- Nigeria's NNPC takes over 133 stations
- Tunisia boasts the highest oil exploration success rate in North Africa
- Medgaz pipeline opening delayed
- Mozambique's EDM to issue natural gas for Maputo power stations
- Total sells stake in Zambian refinery
- Tullow Oil expects output from Ghana field in second half of 2010
- BP and ENI to use gas discovery for second Egyptian LNG train
- Sky Petroleum wins two Suntera blocks onshore Nigeria
- Cooper confirms estimated 94 mm barrels of oil in Tunisian prospect
- Nigeria aligns power and gas programs
- Angola enhances profile with rising reserves
- Sonatrach cuts costs of El-Merk project by $ 3.3 bn
- Ghana
rejects oil talks between Kosmos and ExxonMobil
- Artumas group begins drilling on Mozambique's Rovuma block
- Nigeria wants Shell to take responsibility for cleaning up of Ogoniland
- Lebanon receives gas from Egypt to run power plant
- NOCK raises oil storage capacity in Kenya
- El Sewedy joins power project in Egypt
- International firms step up search for oil and gas reserves in Kenya
- Southern Sudan approves plans for 50,000-bpd refinery
- International firms step up search for oil and gas reserves in Kenya
- Kosmos team nears second multibillion-dollar sale in Gulf of Guinea
- Libya launches $ 54 bn energy city master plan
- Tullow extends Ghana's Jubilee Field by successful appraisal
- Petrobras looking to invest $ 3 bn in Angolan developments by 2012
- Nigeria's Cross River state awards rural electrification contracts
- CNOOC to drill in Kenya's Anza Basin Block 9
- Firms fight for Africa's oil and gas
- Cost of Eldoret-Kampala East pipeline triples to $ 250 mm
- Companies agree to set up oil refinery in Uganda
- The titanic battle for Nigeria's oil
- Total, Cepsa and Sonatrach to expand natural gas production in Algeria
- Wildlife group slams Heritage's plan for oil exploration in Uganda
- Uganda finds out about status of discovered oil and gas deposits
- ExxonMobil buys stake in oil field offshore Ghana
- Total to develop Algerian gas project
- Eskom to give poor South Africans more free power
- Ghana selects Oando for natural gas project
- Coal to oil in South Africa
- China's oil deals in Africa
- Mozambique set to build gas pipeline
- Nigeria may sell oil joint venture stakes to China
- Perenco acquires Marathon Oil's Gabon assets
- Essar Exploration to sign up and explore in Nigeria and Vietnam
- West African Gas Pipeline project to cost $ 1 bn
- ENI acquires two offshore blocks in Ghana
- Details of Uganda-Tullow Oil deal revealed
- Sofregaz wins gas contracts from Sonatrach
- PGNiG eyes Tunisian gas
- Tunisia's Chorbane permit awarded to Australian firm
- Sonangol to buy Marathon's stake in Angolan block 32
- Angola LNG partners let pipeline contract to Acergy
- Ethiopia embraces renewable energy
- Libyan Investment Authority to buy Verenex in cash deal
- NamPower and Zesco sign power deal in Namibia
- South Africa and China build steel pipe plant in Mozambique
- Ghana and China collaborate in oil exploration
- Developing West African oil plays
- Artumas completes Tanzania and Mozambique assets farm-out
- Rebels threaten oil exploration companies in Ethiopia's Ogaden region
- Amid Africa's oil boom, US binds ties
- CNPC awards Saipem Algeria LNG contract
- Tullow and Anadarko to open new African oil frontier inSierra Leone
- Firm to invest $ 400 mm in Nigerian power project
- DualEx awarded exploration permit in Tunisia
- How UK oil company Trafigura tried to cover up African pollution disaster
- Tullow shifts crude oil production to Uganda's Buliisa
- Foreign oil investment in Sudan
- Chevron begins production at Angolan fields
- Syria and Egypt agree to supply Lebanon with 600 mm cm of gas a year
- Libyan government refuses to approve Verenex deal for CNPC
- ENI begins production in Egyptian sub-sea
- Mozambique oil exploration may exceed EUR 550 mm by 2011
- Energy companies poised to exploit oil riches in Libya
- Chevron strengthens efforts with new drillship in Australia and
Angola
- KNOC wins battle against Nigerian government
- Sonatrach CEO outlines future vision
- Apache to sign three oil and gas deals in Egypt
- BP expanding its oil interest in Libya
- Uganda issues tenders for refinery studies
- Egypt signs $ 2.3 bn in oil and gas agreements
- Chevron to start up Angolan oil field production
- Big oil strike fuels Congo conflict
- Circle Oil confirms commencement of oil production from Egypt wells
- Ghana uncovers $ 500 mm debt at energy ministry
- Maurel & Prom reports positive technical results from Gabon well
- Oil discovery threatens Eldoret-Kampala pipeline
- How Shell won the fight for Libyan gas and
oil
- Botswana approves cross-border power project with Zambia
- Uganda's KenolKobil buys Burundian oil firm
- Tatneft and NOC strike oil in Libya's Ghadames basin
- ENI teams up with Vitol in Ghana
- ENI to study oil and gas development opportunities in DR Congo
- Ghana seeks investor for new oil field
- Vietnam and Algeria promote energy cooperation
- Vitol signs deal on Cameroon permit
- Ugandan oil contracts will remain secret
- Mozambique to relocate proposed refinery to protect elephants
- Nigerian local firm taps into oil exploration in Ghana
- NNPC and Agip sign deal for NLNG trains
- BG produces first gas from offshore Nile Delta
development
- Nigeria signs maintenance agreement for its pipelines with Russian firm
- Sonangol, BPA and EdP sign agreement
- Indian energy firm buys 50 % shares in Kenyan refinery
- Search for petroleum deposits in Kenya gains momentum
- IFC plans to increase investment in sub-Saharan African oil and gas
- Foreign firms reject reforms in Nigeria's oil sector
- Kenya's KenGen unveils new power projects
- Ghana signs deals with oil firms for Jubilee Field
- CNPC puts new refinery on stream in Algeria
- Saipem wins offshore contracts in Angola and Italy
- Companies sign PSC for block off Equatorial Guinea
- South Africa's pipeline opening delayed until 2011
- Algeria launches second bidding round for O&G exploration
- EnerGulf provides updates on Namibia Block 1711
- IFC loans $ 100 mm to Kosmos Energy for Ghana's Jubilee field
- Uganda starts construction of oil refinery
- The options for Uganda after oil discovery
- Sinopec and CNOOC to buy Marathon's stake in Angola block
- Medgaz pipeline between Algeria and Spain operational by end of 2009
- Ghana approves first development phase of Jubilee oil field
- Cameroon signs oil exploration deal with Total
- Dana Gas's production at Egyptian field exceeds expectations
- China to establish giant oil palm plantation in DR Congo
- Tullow and Gazprom partner up in Namibian Kudu gas field
- Dwindling gas supplies a challenge for PetroSA
- Ghana government signs MoU for constructing new oil refinery
- JCCC wins Algerian LNG project
- Cameroon signs oil exploration contract with Noble-Petronas consortium
- Tanzania generates electricity from sisal waste
- Secrecy, woes and war over Uganda's oil
- Mubadala puts Algerian power plant into operation
- Samsung signs contract with Algeria
- CNPC begins construction of Chad oil pipeline
- Sonatrach launches licensing round for 25 blocks
- Nigeria runs out of crude for its refineries
- Chevron announces first oil from Mafumeira Norte field in Angola
- Rwanda commissions Kibuye power project
- Gazprombank and Namibia's Namcor to finance power plant construction
- Gazprom to start gas pipeline construction in Nigeria in 2010
- Sinopec Group buys Addax to gain oil reserves in Iraq and Africa
- Petrofac to build refinery in Tunisia
- Uganda's oil development remains under threat
- Nigeria's oil and gas investments suffer because of Niger Delta crisis
- How Kenya's giant oil firm was plundered
- Heerema to build yard in Angola for pipeline work
- Eldoret-Kampala Oil Pipeline sees growing dominance by Libyan Tamoil
- Serica and Island O&G collect exploration permits offshore Morocco
- PHCN and Alstom sign rehabilitation contract for Nigerian power grid
- Total, ONGC and Mittal to
spend $ 150 mm on Nigerian oil exploration
- ENI to boost gas imports from Libya
- SNC-Lavalin wins contract from Sonatrach
- India's Omel set to begin oil exploration in Nigeria
- OIL-IOC consortium to start drilling in Libyan blocks
- Nigeria's NNPC short-changes treasury with $ 1.8 bn
- Apache reports new Egyptian Western Desert well test is a success
- Oil companies in Nigeria oppose review of contracts
- Oil firms complain over Nigeria's inaction on outstanding gas and oil projects
- Petroceltic farms out interest in Tunisia's Ksar Hadada permit
- Nigeria tackles oil and gas reform
- Sonatrach awards gas field contracts to JCG and ABB/Sarpi
- Ghana's Jatropha conundrum --
more questions than answers
- Saipem secures contract for GK3 gas pipeline system in Algeria
- Nigeria awards power contracts
- Rwanda to convert biogas to transportation fuel
- US DOE says Uganda's oil reserves could rival Saudi Arabia's
- Two oil firms enter into exploration deals in Ethiopia and Kenya
- San Leon Energy wins Moroccan oil shale exploration project
- Acergy wins $ 190 mm contract offshore Nigeria
- Anadarko to drill for oil and gas in Mozambique
- Algeria's Sonatrach plans to boost gas exports by 40%
- Polluted land in the Shell oil zone of Nigeria's Ogoniland
- Experts think it is unlikely Libya will meet its oil production target
- Mozambique puts refinery planon hold
- Halliburton and Nigeria's missing millions
- Regional power firms to offer assistance for World Cup in South Africa
- Mozambique's ENH sells 75 % of shares in Buzi block
- Lake Turkana Wind Power seeks contractors for Kenyan project
- Ghana's government to address energy shortfalls
- Shaw wins Fischer-Tropsch contracts from Sasol
- Uganda's Bunyoro kingdom threatens with lawsuit over oil exploration
- Nigeria's electricity regulator issues licences to two IPPs
- Anadarko optimistic about Mozambique's Rovuma basin
- Uganda to build mini oil refinery
- ONGC requests for clarification of ownership of Nigerian oil blocks
- Egypt awards Mediterranean gas block
- Angola and Senegal start new oil refining projects and increase capacity
- PTTEP signs concession agreements in Egypt
- Ghana: On the cusp of an oil boom?
- Africa Oil joins East African oil exploration
- Transnet lets contract for South African products line
- Angola approves fourth phase of Luanda's electricity network
- ONGC Videsh quits Sudan
- Japan and China race for African oil
- Western Sahara declares offshore zones
- Angola's crude exports scheduled to rise 7.3 % in June
- Sasol to boost Mozambique's natural gas production
- TGS-NOPEC begins 2D seismic survey off Benin
- Sonatrach allocates gas for fertiliser plant
- Totalbecomes second largest oil firm in Uganda
- Nigeria reshuffles management at NNPC
- Total prepares to start drilling in Sudan
- Gasol in joint venture with Equatorial Guinea's Sonagas
- GNPC, Vanco and LUKoil sign new petroleum deals with Ghana
- Gazprom pledges to explore Nigerian oil
- Eterna Oil and Gas to invest in Nigeria's LPG development
- Sinopec targets Africa and Latin America for projects
- Saipem strikes $ 400 mm rig deal in Egypt
- Chevron completes sale of Nigerian fuels business
- Essar wins refinery deal in Kenya
- Sonatrach lets contract for Menzel Ledjmet East field to Saipem
- Afren sees Ebok field as massive oil development offshore Nigeria
- First Australian Resources and Shell to carry out exploration off Senegal
- Taqa to invest $ 2.5bn in North African projects
- Algerian Sonatrach to sell gas direct to Portugal
- Oando gets approval for South East gas pipeline project in Nigeria
- Heritage plans $ 2 mm for social programs in Uganda
- Shell commissions projects in Nigeria's Bayelsa state
- Heritage to invest in Uganda's oil districts
- Forest Exploration to develop gas field off South Africa's West Coast
- Nigeria sees 15,000 jobs threatened in oil industry
- Algeria approves Rosneft's plans for oil fields development
- Sonatrach to boost investment by 41 %
- Uganda wants all of its oil refined domestically
- Mozambique to spend $ 1.4 bn on oil and gas exploration
- Tullow to make oil fields in Ghana a priority
- Petrobeira to build more oil and gas storage facilities in Mozambique
- Libya takes over Tamoil's Ugandan oil reserves
- Petrofac wins $ 2.2 bn contract in Algeria
- Nigeria proposes 2011 as new deadline for gas flaring
- Ugandan lawmakers mull legal action against government on oil deals
- NNPC and partners to build four greenfield refineries
- Sasol to slash capital expenditure programme by 40 %
- UAE energy firm signs oil refinery deal with Libya
- Uganda begins power-line construction
- South Africa's biggest refinery to offer opportunities for black entrepreneurs
- Maurel & Prom starts production from Onal field in Gabon
- CNOOC announces start-up of OML130 field in Nigeria
- US ContourGlobal wins gas-to-power deal in Rwanda
- Nigeria approves $ 2.5 bn for gas projects
- EAC to construct natural gas pipelines to Africa's Great Lakes
- Uganda commissions Bujagali power line
- How Nigeria will share its electricity subsidy
- Total's Akpo field starts producing offshore Nigeria
- American firm signs methane gas extraction deal with Rwanda
- Nigeria approves enablers for domestic gas supply
- ContourGlobal signs agreement with Rwanda for methane gas project
- Libya Oil Holdings rebrands its label in Morocco
- CNPC plans to
buy oil assets of Verenex Libya
- Algeria is the oldest exporter of LNG in the world
- NLNG reports 100 tcf of gas reserve abandoned
- Rolls-Royce to deliver more turbines for Nigerian projects
- NNPC to obtain loan for Gbaran-Ugbidie project
- Total Nigeria and Gazprom interested in Trans-Sahara gas line
- NNPC in gas deal with Shell joint venture
- Angola to cut oil production to 1.6 mm bpd
- Petroleos de Mozambique to invest in increasing fuel storage capacity
- Kenya sees artificial fuel shortage caused by oil firms
- Africa-Italy pipeline digs up French World War I battleship
- Trans-Saharan gas pipeline to reach Europe in 2015
- NNPC plans 1.2 bn cf of gas this
year
- E.ON to explore for more gas offshore Egypt
- Mercuria Energy opens Nigerian operations office
- CNPC starts construction of Chad refinery
- Vietnam plans 20,000-bpd output from Algerian block
- Nigeria loses new oil and gas investments to Angola and Ghana
- Oil majors operating in Nigeria in distress
- Uganda's Tamoil gets land for giant fuel reservoir
- Namibia's NamPower signs loan agreement
- Egypt sees shift to gas
- Total signs agreement with Libya's NOC to convert existing contracts
- PetroSA's GTL plant to close if no new gas discoveries are made
- ENI signs three agreements with Angola's Sonangol
- Deepwater projects in West Africa and
Gulf of Mexico need oil at $ 40/bbl
- Shell puts cost of crude oil theft in Nigeria at $ 1.6 bn a year
- Algeria eyes Peruvian natural gas development
- Nigeria cancels South Korean oil exploration deal
- Nigerian government and oil firms spent $ 33 bn on nine deepwater fields
- Technip and ENI report on ongoing Nigerian corruption probe
- E.ON expands its LNG activities in Equatorial Guinea
- Halliburton to pay $ 559 mm to settle Nigerian bribery probe
- Halliburton's KBR to pay $ 402 mm bribery fine in Nigeria
- NNPC loses 2 mm litres of petrol to vandals daily in Oyo State
- Africa Oil wins East African exploration portfolio from Lundin
- Chevron to increase daily output to 620,000 bpd in
Angola
- Mozambique plans 350,000-bpd refinery
- Angolan Plutonio field near full capacity after October restart
- Brass LNG and the politics of Nigeria's final investment decision
- British Gas, Petronas and Edison to invest $ 2.1 bn in Egypt
- Oil firms jointly spent $ 3.7 bn on security in Niger Delta
- Rwanda's oil exploration takes new shape
- Halliburton wins development contracts for deepwater Angola
- Tanzania Petroleum Development and StatoilHydro in joint study
- PetroSA begins gas field appraisal
- First FDPSO leaves Keppel Shipyard
- Global Industries wins $ 100 mm pipeline contract in Nigeria
- Nigerian Danba GTL and BW Offshore to build FLNG
- Qatar to fund Beira-Malawi oil pipeline
- Gazprom obtains rights for exploration in Algerian El Assel area
- Spain says Algeria gas pipeline is for European market
- New Nigerian oil firm to operate similarly to Petrobras and Saudi Aramco
- Tullow makes 17 finds in 2008
- Sonatrach gains $ 76 bn from oil and gas sales in 2008
- Nigeria set to overhaul oil sector
- Mozambique looks for partners to explore for gas
- Algeria, the Netherlands and Shell may export Nigeria's gas to Europe
- Nigeria and UAE firm sign oil infrastructure deal
- Algeria signs $ 272 mm in energy exploration deals
- Nigeria and Sao Tome urge for exploration in joint oil zone
- France
awards offshore exploration permits offshore Juan de Nova
- Libya gains $ 5.4 bn from altering oil contracts
- Nigeria's Oando acquires deepwater blocks from Agip
- Uganda sets oil pipeline construction for April
- Shell Nigeria invests $ 3 bn on gas flare reduction
- Nigeria's oil reserve may last 46 years
- Nigeria's gas-flaring deadlines
- Tullow won't build refinery in Ugandan wildlife reserve
- Fugro to study east African waters
- Uganda plans 180 mm-litre oil depot
- Uganda's oil and gas reserves hit 1 bn bbl mark
- Russian and Canadian firms may emerge as core investors in Nigeria
- Peak Petroleum gets approval for first floating LNG plant in Nigeria
- Massive shake-up looms at NNPC
- ENI wins six exploration licenses in Gabon
- Medgaz completes pipelay operations connecting Algeria to Spain
- Nigeria's Usan field to come on stream in 2012
- East African Exploration signs agreement with Seychelles
- PetroSA will press on with new gas field development
- Gas flaring and Nigeria's 2008 deadline
- AP and NNPC to build refinery in Nigeria
- Sonatrach to raise gas exports by 25 % in 2009
- Equatorial Guinea to set up gas processing hub
- Algeria announces winners of 7th licensing round
- Algeria's gas fields seek to set eco-example
- Darfur: Forget genocide, there's oil
- Acergy wins $250 mm contract in Angola
- New thermal power plant for Ghana
- Tunisia's Sotrapil scraps pipeline project
- PetroSA freezes coal-to-liquids project
- MODEC awards Jurong FPSO conversion deal for Angola block
- Nigerian firm begins South-East gas pipeline project
- Sonangol awards KBR refinery site development contract
- Botswana power project to benefit South Africa as well
- Nigeria and Russia to conclude bi-lateral agreements
- Bulgaria seeks to buy Egyptian gas from 2011
- Nigeria loses 397,697 bpd due to Niger Delta crisis
- Egypt wants Gazprom to join natural gas projects
- Edison wins contract in Egypt
- Nigeria earmarks $ 5 bn for joint oil
ventures
- Nearly 50 firms express interest in Nigeria's Gas Master Plan
- Sasol's Oryx output fetches high prices
- Around 1.2 mm bpd of Nigeria's crude production is shut-in
- ExxonMobil's Nigeria unit increases output and reduces gas flaring
- Oil firms paid N 15 bn in penalties for gas flaring in Nigeria since 2006
- FAR receives extension of West African offshore blocks deal
- GE signs service contracts with Algeria
- Kenyan petroleum firm to invest in petroleum storage in Rwanda
- Sudan forced to cancel Nile Blend tender
- Pertamina moves to acquire Verenex's Libya oil field
- Chinese firm wins power construction deal in Botswana
- NNPC produces below 100,000 barrels of oildaily
- Power plant builder Technopromexport and Libya set up energy venture
- South Africa and Mozambique to construct power station
- Sasol pursues plan for coal-to-liquids plant
- Thefts still causing Mozambique's electricity company large losses
- Nigerian and US firms set to build refinery in Edo
- Nigeria assures oil firms of protection
- Capital Oil invests in Nigeria's petroleum distribution facilities
- South Africa may postpone energy projects because of financial crisis
- Kenya taps into Brazil's ethanol expertise
- Tanzania to save $ 6 bn by using natural gas instead of oil imports
- Hashi Empex invests in Rwanda
- Chad exemplifies oil corruption
- Saipem wins LNG contract from Sonatrach
- SDE Energy to build 100 MW wave power plant in Africa
- CNPC lays foundation for refineries in Chad and Niger
- NLNG's spending tops $ 13 bn
- $ 500 mm loan will help Eskom's power expansion ahead
- Hyundai and Hanwha win Algerian refinery upgrading contract
- Indian consortia win oil exploration blocks in Egypt
- PetroSA's Coega refinery moves ahead
- Total to pick stakes in ONGC Mittal's Nigerian oil blocks
- Aker wins oil and gas deepwater license in Gulf of Guinea
- KBR wins Angolan refinery contract
- Brazil's Odebrecht Oil unit to drill in Angola's Block 16
- Nigeria insists on end of year deadline for gas
flaring
- Apache's Egyptian discovery shows good result
- Nigeria demands $ 231 mm signature bonus from KNOC for two oil blocks
- Chevron to sell 165 gas stations in East Africa
- South African and Malaysian oil firms start oil exploration in Mozambique
- Bowleven and SNH agree on PSC for offshore Cameroon
- Spain-Algeria pipeline nears completion
- Foster Wheeler wins Libyan refinery contract
- Shell Global Solutions to conduct study for Mozambique refinery
- Oil drilling in West Nile area to be delayed
- Canadian oil firm in Somalia's Puntland hires foreign guards
- CNPC's starts construction of Chad refinery
- China starts work on oil refinery in Niger
- Natural gas to boost Zimbabwe's power production
- NNPC begins oil exploration in Lake Chad basin
- Uganda to get 80 % oil revenue from recent discovery
- Total Nigeria signs contracts for OML 58 upgrade
- Former LBR head may have engaged in rigged bids on Nigerian projects
- Gazprom signs MoU with Equatorial Guinea's Ministry
- Ethiopia signs PSC with Calvalley Petroleum
- Liberia finds out more information on LEC fuel oil scam
- Ugandan residents vow to block power project over compensation
- Nigeria shelves plans to sell NNPC and PPMC
