Since the discovery of the Doba oil fields in next-door Chad nobody has had the least doubt that there is [...]
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Although no Asian oil group took part in the licensing round organized in the Joint Development Zone between Nigeria and [...]
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Africa Energy Intelligence has learned that Canada's Encana intends to drill a first well between now and the end of March on its H concession.
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The trading affiliate of Canada's DiamondWorks, Petroplus Africa, has been appointed Sao Tome's official partner under the nose of several well-established traders.
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Since the American firm Williams & Connolly which handled Sao Tome's dispute with Chrome Energy left the country other American advisers have been assisting the Sao Tome leadership.
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Negotiations which began late last year have resulted in most of Congo-Brazzaville's creditors agreeing to be paid part of the [...]
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Gabon and Equatorial Guinea last week accepted the mediation of [...]
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A step-up in talks between U.S. oil companies and the Libyan government has altered the power structure within the Libyan [...]
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Despite assurances from Sonatrach, last week's blast at the Skikda oil complex will affect Algeria's LNG deliveries in a lasting manner.
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A mission from the International Monetary Fund is now in Libya at the bidding of the Libyan government. Indeed, prime [...]
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Energy and mines minister Chakib Khelil has just named Amanallah Sari as head of the Algerian Energy Company, a joint [...]
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Sonatrach is currently negotiating with the Tunisian authorities about building [...]
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The Spanish concern Enagas looks set to join the Medgaz [...]
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The state-owned Malaysian company Petronas has transformed its reconnaissance license [...]
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The forthcoming return of American oil companies to Libya is [...]
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Oil will be high on the agenda of Chinese leader Hu Jintao's African tour that begins early in February, and [...]
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A trusted adviser to Walter Kansteiner during his mandate as head of the State Department's bureau of African affairs, James [...]
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Born in Zimbabwe, Nkosana Moyo has just been appointed Africa director of the CDC Group, successor to the Commonwealth Development [...]
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The U.S. firm ICF Consulting carried out the Environmental Baseline [...]
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Global Pacific & Partners is organizing a forum at the [...]
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The CWC Group is organizing a conference in London on [...]
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With peace negotiations between Khartoum and the SPLA winding up - an agreement on sharing out oil resources has been [...]
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No company is currently working at Darfur but a lot were interested.
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The decision by Mwai Kibaki's government to re-negotiate rates at which the country's power-generating firm Kengen buys its electricity from [...]
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The Rwanda government has picked the German consultancy Lahmayer over South Africa's Eskom to manage the national utility Electrogaz.
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Like its Chinese counter-part, the Export Import Bank of India has opened a $50 million credit line for the Sudanese [...]
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After weeks of negotiations that kicked off in December (AEI [...]
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After a first fruitless attempt, Transworld is trying once again to debut in Nigeria.
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Like its competitors, France's Total group is seeking to set up sustainable development programs in the Niger Delta. Its Nigerian output is destined to grow increasingly in coming years, making it imperative that it establish such programs.
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The U.S. group Chevron/Texaco has issued invitations to tender for its future GTL plant at Escravos and for development of the Agbami field.
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The Nigerian government has announced a new timetable for the privatization of NEPA but the institutional and financial hurdles appear such that nothing is likely to happen.
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The Export Credit Guarantee Department at Britain's Department of Trade & Industry has opened an inquiry into a GBP 130 [...]
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Nigeria's oil industry is bracing itself for further assaults from Nuhu Ribadu, the hard-hitting chairman of the Economic and Financial [...]
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Up to now in charge of sustainable development and relations with local communities for RoyalDutch/Shell Nigeria, Hubert Nwokolo has just [...]
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Director of Columbia University's mechanical engineering department, the Indian national Vijay Modi is also adviser to the Ghanaian government on [...]
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ChevronTexaco and RoyalDutch/Shell are negotiating the ways and means of [...]
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Ivory Coast and Mali have just signed an agreement providing [...]
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The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation asked president Olusegun Obasanjo to [...]
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As Africa Energy Intelligence reported (AEI 355), ONGC Videsh Ltd. [...]
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The gas-to-liquids plant at Mossel Bay controlled by South Africa's [...]
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