After focusing on marginal fields, Western juniors and even a number of majors are taking an interest in declining fields - finding it increasingly hard to obtain new acreage in Africa, the oil companies are offering to advise state-owned African [.
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Long dubious about the idea promoted by Moscow to create a gas cartel, Algeria now seems willing to participate in [...]
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In step with Nigeria, Cameroon signed an agreement with Equatorial Guinea early this year to supply gas for the second [...]
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Alliances in southern Africa are shifting in response to the growing violence displayed by the regime of Zimbabwe president Robert [...]
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The state-run investment fund China International Trust & Investment Corp (CITIC) is about to take a major oil position in [...]
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David Lenigas, chairman of Lonrho Africa, has just listed Leni Gas & Oil on the stock market. In addition to [...]
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InterOil, a new company run by Nils Trulsvik, has just acquired a stake in Tullow Oil’s license in the Tano basin in Ghana.
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The World Bank has voiced is frustration over being unable to audit Ivory Coast's energy accounts, particularly its oil receipts.
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Nigerian president Obasanjo is planning to inaugurate the West African Gas Pipeline on March 30 even though the facility won’t start operating until autumn.
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France's Technip group has won the contract to build the pet project of president Olusegun Obasanjo only a few weeks before he steps aside for a new leader.
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An investment fund controlled by Libya’s Tamoil and the Benin-born businessman Samuel Dossou has bought into Block 12 A in North Darfur.
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Freezing projects by Chinese firms, the Luanda government has rolled out the red carpet for Russian firms.
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Sonatrach and Gaz de France are currently mulling the idea [...]
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After three years of talks, Sonatrach and Statoil are in [...]
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The Entreprise Tunisienne d’Activites Petrolieres (ETAP) has just exercised an [...]
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Already active in Sudan (AEI 436), The Czech concern Moravske [...]
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In presenting its annual financial results, Tullow Oil indicated on [...]
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The Australian junior Range Resources and Canada’s Canmex have finalized [...]
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Africa Energy Intelligence understands the Spanish groups Iberdrola and Endesa recently started talks with the Algerian authorities on building a [...]
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An affiliate of France’s Veolia, SEEG still remains under a cloud after power blackouts in February. A number of projects are being floated.
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Nigeria is seeking to turned management of the Egbin power station over to a South Korean firm after a blast in one of its boilers hit at the country’s generation capacity.
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The World Bank has found partners to finance the rehabilitation of the Inga 1 and 2 dams, to the tune of USD 500 million.
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Chief executive of Hardman for nearly ten years, Ted Ellyard, who stepped down in 2004 because of health problems, is [...]
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Burren's threat to exercise its right of first refusal on Maurel & Prom's shares in the Congolese field of M'Boundi [...]
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Highly appreciated in financial circles because of its connections in West Africa, the Afren company founded by former OPEC secretary [...]
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As expected (AEI 411), an investigation into payments made by Gilbert Chagouri, Samir Traboulsi and Ely Calil on behalf of [...]
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Former commercial director of Energy Africa, the British lawyer Andrew Windham has just returned to his former company which was [...]
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General manager of Petro Canada at Dubai for a number of years, John Roper has been hired to run the [...]
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Equator Exploration has just named Tony Renton and Martin Adams as non-executive directors of its board following the resignation of [...]
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Niger’s mines and energy minister Mohamed Abdoulahi retained his portfolio when president Mamadou Tandja reshuffled his government on March 1. [...]
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The Canadian junior TG World Energy, an affiliate of TG World, has appointed George Chelico as its chief financial officer. [...]
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Britain’s Roland Wessel, chief executive of the gas storage concern Star Energy, has been appointed to the board of Dominion [...]
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The firm Global Pacific Partners is organizing a conference on the latest oil developments in North Africa on May 9-10 [...]
Global Pacific & Partners is organizing a conference on the latest oil developments in the Gulf of Guinea On March [...]
The CWC Group is organizing a conference in London on May 10 during which the CWC Gulf of Guinea Award [...]
After reaching a final agreement with Nigeria on the Bakassi [...]
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ExxonMobil’s withdrawal from the project to build the Angola LNG [...]
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Although it has repeatedly failed to win contracts, Britain’s Soco [...]
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Following Sonatrach’s takeover of BRC, the Algerian affiliate of Haliburton, [...]
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The PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) group is advising the Kenya Electricity Generating [...]
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After conducting an audit of Nigeria’s oil industry last year, [...]
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The decision of the World Bank and the European Bank [...]
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