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Chevron

Together with Exxon and ConocoPhillips, Chevron is one of America’s three oil supermajors. The company is a major player in African oil and gas, principally in Nigeria and Angola.

Sudan
Khartoum needs higher output

With production marking time at just 100,000 bpd since the independence of South Sudan, Khartoum’s new oil minister is being forced to speed up exploration.

Subscribers only Energy 03.01.2012

Ivory Coast
End game for OPL 245

Shell has announced its acquisition of the huge oil field owned by Malabu Oil & Gas run by Dan Etete. But the operation has yet to be finalized.

Subscribers only Energy 13.12.2011

Spotlight | Africa
Total thwarted by African leaders

In inaugurating its new Angolan field of Pazlor , which will pump 220,000 bpd, on November 22 Total found itself in the process of becoming Africa's biggest crude producer ahead of Exxon and Chevron. Africa has already been the major's [.

Subscribers only Energy 29.11.2011

Spotlight | Africa
Oranto a pathfinder for majors

Already active in nine African countries, the Nigerian explorer Oranto has just set foot in Namibia and in Sao Tome & Principe. For 20 years the group has been applying the same strategy which consists of buying licenses cheaply and [.

Subscribers only Energy 01.11.2011

Ivory Coast
Nigerian partners for PetroCI

Nigeria’s Sahara Energy and Taleveras Group have set up a joint venture with PetroCI to explore for oil and sell products in Africa.

Free access Energy 01.11.2011

DRC
Daewoo looks at oil play

The South Korean group is currently in talks with the oil and gas ministry to explore in the central basin and in the Tanganyika graben.

Subscribers only Energy 01.11.2011

Namibia
At last a PSA on Kudu

Africa Energy Intelligence understands that Namibian energy minister Isak Katali finally penned a production sharing contract (PSA) concerning the Kudu [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.11.2011

Africa, France
Alain Champeaux

In charge of Total’s service station network in Africa (formerly Total Outremer) since 2002, Alain Champeaux will shortly quit his [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.11.2011

Sierra Leone
Goodworks International

Capitalizing on the excitement over Anadarko’s discoveries in 2009 and [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.11.2011

Spotlight | Nigeria
How Abuja buys peace in the Delta

The amnesty that late president Umaru Yar'Adua offered in 2009 to militants from the Niger Delta marked its second anniversary on Oct. 4. And the results are there for all to see in the oil region: production climbed back to [.

Subscribers only Energy 18.10.2011

Spotlight | Namibia
The African twin of Brazil's new El Dorado

Still largely unknown and barely explored, Namibia's offshore may shortly acquire star billing. For some months, a number of majors, convinced Namibia could present geological features close to those of Brazil's offshore, are seeking to join forces with a Brazilian [.

Subscribers only Energy 20.09.2011

Sierra Leone
Gazprom knocks on the door

Gazprom is finalizing the talks it engaged some months ago with an oil unit in the office of Sierra Leone’s [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.09.2011

Nigeria
Escravos GTL to produce next year

After Chevron last month, South Africa’s Sasol confirmed on Sept. [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.09.2011

Angola, Liberia
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the president of Liberia, said on Sept. [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.09.2011

Sudan
Khartoum pins hopes on block 17

New finds could increase north Sudan’s petroleum output starting from next year.

Free access Energy 06.09.2011

Nigeria
Brass LNG now in the fast lane

Without waiting for Itochu and LNG Japan to finalize their acquisition of a stake in Brass LNG (AEI 657), the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.09.2011

Guinea
David Williams

The Texas-based oil company Hyperdynamics is fleshing out its technical team as a prelude to drilling its first well in [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.09.2011

Somalia, Somaliland
A Briton in the security business

A former officer in the British army has converted into the private security sector covering East Africa, and opened a subsidiary in Hargeisa.

Subscribers only Business 02.09.2011

Angola
Soyo’s LNG on line in December

Chevron and Sonangol, the driving forces behind the Soyo liquefied gas project (Angola LNG), announced separately in early August that [...]

Subscribers only Energy 23.08.2011

Nigeria
Brass LNG: future lies in east

Held up because of a drop in American demand, a project for a gas liquefaction plant at Brass has been suddenly revived to meet Japan’s needs.

Subscribers only Energy 23.08.2011

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