Increasingly called upon to share revenue from their operations, oil companies working in Africa are resorting to establishing partnerships
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According to AEI sources, two out of three wells drilled by ChevronTexaco on its African concessions in the first half [...]
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Lundin is selling one of its Tunisian concessions to former executives of Coparex, a French company which it bought last year.
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The Canadian junior TG Energy is taking legal action against Niger's government for cancelling its rights and handing the license to China's CNPC.
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Some secrets have now begun to leak out about an agreement that put an end to a series of disputes between Congo-B's government and Total.
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France's Total group has just signed a production sharing agreement on a concession it was discreetly awarded last December.
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Two new trading companies that have just set up shop in South Africa. Canada's DiamondWorks and an affiliate of Russia's Lukoil, can already count on solid connections.
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After failing in a bid to take over Energy Africa, Malaysia's Petronas appears set to sell its stake in the South African oil company.
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The conference ?Libya's Relations with the World? held last week at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in [...]
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Without waiting for Washington restore ties with Tripoli (see above), Russian president Vladmir Putin signed a decree on Nov. 21 [...]
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To fend off growing criticism of its rulers, Equatorial Guinea is ready to allow the International Monetary Fund to publish [...]
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Africa Energy Intelligence understands that the Angolan and Congo-K presidents, Jose Eduardo dos Santos and Joseph Kabila, are to meet [...]
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According to our sources, several state-owned African companies are now thinking of raising money on the bond market with rights [...]
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A preliminary report on the Extractive Industries Review, a study commissioned in 2001 by James Wolfensohn, president of the World [...]
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For want of an agreement with the International Monetary Fund (AEI 355), Angola has thrown itself into bilateral negotiations with [...]
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Chosen as lead arranger of the $400 million, oil-backed loan for state-owned GEPetrol, Deutsche Bank has teamed up with several [...]
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Marked down for privatization by Congo-B's government, the Congolaise de Raffinage (CORAF), a wholly-owned affiliate of Societe Nationale des Petrole [...]
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During an official visit to Paris last week, South African president Thabo Mbeki called on several occasions for Electricite de [...]
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Thanks to a leg-up from government and corporate circles, Korea Electric has joined the tiny band of partners of Libya's GECOL.
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A project to build a big dam on the Niger river has bounced back - but this time in more modest form and with an irrigation role to boot.
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After a lot of strenuous lobbying, France's Alstom group has won the contract to supply equipment for the Merowe power station at a time when it finds itself in dire financial straits.
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Major power projects are still in the works in Congo-Brazzaville. After starting construction of the Imboulou dam the government is thinking of extending the Djoue dam. Then will come a power station at Brazzaville.
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Two full years behind schedule, the Capanda dam in Angola is due to begin operating early next year.
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Senelec still hasn't made up its mind about an invitation [...]
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Managed by South Africa's Net-Group Solutions company, the Tanzania Electric [...]
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The World Bank is engaged in a trial of strength [...]
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The chairman of ENI, Vittorio Mincato, paid a discreet visit to the Gulf of Guinea last week to examine the [...]
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The breakdown of an agreement signed on the eve of elections in 2001 between the Rassemblement pour la Democratie et [...]
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Former manager of the Ceiba field in Equatorial Guinea for Triton Energy, Alart ?Al? Kaplan has just been named vice [...]
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For the second time in less than five years, Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo has dismissed the board of the Nigerian [...]
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Africa Energy Intelligence understands that a report that president Olusegun Obasanjo asked Alhaji Lawan Buba, a former director of NNPC, [...]
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The state-owned Tunisian oil company ETAP has awarded a new [...]
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The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation's budget in 2004 will reach [...]
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The state-owned Volta River Authority, which holds a 16.3% stake [...]
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Petronas has chosen the Lambert Energy firm to advise it [...]
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The Nigerian government has asked the British public affairs group [...]
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The Dutch group Fugro has acquired the seismic survey affiliate [...]
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IBC Energy is organizing a conference on Dec. 10-11 at [...]
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The CWC Group is organizing a conference at the St. [...]
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