After gaining control of virtually all of Equatorial Guinea's offshore in the 1990s American oil companies are poised to mount a similar operation in Sao Tome e Principe.
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Named chairman of ENI by Italy's finance ministry in mid-May – the Italian government owns 32% of the company – [...]
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As head of the Portuguese law firm Carlos de Sousa E Brito & Associates, Carlos de Sousa e Brito gradually [...]
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Managing director of Petronas South Africa, George Paul has just been named to the board of Energy Africa in succession [...]
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Former executive director of the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority (LHDA), Masupha Sole was found guilty by the Lesotho High Court [...]
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An oil lawyer with the London-based firm Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker, Keith Hughes and his whole team – consisting [...]
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Active in Morocco, Libya and Mauritanian in North Africa as well as in Uganda in East Africa and Namibia and [...]
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After buying Triton last year and gaining sway in Equatorial Guinea, the U.S. firm Amerada Hess has snapped up three of Fusion Oil's licenses in West Africa.
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Sonatrach has ordered two new LNG carriers from Asian yards. Its new partners in LNG ventures are Japan's MOL and the Norwegian firm Bergesen.
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After protesting for months about Morocco awarding two oil exploration licenses off Western Sahara, the Polisario movement has signed an oil contract in its turn.
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A recent ruling that NNPC must use its own money in its dealings with foreign companies has put it into overdrive to raise cash. The first to profit have been Exxon and Phillips, which have recuperated licenses they previously refused to operate.
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The campaign by former Nigerian oil minister Dan Etete to recover OPL 245 has taken a highly political turn and triggered a counter-attack by the president.
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After four years of litigation with an American company NNPC has won a case before a court in Geneva that could have proved very costly had the verdict gone the other way.
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In response to forecasts that its oil production will dip sharply in the next few years, Gabon is poised to award new licenses in its offshore.
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Shell's decision to drop a plan to build a floating LNG plant at Kudu is good news for Pretoria which wants to see Namibia's gas processed in South African plants.
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In response to two articles (AEI 318 and 321), the chairman of Medex Petroleum, Tarek Mekada, wrote to Africa Energy [...]
Africa Energy Intelligence understands that the Nigerian affiliate of Baker [...]
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ChevronTexaco and ConocoPhillips have submitted two new projects for LNG [...]
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Amerada Hess has made a new discovery on the Elon [...]
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The board of RoyalDutch/Shell will assess the Anglo-Dutch group's gas [...]
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The country has been hit by a steep power shortage as the government continues to hold out against privatising Electricite [...]
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Morocco's state-owned ONE company killed the clock in the hope of picking up Mauritania's SOMELEC cheaply. But the manoeuvre backfired.
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South Africa's Eskom is working on a scheme to generate electricity from the Congo River and sell the power even as far away as North Africa and Spain.
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After negotiating the sale of Senelec with the U.S. group [...]
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Agence Francaise de Developpement is going to finance the restoration [...]
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The re-gearing of U.S. oil policy towards resources in the Gulf of Guinea, revealed by Africa Energy Intelligence in February, [...]
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The recent reconciliation between the Republican administration and Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad's government, which was sealed by the latter's [...]
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Angola and Libya are likely to be highly pleased by Dominique de Villepin's appointment as foreign minister in the new [...]
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The government's invitation to private companies early this year to bid to operate oil refineries (AEI 304) quickly became a [...]
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Laid out in detail by Africa Energy Intelligence (AEI 321), the acquisition of part of Angola's debt to Russia by [...]
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The French bank BNP Paribas has sold a majority stake in Paribas Affaires Industrielles (PAI), a unit that manages its [...]
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On the eve of a series of talks with international oil companies (see agenda), Libya announced a $35 billion plan [...]
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A 7.2 million Euro ($6.6 million) contract signed last week by Office National d'Electricite, TotalFinaElf and EDF for part of [...]
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The Sudanese government is seeking to set up a tax-free zone in Port Sudan near the Red Sea in the [...]
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To finance an ambitious drilling program this year Energy Africa is thinking of borrowing money once again. Early this year, [...]
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The U.S. Trade and Development Agency is stepping up the funding of power projects in South Africa. After disbursing money [...]
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The fast decline in Gabon's oil production has prompted Equatorial [...]
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The chairman of Societe Nationale des Petrole du Congo, Bruno [...]
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Following a ruling by Nigeria's Supreme Court that has forced [...]
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Angola's national oil company, Sonangol, is urging foreign companies to [...]
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Libya's National Oil Company has just signed a memorandum of [...]
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Phillips Consulting, a Nigerian firm headed by Foluso Phillips, a [...]
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Norway's TGS Nopec has not only been mandated to put [...]
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The lobbying firm Africa Global, founded by two ex-officials of [...]
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In the court case that pitted it for four years [...]
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The technical arm of Libya's National Oil Company, Petroleum Research [...]
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IBC Energy is organizing a conference in London on July [...]
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