Spotlight | Sudan
Russian Offensive on Sudan’s Oil
While Talisman is doing its utmost to dump its assets in Sudan oil companies from the USSR are feverishly working to make headway in the country.
While Talisman is doing its utmost to dump its assets in Sudan oil companies from the USSR are feverishly working to make headway in the country.
An affiliate of Engen , the South African company controlled by Malaysia’s Petronas , Energy Africa is a ?major? on [...]
In addition to its interest in Sudan (see P. 1), Russia’s state-owned Rosneft company is increasingly active elsewhere in Africa. [...]
The president of PanCanadian Energy, the only North American company officially active in Libya, David Tuer, has just quit his [...]
As president of the Canadian firm Acres International Ltd ., Clifford Brown finds himself running one of the busiest consultancies [...]
The Centre Francais du Commerce Exterieur is organizing a seminar [...]
Officials from Cameroon’s Societe Nationale des Hydrocarbures (SNH) realized they are experiencing good times this year that may not come [...]
Faced with a significant drop in its oil revenue (AEI 306-303), Gabon is pulling out all the stops to raise [...]
David Conway , the president of Pecten Cameroon , which has been 80% owned by Shell since 1998, will [...]
The second-ranking producer in Congo-Brazzaville after TotalFinaElf , Agip will [...]
Under its new 2001-2007 cooperation program that it has just [...]
With the privatization of Societe Ivoirienne de Raffinage (SIR) now underway (AEI 307), the company’s chairman, Joel Dervain , appears [...]
Mauritania’s oil bonanza looks set to fizzle out before it begins. The Australian group Hardman Resources has just announced it [...]
Although a call to bid for 24 marginal fields has been reserved for local companies in step with the Obasanjo [...]
Nigeria is mulling a whole new range of projects to export liquefied natural gas just as Nigeria LNG (NLNG) completed [...]
Heavily indebted – with a debt to equity ratio of 70/30—the U.S. firm CMS Energy announced on Oct. 26 that [...]
African countries tend to privatize a company only when it's in trouble. For the moment the Societe Nigerienne d'Electricite (NIGELEC) [...]
An offshoot of OMVS , the Societe de Gestion de l’Energie de Manantali has just set up a committee to [...]
Head of the Nigerian firm Yinka Folawiyo Petroleum , Tijani Folawiyo has just negotiated a deal with Canadian National Resources [...]
The French oil group TotalFinaElf and Libya’s Tamoil , which [...]
The project to build a dam at the tip of [...]
For the first time in the history of Nigeria’s oil [...]
In making its debut in Angola’s onshore this month, the Australian company Roc Oil was accompanied by two partners unknown [...]
Shell ’s partner on the Kudu field in Namibia, [...]
Angola’s national oil company Sonangol will proffer advice to Equatorial [...]
Swaziland’s energy ministry has just renewed a supply agreement with [...]
The Petroleum Agency of South Africa (PASA) that was set [...]
Royal Dutch Shell and British Petroleum have won the first round in the fight for Spain’s deregulated gas market. [...]
Algeria’s Sonelgaz company that sees to the production, transmission and distribution of power is facing the need to invest heavily [...]
The state-owned Japan National Oil Corp . intends to leave [...]
The movement for the liberation of Western Sahara, Polisario , [...]
A meeting of the joint Russian-Libyan committee that is scheduled [...]
The CWC group is organizing a meeting in Casablanca on [...]
Any delay in World Bank approval of AES project to build a dam at Bujagali could cost the promoters up [...]
Minister of Justice in Uganda until this summer, Bart Katureebe has just joined a consultancy firm which is advising AES [...]
Malaysia’s state-owned oil company Petronas appears best placed among three [...]
The pipeline linking Eldoret in Kenya to Kampala in Uganda [...]
Canada’s Acres International was picked by the Kenyan government to [...]
The Export Import Bank of China has just awarded a [...]