Joint Development Authority (JDA) that manages the Joint Development [...]
Mohamed Johari Dasri, chairman of Petronas Caligari Overseas, the international [...]
We understand Sonangol is to shortly announce the complete list [...]
The East African Community secretariat that speaks for Kenya, Uganda [...]
The CWC Group is organizing a conference in Luanda on [...]
A former adviser to the Canadian Competition Bureau in the [...]
The U.S. investment bank Morgan Stanley headed an operation undertaken [...]
Africa Energy Intelligence understands that an oil diagnostic of Angola's [...]
The German consultancy Infra Consult Munchen has just completed an [...]
An inquiry ordered by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations [...]