- Nigeria moves to save Escravos gas project
- NNPC and joint venture partners support presidential directive to IOCs
- Eterna invested N 10 bn in Nigeria's downstream sector in last two years
- Chevron admits to acting alone on $ 5.2 bn Escravos contract scam
- Credit crisis may spur oil mergers in Africa
- Petronas and Empresa Nacional win two blocks in Mozambique
- Nigerian firm plans power plant in three northern states
- Nigeria may delay take-off date for Brass LNG and OKLNG projects
- Nigeria's energy mix and climate change
- Power plant construction underway in Kenya
- Nigerian state signs deal with Chinese firm for ethanol factory
- Afren-Sojitz alliance to jointly pursue acquisition opportunities in Africa
- Chevron Angola expects daily oil production of 620,000 barrels in 2009
- ONGC-Mittal
venture plans refinery in Nigeria
- Oil companies back TGS-Nopec for Liberia survey
- Sasol in appeal because it was unaware of cartel's activities
- Eritrea and Defba sign oil exploration and development agreements
- National Oil Corporation of Kenya injects Sh 60 mm to boost its capacity
- IOC-OIL arm to scout for oil assets in CIS and African countries
- Egypt struggles to meet demand growth for natural gas
- PetroSA wins licence for Coega refinery
- Nigerian firm acquires VLCC
- Two companies win petroleum exploration bid in Liberia
- Tanzania faces impending power crisis
- Lundin partners up with Global African Energy in Ethiopia
- Galsi and Snam confirm Algeria-Italy
pipeline plans
- WAGP and the future of electricity in the sub-region
- Saipem wins $ 830 mm in drilling contracts in West Africa and Egypt
- NNPC to build three refineries
- Nigerian firm to invest $ 200 mm in solar energy plant
- Kenya extends gas plant tender
- Nigeria to sell state-run pipeline and gas companies
- GdF Suez acquires exploration and production license in Libya
- Gasol, EdF and Afren in African gas venture
- Petrobras to search for subsalt oil in Angola
- Mozambique to invest $ 2.5 bn in new power line
- Chevron continues selling gas stations in West Africa
- PetroSA wins top energy award
- Nigerian militants storm Shell's flow
station complex
- OIL to start drilling Libyan fields in 2009
- Garware Offshore to tap African oil exploration market
- Heritage Oil receives approval from Tanzania to farm-in
- Nigerian militants threaten tankers and pipelines in "oil war"
- Technip wins deals from BP for subsea oilfield developments in Angola
- Dresser-Rand wins pioneering LNG project offshore Nigeria
- Sasol and IDC study viability of CTL plant
- Exxon and CGX Energy scan Guyana's coast for oil and gas
- Shell underscores Nigeria's first 4D seismic acquisition for Bonga field
- Fugro wins seismic contract in Guyana
- Petronas wins offshore blocks in Mozambique
- Sasol unveils three-year capex plan
- Universal wins stake in offshore Namibia concession
- ENI acquires First Calgary and increases Algerian asset portfolio
- The biofuels war in Africa
- Sonatrach wants to increase its natural gas reserves in Africa
- Gazprom and Nigeria plan joint venture
- Sasol reduces interest in Nigerian gas-to-liquids project
- Sasol and Osho win Mozambican gas tender
- Heritage may upgrade potential reserves at Kingfisher well off Uganda
- US firm to build refinery in Nigeria
- Repsol and Woodside sign Liberian oil exploration deals
- PetroSA to search for oil in Venezuela's Orinoco belt
- India's Aban wins deal from Maersk Angola
- China's oil rush in Africa --
Nigeria
- Petrofac begins gas production at Tunisia's Chergui field
- Petrobras starts producing in Nigerian oilfield
- Noble and partners test positive results at Equatorial Guinea well
- Nigeria awards $ 660 mm in contracts to extend key gas pipeline
- Videocon and Bharat Petroleum buy 10 % each in Mozambique oil block
- Vanco and LUKoil lease drillship for Ghana's deep water
- Libya signs $ 300 mm pipeline deal with DR of Congo
- Petrofac starts up gas production at Tunisia's Chergui field
- Work on South Africa-Mozambique pipeline delayed by a month
- World Bank approves $ 125 mm for WAGP gas project
- South Africa plans LNG plant to ease power shortage
- NNPC plans two more
refineries
- Shell struggles to make real progress in fixing Nigerian oil pipeline
- Zambia bans BP from buying petroleum products from Tanzania
- Nigeria warns oil firms to share gas or be punished
- Libya to start supplying Sarir crude to Indonesia in October
- Kizomba C begins production for ExxonMobil
- ENI and Sonangol sign MoU to develop Angola's industrial economy
- Libya buys Shell's subsidiaries in three African nations
- Botswana's electricity utility approves private-power plan
- Ethiopia signs oil exploration deal with Falcon
- Portugal invests in oil and gas production in Libya and Brazil
- Kenya extends oil exploration contracts
- Nigerian unrest spurs new
developments across Sub-Saharan Africa
- Geotrace wins 3D seismic project offshore Libya
- Libya signs contract for refinery upgrade with UAE firms
- Petrofac secures further gas plant project in Egypt
- Nigeria reveals $ 2 bn oil block was sold for $ 5 mm
- BP awards contract for work on Block 31 off Angola to Heerema
- Chevron produces first oil from Nigerian Agbami field
- Nigeria's DPR clarifies eight missing oil blocks
- Nigeria's oil production drops below 1 mm bpd
- ExxonMobil starts up NGL II project in Nigeria
- Tunisia grants drilling licence to GB Petroleum and ETAP
- Algeria signs deal with Italian/Japanese consortium for LNG train
- BP and partners secure oil
developments in Angola
- AES to invest $ 1.2 bn in Cameroon's electricity by 2011
- BP starts up production from Egypt's Taurt gas field
- Saipem and Chiyoda win contract for Algerian LNG plant
- Saipem wins orders in Saudi Arabia and Nigeria
- Nigeria plans new refineries to satisfy domestic consumption
- Uganda signs oil production pact with Tullow
- Nigeria calls for closer cooperation with Thailand
- NNDC and AFC partner on oil exploration in Chad basin
- Thai consortium proposes $ 2 bn investment in Nigeria
- Libya wins better terms for oilfield contracts
- Tatneft to drill exploratory oil wells in Libya and Syria
- Total, Repsol and OMV sign contract with Libya's
NOC
- Tullow appraises Jubilee oilfield off Ghana
- European energy giants vie for access to North Africa
- Sasol to drill offshore Mozambique
- Total says Brass LNG project can help bring stability to Nigeria
- Africa Oil commences 2D seismic in Somalia
- Petroleos de Mocambique plans $ 100 mm expansion
- Algeria invites bids for oil and gas exploration
- Gazprom eyes electricity joint venture in Libya
- Al Ghurair and ETA Ascon Star Group conclude deal with Libya
- Engen acquires Shell's downstream business in Zimbabwe
- African Petroleum and PENGASSAN sign pact over Chevron's equity shares
- Gazprom weighs up pipeline to pump Libyan gas to Europe
- Shell initiates EU assistance for Niger Delta
- Gazprom to buy Libyan oil and gas
- Indian explorers lose Nigerian licences
- Uganda's president reveals national oil plan
- More oil blocks face revocation in Nigeria
- ENI optimistic about oil in Mozambique
- Sasol's Mozambique gas programme to last nine years
- Nigerian Imo State and Addax partner on LPG plant
- OVL shortlisted to qualify as operator for deepwater blocks in Angola
- Kenya invites Indian firms to explore for oil
- Liberia opens bidding round for new petroleum blocks
- Total gears up to drill for oil in Sudan
- Sonatrach signs US gas supply agreements
- Libya beats
Essar for stake in Kenyan refinery
- Lundin to acquire stake in CNOOC's northern Kenyan oil rights
- Shell spends $ 500 mm in Nigerian oil and gas project
- Petrobras to start pumping oil in Nigeria
- Saipem wins contracts in Kuwait and Angola
- Taqa to build wind farm in northern Morocco
- Will abundant natural gas make life easier in Tanzania?
- Occidental and OMV sign deals in Libya
- EnerGulf continues drilling at Kuene well offshore Namibia
- Indian firms eye stake in Mozambique block
- RWE makes inroads into Mauritania
- Libya hires Goldman Sachs for advice on oil production
- Petro-Canada signs six new EPSA deals with Libya
- ExxonMobil may be
fined by Equatorial Guinea for flaring gas
- Asian refiners cut West African imports on profit drop
- The bear and the dragon in Africa
- Vitol to build storage tanks at Libya's Ras Lanuf
- Uganda starts construction of oil refinery
- Nigeria plans to double oil output by 2010
- Petronas defers plans for Sudan refinery
- ENI and Libya's NOC sign petroleum contracts
- CGGVeritas works with Gabon on new licensing round
- Nigeria's Akwa Ibom government signs gas MoU with StatoilHydro consortium
- GE Energy receives contract for power project in Algeria
- Kosmos completes test on Mahogany-2 well offshore Ghana
- PetroSA to invest $ 11 bn in oil refinery
- Flex LNG signs deal to develop Nigerian floating liquefaction project
- Nigeria signs gas exploration deal with Indian and Bahraini companies
- Forty firms apply for oil exploration permits in Uganda
- MOL signs deal with Libya
- OIL consortium signs pact for blocks in Libya
- NNPC and SPDC sign $ 3.1 bn pact
- Centrica and Nigerian state sign deal for LNG plant
- Algiers plans $ 10 bn extension to midstream pipeline network
- PetroSA increases size of planned refinery
- Total aims to be No. 1 in Angolan oil production in 2-3 years
- Remington signs MoU with Nigeria
- Gazprom to build gas pipelines and generating facilities in Africa
- Nigeria signs MoU with
Russian firm
- LUKoil to invest $ 100 mm in Ghana
- Shell to leave Nigeria's Ogoniland by December
- NNPC cannot show records of gas sold by NLNG for ten years
- CNPC wins Niger deal to develop oil reserves in eastern Niger
- Mozambique successfully sells 10 % of hydrocarbon company
- IPIC board approves plan for Morocco refinery
- Aminex announces results of well in Tanzania
- Tanzania signs two more deals for oil exploration
- "I was shot by soldiers bought and paid for by Chevron"
- PetroSA signs technical agreement to study new oil and gas potential
- Saipem wins two contracts in Egypt and Angola
- Is Namibia sitting on oil?
- NNPC begins crude oillifting
- Kobil wins oil import tender in Kenya
- India and Egypt focus on expanding energy ties
- Heerema completes construction of Hasdrubal platform
- Mauritania bounces back
- ENI to invest in Republic of Congo under new cooperative process
- OVL to give up Libyan hydrocarbon blocks
- Nigeria signs financial deal with Mobil and Total
- Kenya Pipeline Company floats tenders for 325-km pipeline
- Nigeria orders steps to recover over $ 1.9 bn from Exxon and Shell
- Eskom awards contract to consortium for new power station
- White Nile to acquire Energy Africa's Nigerian oil projects
- Sabotage accounts for 59 % of oil spills in Nigeria
- The oil find
in Ghana
- Uganda gives out more power licenses
- Sonangol acquires stake in Millennium Angola's capital
- Australia's Beach Petroleum eyes Tanzania
- Future of Nigeria's oil at risk
- Uganda and Congo agree to finance border resurvey in oil region
- Namibian energy projects will need about N$ 10 bn
- US probes oil industry payments in Nigeria
- Sudan's largest refinery under major maintenance
- Nigeria LNG to mull gas policy before moving ahead with expansion
- Sonatrach to start marketing gas in southern Europe
- Shell Nigeria finds gas flaring deadline not achievable
- New oil field in West Africa is largest in region's waters
- Gasol to acquire remaining 80 % of African LNG
- Galp Energia buys Shell's fuels businesses in Africa
- Nigeria to become environmentally friendly
- Sonatrach sells gas to Spanish utility directly
- OMV acquires Tunisian license
- Global oil industry focus is on the African continent
- Tullow announces results of Mahogany-2 well offshore Ghana
- Winds of change blow in Tanzania
- Hess Libya awards seismic contract to Norwegian firm
- Zambia wants independent management at refinery
- RWE Dea tests gas on Egypt's Disouq concession
- Viability of African refineries under scrutiny
- Total brings Congo field on stream
- Hess to acquire 2D seismic off Libya
- StatoilHydro produces 200,000 barrels of oil per day in Angola
- OMV acquires oil exploration licence in Tunisia
- Seven more firms seek licence for gas exploration in Kenya
- Heritage to explore for oil in Tanzania
- Sonatrach to launch tender for oil, gas exploration blocks
- Libya seeks strategic partner for Tamoil
- Mozambique builds fuel storage tanks
- Africa now a force in global gas industry
- China and India to build export-oriented refineries in Nigeria
- Hope springs from Nigeria’s offshore oil
- Nigerian official sees "huge potential" for pipeline infrastructure
- ONGC and L.N. Mittal to partner with Total in Nigerian blocks
- Cairn unit wins oil exploration licence in Tunisia
- OVL makes offer to develop three oil blocks in Angola
- Sintezneftegaz begins oil exploration in Namibia
- CNOOC intensifies search for oil in Kenya
- Cameroon signs deal with consortium for Douala/Kribi-Campo basin
- Island Oil & Gas wins Morocco license
- Making the Nigerian upstream sector work
- Sasol to produce world's first synthetic jet fuel
- Libya is reasserting its historical position in hydrocarbon industry
- How Shell put out twin pipeline fires in Ogoniland
- Enelsigns gas cooperation deal with Egypt's Egas
- Gazprom and ENI plan to jointly pipe natural gas from Libya to Europe
- Devon to sell assets in Equatorial Guinea to shift focus to Gulf of Mexico
- Abu Dhabi firm buys 20 % of Shell's Algerian venture
- CNPC to export over 30 oil rigs in 2008 to Russia and Africa
- Uganda to reach full-scale oil production in 5 years
- Swiss company to explore for oil in Cameroon
- Mozambique announces new oil refinery project
- Niger Delta youths sue Shell, Total and other oil firms
- Gazprom discusses Libyan deposits with ENI and Enel
- ONGC willing to pay up to $ 1 bn for three blocks in Angola
- Nigerian Usan development offers opportunity for high local content
- NLNG's Train-Seven project to generate $ 1 bn annually
- India turns to Angola
- Asian refiners increase crude oil shipments from West Africa
- M trans-Saharan pipeline
- Libya to redefine all contracts with oil companies
- Asian firms flock to Kenya in search of big deals
- RWE Dea starts offshore gas field development in Nile Delta
- Africa seeks big investments from India Inc
- Egypt's natural gas operations and plans
- Total seeks to establish strategic partnership with Sonatrach in Mauritania
- Shell-Nigerian government venture to boost production
- Kenyan refinery upgrade to cost Sh 20 bn
- Saipem wins Nigerian Usan contract from Total
- Dana Gas to drill nineteen new wells in Egypt
- Sasol plans to sell 10 % stake to black investors
- Eskom receives tenders to build new power plants
- Galp Energia forms biofuels venture in Mozambique
- Egypt launches oil and gas licensing round for Upper Egypt
- Madagascar produces oil for first time in 60 years
- Conoil and Total sign agreement for Nigerian deepwater oil block
- Tullow Oil to invest $ 200 mm in Ugandan exploration activities this year
- Algeria to generate electricity from renewable energy sources
- Nigeria LNG Train 6 targets commercial delivery in April
- Uganda to reclaim Jinja fuel reserve from private firms
- Work begins on Algeria-Europe gas pipeline
- Libya wants to increase oilfield stakes
- NNPC to import Venezuelan heavy crude for Kaduna plant
- Heritage to explore for oil in northern Uganda
- Nigeria bans Swiss firm over adulterated fuel importation
- Eskom awards power contracts to Alstom and Hitachi
- Kenya-Uganda oil pipeline project to kick off in May
- Kuwait Energy conducting surveys of reservoirs in western Egyptian desert
- Afren signs production sharing contracts for Nigerian gas projects
- HHI wins $ 1.6 bn order for FPSO from Elf Petroleum Nigeria
- Libya gives state-run fund full control of Tamoil
- Noble and Transocean protest Nigerian shipping fees
- New Egyptian-Algerian joint venture company to be
established
- Eskom plans wind energy farm
- Total Gabon launches re-development of Anguille field
- Libya and ExxonMobil sign final oil and gas accords
- PetroVietnam signs oil and gas deal with Tunisia
- Indonesia to team up with Libya to build new refinery
- Nigerian Usan field to pump first oil by 2011
- Tanzania seeks foreign firm for oil revenue-sharing plan
- PGNiG to spend $ 108 mm to search for oil and gas in Libya
- Kenya Pipeline Company undertakes major renovations
- ONGC-Mittal Energy wins oil contract in Trinidad
- What did Kenya promise the Libyans?
- Fuel storage plans could mean double new boost for South Africa’s bay
- Fenosa and E.ONto build second LNG train in Gulf of Guinea
- Nigerian government remains tough on gas flaring
- Nigeria to enter waste-to-power project
- Rosneft Stroytransgaz to begin Algerian oil extraction in 2011
- Nigeria to review contracts with Shell, ExxonMobil and others
- South Africa to invest in Eskom's power generation projects
- Klesch signs $8 bn deal with Libya
- Kuwait and Morocco to jointly explore for oil in Morocco
- Vietnamese firms win drilling permits in Tunisia
- Indian Essar wins refinery contract in Kenya
- Start-up of West African gas pipeline delayed till April
- How Tanzania is choking over power fraud
- Shell Nigeria is committed to ending gas flaring
- Gazprom revives hope in Nigeria’s North
- Congo and Saudi Rawabi to quadruple capacity at refinery
- Ethiopia welcomes Russian oil and gas companies
- Shell Nigeria recovers 200,000 bpd shut-in production
- Investors line up for Nigerian LNG
- Ghana receives first Nigerian gas via WAGP
- Angola gives green light for new LNG plant
- Solar power could be the answer to Botswana’s power crisis
- Nigeria generates over $ 2 bn from oil blocks
- Nigeria believes oil companies should pay compensation
- Ocean Rig wins Ghana contract from Tullow Oil
- Nigeria awards most oil deals to foreign firms without investments
- Egypt to pay higher natural gas price to
international firms
- West Africa Power Pool signs MoU with Chinese firm
- Foster Wheeler wins Southern African pipeline upgrade contract
- Sasol to build gas compression station to boost country's gas supply
- Nigeria cancels exploration incentive deal with oil companies
- NNPC sets up shipping firm for Nigerian LNG
- Lawmakers ratify BP deal with Libya
- ConocoPhillips and Angola LNG sign license deal for technology
- KNOC buys Tullow's stake in Congo oil field
- Kenya issues 20 new oil exploration licences
- All of South Africa’s power plants operate under capacity
- RWE Dea wins exploration license in Libya
- Russians to drill for oil in Namibia
- Tullow Oil to invest $ 200 mm in Uganda in 2008
- Dana Gas to invest $ 500 mm in Egypt and Iraq’s Kurdish province
- Shell takes a new step for Libyan LNG
- NNPC and three others sign LNG transportation agreement
- Petrofac unit wins Mozambique contract from Sasol
- Afren, African LNG and E.ON reach Nigerian LNG deal
- Oil firms in Nigeria lobby for 2010 gas-flaring deadline
- Tullow leaving Pakistan for better returns in Africa
- ExxonMobil awards contract to Nigerian firms
- Eskom thinks South Africa cannot handle new projects due to lack of energy
- Essar to purchase 50 % of Kenyan refinery
- Zulu Energy acquires local firm in Botswana
- Foreign firms plan
$ 10 bn gas project in Nigerian Akwa Ibom State
- Kizomba C development pushes Angola close to OPEC quota cap
- Russia eyes Nigerian gas
- UAE firms sign deal for Libyan refinery upgrade
- Indian firm wins in-principle power contract in Nigeria
- Eskom to invest in South Africa’s power supply upgrade
- Hyundai wins Libyan power plant deal
- Technip and Acergy win contract for oil field offshore Angola
- Mittal plans to set up refineries in Congo and Nigeria
- Shell and NDDC sign MoU on projects
- Libya awards gas acreage to foreign oil companies
- Liberia opens bidding for 10 offshore oil blocks
- Mittal plans refineries in Congo and Nigeria
- Zulu
Energy completes acquisition of Botswana licenses
- China Oilfield Services wins Libyan deal to supply drill rigs
- Lundin secures $ 1 bn to fund exploration in Kenya and other sites
- Angolan-Russian consortium wins license for oil/gas prospecting
- MOL signs MoU with Libyan Investment Authority
- Japanese firms eyeing Libyan refinery
- Nigeria seeks bigger slice of oil profits
- Israeli Dorad signs gas deal with Egypt's EMG
- Cote d'Ivoire hands rights to foreign trio
- India Inc seeks coal in Mozambique
- India plans $ 9 bn venture with Egypt
- Chevron Nigeria identifies factors to stem gas flaring
- Chevron announces approval for Angola LNG project
- Gazprom and Shell to explore for oil and gas reserves in Africa
- IOC plans refinery joint venture in Egypt
- Galp Energia signs agreement on biofuel development in Mozambique
- Newly-built power plants in Mozambique could raise cost of power imports
- PTT buys 25 % of Egypt’s East Mediterranean Gas
- Dutch firm wins oil prospecting permit in Guinea-Bissau
- Gambia signs electricity deal with Jordanian company
- Gaz de France and Sonatrach extend LNG contracts to 2019
- Galp, ENI, Repsol-YPF and Gas Natural to join Sonangol in consortium
- ArcelorMittal plans to build pipe mill in Nigeria
- Libya signs deals with ExxonMobil, Occidental and OMV
- RAK gas distributor wants to join
exploration venture in Tanzania
- Acergy wins contract for work in West Africa
- Uganda seeks more oil investors
- BP awards EPC to Petrofac for In Salah compression
- Pioneer to expand operations in Tunisia
- Kenya drafts new conditions for oil prospectors
- Italian firm signs MoU for 400 MW wind farm in Egypt
- Nigeria threatens with hefty fines on gas flaring after 2008 deadline
- Heerema delivers platform template for Angola
- Nigeria will not revoke India's oil blocks
- Keppel wins conversion contract for first FDPSO in Republic of Congo
- Botswana Power Corporation invites proposals for a new power plant
- Nigeria: Will gas flaring end in January?
