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