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A big Ukrainian delegation turned up early this month in Libya to sign a series of agreements.
A big Ukrainian delegation turned up early this month in Libya to sign a series of agreements.
Angolan oil minister Desiderio da Graca da Costa winged his way to Lisbon last week to meet with Portuguese prime [...]
The state-owned Malaysian oil company's annual report shows that over half of its international revenue now comes from Africa.
There's every sign that current negotiations between Sonatrach and Distrigaz to renew their LNG agreements will give rise to a wider partnership.
ChevronTexaco has found a solution that puts an end to a long standoff over the Agbami field. A call for bids to develop the field can now be issued.
The Canadian firm Heritage recently revised its reserves in the Albert Graben (Rift) upwards but a Belgian geologist has cast doubt on whether there's any oil around Lake Albert.
After squabbling for long months with Total, the Brazzaville government has retreated to some extent by renewing the French oil group's license on Nsoko.
Khartoum appears confident it can double its oil production by the end of next year.
The American independent Burlington Resources announced last week it had [...]
Mobil Producing Nigeria, an affiliate of ExxonMobil, last week awarded [...]
Canada's Nexen, which holds a 20% stake on OPL 222 [...]
Active development on the Kizomba A field will begin in [...]
The Norwegian vessel Polar Princess is due to arrive in [...]
Although energy issues were carefully avoided during George W. Bush's swing through Africa last week they'll figure on top of [...]
Washington continues to blow hot and cold concerning Libya despite Tripoli's efforts in recent times to smooth over relations with [...]
A strike in early July didn't force the Nigerian authorities to go back on their decision to put an end [...]
In advance of Brazilian president Lula da Silva's visit to Africa in August, Brazil has just opened an embassy in [...]
Contacts organized by the World Bank and IMF between the Sudan government and rebels in Southern Sudan appear to be [...]
The Malagasy accountancy Mazars et Guerard has begun auditing the accounts of Jiro sy Rano Malagasy (Jirama), the country's power [...]
In the works for nearly three years, Tunisia's first IPP began selling its power to STEG last month.
The new chairman of Cameroon's Sonel, Justin Ndioro, says significant sums are to be spent on preventing the power cuts that plague the country.
Working on several fronts to reduce its debt, Hidroelectrica de Cahora B assa has won a contract to supply Malawi with power.
Australia's Woodside has sold its shares in the Oil Search firm active in Papua New Guinea in order to channel [...]
The Spanish oil company Repsol-YPF plans to spend nearly 9.1 billion Euros ($10.2 billion) between now and 2007 to develop [...]
The Arab Fund for Social and Economic Development, a multilateral agency based in Kuwait, has lent Morocco 20 million Kuwaiti [...]
The World Bank last week gave a go-ahead to an $18 million project to beef up Mauritania's capacity to manage [...]
The Swiss-Swedish company ABB has admitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission that its oil affiliate paid a $1.1 million [...]
The Communaute Electrique du Benin (CEB), an agency controlled by Benin and Togo that buys power in the region and [...]
The new regime of gen. Francois Bozize has accused officials from the Societe de l'Energie Centrafricaine (ENERCA) of fraud following [...]
Less than two months following his appointment as boss of Sonatrach, Djamel Eddine Khene has died, leaving the chairmanship of [...]
A former executive of Fina Congo, Jean-Pierre Kalema Losona has been named energy minister (in charge of electricity) in the [...]
A widely-recognized African specialist, Donald Steinberg, has been nominated by the White House to succeed Howard Jeter as ambassador to [...]
Former managing director of the firm Isis, Olivier Appert has been named to the board of Technip Coflexip in succession [...]
The only black Republican representative until he stepped down from Congress in 2002, J.C. Watts, Jr. from Oklahoma has been [...]
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has once again been put [...]
The Zambian Electricity Supply Corporation (ZESCO) has managed to put [...]
Equatorial Guinea's power utility Empresa Nacional de Energia Electrica de [...]
The Scottish firm Caledonia Training & Consultancy Ltd., which specializes [...]
The London office of Canada's Stratic Energy, an affiliate of [...]
Hired to consult the Sao Tome government in its conflict [...]
Global Pacific Partners is organizing the annual Africa Upstream conference [...]