- Ethiopia: The mining and energy sector
- Ghana to enjoy natural gas by yearend
- Oil firms give $ 362 mm toward Niger Delta development in 4 years
- ENI invites Gazprom to join its North African projects
- Dockwise and Grand Bahama sign deal for damaged Mighty Servant 3
- Island Oil & Gas wins permit in Morocco's Tarfaya Basin
- Hasdrubal platform being constructed for Tunisia
- Longreach Oil & Gas wins rights to seven exploration permits in Morocco
- ExxonMobil to explore in Libya's offshore Sirte Basin
- FLEX to help boost Nigeria’s LNG industry
- Zimbabwe’s Zesa to enter power deal with Chinese investor
- Nigeria restates commitment to gas-flaring deadline mandate
- New Ivory Coast refinery expected to begin operations by 2011
- Pertamina seeks crude oil from Libya for proposed Java refinery
- Shell streamlines Nigerian units
- ABB wins contract to strengthen Namibia’s power grid
- Russian firm to explore for oil in Namibia
- Eskom signs contracts with Hitachi and Alstom
- Afren to acquire block interests in Ghana and Angola
- Oranje-Nassau Energy acquires Devon’s Gabon play
- Uganda bets on blessings of newly discovered oil fields
- Nigerian Senate condemns Shell over oil spillage
- IOC to raise annual oil imports from Nigeria
- Canadian Vangold Resources starts oil exploration in Rwanda
- Centrica, StatoilHydro and CCC
to investigate LNG projects in Nigeria
- Galsi and Snam sign MoU for new pipeline from Algeria to Italy
- ONGC eyes Sudan oil blocks
- MOL acquires 40 % stake in Cameroon oil field
- Saipem signs pipeline contract with Sonatrach
- African states flex muscles with Western oil companies
- Global Industries signs contract with Chevron Nigeria
- German company invests in South African oil and gas operations
- NNPC's oil and gas assets base hit $ 56 bn
- Gaz De France strengthens its presence in Egyptian upstream
- OMV signs MoU to join IPIC in Middle East, North Africa and Caspian
- Nigeria to stop cash call payments to oil majors
- Nigeria to revise terms at Shell's Bonga
field
- Liberia to open second oil licensing round
- Mozambique plans third licensing round
- Clean coal technology can revive oil reserves in South Africa
- Groundstar to shoot seismic over Egypt's Kom Ombo basin
- Eskom brings eco-friendly lights to homeowners
- Shell chief talks about sustainable development in Africa
- PetroSA awards contract for oil refinery to KBR
- Nigerian WAPP signs MoU with foreign electric power experts
- Dodsal signs deal for Tanzanian oil and gas development
- Pressure on oil companies grows to end gas flaring in Nigeria
- Nigeria sees low participation of indigenous firms in oil and gas sector
- Petrofac enters MoU in Equatorial Guinea
- Uganda's oil find changes balances for Kenya’s pipeline
- Tanzania floats tender for six oil blocks
- Interoil expands exploration into Angola
- Egypt invests $ 109 mm in solar power
- Angola to produce 5 mm tons of LNG annually
- Naftoil joins Gulf Regal in securing exploration rights in Mauritania
- Sonangol and Odebrecht sign bio-energy production accord
- JBIC signs MoU with Egyptian oil and gas companies
- Mozambique signs agreement to build refinery in Nacala
- Sonatrach to expand petroleum gas complex
- ENI signs deal for joint oil and gas projects with Libya
- Oil companies owe Uganda billions
- Indian Oil to follow Nigerian rules for refinery
project
- Nigeria to revise contracts of multinational oil companies
- Production at Angola’s Marimba North field starts
- Nigerian LNG plants to feed NTPC stations in India
- PetroSA makes plans for new oil and gas facilities
- Aminex signs PSC in Kenya
- Vangold signs deal to explore for oil in Kenya
- Angola starts production at Greater Plutonio development
- Uganda pledges not to waste oil money
- Hellenic Petroleum signs deal for Egyptian project
- CNPC invests in oil refinery in Chad
- Angola LNG project to produce 5 mm tons of gas per year
- Lundin Petroleum signs production-sharing contract with Kenya
- Nigeria’s Brass LNG to begin
construction
- Pioneer begins production at South Coast Gas project
- Nigeria’s Kaduna Refinery may resume production soon
- Mozambique cancels contract with power company
- Mozambique approves oil refinery project
- Ten private firms want to generate power in Uganda
- NNPC-Chevron venture commits N 53 mm on capacity building
- Eskom opens power stations in South Africa
- Mozambique sees promising signs of oil in Rovuma Basin
- Woodside sells Mauritanian oil interests
- Petronet in talks with Algeria for importing LNG
- Addax buys into new block off Nigeria
- Equatorial Guinea awards seven new oil blocks
- Nigerian graduates threaten Chevron about
employment
- Cancellation of deals unlikely to deter international business for Algeria
- Murphy awards contract to Technip for West African oil field
- Kenya’s power demand expected to rise by 500 %
- CNOOC invests in Nigerian oil and gas field
- Libya's wealth of opportunities may come at a high price
- US oil company to enter Ethiopia’s fuel distribution market
- Transnet gets approval to build pipeline in South Africa
- BP invests in Namibian storage facility
- Zimbabwe receives power boost from Mozambique
- Petrofac’s Brownfield wins LNG contract in Equatorial Guinea
- Indian firm wins bid for Nigerian power company
- Morocco signs oil deal with UK company
- Egypt to organize three oil and gas rounds by yearend
- CNPC and CNOOC expected to sign deal for Guinea project
- ATI wins Tunisian exploration permit
- Sasol to sell 10 % stake worth $ 2.5 bn to black South Africans
- Petrobras to invest $ 900 mm in Angola between 2008 and 2012
- Nigeria tasks oil firms on Niger Delta development
- South Africa to incentivize private energy firms
- Libya prequalifies 56 firms in license round
- Gazprom, LUKoil and Novatek bid for oil deposits in Libya
- Libya Oil eyes petroleum refinery plant in Kenya
- Algeria turns away from Repsol and Gas Natural
- Kenyan oil consumers set for relief as low cost players enter market
- World Bank lists Nigeria and others high on gas flaring reduction
- Nigeria earns $ 2.28 bn from oil blocks in four years
- Ghana Oil Company to go public
- Petrofac to acquire stake in Mozambique-South Africa pipeline
- China gambles on Somalia's unseen oil
- Tower Resources and Neptune Petroleum join forces in Uganda
- Kenyan refinery looks for financers to upgrade Mombasa plant
- AES wins bid to build South African power stations
- Angola sets date to start building Soyo LNG plant
- NNPC insists there are no discrepancies in oil records
- Madagascar grants oil and gas lease to Pan African Mining affiliate
- WESCO to inject $ 11 bn into Nigerian power sector
- Somalia struggles to tap Western oil investment
- Chevron assesses Nigerian gas flare project
- BP extends its activities in Angola
- Citadel Capital to build refinery in Egypt
- Some 50 local and foreign firms explore for oil in Tunisia
- Kenya sees drop in use of oil products
- Tullow Oil's Congo exploration pact to be cancelled
- Shell loses $ 10.6 bn to Niger Delta crisis
- CityView to review oil permits in Angola
- Egypt plans to cut natural gas subsidies
- Exploration in Uganda to be extended to West Nile region
- Nigeria enters controversial privatisation of NNPC
- Petronas to develop Ethiopian Ogaden area
- Sasol earmarks $
5 bn for CTL plant
- BP awards contract for Greater Plutonio field off Angola
- South African energy group Oando unbundled for sales
- NNPC head fired
- US firm invests $ 4 bn in Nigeria
- Nigerian police seek recipients of $ 6 mm oil bribe
- Algeria aims to tap vast sunbelt to export solar energy to Europe
- Medco to expand oil business to Somalia
- Chinese now eye Tanzania’s power sector
- There is room for everyone in Big Oil Angola
- Somalia wants to create petroleum firm with Indonesia and Kuwait
- NNPC finds 40 bbl oil reserve by 2010 not feasible
- South Africa needs energy-supply security
- Total announces acquisition of interest in Nigerian
oilfield
- Uganda halts oil exploration licenses as new policy awaits approval
- Angola LNG to charter LNG transportation vessels
- South Africa’s Communists Party seeks nationalisation of Sasol
- World Bank probes Chevron-operated Nigerian pipeline for violations
- Russian company is hopeful of oil in Namibia
- Sonatrach bows to EU pressure to open up gas supply contracts
- Lloyd's secures oil and gas contracts in Libya
- BP-Angola to produce 200,000 oil barrels from September
- PGNiG to drill for oil in Egypt
- Enigma believes Namibia has potential in oil and gas production
- Shell resumes business in Western Kenya
- Petrol One to form venture with Korean consortium for Africanexpansions
- Dominion Petroleum signs up for oil exploration in Uganda
- Total expands Nigerian deepwater position
- IOC-OIL acquisition entity to be set up in Mauritius
- Afren and Excel to develop field off Nigeria
- Total acquires 40 % stake in OML 136 offshore Nigeria
- UK firm wins oil search contract for Kenya
- China pulls out of four exploration blocks in Kenya
- China’s brave attempt in Somalia’s hostile terrain
- CNPC wins contract for Kenyan pipeline
- Somali government to be paid bonuses from Chinese oil discoveries
- Pipeline feeding Shell’s Nigerian Bonny terminal on fire
- Total signs $ 3 bn contract with Sonatrach
- Total starts work atNigerian Ofon field
- RWE Dea extends contract for Egyptian concessions
- CNOOC to lead search for oil in Somalia
- Algeria and KBR sign $ 2.88 bn deal for liquefied natural gas pipeline
- Mangalore Refinery to supply petroleum products to Mauritius
- Britain's White Nile asked to withdraw from disputed oil block in Sudan
- Cygam Energy unit wins oil exploration rights in Tunisia
- Controversy continues over oil block in Sudan
- Hellenic signs deal for exploration rights in Egypt’s West Obayed region
- CNPC signs deal to develop offshore oil in Sudan
- Kenyan oil corporation to receive state funding
- Oriental Energy Resources acquires Nigerian Ebok oil field
- Pakistan's
Petroleum Exploration signs deal with Moroccan firm
- Shell battles over Nigerian oil block with Malabu Oil and Gas
- Pertamina joins CNPC in Sudan oil block deal
- Chinese firm to consult for pipeline extension in Kenya
- Total starts oil production at Rosa field off Angola
- Tullow to spend $ 104 mm on drilling in Namibia
- Sonatrach’s marketing restrictions could endanger pipeline to Spain
- Total to spend $ 7.5 bn in Nigerian oil and gas industry
- Statoil tests gas in Algeria's Hassi Tidjerane West well
- Heritage Oil estimates Ugandan oil discovery at $ 7 bn
- BP to share oil and gas discoveries with Libya
- Essar wins offshore oil block in Nigeria
- Zambia orders refinery
to release more diesel stocks
- Oil politics: Bringing China on board in Uganda
- Iranian firm to upgrade Kenyan power project
- Nigeria reverts disputed oil block to Malabu Oil and Gas
- India allows ONGC to buy stake in Egyptian block from Shell
- Nigeria Brass signs contract for LNG export project
- PGNiG wins bid for Bahariya concession in Egypt
- Shell denies plan to move out of Niger Delta
- Agip urged to clean up oil spillage in Nigeria’s Bayelsa state
- Madagascar approves Candax PSA
- Petronas assessing bids for Sudan refinery project
- Libya sells Tamoil to US firm Colony
- Libyan Tamoil wins refinery deal in Kenya
- First Calgary Petroleums
wins contract from Sonatrach
- Hellenic Petroleum moves into Egypt
- AT&V sells oil storage and pipeline equipment to Ghana
- White Nile to join consortium in South Sudan
- Leni announces seismic start-up offshore Malta
- Shell says security issues delay plans to end gas flaring in Nigeria
- Ghana invites Samsung to invest in refinery
- Kenya Power and Lighting to upgrade sub-stations
- BP is lucky in Libya
- Dangote Group signs MoUs with NNPC
- Nigeria's shut-in oil output now 740,000 bpd
- Mozambique to issue more gas exploration licences
- Enagas to study Nigeria-Algeria pipeline project if it materialises
- Nigeria hands over privatized refineries
to investors
- China-built Papalanto gas power station starts operation in Nigeria
- Aminex unit eyes Tanzanian oil
- BP agrees on exploration and production deal with Libya
- Kenya to sign oil exploration deal with four firms
- Statoil wins Tanzanian petroleum exploration area
- Energy conference urges Africans to tap gas supplies
- East Africa attracts hunters for oil and gas
- Dana Oil & Gas wins Nigerian oil block
- Shell resumes oil output at Bonny Light field
- Shell resumes 170,000 bpd production in Niger Delta
- Nigeria’s privatisation program enters critical stage
- Essar Energy wins oil block in Nigeria
- Blue Star offers $ 561 mm for
Nigerian oil refinery
- IOC to import Azeri and Angolan oil to reduce dependence on Nigeria
- Shell seeks $ 500 mm in damages from Nigerian court
- Essar to invest $ 3.4 bn in Egyptian refinery
- ExxonMobil Nigeria invests $ 3 bn to end gas flaring by 2008
- Kenya seeks new partners to upgrade Mombassa oil refinery
- Conoil and Dangote battle for Nigerian oil blocks
- Nigeria's outgoing government sells oil concessions
- ENI to invest $ 12 bn in Egyptian natural gas operations
- PdVSA and PetroGambia to continue offshore exploration activities
- Chevron to pay fine over kickbacks under Saddam Hussein’ regime
- Equatorial Guinea may levy gas fines on ExxonMobil
- Group calls on
Shell Nigeria to respect ruling on gas flaring
- Uganda wants a fair plan for its oil finds
- Canadian Artumas Group signs oil deal for northern Mozambique
- Uganda selects main contractor for oil pipeline
- LUKoil takes control of exploration offshore blocks in Gulf of Guinea
- Shell acquires stake in BP Africa
- Qatar plans new oil refinery in Tunisia
- Dana Gas signs agreement to partner KIOEC in Egypt block
- Canadian Norwood sets well logs at new gas pay in Nicaragua
- Hyundai and NNPC form LNG shipping team
- Equatorial Guinea set to open taps
- Local foreign oil firms in Libya must take local names
- South Africa’s electricity crisis
- Cygam
signs drilling contract for Tunisian well
- Uganda to earn more than 70 % of oil proceeds
- Foreign firms submit bids for Nigerian power transmission
- CNPC refinery in Algeria goes onstream
- South African west coast to power $ 40 mm wave energy project
- Ugandan communities start to benefit from petro-dollars
- Taiwan’s CPC buys three West African VLCCs via tender
- ONGC-Mittal joint venture gets first right over Nigerian block
- Nigeria launches 2007 licensing round in London
- Statoil wins exploration licence in Tanzania
- Afren signs FPSO contract for project offshore Nigeria
- LUKoil puts extension of Egyptian block into effect
- Dana Petroleum makes $ 375 mm acquisition inEgypt
- Angolan private oil company wins international bid in Brazil
- ENI signs exploration agreement in Congo
- Egypt continues Meleiha concession agreement until 2024
- Multinational companies pull out of Nigeria’s Bayelsa State
- Ugandan fuel dealers want regulatory body
- ExxonMobil releases scheme to compensate villagers in Chad
- Naftogaz Ukrainy board approves Egyptian oil project
- Tanzania expects fuel shortage to ease soon
- Itochu agrees with Tullow Oil to buy Namibian gas field stake
- Itochu to acquire stake in Tullow's Namibian LNG operations
- Shell to raise Nigerian oil production
- EdP and Sonatrach form power generation and gas joint venture
- Libya signs oil deal with Taiwan’s CPC
- Libya signs deal with Tatneft
- Brazil studying LNG import deal with Algeria
- ENI to acquire stake in Angolan LNG plant
- Nersa grants Petroline licence for Mozambique-Kendal pipeline
- Dominion seals deal with Tanzania
- Nigeria keeps watchful eye on oil executives
- Angola primes output pumps
- Kenyan state oil firms to build gas plant
- Gazprom to receive share in ENI’s projects in Libya
- South Africa seeks bids for offshore blocks
- Nigeria awards contract for OK LNG projects
- Nigerian firm and UK partner secure loan for oil field
- Sonangol registers nine firms for oil and gas supply
services
- Nigeria may use radar technology for accurate record of oil production
- Kenya extends contract for Woodside
- Premier Oil to sell Mauritanian assets
- World Bank demands compensation for Chad farmers from ExxonMobil
- Pertamina renews term deal for Libyan Sarir crude
- EnerGulf awards offshore Namibian contracts
- Libya raises gas exports to Italy
- Nigeria cancels 18 oil refinery licenses
- West African Gas Pipeline ready for commissioning
- Nigeria to auction 30 oil and gas blocks
- Ethiopia launches power expansion project
- Russian Alrosa to start exploring for crude in Angola
- Eskom lifts spending to R 150 bn
- CNPC expands abroad with pipeline projects in Libya and India
- Libya to launch gas bidding round later in 2007
- Nigeria awards gas pipeline contract to IDT Consortium
- Norwegian Artumas Group seals oil exploration deal with Mozambique
- BP pays Tanzania $ 4.8 mm in back taxes
- JDA, Addax and Sinopec sign pact on deep water drill ship for JDZ
- Gazprom to send gas from Algeria to southern Europe
- Gas Natural to take 10 % stake in Medgaz pipeline project
- Angola’s oil industry expects $ 50 bn investment
- BP risks seeing Libyan gas blocks slip from its grasp
- ENI signs deal for OPL 135 license with NNPC
- Sinopec secures drillship for Nigeria-Sao Tome JDZ
- OVL signs deal for Libyan deepwater area
- America offers to support Uganda in oil explorations
- Namibia needs wind farming electricity-generating plant at coast area
- Angola expects to see $ 50 bn oil investment
- Kenya Pipeline Company announces infrastructural expansion plan
- Fierce scramble for Libyan oil
- Uganda’s oil can feed East African region
- KNOC and CNOOC both win four oil blocks in Nigeria
- Nigeria’s Oando Exploration and partners sign deals with Agip
- Zimbabwe and Namibia sign energy deal
- Angola to increase oil cargos by 21 % in April
- Sinopec-Sonangol partnership as model for further Chinese investment
- PetroVietnam to explore for oilin Nigeria and Cuba
- China selling off Kenyan oil rights it got for free
- NNPC replaces ENI unit as operator of two offshore fields
- Petrobras is investing billions in Africa
- ENI acquires Maurel & Prom’s Congo assets
- Nigeria misses gas supply deadlines to Ghana
- Libya signs three exploration deals
- First Calgary Petroleums and Sonatrach to develop MLE field
- Algeria and Italy sign natural gas deals
- Libya to invest $ 8 bn in refinery upgrades
- Pipeline expected to end fuel crisis in Uganda
- Ethiopia to tender blocks in Ogaden basin
- NNPC thinks rich elites are brains behind pipeline vandalization
- North Atlantic Resources unit wins oil
and gas exploration permit in Mali
- ONGC and ENI sign deal to swap India and Congo exploration blocks
- Enel agrees to supply contract for extra 1 bn cm of gas from Algeria
- Militants frustrate West-African Gas Pipeline Project
- BG Group signs 20-year gas purchase deal with Nigeria
- Building of Durban-Johannesburg pipeline link to finish by 2010
- Nigerian firm to set up oil and gas database
- Namibia getting into renewable energy
- Maurel & Prom to drill more gas at Tanzania’s Dar es Salaam coast
- ENI drills two new exploration wells in Tunisia
- Angola awards key preliminary development contracts
- ExxonMobil signs EPSA deal with Libya’s National Oil Corporation
- British
oil firms pay record settlement in Nigerian bribery case
- Oil majors fine-tune plans for Nigerian gas project
- Nigeria plans new refineries with Venezuela and Iran
- EurOil unveils investment programme for Cameroon
- Chevron unit to build new headquarters in Luanda
- Kenol buys Shell’s Ethiopian operations
- Nigerian shippers to receive new vessels through Chevron
- Petrobras acquires block in Senegal
- Mobil Nigeria unfolds plans to produce 1 mm bpd in 2007
- Namibia inaugurates depot for alternative to petrol and diesel
- India and Libya keen on more tie-ups in oil and gas sector
- Stroytransgaz to take part in three Algerian gas tenders in 2007
- CNPC signs agreement with
Sudan to help improve social facilities
- Kenya to speed up building of power plants
- Chinese firm wins oil pipeline deal in Kenya
- The new scare: A Russia-Algeria gas cartel
- Eldoret-Kampala oil pipeline deal concluded
- IOC proposes greenfield refinery for Nigeria
- Indian minister to visit Libya and Yemen
- Gazprom’s deal with Sonatrach is not an attempt to form cartel
- Oil leak shows weaknesses in Chad-Cameroon pipeline
- NNPC dismisses rumours of coming raise in petroleum products costs
- Nigeria’s Escravos crude oil pipeline to be ready soon
- Ethiopia designs project to increase power supply
- AMEC and Afgas plan gas systems for Equatorial Guinea
- Russia and Algeria to embark on gas expansion
- South Africa puts offshore leases on block
- BG Group sells Mauritania portfolio to KUFPEC
- Rosneft and Stroytransgaz to invest in Algeria
- Ethiopia and Petronas to sign gas development agreement
- Egypt sets up petrochemical company in Port Said
- West African Gas Pipeline Project to come on stream in March
- Poland looks to Algerian gas as alternative to Russian supplies
- Heritage wants more land in western Uganda
- Obasanjo meets Shell and Ogoni leaders over crisis
- IOC plans refinery and gas import terminal in Nigeria
- Nigeria to launch new oil and gas licensing round
- NNPC has about 65 mm barrels of
crude oil missing
- CNPC International to buy EnCana's Chad holdings
- NNPC chief raises alarm over pipeline vandalization
- Nigerian militants free Korean hostages
- NNPC imports 16,000 tons of petrol
- Danger looms for Ghana’s Takoradi pipeline
- Building of Eldoret-Kampala Oil Pipeline could cost $ 90 mm
- Oil exploration activities damage Congo park
- Establishment of first Egyptian-Chinese firm for manufacturing oil rigs
- Algeria signs contract for demolition and recovery of LNG plants
- Petrobras enters into oil exploration deal with Tanzania
- China's oil safari
- Kenya Pipeline Corporation seeks partner to fund pipeline expansion
- Libyan
company wins oil pipeline deal in Uganda
- Niger Delta attacks are among top threats to US businesses
- Taiwan group to invest in Libyan oil exploration
- Nigeria to replace aged gasoline pipe network
- Russia and Egypt sign deals on joint oil and gas production
- Japan's Inpex wins oil rights in Libya
- IOC and OIL pick up stake in Nigerian oil blocks
- CPC wins Libyan license contract
- Medgaz to start building Algerian gas pipeline
- AES to expand electricity service in Cameroon
- Woodside has slim hopes of oil in Kenya
- Mozambique confirms block deals in Rovuma Delta
- Anadarko signs contract for exploration block in Mozambique
- India to pursue
E&P ventures with China in Africa
- Canadian and Russian oil firms win bids for Libyan petroleum contracts
- NLNG to increase production
- Naftogaz Ukrainy wins tender for oil and gas deposits in Egypt
- Turkish firm to invest $ 60 mm in Sudan oilfield
- Secret oil deal exposed in Ghana
- Angola’s Dalia oil field starts production
- Petronet seeks LNG from Algeria
- Nigeria creates local oil fund
- Total to explore Diaba license off Gabon
- Technip wins $ 70 mm Gimboa contract from Sonangol
- NNPC acquires oil blocks and gas supply deal from Equatorial Guinea
- Island Oil & Gas wins exclusive licence in Morocco
- GdF signs 20-year gas supply contract
with Sonatrach
- Israeli firm to buy natural gas from Egypt
- Zimbabwe needs $ 800 mm for power projects
- Will Namibia’s Kudu gas project be on stream next year?
