The American administration is doing its best to place a lock on an ever bigger share of Africa’s oil. To do that, several government departments are working in concert to head off conflicts linked to oil on the continent while [.
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Like Algeria this spring (AEI 675), Turkey, once a steadfast supporter of Muammar Gaddafi's regime, is planning to return discreetly [...]
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Confirmed on Sept. 17 during a cabinet meeting, amendments to the country’s 2005 oil bill could disappoint some oil groups.
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Talks between Israeli oil companies and Ivory Coast’s government could result in the Israelis winning permits previously held by Pierre Fakhoury.
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The British oil concern Setanta and Angola’s Petroplus each hold part of the Rousette field in Gabon.
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During a two day trip to Malawi, Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan promised aid in the form of crude oil at preferential prices.
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Already present in Brazil, Sonangol is working to build up its operations across all of Latin America. But with mixed resulted.
The former chief executive of the American junior Hyperdynamics who [...]
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A department that deals with oil questions in the office [...]
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In response to our article entitled PetroCI wants to ditch [...]
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Clinically dead ever since president Olusegun Obasanjo left office in 2007, a project for a gas liquefaction plant dubbed OK [...]
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Ivory Coast’s government has given a green light to the French group to increase gas output on its CI-27 block by developing a new field on the acreage.
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Mozambique’s government is seeking ways to force companies to pay up when they make major gains on present and future sales of their assets in the Rovuma basin.
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An end to the South African government moratorium on exploring [...]
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The state-owned establishment China Development Bank (CDB) has approached the Congo-K government and private players in the Inga dam project [...]
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Ncondezi is stepping up its charm offensive to find investors for a project for a giant coal-fuelled power station.
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Work on the Soubre hydro power dam is due to start in November courtesy of funding from Exim Bank of China.
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A memorandum of understanding penned early this year by Malawi [...]
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The former managing director of the semi-public rubber company, Hevego Kassoum Konate, seems likely to become the next deputy general [...]
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To flesh out its boardroom just as its Gazelle field in Ivory Coast is about to come on stream, Australia’s [...]
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The legal department of Mauritania’s oil ministry has been beefed up with the appointment of three lawyers who are to [...]
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Tanzania’s new energy minister, Sospeter Muhongo, is making liberal use of the broom among senior officials in his sector. He [...]
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According to our sources, the firm Dig Oil run by [...]
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The managing director of the Uruguayan oil company Ancap, Paul [...]
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As Africa Energy Intelligence anticipated in July (issue No. 680), [...]
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The Emirati welding, electricity and oil services company Proclad Group [...]
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Tanzania’s new energy minister, Sospeter Muhongo, appears to have settled [...]
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The official in charge of security for France’s Total in [...]
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Operator of block 3 in Democratic Republic of Congo, France's [...]
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Ireland’s Tullow Oil is poised to renew its $3.5 billion [...]
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The Swiss bank Raiffeisen reportedly had a hand in the [...]
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Instead of acquiring stakes in exploration licenses as it did [...]
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Later this week France's BNP Paribas is normally due to [...]
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Two years after Italy’s Snamprogetti agreed to pay a $365 [...]
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Already an adviser to Algeria’s Sonatrach, Lazard is seeking other [...]
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The British office of the law firm Skandden Aps is [...]
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The firm of American lobbyist Rachel Pearson, who has represented [...]
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Jose David Matumele, the oil and mines adviser to Congolese [...]
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Christian Lamarre, former vice president of Total in charge of [...]
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Sumayya Hassan Athmani, the managing director of the National Oil [...]
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