Apart from a rise in oil prices, the main trend to emerge in 2003 could well be the success of efforts by Africa's oil-producing nations to obtain a bigger share of work for their local industry and staff in the development of their oil resources.
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The Nigerian government is actively preparing the privatization of the Nigerian Electrical Power Authority (NEPAS) even though the Electricity Reform [...]
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Britain's Globeleq group is positioning itself in Africa by capitalizing on the woes of AES.
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The new Lubilani power station that will supply Kasai has stirred controversy in the province.
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The state-owned Namibian utility Nampower has awarded a consortium named [...]
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Belgium's leading gas distributor, Distrigaz, has just signed an agreement with Algeria for the purchase of 1,000 million cu.m. of [...]
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The U.S. independent Burlington has set its 2003 development budget at $1.35 billion compared to $1.25 billion last year. Nearly [...]
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Morocco's Groupe Banques Populaires is the lead bank in the consortium that will finance the Tahaddart power station being built [...]
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The U.S. firm Ocean Energy plans to spend nearly $1 billion on developments in 2003, of which $400 million in [...]
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A meeting of Societe National des Petrole du Congo's board in Brazzaville on Dec. 30 decided under pressure from oil [...]
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The French export credit guarantee agency Compagnie d'Assurance pour le Commerce Exterieur downgraded Gabon's credit rating from B to C [...]
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France's TotalFinaElf group intends to invest $5 billion in Angola over the coming five years, according to the Angolan national [...]
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The White House's discreet move in the first days of 2003 to renew American economic sanctions against Libya could quickly [...]
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As the private Romanian group RomPetrol negotiates for a concession in Sudan, state-owned Petrom has bought into Tanzania's offshore.
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Already active in the Illizi basin, Australia's Woodside has teamed up with Repsol to make its debut in the Berkine basin.
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In an attempt to beat off Cameroon's creditors the national oil company SNH told a French court it didn't form part of the government.
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ConocoPhillips has just made a discovery in the Douala basin, an area where no major field had been identified up to now.
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Contacts between Nigeria and Sao Tome shifted into higher gear at the end of 2002 as the two worked to clear the way for a bidding round this year in the Joint Development zone (JDZ) they share.
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A trading mechanism that Congo-B's SNPC established in the form of a Special Purpose Vehicle has been smothered in its crib by the country's creditors and never operated.
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Talisman's sale of its stake in the Heglig field to India's ONGC Videsh has brought Petronas and CNPC, which hold options on the Canadian firm's holding, out of the woodwork.
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In the last few days of 2002, Anadarko and Sonatrach [...]
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Britain's AMEC group is scheduled to deliver a storage barge [...]
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Agip Nigeria, an affiliate of Italy's ENI, announced a few [...]
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A converted FPSO costing $400 million and earmarked for Agip's [...]
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The Sudanesde government has approved a project by energy minister [...]
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The U.S. major ChevronTexaco has made a new discovery on [...]
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Late last year TotalFinaElf made its 13th discovery on block [...]
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The Russian firm Slavneft which has attempted to gain strong footholds in Africa, and particularly in Sudan and Algeria, was [...]
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Algeria's leading trade union, Union Generale des Travailleurs Algeriens (UGTA), sharply reiterated its opposition in late December to reforms in [...]
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Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo was named a candidate in Nigeria's presidential ballot in May by his party, the People's Democratic [...]
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A squabble between the Sao Tome parliament and president Fradrique Menezes late last year over a bill to revise the [...]
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Sudan appears set to become the leading oil supplier of Ethiopia, which has decided to buy 85% of its needs [...]
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Appointed energy minister in president Mwai Kibaki's new government, Ochillo Ayacko is a member of parliament from Rongo province, having [...]
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A lawyer by training and a former human rights activist in his native Katanga region during the Mobutu era, Jean [...]
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Brazil's new president, Luiz Inacio ?Lula? da Silva has named Eduardo Dutra, former head of the CUT union and now [...]
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Formerly head of Conoco-Phillips' Asia/Pacific division, Bill Berry was appointed vice president for exploration and production at the American company [...]
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Current chairman of the international branch of the French employers' federation MEDEF, Francois Perigot is expected to be shortly named [...]
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The Corporate Council on Africa that represents American firms operating [...]
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The British firm Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft negotiated the sale [...]
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The Canadian firm Mart Resources issued new shares to raise [...]
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The British credit rating firm Moody's plans to shortly open [...]
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Leaks on the findings of an audit that the International [...]
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The CWC Group is organizing its second conference on the [...]
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IBC Energy is organizing a conference in Amsterdam on Feb. [...]
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The state-owned Algerian oil company Sonatrach has sent experts to [...]
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The headquarters of Napims, an affiliate of Nigerian National Petroleum [...]
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Libya's General Electricity Company (GECOL) has signed a cooperation pact [...]
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The Societe Tunisienne de l'Electricite et du Gaz (STEG) has [...]
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