- ExxonMobil sells African shares to Tamoil
- New Total Petroleum Ghana will dominate market
- Thai PTTEP consortium wins petroleum concessions in Egypt
- Tanzania signs oil search deal with Petrobras
- Russian deals for military equipment open access to Algerian oil and gas
- Uganda puts Eldoret-Kampala pipeline deal off again
- RWE Dea wins new exploration concession in Egypt
- Statoil wins stake in Egyptian block
- GSPC wins oil-exploration projects in Egypt
- Oil prospectors shift focus
on Kenyan coast in search of oil
- Mozambique signs three contracts for oil and gas exploration
- OMV acquires Egyptian offshore exploration licence
- Western oil firms meet their match in Asian upstarts over African oil
- Equatorial Guinea clears higher oil royalties
- Algeria expected to offer ten permits in first quarter next year
- India and China to form joint venture for African and Latin American assets
- Mitsui & Co. buys stake in BHP’s Namibian oil blocks
- Japan’s Jogmec and Libya’s NOC sign oil and gas cooperation deal
- Drilling for oil riches in Africa
- Libya and ENI to renew energy partnership
- UAE firm to explore for oil and gas in Tanzania
- GAIL looking at
Algeria and Nigeria for long term LNG deals
- Algeria praises Shell’s decision to not to hire Sonatrach employees
- Japan’s Jogmec and Libya NOC sign oil and gas cooperation deal
- Algeria’s energy minister defends new hydrocarbon profit tax
- Zambia’s Tugela Basin open for exploration again
- Botswana to earn $ 1 bn from Mmamabula power export
- Angola is emerging as a global oil power
- Edison signs Galsi supply deal with Sonatrach
- E.ON signs LNG deal with Sonatrach
- Mobil Producing Nigeria denies tax evasion
- Nigeria spends $ 12 bn annually on oil and gas industry
- Tunisia inaugurates largest offshore oilfield platform
- Morocco plans more power station tenders
- Enel, Edison and Hera sign deal with Sonatrach
- Shell Nigeria requests allowance to resume oil exploration
- Ogaden rebels challenge Ethiopia’s oil deal with Lundin
- Tanzania to build refinery and oil pipeline
- Nigeria earns over $ 3.6 bn from LNG since 1999
- Is Nigeria back to the old bad days through the Addax-Starcrest deal?
- Nigerian group to use flare gas for electricity
- ENI acquires exploration licenses in Mali
- Tyumen experts to look for oil in Sahara
- Five international firms engage in Ethiopian petroleum exploration
- Foreign oil firms interested in stepping up gas exploration in Niger Delta
- Kenyan government wants control over fuel prices
- Petrofac acquires stake in Tunisian field
- US consortium wants to explore for Angola's Cabinda oil
- South Korea lands $ 10 bn rail-for-oil deal in Nigeria
- Vaalco wins Angolan block
- Lundin wins two blocks in Ethiopia
- Nigerian state sues ExxonMobil over tax evasion
- First Calgary signs production deal with Sonatrach
- Sasol wins exploration license in Mozambique
- Global Industries wins contract for offshore pipeline project in Gabon
- ENI signs contract with Sonangol
- Two more companies to hunt for oil at Kenyan coast
- Sonangol concludes signing of 32 oil contracts
- Total Ghana and Mobil Ghana merge into Total Petroleum Ghana
- Morocco plans $ 1.5 bn power station
- CNPC mulls oil pipeline projects in north and west Africa
- Zimbabwe puts power tariffs up by 95 % for domestic users
- Sinopec to explore for oil and gas in Liberia
- ONGC Mittal to invest $ 1.7 bn in Nigeria’s oil and gas sector
- Alrosa and Zarubezhneft to drill in Angola
- Norsk Hydro offers OVL stake in Angolan and Iranian block
- Shell and Chevron reopen facilities in Niger Delta
- ENI unit wins license in Morocco
- How badly did Libya want the Kenya-Uganda oil pipeline deal?
- US undertakes formal investigations into Halliburton’s Nigerian business
- Nigeria’s EFCC to probe $ 90 mm oil deal
- Energy accords and a
medal for Angola
- Russia and Angola sign oil agreements
- Taxpayers lose Sh 5 bn yearly due to inefficiency at Mombassa refinery
- Nigeria to establish two new regional gas pipeline projects
- South Africa’s SADC needs $ 11 bn for projects
- Another consortium set to join oil exploration in Kenya
- Petrobras to explore for oil in Mozambique
- ONGC Mittal plans $ 1.37 bn investment in Nigeria
- WAPCO sees cost of pipeline project rise by 10 %
- Addax Petroleum acquires major interest in Nigerian deepwater block
- Aker Kvaerner to supply five subsea umbilicals offshore Nile Delta
- Egypt and China to jointly build oil rigs
- KenGen seeks Sh 70 bn for expansion
- NNPC and PTDF to train 5,250 engineers and welders
- Nigeria expected to sign deal with British Britianai and Centrica
- China to expand African oil ties
- PetroSA to invest in local projects
- Nigeria expects independent power plants to be ready soon
- CIC Energy and partner to build power plant in Botswana
- Forest Exploration to develop gas field in South Africa’s Orange Basin
- Nigeria to invest $ 20.3 bn in OK and Brass LNG projects
- Kenya-Uganda pipeline project deal put off again
- Taiwan oil firm in bidding round for Libyan fields
- Nigerian local communities and foreign oil firms urged for dialogue
- Algeria enacts governmental control over every oil and gas deal
- Algeria moving forward with oil windfall profits tax
- Angola as example of Africa's oil growth
- British firm shores up South African power supply
- Chad’s president wants bigger piece of the oil pie
- Elf Nigeria pledges to end gas flaring by yearend
- Kenya awards six key oil blocks to China
- Eskom to invest in new power plants
- ONGC Mittal secures Nigerian oil block
- Uganda celebrates becoming an oil producer
- Chad agrees to settlement with Chevron and Petronas
- Kenya to undertake oil refinery upgrade next year
- USA increases investment in Angola's oil sector
- ABB receives contract from South Africa’s City Power
- Gas
pipeline expected to ease power crunch in Ghana
- Kenya Power and Lighting Company launches village power projects
- Liberia Electricity Corporation for privatization
- The politics of oil and poverty in west-Africa
- Libya signs deal with TGS-Nopec to raise oil output
- New licences to double South Africa’s oil and gas exploration area
- Has oil transformed Nigeria and Nigerians?
- Libya approves 45 bids in third licensing round
- Subsea 7 wins contract offshore Angola
- Nigerian president urges for 45 % local content by yearend
- US company to build power project in Liberia
- Uganda’s private sector promotes use of alternative energy
- Canmex plans North Somalian exploration
effort
- Hardman Resources signs early production deal with Uganda
- Reliance and Chevron plan fuel retail outlets in Eastern Europe and Africa
- Tullow and Heritage hope to find more oil in Uganda
- Oil worker abductions in Nigeria
- Uganda’s Hoima district to host crude petroleum refinery
- Angola's Cabinda province reopens for oil bids
- Halliburton’s projects under scrutiny
- Norsk Hydro to invest over $ 5 bn in Angola
- Gambia grants oil exploration license to Canadian Buried Hill Energy
- Gazprom probes Equatorial Guinea for oil and gas
- Namibia signs oil deal with South African group
- Namibia is short of energy
- Guinea signs production
sharing contract with US Hyperdynamics
- Nigeria to withdraw eight oil blocks
- Nigeria to revoke Shell's oil license in Ogoni
- Delivery of new equipment to Sudan may indicate new discoveries
- ONGC to receive 15,000 bpd from Sudan oil block
- Sasol faces competition for gas in Mozambique
- Nigeria signs contracts for development of Brass LNG project
- Nigeria threatened by oil pipeline vandalism
- Ghana awaits completion of gas pipeline project
- ABB wins contract to boost oil output in Algeria
- Russian firms to invest in Egypt
- ENI gets best oil deal in Libya
- Heritage Oil signs exploration deal for Congo-Ugandan border
- Oil spill in Nigeria
destroys aquatic life and economic crops
- Judge dismisses Talisman’s genocide case in Sudan
- Algeria tightens tax laws for foreign oil and gas firms
- Chevron Nigeria refutes report on tax indictment
- Liberia signs two oil exploration contracts
- Protest stalls $ 1.3 bn LNG project in Nigeria
- US companies eye Libyan business opportunities
- Uganda’s parliament wants details of all oil exploration contracts
- Chad eyes bigger share of its oil profits
- Tanzania signs $ 271 mm power deal
- Nigeria gives oil firms 2008 deadline for ending gas flaring
- Chad’s president reclaims oil interests to reduce political isolation
- Audit report on Shell Nigeria detects $ 1.79 bn
discrepancy
- Aker Kvaerner wins subsea contract with Sonangol
- Hardman Resources to scale up expenditure on Ugandan operations
- Cars in Nigeria to run on natural gas
- Nigerian Ebonyi state to build ethanol plant
- Petronas to confer on gas project in Ethiopia
- Libya wants best offer for prized fields
- Nigeria revokes allocations of oil blocks
- Kenya Pipeline Company suspends security officers over vandalism
- Namibia plans power plant at Walvis Bay
- Chad expels Chevron and Petronas
- ExxonMobil sees unrest at Nigerian gas facility
- Nigerian oil companies in power supply deal
- Uganda to cede 25 % of $ 110 mm in oil pipeline
- Uganda’s Aggreko wants to generate another 100 MW
- Kenya evaluates pipeline tenders
- Nigeria considers giving states involvement right in PHCN privatisation
- Petronas delegation to visit Ethiopia
- Shell confirms Nigerian pipeline is back in use
- Chevron Nigeria ordered to refund $ 492 mm in tax money
- Mobil Producing Nigeria starts new recovery project
- Nigerian bribery scandal takes on new twists
- NNDC and NNPC sign Chad Basin contract
- Petronas wins Ethiopian gas field tender
- CPC's deal with Chad to go ahead
- Bank of Uganda to manage oil revenues
- LUKoil and Sonatrach sign deal for oil and gas exploration
- Energy
policies strangle Zimbabwe’s electricity authority
- Total sees Angola as prime alternative
- Sonangol and Tullow to explore block off Angola
- IOC to invest $ 2 bn in Nigeria
- Total acquires Chevron’s interest in Nigerian Brass LNG
- Kenya Pipeline Corporation seeks $ 88 mm to meet oil supply demand
- Shell Nigeria to commence exploration at Olobiri
- Shell sets African record in expandable open hole technology
- Taiwan to secure Chad's oil
- Nigeria cuts daily crude output by 26 %
- Kenya plans to force Big Oil to sell off petrol stations
- Total signs farm-in agreement on two Nigerian offshore blocks
- Oil pipeline deal faces deadlock in Uganda
- Sudan seeks to develop offshore oil with Brazil’s investment
- Algeria seeks limits for foreign investors
- NNPC set to invest $ 225 mm in Ogun and Oyo CNG projects
- Egypt signs two offshore concession deals
- Pressure builds in South Africa to find new gas fields
- Russian energy plan makes sense for South Africa
- West African Gas pipeline nears completion
- GdF to study Mauritanian LNG potential
- Kenya pipeline tender attracts ten bidders
- Libya hopes to bring oil output to 3.7 mm bpd
- PetroSA commissions exploration rig to extend gas reserves
- Algeria to implement oil and gas windfall tax
- Nigerian oil spill devastates ten Delta communities
- Drillers expect to find more oil in Uganda
- South African firm wins new oil rights in Tanzania
- OVL to invest $ 1 bn in Gabon oil block
- Uganda sees first barrel of oil in three years
- Oudna oil field to come on line off Tunisia
- Total unit buys stake in licenses off Nigeria
- Lawmakers ask Shell to pay N 200 mm to Delta State
- Attacks and pipeline leaks cost Nigeria 675,000 bpd in oil output
- Mozambique presents study plans for seismic survey
- Oil multinationals to build $ 6 bn gas plant in Nigeria
- Nigerian Ondo and Ogun states sign gas project deal
- NNPC and Shell sign MoU for OKLNG project in Nigeria
- Gaz de France bolsters its position in
Mauritania
- Shell says oil pipeline leak in Nigeria slashes daily output
- Exxon begins Nigerian oil recovery project
- Tamoil wins Eldoret-Kampala oil pipeline bid
- Companies face tricky oil developments in Mauritania
- Angola to raise oil production
- Expert cautions Uganda on oil
- Algeria favours Sonatrach in energy law change
- ONGC's second field in Sudan starts production
- SPDC commits to invest in power projects and Nigerian communities
- South Africa starts to import fuel to avoid supply shortages
- SPDC unfolds plans for increased crude oil production
- South Africa’s Transnet to invest in re-engineering strategy
- Suntera to take stake inBowLeven’s Cameroon operations
- Nigeria approves Oriental's Okwok farm-in deal
- Nigerian Bayelsa state disappointed in their government and in Shell
- Nigerian Oando group signs joint oilfield agreement
- Uganda’s oil level expectancy turns out eight times higher
- Petronas starts production from Sudan block
- Sonangol and Cabgoc start oil production in Angola
- BP starts production at Algeria's In Amenas gas project
- Shell tries to shift the blame to Nigeria
- Uganda to import power from Kenya Electricity
- |Zimbabwe stays sceptic as China comes to the rescue
- Uganda invites bids for thermal plant
- Chevron against use of force in Nigeria
- Nigerian counsel submits complaint against prospecting licenses
- Poverty in the oil-rich Niger Delta
- Shell makes plan to regain production targets in Nigeria
- Sinopec deepens oil interests in Angola
- Egypt lauds ENI’s achievements in its oil and gas sector
- Three new Nigerian power plants to start operations by yearend
- Total plans refinery in Nigeria
- Big Oil in Nigeria faces frustrating race between production and disruption
- Sinopec pays $ 692.2 mm for stake in Angolan oil blocks
- Agip to sell 36 mm cfpd to Nigerian state
- Nigeria awards oil exploration licenses to China
- Rig costs are affecting Egypt’s oil and gas sector
- Zimbabwean firms to
establish coal mines and thermal power stations
- Nigeria expects 3 mm bpd production by yearend
- PetroSA to spend $ 67 mm in Equatorial Guinea
- Uganda in high hopes for oil production
- Gazprom discusses LNG supplies with Algeria
- A bidding frenzy for Angola's oil
- Mauritania and Woodside sign oil deal
- CNOOC gets loan for Nigerian project
- Cost of Namibia’s electricity imports from South Africa to increase
- Ethiopia extends deadline for gasfields tender
- Eight foreign workers kidnapped from rig offshore Nigeria
- Morocco waiting for oil exploration success
- Nigeria’s Brass LNG continues despite rise in costs
- Nigeria hires US firm to secureoil installations
- Shell to strengthen security in Niger Delta
- Chinese oil majors quit Madagascar project
- Taiwan's CPC considers oil exploration in Libya
- Possible energy crisis looming in Namibia
- Nigeria loses N 4.5 bn annually to transhipment on high sea
- Libya opens one of its largest gas fields
- Sonatrach plans $ 33 bn energy investment
- Egypt reaps huge benefits from battle over Gaza’s gas
- Ethiopian oil exploration well turns out dry
- Madagascar offering 143 offshore licenses
- South Africa’s energy security
- Endesa to buy Algerian gas in $ 5 bn contract
- Total and Petrobras win bids in Angola
- Kenya
stops Shell's takeover of BP shares
- Nigeria earns N 61 bn from sale of fourteen oil blocks
- Nigerian court orders Shell to pay $ 1.5 bn to ethnic group
- Namibia looks at saving energy
- Shell to buy BP’s Kenya business
- Nigeria awards oil exploration licenses in Niger Delta
- BG Group wins oil prospecting licence in Nigeria
- Morocco signs three oil accords
- Nigeria to auction 17 oil blocks
- Militants shut down Nigerian Agip's flow station
- Petrobras wins bids for Angolan blocks
- Woodside to sign new oil deal with Mauritania
- Threats to Nigeria LNG may worsen global shortage
- Renewal of Libyan ties could spur US oil exploration
- Angola discloses successful bidders of oil blocks
- There is trouble brewing in Ethiopia’s gas fields
- Petronas awards Ethiopian seismic contract to Chinese firm
- Firms plan drilling on Libyan Ghadames block
- Nigeria may have stable power supply by 2056
- Tata plans power plant in South Africa
- Chinese oil firm to undertake seismic survey in east Ethiopia
- Woodside's bonus to Mauritania is not a target of bribery probe
- Nigerian Delta government accuses Agip of secret operation
- Australian Hardman Resources starts drilling in south-western Uganda
- Tender jury estimates Angola’s Block 17 and 18 oil reserves
- Tanzania signs new oil exploration deal with Dominion Oil
- Central African oil production expected to drop 15 % by 2009
- Nigeria to supply gas to Equatorial Guinea
- Why oil majors shun NNPC’s refineries
- Asian oils in Africa: A challenge to the international community (part 2 of 2)
- Egypt reaps benefits of gas intifada
- Nigeria expects LNG production to rise to over 22 mm tpy
- NNPC to map out oil blocks in Benue Trough soon
- Heritage Oil starts drilling for oil in Uganda
- Taiwan's CPC eyes Libya as new oil exploration target
- Nigeria to earn $ 13 bn from gas projects
- Chad could more than double oil output with help of consortium
- Kenya Pipeline Company blames dealers for oil shortage
- Europa Oil & Gas
wins Egyptian exploration license
- Lundin Petroleum to start oil exploration in southern Sudan
- EastCoast Energy raises reserves estimate for Tanzanian field
- CNOOC to prospect for oil in Kenya
- SADR welcomes Kerr McGee’s withdrawal from Western Sahara
- Sonangol reports on Angola’s oil output
- ExxonMobil announces start-up of Nigerian deepwater development
- Nigeria reports on oil exports
- Nigeria offers oil blocks to China for $ 4 bn
- Nigerian pipeline vandalism threatens Shell’s gas plant
- Aggreko to supply Kenya with 100 MW of temporary power
- ONGC set to open its account in Nigeria
- Sinochem pushes into oil exploration in Africa
- Cape
Town residents warned to save power or face blackouts
- Russia-Algeria ties spark fears in Europe of gas cartel
- Japanese venture joins Nigeria’s Olokola LNG project
- Gazprom and Sonatrach hold gas talks
- Asian oils in Africa: A challenge to the international community
- NNPC approves CNOOC's $ 2.3 bn stake in block OPL 246
- Nigeria’s first private refinery kicks off
- CNOOC completes Nigerian offshore oil mining license deal
- Kenya needs a plan to guide oil search
- Gaz de France seeks to buy more gas from Egypt as output rises
- Data show Kenya has crude oil and gas prospects
- Rwanda invests in solar energy
- Chad and oil consortium start talks about pipeline
issue
- Kenya signs exploration contract with CNOOC
- Oil giants to face Nigerian court
- Statoil invests in Algeria
- Tunisia signs key pipeline deal with Italy
- Chinese companies interested in Nigeria's energy sector
- Audit shows gap between oil firms’ payments and Nigeria’s revenue
- Shell Nigeria nets $ 104.84 mm savings in restructuring exercise
- Total takes over Mobil Oil in Sierra Leone
- Angola field not for OVL
- PetroSA has stake in Namibian oil venture with Russian firm
- SOCO finalizes award of Marine XI block offshore Congo
- Nigeria to invest $ 22 bn in upstream oil sector by 2010
- OMV encouraged by Tunisian oil and gas
finds
- Nineteen firms show interest in Ethiopia's gas fields
- West African Gas Pipeline needs local distribution company
- ExxonMobil and Sonatrach discuss Niger energy deal
- Shell Group to invest in Algeria
- BP says lack of rigs is hampering Nile Delta exploration
- Ethiopia signs agreement with Afar Exploration
- Woodside resolves exploration dispute with Mauritania
- Mauritania sells first petroleum exports to China
- BHP Billiton keen to drill off South African and Namibian coast
- CNOOC buys $ 60 mm stake in Nigerian oil field
- Oil majors won’t jump on Sudan’s oil riches yet
- BHP Billiton may develop energy projects in South Africa and Namibia
- Equatorial Guinea expects its oil production to peak in 2007
- MAN Ferrostaal to invest in Western Cape's oil industry
- ERHC Energy signs deals for Nigeria-Sao Tome JDZ
- Sasol receives new interest in coal-to-liquids-technology
- Namibia's Kudu gasfield set for 2010 start up
- Nigeria faces imminent blackout
- Aminex and Upstream sign deal to drill for oil and gas in Kenya
- Chad hopes to triple its oil output despite dispute with World Bank
- CNPC and Sinopec eye oil exploration in Madagascar
- Nigeria pegs lost oil revenues at $ 1 bn from Niger Delta crisis
- The increasing importance of African oil
- Chevron and Shell resign deep offshore block in Nigeria
- Western Sahara independence movement awards oil licences to firms
- Gas flarings are signs of inequality caused by Nigeria's oil wealth
- Algeria grants Russian firms monopoly access to oil and gas deposits
- India to help Mauritius hunt for oil and gas reserves
- 60 % of Nigerians lack access to electricity
- Nigeria and Sao Tome sign long-delayed oil deals
- West African Gas Pipeline project now 84 % complete
- Total wins exploration block off Cameroon
- Sao Tome and Nigeria JDZ earns $ 271 mm
- Nine oil companies are in business with Ghana
- Repsol-YPF to build Algerian liquefaction plant
- Total to buy-out ExxonMobil's retail network in 14 African countries
- Sasol interested Algeria's GTL
- Obasanjo inaugurates new Nigerian power project
- ExxonMobil to produce more oil in Angola than in the US
- Tanzania turns to thermal, gas and coal to satisfy rising energy demand
- Australia's Woodside begins drilling program in Libya
- South African businesses optimistic about West African oil and gas
- Nigeria invests $ 2.5 bn in power stations
- Nigerian rebels wreck Shell’s oil pipeline
- Chinese oil company starts drilling in Ethiopia
- Cygam unit signs new exploration permit in Tunisia
- Safmarine lifts red flag on oil boom in west Africa
- Oil pipeline explosion in Niger Delta probably not caused by militants
- Foreign
oil companies invested $ 1.3 bn in Algeria in 2005
- Nigeria’s Jigawa State signs electrification contract with Chinese firm
- NNPC and Mobil sign loan deal for Nigerian satellite fields
- Sasol casts wide net for oil from gas and coal deals
- Africa Insight: it's a race against time as resources dwindle
- Eskom receives approval for capacity expansion
- Sudan to award OVL two more blocks for oil and gas exploration
- Petrobras to seek oil in Ukraine, Turkey and Egypt
- Fight over oil money percolates in Nigeria
- Libya to press ahead with third post-sanction licensing round
- Sudan plans more projects for India on nomination basis
- Anadarko wins exploration block offshore Mozambique
- Four companies to explore for oil and gas in northern Mozambique
- KNOC wins Nigerian oil blocks as ONGC withdraws
- Exploitation of natural gas begins in Cameroon
- BP's Algerian In Amenas gas field to start production by May
- SMH starts pumping oil in Mauritania
- CNPC and Madagascar Petroleum to explore Madagascar oil field
- Kenya stands on threshold of severe fuel crisis
- Reliance Industries to win Sudanese oil blocks
- Hardman Resource’s oil discovery poses big issue for Ugandan elections
- China signs oil contract with Equatorial Guinea
- Shell’s Nigerian operations suffer from militant attacks
- Nine foreign workers kidnapped in Niger Delta
- Egypt
and Turkey to found new energy company
- Chevron pulls out from Nigeria’s Brass LNG project
- Norsk Hydro signs exploration deal in Mozambique
- Turkey to begin buying Egyptian natural gas in 2008
- Mozambique signs contract with Norsk Hydro
- Addax to operate block 4 in Nigeria-Sao Tome JDZ
- Sudan’s oil output to double by year’s end
- Angola’s Girassol oil platform increases crude oil production
- India lays foundation stone for power project in Sudan
- China's appetite for African oil grows
- Sasol signs deal for clean soy biodiesel
- NNPC accused of remitting revenues from crude sales to FAAC
- Madagascar to auction offshore plots
- Shell strikes
deal with Sonatrach
- Oil unrest grips Nigeria
- Total and ExxonMobil takeover deal gets approval in Zimbabwe
- The decades-long scramble for southern Sudan's oil riches
- KNOC and ONGC Videsh to develop Nigerian fields together
- Mauritania and Woodside still need to reach contract agreements
- Libya may hire foreign companies to help develop 300 oil fields
- Saharawi political prisoners in Western Sahara send letter to Kerr-McGee
- Chad calls on foreign energy partners to renegotiate 1988 oil deal
- Power crisis deepens in Uganda
- Nigeria wants ONGC and KNOC as partner in oil blocks
- Tullow Oil to invite bids for Kudu gas project
- Sonangol receives production rights for
Angolan oil block
- Chinese firm embarks on oil exploration project in Ethiopia
- West African Gas Pipeline Project is on course
- Cabinda reports oil field off Angola is on stream
- China to finance construction of two high voltage power lines in Kenya
- Nigeria faces growing militant threat
- ConocoPhillips to invest $ 700 mm in Libya
- Total receives first shipment from NLNG’s train 4
- Nigerian oil block winners default on payment
