Your account has been succesfully created.

EN FR

Scroll through edition

Central Africa

Sao Tome and Principe
Juniors Try Their Luck

Three juniors have submitted offers alongside American independents and Nigerian firms for acreage in the Joint Development Zone between Sao Tome and Nigeria.

Subscribers only Energy 04.01.2005

Central Africa
Maurel & Prom Picks up Speed

Having become a limited liability company, France's Maurel & Prom has snapped up South Africa's Rockover and hired a new board. It includes Alain Gomez, ex-boss of Thomson-CSF.

Subscribers only Energy 04.01.2005

Congo
Key Licensing Round

Congo-B is about to sell off seven licenses, including three that lie beside rich concessions of Maurel & Prom.

Subscribers only Energy 04.01.2005

DRC
BHP Could Participate in the Refurbishment of Inga

The final hurdle in MagAlloys's Kouilou magnesium project, the renovation of the hydro-electric power station at Inga, is in the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 21.12.2004

DRC
E. Diomi Ndongala

The minister of mines Eugène Diomi Ndongala will not go back to his functions. He was suspended along with five [...]

Subscribers only Mining 21.12.2004

DRC
Doug Jones

This Golden Star Resources executive has just been appointed to the board of management of the Australian company Moto Goldmines [...]

Subscribers only Mining 21.12.2004

DRC
New Exports Record in 2004

Production in the Democratic Republic of the Congo should reach [...]

Subscribers only Mining 21.12.2004

Spotlight | Congo
Wedding Bells for Maurel and Prom and Burren?

Envied for its success and the ever-rising price of its shares on the Stock Exchange, the French junior Maurel and Prom wants to move into higher gear by expanding its portfolio and increasing its market capitalization.

Subscribers only Energy 14.12.2004

Cameroon
Alphone Siyam Siwe

Named energy and water supply minister in the new government of prime minister Inoni Ephraim last week, Alphone Siyam Siwe [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.12.2004

Cameroon, Nigeria
New Delay on Bakassi

Scheduled for Dec. 7, a meeting of the joint Cameroon-Nigeria commission to discuss the Bakassi issue has been put back [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.12.2004

Gabon
Riot in Forest

A clash that claimed two lives at the Panthere Nze field operated by Canada's Panafrican Energy in the south-east of [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.12.2004

DRC
New Bosses at the Helm

Congo-K's government has lost little time in replacing the general managers of Societe Nationale d'Electricite (SNEL) and Congolaise des Hydrocarbures [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.12.2004

Cameroon
Chinese Move on Offshore?

After making headway in Nigeria, Angola and Gabon, Chinese oil companies are looking at the Logone Birni and Rio Del [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.12.2004

Chad
DiamondWorks Trumps Majors

The DiamondWorks group run by Brian Menell and Tony Texeira has beaten Total and Chevron in acquiring relinquished acreage on Doba.

Subscribers only Energy 14.12.2004

Sao Tome and Principe
Triple Role for Equator

The Equator firm, which has just been listed on London's Alternative Investment Market, serves as Sao Tome's adviser, the only seismic operator in the country and the lone holder of rights in Sao Tome's offshore.

Subscribers only Energy 14.12.2004

DRC
Oil in Central Basin

Tests have identified oil reserves in the central province of Bandundu.

Subscribers only Energy 14.12.2004

Congo
Light at End of Tunnel

Last week's decision by the International Monetary Fund to put together $84 million in funding for Congo-Brazzaville could be viewed [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.12.2004

DRC
The Strategic "Local" Partners

In the scramble for mining resources in Congo-K, firms that have been established in the country for a long time [...]

Subscribers only Mining 07.12.2004

DRC
The Virji Family Sees Large

The Indian firm Chemaf, which has been operating the Etoile mine that produces intermediary grade cobalt near Lubumbashi for the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 07.12.2004

DRC
IDC Exercises option on Kolwezi

South Africa's Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) plans to buy a [...]

Subscribers only Mining 07.12.2004

Congo
ANVIL MINING

ANVIL MINING has initialed a joint venture agreement with the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 07.12.2004

Congo
$100 Million at Stake

The Swiss Supreme Court is to hand down its verdict by the year's end on an appeal filed by Total [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.11.2004

DRC
Oil-Backed Loan Makes Waves

Revealed by Africa Energy Intelligence (AEI 378), a $32 million oil-backed loan mounted by BNP and Trafigura last year to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.11.2004

Gabon
William Farish

Operator on the Etame oil field in Gabon, which it is developing with funding from the World Bank, the U.S. [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.11.2004

Congo | SNPC
New Headquarters

The Societe Nationale des Petrole du Congo has begun work [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.11.2004

The weekly summary

Central Africa Picto Synthese

Picto Synthese

Don't miss a single headline. Sign up to receive weekly summaries of our coverage of Central Africa.

Sign up for real-time alerts and be notified of new editions!

Once registered, you will be notified by a short message on your computer or mobile phone as soon as a new edition of our publication or an alert is published. Stay informed anytime, anywhere!