New African countries but also China have been added to the list of nations that receive shipments of Nigerian crude at preferential rates. Renewed each year, so-called ?government to government term contracts? form a traditional feature of Nigerian foreign policy.
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Seeking partners to help develop its future LNG plant on Bioko island, Marathon is currently negotiating with Japan's Mitsui, according [...]
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Already teamed up with Vanco in Morocco's offshore, the China National Offshore Oil Company (CNOOC) has just been awarded two onshore concessions in southern Morocco.
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Britain's Sterling Energy has sold a big stake in the Dome Flore heavy oil field to Malaysian businessman Tan Sri Halim Saad.
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Already a stakeholder in Nigeria LNG, Shell is talking with the promoters of a second plant, OK LNG, on buying into the project in return for offering access to its gas fields.
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Kerr McGee has just sold part of its acreage in Benin to Kosmos, a firm founded by ex bosses of Triton.
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Although he is owed money by Cameroon's Sonara, businessman Alexander Ekollo Moundi has been jailed for five years.
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A favourite haunt of South African oil companies, Gabon has just awarded four licenses to Ophir.
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The Transworld firm owned by trader John Deuss has offered China's Sinopec a stake in its acreage in Gabon.
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Three companies are demanding that Congo-B pay its debt to them out of oil revenue. Here are the details.
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A former pharmaceuticals company that turned to the oil industry, [...]
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The Ikwori field operated by Addax on OPL 90 began [...]
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Following an article in our previous issue, Africa Energy Intelligence [...]
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France's Maurel & Prom and Total have re-negotiated an accord [...]
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Despite an agreement penned in December, 2003 between Ethiopia and [...]
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Operator on concession 11A in South Africa's offshore, the state-owned [...]
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Work on ExxonMobil's huge Kizomba B field in Angola is [...]
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The second gathering of participants in the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) in London two weeks ago saw new countries [...]
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Algeria's Senate is expected this week to follow the country's parliament in endorsing new oil legislation. Spearheaded from the very [...]
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A long mission in the Gulf of Guinea drew to an end for the US Navy submarine USS Emory S. [...]
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South African foreign minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma arrived in Gabon last week to sign several agreements, including a non-double taxation treaty, [...]
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The Volta River Authority has just completed a program launched in 1999 to increase the capacity of the Akosombo dam, [...]
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A draft bill that will allow the two state-owned power companies KPLC and Kengen to work independently of one another will shortly be tabled before Parliament.
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Under construction since last year, a power station operated by Agip at Kwale was inaugurated last week. But it had to immediately close for repairs after an act of sabotage.
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The Central Electricity Board (CEB) has just signed an agreement with a sugar consortium to build a second IPP running on sugar cane waste.
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The Korea Electric Power Company has signed a cooperation pact [...]
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South Korean firms operating in Libya are putting pressure on their government to sign a treaty with Libya that would [...]
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Majors operating in Nigeria are fighting against a series of amendments to the 1969 Petroleum Act which have been tabled [...]
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A Belgian-financed carrier, Linhas Aereas SanTomenses (LAS), inaugurated a once-a-week service between Sao Tome and Lagos last week. Launched by [...]
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A long-standing backer of the U.S. oil firm Vaalco which operates the Etame field in Gabon, the 1818 Fund II [...]
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Scheduled to be held in Norway next month, a meeting of donors concerning Sudan is expected to mark the first [...]
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Taken on last year as head of PetroChina's trading office in London, Steve Kelbrick has just resigned his post. A [...]
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PanOcean, a firm registered in Jersey and Sasol's partner on the Etame field in Gabon, has hired U.S. national Hollis [...]
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Early this month Ghana's parliament gave its stamp of approval to the appointment of new energy minister Mike Oquaye, a [...]
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Former financial director of Canada Northwest Energy Ltd., Jaffar Khan has been appointed boss of the Canadian firm Eurogas which [...]
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Chairman of the Free State Development Corporation, Max Makhabulo set up a consortium of black investors which last week acquired [...]
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Run for long years by Jonathan Mason, Liberia's current energy and mines minister, the Broadway Hydrocarbon firm that was re-named [...]
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The opening of bids for Algeria's sixth licensing round will [...]
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The refining affiliate of Sonatrach, Naftec, is going to open [...]
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Organized this year in Kuala Lumpur, the annual conference of [...]
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Two rival studies on a project to build the future [...]
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With only limited international experience, the British firm Hart based [...]
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White Nile, a firm run by former cricket star Philippe [...]
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The British firm Clearwater Research Service is organizing a conference [...]
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Global Pacific & Partners is organizing a conference in London [...]
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The CWC Group is organizing a conference on the Gulf [...]
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