- Apache and Amerada Hess complete deals in Egypt and Permian Basin
- NNPC signs contract with BG for two offshore oil blocks
- CPC signs oil exploration deal with Chad
- Nigeria and oil majors to build two green field refineries
- Sahara Energy invests $ 250 mm in Ghana's downstream sector
- US oil firms eager to begin operations in Libya
- Petrobras purchases stake in Equatorial Guinea's deep waters
- CNOOC to purchase Nigerian oil field
- Gunmen in speedboat attack Shell’s oil platform in Niger Delta
- NamPower to develop interconnection between Zambia and Namibia
- Oil awards to foreign firms harm Sao Tome’s interests
- Petrobras acquires stake in block offshore Equatorial Guinea
- Kenya Pipeline Company cuts oil supply to tax evaders
- CNOOC offers $ 2 bn for Nigerian oil field
- NLNG begins shipping liquefied natural gas to US from new plant
- BP and Libya in talks on exploration deals
- World Bank suspends loans to Chad
- Shell Nigeria lifts force majeure on oil exports from Bonny terminal
- Niger Delta group gives ExxonMobil ultimatum
- Shell ships first oil from Nigeria's first deepwater field
- Kenya and Uganda sign oil pact
- NNPC budgets $ 5.571 bn for oil sector in 2006
- NNPC and joint venture partners to build power plants
- Nigerian community and Chevron disagree on Escravos gas project
- US oil firms reach deal with Libya
- Zimbabwe to import more power from Congo
- NNPC and partners plan to improve security in Niger Delta
- South Africa’s Eskom to build two gas power plants
- Nigerian Sogenal and Afren sign MoU on marginal oil
field
- Austria to invest $ 5 bn in Nigeria's energy sector
- Norwegian oil firm may increase holding in Ghana consortium
- Kenya Petroleum refines its business strategy
- Investigation urged into West African oil deals
- Cepsa and Sonatrach sign annual 1.6 bn cm natural gas deal
- Nigerian energy sector reforms need $ 20 bn to stabilise
- India blocks ONGC's plan for investing in Nigerian oil fields
- Shell ignores court order to stop gas flaring in Nigeria
- Sasol actively seeks markets in Europe to sell GTL diesel
- NNPC and Chevron to build 30,000 bpd refinery
- Petrobras and CVRD discuss Mozambique gas deal
- Sao Tome and Principe is waiting for the oil boom
- Congo oil trading scandal implicates top government officials
- Petronas embarks on oil project in Sudan
- Pertamina wins oil exploration contracts in Libya
- CNPC wins bid to explore oil block offshore Libya
- FirstAfrica Oil unit to develop oil field in Gabon
- Explosion rocks NNPC pipeline
- BG Group signs EPSAs for areas in Libya
- Nigerian DPR hands over 44 deep water blocks to NNPC
- Iran to sign oil exploration project with Nigeria by early 2006
- Iran to export to Tunisia
- ExxonMobil signs deal for exploration activity offshore Libya
- OIL-IOC team signs pact with NOC of Libya
- Sudan offers India more oil blocks and a refinery project
- NTPC may set up Nigerian power plant on barter with India
- Fuel crisis looms in Kenya as dealers are barred from depots
- India offers expertise to Sudan for oil and gas blocks
- Kenya Oil Company acquires Shell network in Rwanda
- Conoil unveils plan to become first in Africa
- EnerGulf wins West African oil exploration concession
- Africa is central to US private sector’s oil and gas agenda
- Mauritania to begin producing oil in February
- Sonangol announces oil blocks tenders
- India offers up to $ 1 bn in credit to secure West African oil
- Shell to begin seismic work in Libya's Sirte Basin
- African nations are moving to create single power pool
- Shell's begins pumping oil from offshore Nigerian field
- Sasol's potential climate solution
- India looks to West Africa for oil supplies
- BHP halts oil exploration in South Africa
- Nigeria and Sao Tome meet over JDZ oil blocks
- Tension mounts over Cameroon oil pipeline
- Nigerian panel summons NNPC and EFCC over crude oil fund
- Nigerian court orders an end to gas flaring
- Nigeria targets $ 4 bn annually from gas exports
- Statoil and BHP Billiton to bid for Algerian LNG plant
- Lebanon signs key fuel deal with Sonatrach
- Algeria, Spain and Italy to set up underwater power lines
- Decision on Sasol merger set for next year
- ONGC and Mittal Group plan refinery in Nigeria
- South Africa's patchy success in gas and oil exploration may be over
- Mozambican company to take share in gas pipeline
- China's flagship African project is in Sudan
- Work begins on Chevron Nigeria's $ 4 bn gas project
- PetroSA looking to refurbish disused fuel tanks
- Nigeria to gain $ 14 bn from FPSO topside integration
- S.S. Lootah expands Tanzanian gas project
- Moscow-Lagos alliance emerges on oil front
- Amnesty International indicts Chevron and Shell for Niger Delta crises
- Sasol’s fuel-from-coal operations could turn a profit at $ 10-15 a barrel
- Iran to develop oil exploration projects in Africa
- Nigerian Frazimex to explore for oil in Sierra Leone
- National securities of America and Nigeria
- Nigerian PHCN needs $ 9.2 bn for effective power supply
- Nigeria to start privatisation of PHCN in January
- NNPC and partners to spend $ 21 bn on oil vessels
- ONGC bids for Angolan oil exploration project
- Jatropha bush in position to fuel the future
- BP Botswana launches fraud-free system
- Sasol and Engen tell hearing about opponent's actions
- Nigeria’s Warri Refinery is not for sale
- Shell Nigeria will no longer pay compensation for pipeline sabotage
- ExxonMobil gives grants for girls and women education
- CNOOC to search for oil in six blocks off
Kenyan coast
- Ethiopia and Dutch Pexco sign exploration and development deal
- Nigeria’s oil majors demand $ 40 bn to meet production target
- Nigeria wins $ 1.2 bn from oil licensing round
- Sonangol puts new oil concessions to tenders
- Investors eye Zimbabwe’s electricity sector
- EEPCo signs deal for Ethiopian power transmission line
- Algeria insures oil installations at $ 6 bn
- GAIL sets up gas network in Egypt
- Oil Search wins Egyptian eastern desert block
- CNOOC seeks Kenyan oil exploration rights
- Ghana’s power suppliers and their accountability
- Angola’s Somoil invests over $ 5 mm in exploration
- Nigeria sees petroleum products
scarcity in south-west
- Ghana’s Alcoa to invest $ 1 bn in power for Valco
- Saharawi Republic calls on UN to intervene with Kerr-McGee’s plans
- Sasol Gas expected to double sales in five years
- Malaysia’s PECD secures contract in Sudan
- Sudan’s oil exports could grow by two thirds
- Moldova’s Ascom probes Petronas’ Sudan oil block
- Pertamina to begin exploration in Libya late 2006
- Petrobras to invest $ 1 bn in Nigeria
- PHCN to build 17 power stations in Nigeria
- BP Angola to produce 400,000 bpd by 2010
- Investors plan $ 1 bn oil refinery in Egypt
- OVL and OIL-IOC win oil block each in Libya
- Libya may ask foreign firms to help revive and
expand output
- Angolan oil loan likely to raise transparency issues
- Energem acquires oil blocks in Mali and Nigeria
- PECD to bid for oil and gas refinery projects in Sudan
- Shell Nigeria’s Bonga oil field to begin production 2006
- Chevron signs MoU with Nigerian host communities
- BG Tunisia to develop Hasdrubal field
- Libya awards oil exploration rights
- Tunisia grants licenses for oil exploration
- Sonatrach estimates Algerian oil reserves to be 11 bn barrels
- Angola implements natural gas project
- Fishermen hamper West African Gas Pipeline Project
- BG to invest in Tunisia
- Videocon wins oil prospecting license in Nigeria
- NPA to invest in Cape oil hub
- Egypt and France sign agreement on oil and gas exploration
- Investors in South Africa want corruption-free environment
- Angola implements natural gas project
- Madagascar to become oil producer in 3-4 years
- Angola and Nigeria want development as India targets more oil blocks
- Algeria is going global
- PetroSA and Pioneer sign joint venture deal for Cape gas
- Libya drawing foreign interest in oil, refining and gas sectors
- PetroSA in Angolan oil refinery bid
- Angola to offer new exploration blocks
- African oil heavyweights plan for investment boom
- Nigerian crude oil theft declines by 70 %
- Ethiopia to build country’s largest ever dam
- East African coast and the Horn may be next great oil province
- Ghana's oil refinery hit by resignations
- Africa urged to use gas for fuel rather than rely on imports
- Uganda to license another oil block to Neptune Petroleum
- Occidental is shipping Libyan oil to US again
- Sonatrach to invest $ 500 mm in African countries till 2010
- ENI and Sonatrach set up joint venture Transmed
- Local oil firms scramble for market in Sudan
- Zimbabwe looking for investors to avoid serious power shortage
- PetroSA working to improve black empowerment
- Oil firms receive final warning to leave Niger Delta or face armed attack
- Twelve firms prequalify for Kenya-Uganda oil pipeline extension
- Senegal signs offshore oil deals
- PetroSA to develop South Africa’s offshore gas fields
- EnerGulf signs MoU on oil block in Democratic Republic of Congo
- Algeria's oil reserves estimated at 11 bn barrels
- Caltex to install MMT dosing unit at Milnerton refinery
- Mending the leaks in Kenya Pipeline Corporation
- South Africa to turn surplus maize into ethanol
- Sasol announces new target for gas to liquids programme
- Cameroon praises Shell's campaign against petrol fraud
- Niger Delta oil companies indicted in illegal bunkering
- Zambia is warming up for Arusha-Nairobi power line
- Total setto acquire African subsidiaries of ExxonMobil
- Nigeria signs $ 134 mm oil deal with South Africa’s Energem
- Chad-Cameroon pipeline: Secretly contracting out of human rights
- Chevron begins installation of West African Gas Pipeline
- Commentary on “Contracting Out of Human Rights”
- Firms step up search for oil in Kenya
- NNDC begins oil search in Chad Basin
- Tanzania to step up windmill power generation study
- OVL completes Sudan pipeline project
- Oil India set to bid for more exploration blocks in Libya
- Heading for the big league of oil by way of an African adventure
- Kenya’s licensed oil dealers fight for control of diesel market
- Underground pipeline explodes at
Nigeria’s Rivers State
- Nigeria LNG declares force majeure on two trains
- Three-nation electricity project to cost $ 350 mm
- ENE unveils development plan
- Nigerian gas firm declares force majeure because of pipeline fire
- Shell appoints new heads for African and Nigerian operations
- Oil India to bid for more exploration blocks in Libya
- South Korean consortium wins right to develop Nigerian oil fields
- Petrobras and Statoil get new exploration licence off Nigeria
- RIVGAS and Cleanwater to prospect for oil in Niger Delta
- Egypt signs two agreements to prospect for oil and natural gas
- Botswana develops gas resources
- NNDC wins two oil blocks
- Nigeria awards 27 new oil blocks
- Asian oil firms move into Nigerian exploration
- Chevron and SBM France sign Nigerian contract
- Why NNPC owns only 25 % equity in EGTL
- Conoil makes historical win of Nigerian offshore oil block
- Shell and DFCU to set up energy project in Uganda
- NNPC and joint venture partners focus on gas supply
- Cameroon’s private sector coerced into electricity production
- Measuring revenue transparency in the oil and gas industry
- Kenya faces most expensive oil year for a long time
- Kenya-Uganda oil pipeline bids to be submitted soon
- Shell pays over $ 2.2 bn as petroleum profit tax to Nigeria
- Baobab oil field off Ivory Coast
comes on stream
- Kenya resolves oil dispute with importers
- Itera to participate in Libyan exploration tenders
- New oil refinery in the pipeline for South-Africa
- Shell in fresh dispute with Ogoni community
- Study indicts Nigerian oil majors on revenue
- Afren to participate in development of Nigerian Ogedeh Field
- Ghana and Kampac sign $ 70 mm oil deal
- NNPC and Chevron transfer three oilfields to NPDC
- NNPC praises Obasanjo’s administration for saving oil industry
- NNPC and Petrobras to enhance bilateral trade on petroleum
- NPHC generates 3,774 MW into national grid
- Petronas in cooperation deal with Egypt's Tharwa Petroleum
- Kudu Gas
Project sparks investor interest
- NNPC and partners plan N 1.3 tn budget
- Unveiling Nigeria’s $ 10.8 bn oil tax saga
- Technip wins Agbami field development contract
- Esso Angola’s Kizomba B project starts ahead of schedule
- Zimbabwe to partner with Engen and Sasol to extract oil from coal
- Restructuring the Nigerian oil industry
- Alliance formed for Nigerian exploration rights
- Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe pumps $ 10 bn into gas project
- Obat Oil to build refinery in Nigeria
- Benguela-Belize oil production project begins in December
- Ascon Oil earmarks N 6.7 bn for petroleum refinery
- Nigeria to supply China with 30,000 bpd of crude oil
- Sahara Petroleum to build oil refinery in Nigeria
- LUKoil indicates interest in Nigerian oil sector
- US targets oil in Africa
- Statoil and Sonatrach sign LNG and petroleum projects deal
- Northern states approve NNDC’s oil exploration in Chad Basin
- Occidental Petroleum to return to Libya
- Petronas sends Gambella geophysical data to Kuala Lumpur
- Sudan to split oil revenues
- Chevron Nigeria embroiled in tax evasion scam
- South Africa to build first new power plants in 15 years
- Japan's Arabian Oil to develop oil project in Egypt
- Chinese companies set to be the biggest foreign investors in Angola
- US oil drillers fight for right to probe African
east coast
- The star of the Gulf of Guinea
- US natural gas development equipment arrives for Botswana
- Tunisia grants oil exploration licenses
- Iran set to carry out Zimbabwean power plant project
- NNPC and Elf Petroleum Nigeria sign oil drilling agreement
- Rivers State shuts down oil and gas facilities in protest
- Apache starts production from Tanzanite appraisal well in Egypt
- Local Nigerian firm wins contract through Shell contractors
- Nigerian power generation peaks at 3,500 MW
- Nigerian Ascon Oil plans refinery in Delta State
- ExxonMobil Nigeria targets 1 mm bpd output by 2010
- Peaceful Sudan set to be major oil producer
- Nigerian
government engages Shell on gas flares
- Nigeria is building a new crop of indigenous operators
- Hyundai Heavy Industries wins order from Nigerian oil firm
- Tokyo’s Sexwale gets controlling stake in African exploration firm
- Ethnic communities challenge level of greenhouse gases
- Egypt and Israel to sign landmark gas deal
- Sao Tome and Nigeria to conclude PSCs soon
- Search for oil off South Africa’s coast risky but not futile
- Nigeria and oil giants to spend $ 41 bn on oil and gas projects
- Teikoku Oil secures exploration rights at Egyptian sites
- BP's appointment with Gaddafi
- Norsk Hydro keen to increase investment in Angola
- National Oil Company of Liberia signs
contract with three companies
- Zenon raises $ 100 mm for Nigerian refinery project
- Petronas to increase oil output at its Sudan joint venture
- Siemens transforms South African power modernization
- ONGC Videsh wins stake in Nigeria-Sao Tome oil block
- France and US probe Halliburton’s Nigerian operations
- Ophir builds up portfolio of exploration contracts in African countries
- Oil villages in Nigeria ask Shell to leave
- Shell Nigeria’s oil output averages 940,000 bpd in first quarter
- Zero gas flare by 2008 creates stormy race
- PetroChina has pre-emptive right over Sudan oil assets
- Australian firm joins oil search in Mali
- Maersk Olie acquires interest in offshore
Angola block
- Nigeria may wave 2008 gas flaring deadline
- Shell may bid for Libyan oil rights
- Norway excludes Kerr-McGee from national oil fund
- Statoil invests $ 2.4 bn in Angolan oil production
- Malaysia's Markmore starts engineering work on African oil block
- Japanese firm gets concession rights for Sudan oil and gas fields
- Oil firms may have shunned Nigeria’s refineries
- Egypt signs three oil exploration agreements with world companies
- ERHC Energy chosen to work leases off Nigeria and Sao Tome
- South Africa and Mozambique sign
oil and gas prospection deal
- SAMIR grants upgrade contract for Moroccan oil refinery
- India and China eyeing east Africa's oil and gas reserves
- NamPower commissions more EIAs for Kudu Gas programme
- Australian firm signs MoU with Morocco’s ONHYM
- Nigeria and Sao Tome approve five oil blocks in JDZ licensing round
- Competing demand for gas is taking toll on Nigeria’s electricity supply
- Nigerian power output drops by 27 %
- NNPC, Shell and partners to spend $ 1.85 bn on new gas projects
- Australian firms to invest in Nigerian oil sector
- Three firms bid for deep sea oil exploration in Tanzania
- NNPC: Helping to sustain democracy
- Oil piracy and gas dragons
- Shell to continue gas flaring in Nigeria a year beyond deadline
- CGX and ON commence Guyana drilling
- Dana Petroleum acquires new interest in Morocco oil exploration
- Baraka Petroleum signs MoU for property off Morocco
- Nigeria sees scramble for offshore fields
- NNPC to establish more independent power projects
- Sonangol signs oil sharing production deal with Ocean and Kerr-McGee
- US and Nigerian firms set up oil laboratory
- Willbros opens another scandal of improper payments to Nigeria
- NNPC commences audit of Bonga oil field
- South African cabinet to consider PetroSA’s gas supply plan
- Nigeria targets 2,000 new jobs for locals
- West African gas
project spurs ECOWAS integration
- ENI raises income in Nigeria
- Nigeria and Algeria begin study of $ 6 bn Trans-Saharan gas pipeline
- BP criticises Sasol’s mooted merger with Engen
- Chevron to restore oil production from Delta State flowstations
- Libya National Oil Corporation and Shell sign agreement
- VAALCO gets approval for Avouma field development
- NEPA to generate 10,000 MW before 2007
- ExxonMobil targets 1,500 jobs for Niger Delta youths
- Libya ignores European advances
- China has become key player in Sudan's oil industry
- Mobil Nigeria targets 1 mm bpd output in 2010
- Two Namibian firms qualify for Kudu gas project
- Oil workers of
Nigerian refineries demand investors' identity
- Gulf Keystone increases holdings in Algeria
- WAGPP governments approve construction of West African Gas Pipeline Project
- Sonangol and ChevronTexaco to set up LNG project
- Tanzania’s Songo Songo gas field future looks bright
- CNPC signs deal with Sonatrach
- China is a serious new player on the African block
- Total and South Atlantic award contracts for Akpo field development
- ChevronTexaco orders LNG carriers to prepare for Nigerian gas project
- ChevronTexaco gets March 2006 deadline for Olokola LNG Project
- Shell lists challenges facing Bonga project
- Shell signs drilling contract with Specialty Drilling Fluids
- Kenya
Pipeline targets East African market
- Libyan government gives go-ahead for new energy auction
- Global Fleet to build petroleum depot in Nigeria’s Ado-Ekiti state
- US producers in search of Libyan oil again
- Sonatrach signs agreements with KNOC
- Libya opens second oil and gas bidding round to international firms
- British firm to set up bio-diesel project in Zambia
- Chevron needs $ 600 mm to repair damages at Niger Delta facilities
- Halliburton to build gas-to-liquid plant in Nigeria
- Kerr-McGee continues "illegal" oil search in Western Sahara
- Petrobras to start operation in Nigerian oil field
- NNPC heading for show-down with oil marketers over fuel theft
- Sonangol andChevronTexaco sign accord for LNG
- Nigerian oil and gas sector to inject over 3,000 MW by 2007
- OVL likely to commence Sudan refinery project in August
- Ukraine to participate in Libyan tender
- NLNG to hit $ 12 bn in investments by 2007
- Sudanese former rebels in talks on oil field developments
- NNPC and Falcon Petroleum seal gas pact
- Nigeria needs $ 10 bn to develop deep water oil blocks
- Woodside seeks expansion in Kenya and Libya
- Nigeria wants 70 % of budget plan for local content
- Nigeria’s gas utilisation and economic development
- Videocon to invest in Sudan and West Asian oil fields
- China eyes closer ties with Nigeria in gas exploration
- Nigeria approves Syntroleum-Sovereign led consortium for Aje Field
- Nigeria to boost domestic oil engineering requirement
- Krew Investments forges strategic alliance with Nigerian oil carrier
- Nigerian local firm and Equator Exploration sign deal
- Nigeria may earn $ 47 bn from natural gas in 10 years
- Sonatrach awards nine licences to international firms
- Fifteen international oil companies prospect currently in Morocco
- Lundin gets approval to acquire stake in Nigeria’s Aje discovery
- Sasol to power Nigerian Escravos project
- China builds largest power-transmission project in Sudan
- Shell and BP win oil concession deals in Algeria
- Nigeria wants to build trust through new
transparent bidding process
- Equator and Peak Petroleum sign deal for Nigerian exploration
- Shell develops framework for Afam power plant
- NNPC/Agip’s IPP output to hit 960 MW by 2007
- Addax achieves first oil offshore Nigeria
- NEPA to pay N 700 mm monthly for Okpai power plant
- Total wins new Cameroon exploration permit
- Nigeria and ChevronTexaco agree on new Escravos gas project
- ENI starts production at 480 MW power plant in Nigeria
- NETCO opens discussion with AGIP on gas gathering facilities
- Shell criticizes new Nigerian oil tax hike
- Sudan signs oil field deal with White Nile Petroleum group
- Nigeria achieves 50 % gas flaring reduction
- Nigerian oil sector reform attracts flood of investors
- Natural gas reaches Mozambique’s Mozal aluminium smelter
- Statoil plans gas development ahead of new Nigerian gas policy
- Angola authorizes termination of oil exploration contract in Block 18
- Gazprom discusses oil and gas operations with Egypt
- Southern Sudan hopes to pump oil in three years
- OIL to explore for crude oil in Libya
- Malaysian firm takes majority stake in Guinea-Bissau-Senegal block
- Energem wins contract from Republic of Senegal
- NNPC and partners to seek $ 800 mm alternative funding
- ExxonMobil and NNPC to build new Nigerian LNG project
- ChevronTexaco and Total plan LNG project in Angola
- Shell Egypt acquires 30 % of Tharwa Petroleum’s concessions
- Statoil to expand North African operations into core area
- South Korean firms face dual taxation in Libyan oil project
- Malaysia’s Halim Saad buys 55 % stake in African oil block
- Nigeria LNG to spend extra $ 5 bn between 2007-2010
- Medco wins exploration contract in Libya
- Petrobras to begin exploration offshore Libya
- Nigerian oil firms close to marginal field production
- Angola, ChevronTexaco and partners agree on $ 5 bn LNG plant
- EnerGulf wins stake in block off Namibia
- Sasol bets on gas-to-liquid future
- Nigeria returns four oil blocks to Shell
- Reliance hunts for oil assets in
West Africa, South America and Middle-East
- Egypt seeks gas supply proposals
- Petronas and partners export first LNG from Egypt
- Occidental signs new exploration contracts in Libya
- Oil majors threaten to halt Nigerian offshore investment
- Egypt to sell stakes in state oil firms
- Disputed oil revenue figures stall Nigerian budget
- South Africa moves to improve electricity supply
- Nigeria to start rehabilitation of oil joint venture facilities
- LUKoil bidding at all Libyan exploration tenders
- Nigeria to start oil block licensing in July
- Kenya to revive energy sector
- Nigeria to more than double LNG production
- ChevronTexaco announces
first production from Angola’s Sanha Field
- Kenol gets contract to import crude oil
- ONGC unit wins oil exploration block in Egypt
- Nigeria’s Agbami oil field development to cost $ 3.5 bn
- Nigeria and Sao Tome await ExxonMobil’s decision on JDZ blocks
- Angola and China to develop joint oil exploration project
- Bapetco awards gas plant contract to KBR
- Arabian Gulf Oil to build refinery in Ghana
- ONGC wins oil block in Nigeria
- Oil giants flock to Libya
- Nigeria unhappy about Agbami-Bonga projects
- Oil companies protest changes in Nigerian PSC law
- China gains foothold in Angolan oil sector
- Repsol-YPF plans new investments in Iran, Algeriaand Libya
- Sudan rights of Total, Marathon and KPC may be invalid
- Nigeria-Sao Tome oil block licensing round moves forward
- UAE firms plans to participate in Libyan exploration projects
- Nigeria tasks oil majors to move faster on IPP projects
- Sudan to double its oil refining capacity
- BP to sell commercial and industrial fuels marketing business to Masana
- Chad pipeline project off to a wobbly start
- Mandela Metro considers renewable energy
- Algeria to launch 7th oil bidding round by May
- New tests prove Heritage’s Ugandan well non-commercial
- CNPC unit pursues seismic work in Niger
- Kizomba B tension leg platform arrives in Angola
- Why
did Gaddafi award most oil and gas leases to American firms?
