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.

Africa, Portugal
Portuguese law firms attracted by oil

Many Portuguese lawyers, such as the firm Franco Caiado Guerreiro which has just created a department specialising in Angola , [...]

Subscribers only Business 19.01.2007

United Kingdom
Ed Willett

After spending 18 working for the exploration branch of the Scottish group Cairn Energy, Britain’s Ed willett will shortly join [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.01.2007

Nigeria
Talks on Selling OK LNG’s Output

Under pressure from the government to sign the final investment [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.01.2007

Africa, United States
Syntroleum Sells Assets

The American group Syntroleum, which invented a new gas-to-liquid (GTL) conversion system, has just sold its exploration and production branch [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.01.2007

Algeria
Cheniere Energy Seeks LNG Deal Sonatrach

Cheniere Energy, an American company specializing in LNG terminals and [...]

Subscribers only 21.12.2006

Belgium
Michel Janssens

A former Chevron Oil executive, Michel Janssens, has been named chief operating officer of the Antwerp World Diamond Center, the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 05.12.2006

Due to delays, it won’t be possible for the government to approve the OK LNG project before presidential elections in April, to the displeasure of Nigeria’s current leader who is the program’s leading backer.

Subscribers only Energy 28.11.2006

Africa, United Kingdom
William Ward

Named chairman of Afren early this month, the former secretary general of OPEC and ex Nigerian oil minister Rilwanu Lukman [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.11.2006

Nigeria
Rilwanu Lukman

Former secretary-general of OPEC and ex oil minister of Nigeria, Rilwanu Lukman now finds himself the new chairman of Afren [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.11.2006

Algeria
Gaz de France

Gaz de France, Technip, Entrepose, Veolia, France Télécom and Schlumberger [...]

Subscribers only 02.11.2006

Nigeria
Addax Strikes a Great Deal

Addax Petroleum has just teamed up with a well-connected Nigerian firm that acquired a promising block in Nigeria’s offshore without competitive bidding.