Refining has long been the poor relative of Africa's oil industry as the continent's capacity is just 1.5 million bpd or only half of present demand. In coming months, however, refineries could move closer to center stage.
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Oil reserves in the northern part of Central African Republic (CAR) have given rise to a lot of speculation and [...]
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To the satisfaction of international financial institutions, Nigeria's finance ministry is poised to set up a unit to monitor the country's oil revenue.
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Facing deep financial problems for months, Gabon is seeking to put together a first-ever loan that wouldn't be guaranteed against its production but rather against the dividends of Elf and Shell Gabon.
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Algeria's Sonatrach is going to start selling its gas directly to the U.K. from 2005 through a joint venture with BP.
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After several months of bargaining, Spain's Repsol has acquired a stake in Vanco's offshore concession.
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BP's third discovery on block 31 could well lead to the development of the first fields in Angola's ultra-deep.
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Like Glencore and Addax, the Arcadia trading company is poised to launch itself into production in Africa and has picked Congo-B for its first venture.
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Australia's Fusion Oil & Gas is pushing on a lot [...]
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The Ohanet gas field in the Illizi basin and operated [...]
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The Societe Anonyme Marocaine d'Industrie de Raffinage (SAMIR), which runs [...]
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The OPL 249 block operated by ChevronTexaco on behalf of [...]
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The three partners in the Brass LNG program - ConocoPhillips, [...]
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RoyalDutch/Shell is poised to sell 50% of its Awoun license [...]
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As the Malagasy government pulls out all the stops to [...]
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RoyalDutch/Shell plans to put its Bonga field in Nigeria into [...]
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Saif el Islam, son of Libyan leader Muammar Kadhafi, was in London last week to attend a conference organized by [...]
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The wide media coverage of the Nigerian Navy's interception of a freighter named African Pride that was carrying stolen crude [...]
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As Africa Energy Intelligence went to press the first results of a licensing round by the Joint Development Authority (JDA) [...]
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Washington's hopes that secretary of state Colin Powell's trip to Naivasha in Kenya would coincide with the signing of a [...]
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In a long report on the Libyan economy, the International Monetary Fund, which can't lend to Tripoli because of the [...]
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Alan Fergusson, former manager of the Baker Hugues oil services company in Nigeria, has reached an out-of-court settlement with his [...]
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The U.S. justice department last week indicted former Enron accountant Sheila Kahanek and an ex vice president of Merrill Lynch, [...]
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The Tanzania Electric Supply Company (Tanesco) is involved in a furious brawl with the Zanzibar Fuel and Power Corporation (ZFPC) [...]
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The financial package for the gas pipeline Sasol plans to build between Mozambique and South Africa is expected to be [...]
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Formerly in charge of commodities finance for Africa at the Societe Generale bank, Guy Castel left the job two months [...]
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A major figure in the fight against apartheid and son of Walter Sisulu, former vice president of the African National [...]
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A former senior executive at Lasmo who dealt with the company's business in Algeria, Roberto Bencini is to act as [...]
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A career diplomat, Jim Hank Panos, was appointed charge d'affaire at the new American embassy inaugurated last week by the [...]
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One of the leading shareholders of Oil & Gas Nigeria, the company that controls OPL 249, Ramesh Kansagra has worked [...]
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As Africa Energy Intelligence anticipated in May (AEI 346), the World Bank is to finance power projects in Cameroon and [...]
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Eritrea's power distribution network was overloaded when the Hirgigo power station came on line. The grid will now need to be totally revamped.
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In addition to studying a tie-up between grids in Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia, the World Bank is thinking of funding an interconnection between Tanzania and Zambia.
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The World Bank's determination to keep the Bujagali dam project [...]
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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 Intercontinental [...]
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Libya's National Oil Company has just formed a new joint [...]
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Nigeria's state-owned power utility NEPA is currently in talks concerning [...]
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In the wake of Cameroon president Paul Biya's visit to [...]
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Talks between Nigerian firms, the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) [...]
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According to the Israeli business daily Globes, Israel's Aeronautics Defense [...]
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On the strength of its experience in Congo-B and Angola [...]
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ChevronTexaco's bid for acreage in the joint maritime zone between [...]
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