- NNPC and JV partners to raise $ 1.7 bn in alternate fund
- Indonesia's Medco wins oil tender in Libya
- Tana Transport signs contract with Mobil Oil East Africa
- Mobil looks for buyer for its LPG business in Ethiopia
- Youth associations charge Shell Nigeria
- Sao Tome nets $ 49 mm from signature of first oil exploration deal
- NNPC and Chevron Nigeria to commence gas-to-liquids project
- Nigeria and Sao Tome sign $ 123 mm oil deal
- ONGC to build $ 1.2 bn refinery in Sudan
- Petrobras to explore in Libya
- India seeks more exploration blocks in Sudan
- Global oil firms to pay Libya $ 133 mm for rights to
explore
- Angola's Cabinda project has more onshore than offshore oil
- India vows timely completion of Sudan pipeline
- ERHC could become significant player in JDZ exploration
- Drilling for oil off South Africa’s coast to cost $ 100 mm
- Woodside wins more oil acreage in Libya
- IOC-OIL partnership wins oil block in Libya
- Nigeria adopts NNPC-Mobil model for financing of other projects
- US oil companies return to Libya
- CPC may invest millions in oil exploration in Chad
- Shell Nigeria shuts down oil platforms after threat
- Uganda's oil industry hinges on test results of Heritage well
- ONGC seeks closer ties with Nigeria and others for oil supplies
- NNPC and MPN kick-start 750 mm cfpd gas utilisation project
- Nigeria cancels ChevronTexaco's $ 1.9 bn gas project
- US PetroQuest wins Seychelles oil exploration bid
- Nigeria's first private refinery set to take off
- Vietnamese firm starts work on first oil well in Algeria
- Lundin Petroleum acquires interest in Nigerian oil and gas discovery
- Indian Oil interested in tie-up with Nigerian firm
- Vanco announces drilling plans for block offshore Cote d'Ivoire
- Nigeria strikes deal with NNPC and Mobil
- NNPC and Addax Petroleum conclude arrangements
- OPIC to provide $ 300 mm for Apache's gas development in Egypt
- Sonatrach is looking to boost oil production beyond its
borders
- Syntroleum and Sovereign form industry group for Aje field
- Interview with Nigeria's Addax Petroleum boss
- Syntroleum and Sovereign complete formation of Nigerian industry group
- Nippon Oil to take part in Libyan oil projects auctions
- Nigeria undertakes efforts to make country a top gas revenue earner
- Malaysian firms to gain from Sudan peace
- Botswana to soon produce coal bed methane gas
- Shell increases output in protest-hit Nigerian area
- NNPC to focus on upstream objectives in 2005
- CNPC reaches historic peak in Sudan oil production
- Production continues to soar for South African Stuart
- Shell and ChevronTexaco hand over oil fields to NPDC
- Building a new NNPC: The journey thus far
- Twenty-two foreign firms bid for construction of Nigeria's oil refinery
- World Bank grants fund for West African Gas Pipeline Project
- OVL and Equator Exploration to bid for joint development zone blocks
- Risk and reward for the West African Gas Pipeline project
- Liberalization: The experience of the Nigerian petroleum sector
- UAE group Kampac Oil wins oil concession in Senegal
- Shell Nigeria undergoes major re-organisation
- Illegal bunkering in Nigeria
- SAMIR to invest massively in its refinery
- Kerr-McGee faces divestments from Western Sahara engagement
- NNPC fires thousands of workers
- Sao Tome delays
signing of first oil exploration agreement
- NNPC to slash fuel imports by 20 %
- Shell embarks upon $ 45 mm Nigerian gas development project
- China and Nigeria sign oil development agreement
- OVL loses bids in Myanmar and Nigeria
- Securities and Exchange Commission probes dealings in Africa
- Joint Development Zone receives many bids for oil blocks
- ExxonMobil targets 1.0 mm bpd oil output by 2010
- Expert charges Nigeria and operators of oil sector on local content
- BP sets sights on oil and gas projects in Libya
- It is cheaper to flare gas than to utilise it
- PENGASSAN tackles ExxonMobil on unfair labour practices
- Nigeria loses 70,000 barrels of crude oil to theft
daily
- Angola and Algeria sign protocol on hydrocarbon exploration
- Shell commences expansion of Bonny NAG plant
- Sasol-Engen empowerment deal to be scrutinised
- Nigerian exploration and production firms get 12 marginal fields from Shell
- ChevronTexaco clears hurdle for Sao Tome oil pact
- NNPC reports on investments made in refineries, pipelines and depots
- Repsol-YPF targets 85,000 bpd production from Libyan field in 2008
- BHP Billiton to drill for oil off Cape coast in 2005
- IFC supports Melrose’s operations in Egyptian oil and gas sector
- Nigerian firm wins oil block in Benin Republic
- ExxonMobil plans $ 10 bn investment in Nigeria
- Exploration drive in Libya
signals start of big race for oil deals
- World Bank finances gas pipeline for Benin, Ghana, Nigeria and Togo
- Nigeria to impose local sourcing policy on oil firms
- Nigerian refineries as white elephant projects...
- IOC eyes stake in Nigerian refineries
- Repsol-YPF and Gas Natural sign deal for Algerian gas project
- Oil firms, NNPC and PPMC short-change Nigeria
- Fraud office questions Ghana Bio Diesel
- Libya is encouraging US oil companies to return
- Nigerian villagers set pipeline ablaze
- World Bank approves $ 125 mm loan for West African Gas Project
- Shell hands over twelve fields to local Nigerian firms
- Tanganyika Oil to begin drilling in Egypt
- China-Argentina oil investment deal gives Angola key role
- The Nigerian spy police
- IHRDC signs contract with Egyptian LNG
- Angola’s oil industry is highly commended in Nigeria
- CNPC starts up second oilfield in Sudan
- National Oil Company of Liberia receives bids for oil exploration
- Gazprom eyes work in South Africa
- IOC opens petrol station in Mauritius
- Nigeria to complete privatisation process of refineries early next year
- Nigerian senate president orders Shell to pay compensation or quit
- Repsol-YPF and Gas Natural win integrated LNG project in Algeria
- Grand juries probe Halliburton in Nigeria, Iraq and Iran
- NLNG expands fleet
- NNPC, Chevron, ConocoPhillips and ENI award $ 3 bn Brass LNG contract
- Gabon signs deal with Total
- LUKoil starts exploratory drilling at Egyptian oil block
- Staatsolie signs PSA with Maersk for Suriname block
- Increase in oil recovery boosts OVL's Sudanese field earnings
- Nigerian governor urges Shell to clean up over 250 oil spills
- Engineers India eyes stake in Algerian firm
- Sonangol refuses to renew some of Total's licenses
- Sonatrach signs deals with Japanese shipwrights
- Nigeria is in an ironic position due to mismanagement at refineries
- NNPC boss asked to explain inconsistency in joint venture budget
- Shell opens court action to try to block strike in
Nigeria
- Offshore rig installed in Libya
- African power firms to spread electric light together
- Oil finally flows at BHP Billiton's ROD field in Algeria
- Sasol prepares for largest black economic empowerment deal to date
- PetroSA is well ahead of budget
- Norsk Hydro favoured bidder on Nigerian oil and gas field
- Sinopec buys Kazakh oil assets and returns to Sudan
- CNR and partners to spud exploration well off Cote d'Ivoire
- Nigeria may release greater portion of cash to NNPC next year
- Kudu project on track for completion in five years
- ONGC signs agreement with Ghana National Petroleum
- Algeria: A major player in the Mediterranean gas market
- A brand-new relationship between Libya and Germany
- Egypt set to sell off stakes in energy firms
- Wintershall to step up oil operations in Libya
- India is chasing China in rivalry for West African oil stakes
- Shell puts out oil pipeline fire at Bonny export terminal
- PetroSA seeks exploration contracts in Egypt, Algeria and Angola
- Neftegaz Ukrayiny to export hydrocarbons from Libya to Europe
- NNPC considers way around OPEC quota restriction
- Egyptian firms undertake Libyan power projects
- Nigeria to launch inquiry into Halliburton affiliate's bribery scandal
- Egyptian-Israel gas deal faces obstacle
- Ukraine's Naftogaz reaches PSA deal for four zones in Libya
- ExxonMobil believes Angola and Nigeria need to speed up oil output
- Egyptian company wins oil pipeline tender in Libya
- Growth in African oil investments
- Malaysian firms secure $ 900 mm in Sudan oil jobs
- Management: A factor in Nigeria's upstream/downstream oil development
- Dana Petroleum holds talks with oil firms on Mauritanian oil blocks
- PetroSA pursues Equatorial Guinea's oil
- Nigeria urges Malaysian firms to invest in oil and gas sector
- Swaziland Independent Oil signs deal with Sasol
- NNPC negotiates with Chinese and Libyan investors over refinery
- Shell to increase its global annual capital
- Asian companies to look to Egypt's natural gas sector
- ChevronTexaco to pump $ 20 bn into Africa over next five years
- Irish Petroceltic wins Algerian gas deal
- Seven firms sign oil and gas exploration contracts with Sonatrach
- Halliburton contract ban puts Nigerian LNG project into chaos
- Zambia rules out privatisation of TAZAMA pipeline
- BG plans to drill about 25 wells in Egypt
- ONGC keen to invest in Angolan oil and gas sector
- NNPC and partners to spend $ 14 bn on gas projects
- Nigeria's gas reserves increase to 187 tcf
- Statoil opens office in Algeria
- Nigeria bans Halliburton from contract awards
- Nigerian oil producing communities cry out over environmental neglect
- Nigeria will either change
or perish
- NNPC and Mobil seal deal on gas expansion project
- Noble Energy to explore Block I off Equatorial Guinea
- NNPC sets tough conditions on fuel imports
- Agip to expand gas delivery line to NLNG Bonny
- Statoil approves plans for 18.85 % stake in Nigerian Agbami field
- NNPC to withdraw subsidy on fuel
- US oil firms under investigation of Equatorial Guinean deals
- Nigerian refining capacity dwindles
- International companies flock to Libya for oil investment bids
- Angola reports on oil output
- Oil companies have set their sights on Mauritania
- ONGC buys stake in Ivory Coast block from Vanco
- CNOC ready to participate in Nigeria’s
refineries and oil blocks
- Syntroleum and YFP to develop Nigerian oil and gas block
- PTTEP interested in exploring oil and gas in Iran and Libya
- First Nigerian director of Shell Nigeria plans new business strategy
- Shell’s African leadership to comprise of 30 % Nigerians
- Licensees settle differences over eastern Niger exploration program
- ANEEJ urges to resist pressures on LNG scandal enquiry
- Consortium to invest in Nigerian independent power project
- Egypt destroys al-Timsah platform after fire
- Aminex and LNGL sign MoU to cooperate on African LNG market
- Libya to buy one of Nigeria's ailing oil refineries
- British Gas to expand gas field in Tunisia
- EGAS to
launch new licensing round
- Tharwa wins exploration and production rights in Egypt
- Total Uganda launches partnership with Simba and MTN
- Namibia issues petroleum reconnaissance licence to Hunt Overseas
- Total to invest in Nigerian independent power plants
- Petroceltic signs drilling contract for Tunisian well
- ONGC concludes pipeline deal with Sudan
- US firms eye Libyan oil
- GAIL to acquire 15 % stake in NATGAS
- SPDC records success from 80 dormant Nigerian wells
- Thirst for crude is pulling China into Sudan
- Egypt’s oil sector attracts $ 2.8 bn in foreign investments
- Halliburton seeks another Nigerian gas project
- Oil majors ready to
meet Nigerian plan to boost oil output
- Libya invites bids for drilling rights
- Paladin seals exploration deal with Gabon
- Norsk Hydro buys stake in Madagascar exploration block
- Chile's ENAP to invest in crude exploration in Libya
- Tullow enters agreement with Forest Oil in Gabon
- Sonangol raises $ 2.25 bn in its largest ever oil-backed financing
- NNPC boss comments on oil and world energy situation
- Esso Exploration Angola launches production from Kizomba project
- Group Five wins Angolan oil deal
- ONGC Videsh to gift Sudan 3 % stake in African oil blocks
- ENI/BP platform offshore Egypt on fire
- Sonangol expects Kizomba oil project to produce 250,000 bpd
- NNPC to raise oil output by 130,000 bpd
- Director of NNPC comments on Nigeria’s LNG situation
- Total Nigeria commits 1 bn cm gas per year to new LNG plant
- BHP Billiton and Woodside win exploration permits in Algeria
- Sonatrach takes delivery of new LNG tanker
- SEC probes five oil firms for dealings with Equatorial Guinea
- Interest in onshore oil exploration in Sao Tome
- Nigerian Gas Company signs gas deal with Dangote Industries
- BP signs exploration deal for Gulf of Suez
- Spain asks Morocco about reported oil deals in territorial waters
- Shell Nigeria will make upstream operating cost cheaper and effective
- Multinationals ask for funding to raise Nigerian
production
- Nigeria to compel oil firms to refine 50 % crude output locally
- Niger Delta group demands toxic waste compensation from Shell
- Nigeria to privatise NGC under new oil and gas policy
- Gaslink Nigeria plans to expand network
- World Bank failure of guarantee stalls West African gas project
- Equatorial Guinea approves Tullow Oil’s plan for Northern Block
- Ghana National Petroleum and Lushan sign oil production agreement
- Equatorial Guinea approves Amerada’s development plan
- Australia's Cooper Energy joins venture to explore offshore Morocco
- Nigeria plans new incentives for investors
- NNPC and European alliance to build sixth LNG train
- Stroitransgaz to take
part in construction of oil pipeline in Sudan
- Algeria awards eight blocks in latest licensing round
- Kosmos Energy acquires block offshore Ghana
- Zebbra Energy appeals for free rein of Nigerian indigenous firms
- Heritage speeds up oil programme in Uganda
- Statoil wins 75 %-operatorship in Algeria
- Big Oil lines up in a queue in Libya
- Tanzania starts production of electric power from natural gas
- |NNPC begins two-year transformation process
- US to ‘strengthen security’ in Gulf of Guinea
- Algeria sets up company for management of oil and gas terminals
- Quadra announces signing of major concession in Egypt
- Dana signs deal with Wintershall for Mauritanian
block
- Sonatrach and BP announce first joint gas deliveries from In Salah
- Shell appoints Nigerian to lead subsidiary
- ChevronTexaco confirms sale of Congo subsidiary to Perenco
- Canadian oil firms win Egyptian contracts
- NNPC requires over $ 5 bn pa. for upstream oil joint venture funding
- Statoil expected to bid on new exploration areas in Libya
- Senate panel uncovers corrupt deals in Equatorial Guinea
- Egypt signs oil exploration deals with US and Tunisian firms
- Songas to deliver piped gas from Songo Songo
- Twenty-six firms interested to participate in Ugandan oil pipeline
- BP South Africa awards software contract to empowerment IT firm
- Nigeria would require a
yearly investment profile to push the oil production
- Heritage enters Congo oil deal
- International oil firms submit bids for Algerian oil and gas blocks
- NNPC targets 36 mega fuel stations by 2007
- Australia's Santos expands to North Africa
- Sasol opens 100th service station
- Santos to invest in first North African venture with Devon Energy
- NNPC moves to embrace full commercialisation
- Nigeria’s Warri Refinery begins full production
- NNPC plans to buy oil blocks in other African countries
- BP Egypt signs LNG agreement with EGAS
- Cameroon approves emergence of new petroleum distribution firm
- NNPC launches transformation programme
- Ghana
signs oil exploration agreement with three companies
- Repsol to search for offshore oil in Liberia
- Chinese businessmen to invest $ 7 bn in Nigeria
- European oil companies make progress in Libya
- Sonatrach and BP start up In Salah gas field production
- Total suspends production in Nigeria
- NamPower, Eskom, Namcor and Energy Africa sign Kudu project deal
- Shell unit pad $ 1.86 bn in taxes to Nigerian state in 2003
- Shell South Africa blamed for charging more litres than pumped
- Libya buys ExxonMobil’s oil assets in Niger
- Woodside approves major drilling campaign in Mauritania
- Energy Africa signs production-sharing contract with Uganda
- BP signs deal to supply naturalgas to Egypt
- Egypt's EGPC offers 15 exploration blocks in 2004 bid round
- NNPC sets new rules for joint venture oil project funding
- Grindrod teams up with BP and Shell in shipping deal
- Nigeria and oil majors seek ways out of joint venture budget shortfall
- Accord brings Sasol a step closer to exporting its coal-to-liquids technology
- Shell successfully conducts online bidding transactions in Nigeria
- Africa's stability is more important to G8 leaders than generating commerce
- Chad to sell first oil shipments to international market
- NNPC opens investigation on renovation scam
- US Commerce Petrol to buy Nigeria's refineries
- Shell reconfirms commitment to end Nigerian gas flaring by
2008
- Morocco to import Iranian crude
- Oil firms pay $ 398 mm to Niger Delta commission in three years
- Employment of women in the Algerian oil and gas sector
- New balance of power in Egypt
- Leap forward for Equatorial Guinea's gas industry
- ONGC seeks approval for oil pipeline in Sudan
- World Bank loan to boost West African gas pipeline project
- PetroSA signs deal with empowerment company
- Marathon and GEPetrol to build LNG plant in Equatorial Guinea
- Stakeholders launch evaluation of Kenyan refinery
- OVL eyes Total's equity in Sudan
- Big Oil lines up to do business with Libya's Gaddafi
- Tullow Oil to develop natural gas field in
Namibia
- Heritage Oil puts off drilling project in Uganda
- Pertamina to explore oil fields in Iran and Algeria
- India eyes oil deal with Libya
- Oando acquires equity in Gaslink Nigeria
- IFC announces $ 45 mm investment in Egypt's natural gas sector
- Sonatrach’s oil receipts reach $ 14 bn
- Siemens is advancing and supporting aims of NEPAD
- Total Kenya makes a strong comeback
- NNPC estimates investment in oil exploration and production at $ 8 bn
- ChevronTexaco to begin drilling in Sao Tome-Nigeria shared zone
- Central African leaders formally open oil pipeline
- Woodside to start exploration in Kenya by end 2005
- Shell Nigeria admits to have
partaken in corruption unknowingly
- Shell ready to overhaul its operating practices in Nigeria
- CNPC wins tender to build coastal oil terminal in Sudan
- Six Egyptian oil officials sentenced to jail terms in corruption case
- ONGC Videsh begins production from block 4 in Sudan
- Itochu and Mitsui O.S.K. to build LNG ships for Sonatrach
- European Investment Bank issues loan for Egypt-Jordan gas pipeline
- Shell reports on production of Niger Delta onshore operation
- Tanzania obtains credit for emergency power supply
- Pioneer to acquire interest in Equatorial Guinea blocks
- France wants Algerian debt swap
- Marathon announces that Equatorial Guinea LNG project is on track
- Nigerian oil firm enters alliance with Halliburton unit
- Woodside wins approval for first West African offshore project
- South Africa and Mozambique inaugurate natural gas venture
- Woodside’s Mauritania plan to add to revenues
- OVL signs deal with OMV for Sudan blocks
- Premier acquires acreage in Vietnam and Egypt
- Shell to begin production from new Nigerian field next year
- Chad's oil watchdog protests lack of information from ExxonMobil
- Sonatrach to launch operation for protecting Algerian beaches
- China to invest $ 500 mm in Nigerian upstream
sector
- Nigeria capable of handling extra quota allocation from OPEC
- Esso Chad discusses new oil field developments
- Morocco to dig at least eight oil wells this year
- Current trend in international oil market hurts NNPC’s finances
- Egyptian government will not intervene in gas deal with Israel
- NNPC reports about fuel imports
- Indigenous Nigerian oil firm gets licence for hi-tech drilling
- PTTEP seeks business in Libya
- Angola to formally disclose information on oil revenues
- ExxonMobil, Chevron and Petronas to drill for oil in Chad
- Total declares interest in Nigeria’s Kaduna Refinery
- CNOOC to explore offshore Morocco
- Shell signs
exploration deal for Egypt's Western Desert
- Liberia to start oil exploration soon
- Libya opens its oil wealth to the West
- Algeria opens data rooms to foreign oil and gas firms
- Honeywell secures bank loan for Nigerian filling stations
- Centurion wins two new exploration blocks in Nile Delta of Egypt
- CNOOC wins Moroccan oil drilling licence
- The Warri killing
- Total to invest $ 10 bn in Nigeria
- ONGC decides to take political risk cover for Sudan investment
- WAGP project has no impact on gas sales from NLNG
- ChevronTexaco to be operator of JDZ oil block
- Oasis Group resumes operations in Libya
- Norsk Hydro receives investigation contractoffshore Morocco
- Apache signs gas sales agreement with EGPC
- Indian Oil plans $ 18 mm investment in Mauritius
- Japan’s Mitsui to produce biodiesel in South Africa
- Libya to hold auction for energy projects
- GAIL interested in two more acquisitions in Egypt
- New oil contract signals end to rift between Nigeria and Sao Tome
- Nigerian oil industry gets local content boost
- Angola targets increased oil output
- Shell to invest in three Nigerian gas utilisation projects
- Bell Oil to invest in glass fibre pipe system in Nigeria
- Shell Nigeria sets up oil production and co-ordination centre
- Algeria opens data rooms to foreign oil and gas firms
- Honeywell secures bank loan for Nigerian filling stations
- Centurion wins two new exploration blocks in Nile Delta of Egypt
- CNOOC wins Moroccan oil drilling licence
- The Warri killing
- Total to invest $ 10 bn in Nigeria
- ONGC decides to take political risk cover for Sudan investment
- WAGP project has no impact on gas sales from NLNG
- ChevronTexaco to be operator of JDZ oil block
- Oasis Group resumes operations in Libya
- Norsk Hydro receives investigation contract offshore Morocco
- Apache signs gas sales agreement with EGPC
- Indian Oil plans $ 18 mm investment in Mauritius
- Japan’s Mitsui to produce biodiesel in South Africa
- Libya to hold auction for energy projects
- GAIL interested in two more acquisitions in Egypt
- New oil contract signals end to rift between Nigeria and Sao Tome
- Nigerian oil industry gets local content boost
- Angola targets increased oil output
- Shell to invest in three Nigerian gas utilisation projects
- Bell Oil to invest in glass fibre pipe system in Nigeria
- Shell Nigeria sets up oil production and co-ordination centre
- Sonatrach receives finance package from European banks
- Morocco signs oil exploration agreement with Maersk Oil
- ONGC's investment in Sudan puts Indian goods back into focus
- New Nigerian power plant to generate 330 MW
- NNPC
sacks seven oil executives over fraud
- Energy Africa to conclude Kudu gas project deal with Tullow Oil
- Nigerian Senate urged to investigate into NNPC’s missing fund
- Nigerian state secures financial help for seismic studies
- Nigeria holds talks with Siemens and ABB over new power stations
- Algeria receives bids from 52 foreign companies for oil blocks
- Shell to invest $ 70 mm in Nigerian exploration
- Nigeria approves deal between NNPC and Sinopec
- CGG signs exclusive rights for multi-client program offshore Libya
- Nigeria raised concerns over Shell’s oil reserves months ago
- NNPC and partners agree on alternative funding
- Total Kenya makes a comeback
- Nigerian gas
flare-out campaign gets big boost from Bonga field
- Shell links up Bonga fields to offshore gas gathering system
- West African Gas Pipeline project operational by 2006
- Nigeria loses $ 8 bn through oil service contracts to expatriate firms
- Total to stay on in western Kenya
- NDDC awards contract to Bayelsa State Independent Power Project
- Sasol and PetroSA to sign agreement
- OVL buys out Shell from Angolan oil block
- Nigeria gives oil majors ultimatum to pay fuel tax
- 11 additional oil fields for indigenous firms
- NNPC signs PSC agreements for three deepwater blocks
- Regal Petroleum to acquire onshore oil interest in Egypt
- Uganda raises concern over Kenyan pipeline
extension
- Nigeria and Shell disagree over oil reserve
- Burren Energy increases reserves in Congo
- Egypt signs exploration deals with BP, INA and RWE
- LUKoil to boost spending on Egyptian oil and gas projects
- Exxoteq and PetroSA become partners in oil exploration
- Kenya Pipeline Company spends Sh 2 bn on reform
- Senegal signs cooperation agreement with Sonatrach subsidiary
- Sasol plans gas-to-fuel expansion in Nigeria
- NNPC to become sole operator of six fields
- Libyan Oil buys Shell’s distribution network In Eritrea
- Shell’s OGGS starts supplying gas to NLNG
- Sasol spearheads South Africa’s aim to use more natural gas
- US court approves
Nigerian lawsuit against ChevronTexaco
- SPDC and ChevronTexaco nominate fields to NPDC
- No more sell-offs in Kenyan energy sector
- Shell signs preliminary agreement with Libya
- British firms move swiftly to win contracts to rebuild Libyan oil industry
- ExxonMobil and Engen to team up in lubricants deal
- BP Egypt gains two new concessions
- Total to invest $ 10 bn in Nigeria over next 5 years
- NEPA merges operations to improve supply
- Nigeria’s drive for foreign direct investment yields dividend
- Total targets NLNG trains 6,7 and 8 for gas supply
- ENI sells Gabonese activities to Perenco
- KPLC to strengthen its power supply capacity
- Shell
kept data secret for fear of damaging relationship with Nigeria
- Devon Energy wins license offshore Nigeria
- Nigeria accounts for 46 % of West-Africa's offshore oil reserves
- Sonatrach puts off Gassi Touil project bid
- Shell plans 20 % cut in Nigerian workforce
- Banks to provide funding for Sasol’s natural gas project
- The re-award of Nigeria’s OPL 245 block
- NNPC awards contracts for import of 62 cargoes of petroleum products
- Sasol and Engen to establish joint venture
- NLNG and oil firms hold gas supply talks in US
- BG to sell gas to LNG export projects in Egypt
- Sanctions on Libya take a major toll on US business
- Nigeria launches investigation into fuel
fraud
- Interview about operations in Warri refinery
- Sonatrach's LNG trains to be back in operation soon
- Libya opens door to US petroleum companies
- NNPC and partners seek help from World Bank for gas project
- Tharwa to handle oil and gas developments inside and outside Egypt
- NNPC and partners reject Nigerian government's cash call
- Committee discusses new oil and gas agreements in Egypt
- Shell and BG interested to build Algerian LNG plant
- WAPCO assures adequate measures to check gas spillage
- Americans eager to tap Gaddafi's oil
- ENI begins production from Hawa-1 well in Tunisia
- Controversy over Nigerian oil producing companies deepens
- World Bank reviews to guarantee West African Gas Pipeline project
- Technip and Sonangol launch first umbilical plant in Angola
- BG sings agreement with Tunisia for power project
- Nigeria and Algeria order energy firms to cut output by 10 %
- Sasol and Afrox sign LPG deal
- Shell loses 9 mm barrels of oil to bunkerers
- EDEL launches electrical energy improvement project in Angola
- End of Libyan ban only offers limited possibilities
- OPEC screens data on Nigeria's oil reserves
- Auditors to scrutinise oil contract between Nigeria and Kenya
- First gas from Sasol's Mozambican project arrives in South Africa
- Nigeria moves to enact local content law
- Oil
majors still hold back in signing off oil fields to Nigerian operators
- OVL plans over $ 2 bn investment in West African project
- Petronas and Sasol to merge liquid fuels businesses
- Transport of fuel by rail to Uganda to reduce incidents of dumping
- Nigeria grants more oil blocks to NPDC
- Akwa Ibom Power Plant to receive N 2.3 bn in investment
- CNPC finalizes major oilfield deal in Chad
- Indigenous firm sues Nigerian government over oil block award
- DiamondWorks formalises oil deal with Sao Tome
- Chad-Cameroon oil field and pipeline on target to full production
- Gabon signs oil deal with Canadian firm
- NNPC joint venture partners besiege Senate
- Agip starts up
Elephant field in Libya's Murzuk basin
- IFC announces $ 18.5 mm equity investment in Mozambique
- Sonangol authorizes BP to award Greater Plutonio contracts
- Sasol inaugurates world’s largest oxygen production plant
- Sasol and Petronas discuss liquid fuel tie-up
- Foreign firms line up to invest in Mozambican hydrocarbon area
- Multinationals abuse expatriate quota in Nigeria
- World Bank funds Kenyan transmission and distribution improvements
- Sinopec signs evaluation deal for three oil blocks in Gabon
- NNPC to slash petroleum products imports by 60 %
- ONGC Videsh to foray into West Africa
- Vanco Energy announces drilling agreement with ENI Morocco
- NNPC will not be
privatised
- Shell failed to inform shareholders of received incentive payments
- Petronas signs petroleum deal with ONAREP
- Liberia announces offshore bidding round
- Engen opens first retail outlet in Uganda
- Total Gabon and Unipec to supply oil to China
- Anadarko set to make ‘huge investment’ in Nigeria
- NNPC to pay N 3.4 bn fuel subsidy
- Occidental ready to expand production in Middle East and North Africa
- Nigeria prepares list of companies for next phase of privatisation
- Angola to start factory of oil prospecting material
- Oil majors commence study of joint development of Nigerian discoveries
- Kenyan Pipeline Company to pump more oil
- Shell Nigeria Oil Products commences aviation fuel business
- NNPC reviews pact with oil firms
- Breakdowns along Kenya oil pipeline to stress to higher demand
- Sudan signs oil agreements with Technoexport
- Nigerian crude oil production to hit 4 bn barrels in 2007
- Namibian firm starts autogas operations
- Nigeria accuses Shell of abusing tax scheme
- OVL to acquire 11 % stake in Sudan oil field
- Algeria expects to award contract for Gassi Touil by end of March
- ChevronTexaco believes West Africa is set to be key US gas supplier
- DiamondWorks announces deliveries of petroleum products to Malawi
- Petronas signs exploration deal with Morocco's ONAREP
- Engen in African lubricants venture with ExxonMobil
- OVL to give 5 % stake in two blocks to Sudan free of cost
- South African oil industry groups sign cooperation agreement
- Nigerian anti-graft body plans to investigate oil companies' tax affairs
- Ship spills oil at Durban harbour
- CCEA clears proposal of OVL to buy stake in Angola
- Shell and ChevronTexaco continue Nigerian joint venture talks
- Sasol's new supply pacts with oil majors is a steep learning curve
- Sasol reaches new agreements for oil supply
- Tunisia to invest $ 687 mm in energy sector this year
- Petronas to explore oil field prospects in Sao Tome
- Jordan-Egypt joint venture to distribute Egyptian gas
- ChevronTexaco focuses on Nigerian gas monetisation plans
- ChevronTexaco further promotes Nigerian local engineering centres
- Woodside consortium to invest in Mauritania
- West African gas pipeline enters 2nd phase of development
- International gas projects centrepiece of ChevronTexaco’s strategy
- Nigeria to receive oil boost from Amenam/Kpono field
- OVL to invest $ 850 mm in pipeline and refinery projects in Sudan
- NNPC signals optimal operation for local refineries
- Nigeria and Sao Tome give oil rights to ExxonMobil and Chrome
- UK to offer firms protection to invest in Libya
- Oil majors reject offer to manage Nigerian refineries
- NNPC is a secret empire
- ExxonMobil and ERHC receive order for Gulf of Guinea
- IOC to explore opportunities in south African countries
- Nigeria grants approval for Nexen to farm-in offshore block
- Total and Cepsa to drill for oil in Algeria
- Medgaz consortium to invest in new Spain-Algeria gas pipeline
- Sudan invites PSCI unit to bid for oil and gas projects
- SPDC joint venture conducts first online bidding in Nigeria
- Bonny NAG exceeds gas supply capacity to NLNG
- Kenya could be on the verge of striking oil
- Shell acquires Nigerian oil block
- Energy Africa invests in Congo
- Sao Tome oil blocks to be awarded after rights decision
- Nigeria approves deal between Sovereign
and Nexen
- Nigeria pumps new investments into refineries
- Sonatrach awards five exploration contracts in latest tender round
- US oil firms foresee return to Libya
- Nigeria signs oil output sharing contract with Shell unit
- NNPC and partners sign contracts for marginal fields
- Petroceltic signs Tunisian deal
- Kenya Pipeline Company receives Excellence in Business Practice award
- Statoil acquires 50 % of BP's interest in Algerian In Salah gas venture
- Unipetrol to unfold its new corporate identity
- Ghana dismantles strategic reserve plant with help of GE
- Sonatrach joins International LNG Alliance
- Shell campaigns for aggressive oil exploration in Nigeria
- Apache signs deal with Egyptian gas companies
- PPI to acquire Nigeria’s equity share in Port Harcourt Refinery
- NNPC signs contract with Elf to explore deep offshore oil resource
- GAIL negotiates major gas deal in Egypt with BG International
- Gas projects to create 30,000 new jobs in Nigeria
- Melrose's Egyptian gas fields go online
- South Africa approves merger of Sasol Oil and Exel
- Technical experts to determine true state of Warri refinery
- Sasol's Mozambique pipeline to deliver new gas soon
- Sudan and India to continue energy sector ties
- Nigeria to reclaim oil licenses
- Shell believes stolen Nigerian crude is used to import arms
- Promoting
local content in the oil sector
- Nigerian court awards oil spill damages repayment to communities
- IFC to invest in Mozambique gas project
- CNPC completes construction of oil and gas pipeline in Libya
- Sudan pledges to help ONGC Videsh win Greater Nile blocks
- NNPC still imports 70 % of petrol consumed locally
- Sonangol and Total announce start of production at Jasmin oil field
- Human rights group accuses Sudan and big oil firms
- Shell Uganda introduces unleaded fuel
- Zambia and Iran sign deal to construct oil pipeline
- NNPC and Elf sign contract for offshore deepwater field
- Mobil records another oil spill in Akwa Ibom state
- Turkish-Indian oil consortium begins
drilling in Libya
- Petrom signs joint operating agreement for Tanzanian oil field
- Warri communities demand N 6.2 bn over pollution
- Nigeria contracts UK firm to verify oil reserves
- NNPC and partners present budget for 2004 oil production
- Talisman Energy challenges Sudan human rights lawsuit
- Tension heightens in NNPC over re-organisation
- Complete deregulation to create 30,000 new jobs in Nigeria
- New project to bring South Africa’s power on stream
- South Africa's Calulo strikes deal with LUKoil
- Statoil backs financial transparency call in Nigeria
- Gaslink urges Nigerians to adapt gas technology
- ExxonMobil pledges commitment to hire Nigerian locals
- NNPC reforms unfold agonizingly slow
- ChevronTexaco supports Nigeria's transparency initiative
- Nigeria’s first lady charges oil majors to increase local participation
- NNPC, ENI, ConocoPhillips and ChevronTexaco to advance LNG project
- Chevron begins development of Agbami oil field
- Woodside to earn first offshore revenue from Algerian project
- Obasanjo appoints new helmsmen at NNPC
- Energy Africa maintains production levels
- Work on Nigerian gas plant almost completed
- Mr Deregulation takes over NNPC
- GAIL hopes for gas distribution deal in Egypt
- Tanzania to establish second oil pipeline
- Tazama oil pipeline needs urgent facelift
- ENI enters joint gas venture in Nigeria
- BP forms gas joint venture with Sonatrach
- ChevronTexaco’s Nigerian oil flow stays at low level
- ChevronTexaco and Nigerian firms bid for acreages in Sao Tome
- Sasol has to invest to meet new environmental standards for fuel
- Recovered stolen crude from Niger Delte valued at $ 150 mm
- BHP Billiton announces first gas from Algerian wet gas development
- Shell joint venture gas flare-out target receives boost
- ChevronTexaco finds double exploration success in deepwater Nigeria
- ONGC Videsh seals pipeline contract in Sudan
- Oil firms plan large African investments
- Nairobi to become Shell/BP's regional hub office in 2004
- NNPC and Chevron to invest in Escravos gas project
- Unipetrol Nigeria puts bid forward for Port Harcourt refinery
- NNPC builds new mega retail outlets
- NLNG secures sales and purchase agreement with BG
- Zimbabwe's national oil company runs dry
- World's largest FPSO to arrive in Nigeria
- Shell commissions offshore gas pipelines in Nigeria
- NNPC and Agip’s FSO to hit Nigerian waters by mid-2004
- NLNG moves to integrate 7th and 8th LNG trains into operations
- BP to invest in Angolan oil sector
- Sasol-Exel merger to become big new petroleum empowerment deal
- Sonangol and Technip set up oil company
- Elf Petroleum Nigeria hopes for huge revenue from
Amenam/Kpono
- ChevronTexaco to operate in Cabinda province beyond 2010
- Bounty spuds Tanzanian exploration well
- Sasol Oil and Exel Petroleum plan merger
- BP wins solar power contract in Morocco
- US corporations contribute to corruption in Africa
- Nigeria orders suspension of all recent crude oil contracts
- Nigerian assembly summons NNPC management over oil account
- Indigenous Nigerian firm builds oil flow station
- ENI sells Medgaz stake to Iberdrola
- NNPC and oil companies disagree over local content policy
- British Gas buys second gas train from Egyptian LNG
- Sonatrach to raise $ 23 bn in loans
- Oil workers give Nigeria ultimatum on
refineries
- Algeria seeks companies to extract gas from Berkine Basin fields
- NLNG to supply gas to Total in Europe and US
- PENGASSAN accuses oil firms of easing Nigerians out of management
- Egypt inundated with offers to buy 60 bn cm of gas annually
- Restructuring of NNPC to improve management of oil and gas assets
- Libyan oil industry expected to flourish after end of UN sanctions
- Nigerian government interferes with oil workers crisis
- PetroSA nearly triples fiscal profits in 2003
- Algeria's Gassi Touil LNG project delayed to year end
- Egypt is committed to supply gas to Israel
- Hardman Resources and Global Petroleum to explore in West Africa
- Shell oil workers in
Nigeria suspend two-week-long strike
- South Africa to aim for sustaining synfuels industry
- PENGASSAN warns oil companies over illegal job severance
- Shell subsidiary spends largest single investment in Nigeria
- Niger Delta deserves understanding
- Woodside to start oil prospecting at Kenyan coast
- Nigerian civil society organisation calls multinational oil firms to order
- Crimes commission to tackle menace of crude oil theft in Nigeria
- NNPC workers protest job cuts in re-organisation of oil sector
- CNPC to build oil pipeline and upgrade refinery in Sudan
- Naftogaz Ukrayiny posts its plans for oil production in Libya
- Petronas wins contract in Sudan
- Pancontinental tofarm out Kenyan acreage to Woodside
- India to acquire stakes in Sudanese oil blocks from OMV
- OVL interested in ONGC’s Sudan oil field stake
- Centurion and PetroCan to explore Tunisian energy
- Some believe it is time to reach out to Libya's Gaddafi
- Nigeria to supply oil to Cote d'Ivoire
- Shell Nigeria raises output from Sea Eagle field
- ONGC buys stakes in Sudan oil blocks from OMV
- Pioneer announces first production from South African Sable field
- India and South Africa to sign agreement in hydrocarbon sector
- ChevronTexaco comments on new African investment projects
- ExxonMobil starts production offshore Equatorial Guinea
- Ivanhoe Energy plans GTL facility in
Egypt
- Emerald urges Nigeria to adopt Malaysian and Norwegian experience
- Petrobras to increase investment in Angola
- Woodside joins Global and Dana in Kenyan seismic survey
- Oil producers are trying to devise technologies to move gas to market
- RWE-DEA rejects US charges on deals with Libya and Iran
- US warns RWE on Libyan contract
- Petronas and partners commence Chad-Cameroon pipeline operations
- Morocco and Spain plan second interconnector
- OVL offers ONGC partnership for Sudan oilfield
- NNPC begins screening of oil mining leases
- ExxonMobil starts production offshore Equatorial Guinea
- NNPC restructures tendering procedures for award of contracts
- Sudan offers ONGC pipeline and refinery contract
- TPDC concludes petroleum deals to search for offshore oil
- Kenyan firms lose millions because of illegal oil siphoning
- PPPRA to launch phase two of fuel price liberalisation
- Energy Africa signs exploration deals for North Sea and Senegal
- Chad begins pumping oil to Cameroon
- Iranian and South African firms plan joint oil investments
- China must play by the rules in oil-rich Sudan
- Nigerian oil workers threaten strike over payment
- Iran and South Africa discuss gas-to-liquid deals
- Nigerdock crisis threatens Bonga oil project
- Itsekiri communities protest alleged relocation move by TotalFinaElf
- Canadian Natural Resources awards major contracts for Baobab field
- Shell signs power refurbishing deal with Nigeria
- Nigeria deploys more troops to restive oil region
- Coup in Sao Tome threatens bidding round in joint development zone
- Commotion rises over award of NNPC oil contracts
- Sao Tome coup scares oil firms
- Mobil Oil Nigeria records 16 % increase in turnover
- ONGC Videsh to begin exploration in Libya soon
- Ghana first country in West Africa to have access to Mobil Mart
- BPE determined to privatise Nigerian refineries this year
- GE wins contract for gas processing plant in Algeria
- Kenya's search for oil
- CNPC signs oil pact with
Sonatrach
- ExxonMobil plans to raise Nigerian production
- Total starts production from Nigerian Amenam/Kpono field
- NNPC and ChevronTexaco sign Agbami oil field deal
- Tunisia awards oil permit to Gaither Petroleum
- Misunderstanding between Ogoni people and SPDC continues
- Shell believes peace and security are key for deepwater aspiration
- Nigerians should be ready to pay more for petrol
- BP promotes solar energy use in Tanzania
- ExxonMobil awards oil recovery project contracts for east Nigeria
- Burlington Resources begins oil production from Algerian field
- The curse of oil
- BG and partners agree on principal terms for Egyptian LNG deal
- NNPC proposes partnering between Nigerian banks
- What Nigeria's oil industry must do now
- Libya buys Israel's former stake in Egyptian refinery
- Mozambique signs exploration deal with Wilrusco and DNO
- Shell to invest in Egypt
- NLNG begins gas export to US
- Tazama to be given on concession to private operator
- Lundin Petroleum has broad plans to develop fields in Tunisia
- Lundin Petroleum completes sale of Sudan block to Petronas
- Shell to invest $ 1 bn in Egyptian offshore gas projects
- BP to sell portion of its Algerian interests to Statoil
- ONGC Videsh to acquire oil and gas blocks in Libya
- Oil firms to be taxed 50 % in Nigeria-Sao Tome and
Principe zone
- Medgaz unveils cost of Europe-Algeria pipeline
- Oil pipeline explosion kills over 100 people in Nigeria
- Kenya commissions two firms to explore petroleum and gas deposits
- Shell opens its books on Nigeria
- LUKoil to invest in Egypt
- Report wants oil firms to disclose payments to sub-Saharan Africa
- Shell expresses concern about illegal oil bunkering
- Heritage Oil orders new drilling rig for Ugandan Semliki field
- Private sector tries to talk Zimbabwe out of oil deal with Libya
- NNPC and Mathematical Centre form alliance
- South Africa sits on edge of opportunity to bring power to the people
- Nigerian communities give Shell ultimatum to complete
projects
- Small moves herald a change in Sudan
- Nigeria poised to create favourable policies to help energy sector overhaul
- Zambia wins deal for Iranian oil
- Nigeria orders investigation into Halliburton oil bribe scandal
- Total receives first oil from Nigerian Odudu field
- ENI announces that Libyan investments are on track
- NNPC urges consumers to resist diesel at N 50 per litre
- Ethiopia signs oil exploration agreement with Petronas
- Another loss for Nigeria because of faulty accounting
- Sasol and Total cannot expect pipeline subsidies to continue forever
- NNPC believes fake oil contracts are in circulation
- ONGC-Videsh sells share in Sudan crude to China
- Petronas wins exploration block in Ethiopia
- ONGC Videsh bids for onshore exploration blocks in Africa
- ADB signs loan agreement with Cameroon Shipyard
- KPC to re-evaluate plans for expansion of pipeline network to Uganda
- NOC to resume role of market stabiliser and price regulator
- NNPC expects Nigeria's daily petrol consumption to rise
- Zambia has diesel shortage under control
- Kenya orders oil firms to submit annual sales data
- Nigerian Navy loses N 10 bn monthly to pipeline vandalisation
- One thousand oil tankers go missing in Zambian fuel controversy
- Nigerian tanker bolts with Ghanaian crude oil
- GEPetrol to participate in Marathon gas project
- NNPC/Shell joint venture loses oil to illegal bunkering
- Libya enters exploration joint venture with OMV and Repsol
- Libya signs exploration agreement with RWE-DEA
- Algeria approves development of four oil and gas fields
- Nigeria directs oil firms to raise output
- Energy Africa believes Namibia's gas field exploration shows promise
- Marathon, Equatorial Guinea and GEPetrol sign LNG project deal
- BG signs agreement with Tunisia to develop power project
- Exxoteq to tap marginal wells off southern Africa
- Nigeria appoints NNPC operator of disputed oil block
- Heritage Oil to drill second well in Uganda
- Angola wants local private companies to get bigger stake in oil
sector
- Libya enters oil and gas exploration joint venture with OMV and Repsol
- Energy Africa reports record earnings
- Energy Africa believes Namibia's gas field exploration shows promise
- Shell supplies 60 % of NLNG's gas
- Blackout looms in Nigeria as vandals damage gas pipeline
- Before Nigeria privatises the NNPC refineries
- Congo signs two contracts with Murphy Oil
- West African gas pipeline deal signed
- Zambia should have its own strategic oil reserves
- Algeria offers oil and gas blocks for auction
- CNPC and Sudan to invest in Khartoum oil refinery
- Nigerian government to keep 49 % stake in refineries
- ONGC plans investments in more
oilfields in Sudan
- Oil firms reach deadlock with Zimbabwean government
- Nexant prepares gas flaring report for Nigeria
- Nigeria to privatise state-run refineries
- Kenya to offer incentives for new entrants in oil industry
- Woodside joins Dana and Star in exploration program off Kenya
- Woodside and Global Petroleum to explore for oil and gas in Kenya
- Total South Africa concludes equity deals with empowerment partners
- Murphy Oil acquires acreage offshore Republic of Congo
- Woodside farms-in to Kenyan offshore blocks
- ExxonMobil faces investigation over scandal in Equatorial Guinea
- Halliburton has more tax obligations in Nigeria
- Dana announces new partnership deal
in Kenya
- Halliburton subsidiary paid multi-million dollar bribe in Nigeria
- Adenuga is a phenomenal success in Nigerian economy
- Nigerian communities tackle Shell over compensation
- Angolan production set to double
- India to receive first oil shipment from Sudan
- Schlumberger reports probable oil reserves in Egypt for Dover
- Wood Group signs first major contract in west Africa
- NOCZIM needs to raise funds to import fuel
- TotalFinaElf launches development of Angolan oil field
- Statoil to invest in Dalia field offshore Angola
- Lundin to use Sudan profits to leverage acquisitions
- Zambia to commercialise state power company
- SPDC reduces gasflaring by 33 %
- Elf Gabon and partners sign production sharing contract
- KZN Oils wins fuel supply contract from Transnet
- OPEC ministers set new output ceiling at 25.4 mm bpd
- Why NNPC can't sanction major oil marketing companies
- Edison to sell stake in Egyptian gas fields to Petronas
- Transnet awards oil contracts to seven South African firms
- Nigerian Gas Company invests in transmission facilities
- ADB to support further expansion of the Nigeria LNG Finima plant
- Petronas makes further inroads into Sudan’s oil industry
- Kenyan fraud suspects object to state role in oil firm
- Sasol’s natural gas industry plan could ease reliance on coal
- Nigerian strikers take 100foreign oil workers hostage on platforms
- Shell advertises against criminal elements in Nigeria
- Nigeria reduces amount of cash call arrears of joint venture partners
- ENI begins production from Nigerian oil field
- Oil firms place fresh conditions on mandatory farm-out agreements
- Sasol ready for another very spectacular phase of growth
- NLNG targets further improvement of gas flaring reduction
- Halliburton enters partnership agreement with Nigerian local firm
- Soco International sells joint venture stake to Gazprombank
- Court upholds judgement against Shell on Ogoni oil spill
- South Africa nearly completes equity deals for major oil firms
- PTTEP to invest in Algerian joint venture
project
- Officials and Shell in high level bribe-case in Nigeria
- Sao Tome and Nigeria begin awarding joint oil exploration licenses
- Egypt and Libya launch oil and gas company
- Sasol lists itself on NYSE
- Kenya Pipeline Company builds oil storage in Mombasa
- Energy Africa encouraged by results of Ugandan well
- Agip produces oil from first deepwater field in Nigeria
- Sasol plans new energy-conversion chain
- PetroVietnam to sell Algerian blocks to PTTEP
- Shell and ChevronTexaco return to Niger Delta
- Cabinda Gulf Oil to shift focus to South Africa
- OVL negotiates purchase of other shares in Sudanese oil projects
- ONGC Videsh seeks to buy
more shares in Sudan
- Sinopec to start oil production in Nigeria this year
- Sonatrach and partners raise output in Ourhoud oil field
- Enoc sets its focus on Saudi Arabia and Egypt
- Namcor brings in first shipment of petrol products
- Nigerian government orders arrest of Shell boss
- NNPC thinks optimal refining capacity cannot meet daily consumption
- Heritage Oil confirms 2003 Uganda development program
- Lundin Petroleum and partners to carry out work on Sudan block
- Lundin and OMV get criticised for resumed oil exploration in Sudan
- Shell Nigeria pumps extra oil to cover shortfall
- Ethnic clashes in Nigeria's Delta halt oil production
- Nigeria’s oil production drops by25 %
- NNPC and oil chiefs hold emergency meeting
- Violence in Nigeria forces oil multinationals to cut 40 % of production
- Oil companies accused of non-compliance with Nigerian laws
- Shell, Chevron and TotalFinaElf close more Nigerian flow stations
- Mobil builds gas stations in Zambia
- El Behera to use ConocoPhillips technology at Egyptian LNG project
- Power firms threaten to cut off supply to Zimbabwe
- Vanco to drill five wells this year offshore West Africa
- ExxonMobil and Nigerian firm secure oil blocks in Gulf of Guinea
- BP promotes solar energy use in Tanzania
- Sonatrach receives bids from 10 international oil companies
- Sasol to develop its own petrol station
network across South Africa
- Questions about NNPC fraud remain valid and unanswered
- Talisman Energy completes sale of oil interests in Sudan
- Mobil Producing Nigeria starts verification on import duty payments
- Emarat to set up joint venture in Egypt
- Shell directed to pay Ijaw Aborigines $ 1.5 bn
- BG to double capacity of gas liquefaction plant in Egypt
- Tullow Oil signs contract with Gabon
- Joint venture to expand oil search in Namibia
- Kenya launches investigation into energy firms
- Nigerian government and oil firms meet over construction of gas plant
- Shell Nigeria Gas to attract foreign direct investment
- Sasol to develop gas-to-liquid technology as
priority
- NLNG project manager outlines strategies
- ONGC to acquire Talisman Energy’s stake in Sudan oil field
- TotalFinaElf considers investments in Algeria
- Takeover of mooring has South African oil firms up in arms
- NLNG takes delivery of 10th LNG ship
- TGS-NOPEC offers seismic data for Sierra Leone licensing round
- South Africa’s petroleum refining industry needs investment
- Shell plans gas lift and export campaign in Nigeria
- TotalFinaElf to invest in Algeria
- Oil spill pollutes farms and streams in Nigeria's Ogoniland
- Sonangol and Esso announce new project in Angola
- Nigeria awards oil fields to local companies
- Transparency should
help Angola’s post-war rebuilding
- Row erupts over Shell’s new Nigerian oil spill
- Mobil announces start of Nigerian Yoho development project
- Nigerian panel confirms fraud in African Petroleum
- Sasol Natural Gas Project is on schedule
- Maersk refuses to report on licences in Angola
- Chinese business group pledges investment in Nigerian LNG sector
- Western Cape to capitalise on oil and gas industry
- LUKoil to open office in Cairo
- ExxonMobil begins construction of West African development project
- South Africa forms empowerment oil company to market gas
- NNPC and Chevron to invest in three oil projects
- Nigeria’s revenue commission and NNPC in deepening
controversy
- Croatian oil and gas firm explores Namibian options
- Shell to make first export of oil from Nigerian offshore field
- Thirst for oil draws US to troubled West Africa
- Kenyan oil firm to invest in retail outlets and handling facilities
- Eskom to take on Uganda power distribution
- German firms keen on oil and gas investment in Egypt
- Sudan to license three blocks to international companies
- Nigerian community protests Shell's indifference to oil spill
- NLNG seeks funding for more LNG cargo ships
- Six banks to fund Nigerian LNG vessels
- West African Gas Pipeline Project is on course
- NNPC, Shell and Statoil to sign MoU on new LNG plant
- Nigeria maximises opportunities offered by raised OPEC quota
- German firms keen on oil and gas investment in Egypt
- How NNPC will share new OPEC quota
- Nigeria, Benin, Ghana and Togo sign treaty on WAGP project
- Sudan favours ONGC Videsh on Talisman Energy project
- West Africa to sign ChevronTexaco pipeline treaty
- South Africa-Mozambique natural gas project to be ready early 2004
- NLNG receives loan from indigenous banks
- Nigeria’s new OPEC quota excites oil companies
- Egypt plans to expand its gas export facilities
- Oil sector in Zimbabwe set for indigenisation
- NEPA seeks alternative to gas
- Yokogawa Electric wins gas field control project in
Algeria
- Nigeria LNG wins loan to help stop gas flaring
- Vanco Energy believes potential of West Africa is really phenomenal
- Sasol signs investment guarantee with MIGA
- Egypt signs oil and gas contracts with multinational companies
- Fifteen banks line up for Egyptian gas scheme loan
- Algeria plans privatisations and boost of oil and gas exports
- NNPC retrieves oil contract documents after fire
- Bush administration permits Big Oil access to Western Sahara
- Orient Petroleum to build refinery in Nigeria
- Two foreign companies to advise in Nigerian oil and gas reforms
- Interview with Unipetrol Nigeria
- Echem signs MoU on $ 1.5 bn ethylene and polyethylene
complex
- BG to double capacity of gas liquefaction plant in Egypt
- Ethiopia to import oil from Sudan
- Nigeria’s state-run power firm has high liability
- Gaslink Nigeria raises gas distribution
- Agip subsidiary may become first deep offshore oil producer in Nigeria
- Gas could fuel black empowerment in South Africa
- Shell to connect thirty Nigerian firms to natural gas supply
- Nigeria wants to uplift NNPC to world class oil firm
- ENI and Al Waha develop major Libyan gas field to boost output
- India undertakes diplomatic efforts to secure Sudan oil field
- TotalFinaElf to invest into Angolan oil output
- International venture secures financing for Moroccan power
plant
- About twenty US oil firms expected to invest in Nigeria
- Ocean Energy installs new oil platform in Egypt
- Finance houses pledge $ 1 bn towards LNG initiative in Nigeria
- NNPC-Chevron joint venture to redress community’s grievances
- Multinationals must encourage Nigerian indigenous participants
- Sonatrach signs contract with FMC Sofec
- Zimbabwe’s president threatens to nationalise oil distribution firms
- Algeria considers to level competition for Sonatrach
- Nigeria targets annual revenue of $ 4.3 bn from gas by 2010
- New gas find could lift Western Cape’s growth rate
- IFC helps to fund local oil service companies in Nigeria
- Nigeria invests $ 8 bn in upstream
oil sector
- NOLCHEM to build four LPG plants across Nigeria
- The trend is power sector liberalization in Middle East and North Africa
- Angola forecasts huge foreign investment in oil and gas
- Stratic and Petrofac sign oil and gas deal for Syria and Algeria
- Cepsa enters long-term gas deal with Sonatrach
- Algeria plans major rise in gas export to EU
- NNPC proposes cash call for 2003
- Sao Tome renegotiates ExxonMobil, PGS and Chrome contracts
- National Oil Company of Zimbabwe enters partnership with Tamoil
- African Development Bank backs Nigerian gas project with $ 100 mm
- ChevronTexaco and USAID to support Angola
- Nigeria appoints adviser for privatisation of WARCO
refinery
- Nigeria reduces gas flaring and raises investment
- Stakeholders in Nigerian oil industry differ on OPEC oil quota
- Oil firms flow to West Africa
- TotalFinaElf replaces vessel for Nigeria's Amenam/Kpono complex
- JGC and Kellogg, Brown & Root to work on In Amenas gas project
- Equatorial Guinea to grant block to Gepetrol-Glencore venture
- Nigeria grants block to Ocean Energy in special licensing
- Texaco Namibia takes over operation of Kudu gas project
- IFC to provide finance for local oil service contractors in Nigeria
- NNPC seeks fund to pay cash call arrears
- Multinationals struggle to maintain market share in Kenya
- LPG market offers opportunities for
black-owned firms in South Africa
- BP to double Sonatrach's In Amenas output
- Oil firms in Nigeria accused of dumping nuclear wastes
- Mozambique gas project heralds new clean era
- Algeria puts huge efforts into expanding its gas sector
- Shell to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Botswana
- BHP Billiton could make South Africa self-sufficient in oil supply
- RWE DEA increases interest in Egyptian deepwater concession
- NLNG to commence export of LPG in 2003
- Nigeria to expand national gas pipeline grid
- Anadarko accrues 17 % of its oil production from Algeria
- Nigeria suspends Joint Development Zone licensing round
- Consortium to start drilling far east of
Niger
- BP to invest in Algerian oil ventures
- Talisman sells off Sudan oil assets to ONGC Videsh
- Sasol signs agreement to increase polyethylene capacity
- Sudanese and Dutch companies to set up oil institute
- Libya and Guinea-Bissau sign energy cooperation agreement
- Sudan sorry to see Talisman leave
- Algeria's In Amenas development to cover four gas production fields
- Delegation from Indian Petroleum Company to visit Sudan
- Nigeria to reduce oil exploration
- South Africa wants 25 % of oil industry in black ownership by 2014
- South Africa seeks to reduce its dependence on Middle East oil
- Empowerment has serious commercial implications in South Africa
- ChevronTexaco to invest $ 14 bn in Nigeria
- Anadarko's Ourhoud Field to come onstream in early 2003
- Durban activists say Shell continues to pollute environment
- Nigeria needs to provide essential data to achieve oil reserves target
- Elf marks its 40th year in Nigeria this year
- BHP Billiton could make South Africa self-sufficient in oil supply
- NNPC sets new guidelines for fuel importation
- ChevronTexaco and UNDP partner to develop Niger Delta
- Sonatrach plans new oil loading facility
- ONGC to acquire Canada’s assets in Greater Nile Company
- ChevronTexaco to invest $ 20 bn in 5 years in Nigeria
- Gabon launches two new oil fields
- Gaz de France to
sell output of Egyptian LNG to BG group
- Willbros wins offshore contract offshore Nigeria
- Cameroon to lure multi-national oil companies to Bakassi Peninsula
- Pipeline to Europe: Can Nigeria join the party?
- Nigeria shortlists four oil companies for new deepwater block
- French company to be first to use Libyan gas
- Nigeria and oil companies condemned for neglect of Niger Delta
- Sasol to commercialise oil from field in Gabon
- ChevronTexaco and TotalFinaElf might set up consortium
- Uganda starts oil drilling
- Nigeria shelves planned privatisation of NNPC
- Sonangol invests $ 5 bn in construction of refinery
- PGS completes seismic data of Nigeria-Sao Tome JDZ
- South Africa launches PetroSA
- ExxonMobil to develop Nigeria's deepwater Erha Field
- Cabinda plans world's first new build LPG FPSO for operation off Angola
- ExxonMobil to drill another deepwater Angola probe
- Nigeria launches world’s largest petrochemical plant project
- EGPC and EGAS announce international 2002 bid round
- Sonatrach and Sinopec sign oil field development contract
- Energy Africa continues exploration policy
- JGC and Kellogg Brown & Root win Algerian gas deal
- South Africa launches new oil and gas company
- Sasol prepares to expand gas interests
- Group issues ultimatum to oil firms in Bakassi region
- Dana and MagicEarth invite
companies to invest in Ghana oil basins
- BG and partners sign agreements for Egyptian LNG project with GdF
- ABS to class SANHA LPG FPSO
- Zimbabwe mortgages national assets for NOCZIM debt
- Sonangol invests $ 5 bn in construction of oil refinery
- Horizon Offshore wins West African project from Chevron Nigeria
- Naftex extends sale date of Egyptian concession to Cabre
- Angola to rehabilitate medium and low tension nets in Cabinda
- Oil super-majors optimistic on oil prospecting in Africa
- Nigerian methanol plant to be the world's largest single-line facility
- Kawasaki wins expansion contract from Sonatrach
- Uganda hoping for oil
- Nigeria receives investment inflow throughpetrochemical project
- Nigeria increases oil reserves since Obasanjo government
- ONGC acquires interest in Libyan blocks
- Nigeria awards contract for Warri refinery
- Preparations for Spain-Algeria gas pipeline ready
- Alstom to sell activities in South Africa
- Banks interested in lending for Egyptian gas liquefaction plant
- Return of US oil companies is among highest priorities in Libya
- Bouygues Offshore wins Libyan contract from Agip Gas
- ABB wins power supply contract in Mozambique
- Stroy Tranzgaz interested in pre-feasibility study of Ethiopian refinery
- NNPC and partners to call tenders for gas project in Feb. 2003
- Chevron appeals for peace against oil
workers
- EIB offers long-term loan for new Egyptian power station
- US to fund studies for South African and Kazakh gas projects
- Dana signs farm-in agreement with Energy Africa Mauritania
- Cepsa deepens ties with Sonatrach
- Chevron targets 90 % local content by 2007 in Nigeria
- Algeria launches bidding round for new gas project
- Sasol plans major new joint venture in Qatar
- Total Nigeria hives off unit in black empowerment joint venture
- Agip enters partnership with NDPC
- Marathon to proceed with Alba field expansion project
- Politics of oil exploration in Northern Nigerian frontier
- Ugborodo women effect change in Chevron argument
- FusionOil and Amerada Hess to explore offshore West Africa
- Amerada Hess to acquire major stake in three West African blocks
- Nigeria to put up 22 new oil blocks for offer
- Results of Sasol's offshore Gabon fields exceed expectations
- Nigeria faces challenge of dwindling oil revenues
- Ethiopia to liberalize power sector
- ExxonMobil commences with Yoho field development
- Sonangol to explore deepwater off Equatorial Guinea
- Nigeria to break up NEPA for privatisation
- South Africa to probe plant to produce methanol from gas
- CNPC subsidiaries start Libyan pipeline construction
- European oil companies set to boost Libyan output
- Nigerian oil industry seems to be passing throughworst of times
- Nigerian government to sue ex-minister Dan Etete over disputed oil block
- Pancontinental and Afrex to explore offshore Kenya
- CNPC to build oil pipelines in Libya
- Sasol welcomes exemption from competition act
- LUKoil sells stakes in Sakhalin and Morocco
- The amazing side story of the gas flaring demonstrations
- Libyan oil group hit by its dealings with Zimbabwe
- Ghana GNPC and Devon/EnCana sign agreement
- Tano Energy to invest in exploitation activities in Ghana
- Nigerian women win changes from ChevronTexaco and Shell
- Shell withdraws from Kudu project
- Namibia and Botswana electricity utilities close power deal
- Egypt
signs concession agreement with Dover Petroleum
- BG Tunisia drills new gas reserves in Gulf of Gabes
- European consortium to develop Libyan oil field
- Unsustainable way of gas flaring highlighted in Nigeria
- ONGC Videsh farms into Libyan exploration blocks
- CNPC to build oil and gas pipelines in Libya
- Kudu gas field could be source of power for Western Cape
- World Bank finds Chad oil project risks damaging the environment
- Repsol-YPF to bring new Libyan oil field on stream
- Statoil to study floating gas liquefaction plant in Nigeria
- NNPC reaches oil deal with ExxonMobil
- Energy Africa considers potential development of Kudu gas field
- ENSP and Halliburton create
second joint venture
- South Africa still has options open for establishment of gas industry
- Technip-Coflexip Angolan joint venture to make subsea umbilicals
- Companies spent over $ 293 mm on oil exploration in Tanzania
- Unipetrol seems to have weathered the storm against Agip
- Nigeria and Sao Tome to jointly open bids for oil blocks
- Nigerian power sector reform is on course
- NEPA to boost power in Nigeria’s Jigawa State
- Sonatrach and Shell sign MoUC to develop projects of mutual interest
- South Africa based Eskom wins electricity concessions in Uganda
- Egypt signs agreements for oil and gas prospecting
- Nigerian village women end siege of Escravos terminal
- Target
date for ending gas flarings in Nigeria not feasible
- PIDC signs oil exploration deal with Sonatrach
- International oil industry interested in north-west coast of Africa
- TGS-NOPEC offers seismic data for Sierra Leone licensing round
- Sasol starts Mozambique-South Africa gas pipeline construction
- US and oil firms mount pressure on Nigeria to quit OPEC
- Nigeria to shift focus towards offshore oil production
- TotalFinaElf wins exploration permit in Timimoun Basin
- Sasol opens facility in The Netherlands
- Nigeria pushes ChevronTexaco and partners to pipeline completion date
- Anadarko and Maersk Oil win exploration rights in Algeria
- Heritage Oil to begin oil exploration in western Uganda
- Shell drops Namibian LNG scheme
- TotalFinaElf and Mitsubishi sign new offshore deal with Gabon
- Angola fines ChevronTexaco for causing environmental damage
- Elf Gabon forms consortium with MPCD Gabon
- NNPC loses N 11 bn on fuel imports
- Iberdrola signs contract with NLNG
- ExxonMobil to use innovative strategy for deepwater oil developments
- Oil firms owe Nigeria N 77.19 bn in petroleum profit tax
- Zimbabwe has vast opportunities for renewable energy projects
- ExxonMobil to develop Angola deepwater project
- NNPC refits critical unit at Kaduna oil refinery
- Nigeria signs oil deals with Chevron and Phillips
- India clears ONGC investment in Sudan oil
project
- Naftex sells interest in Egypt concession to LUKoil and Cabre
- Oil companies call alert over increasing wave of Nigerian oil smuggle
- Nigeria pre-qualifies indigenous firms for marginal field blocks
- Zambia to sell stake in oil refinery
- ONGC to move into Sudanese oil business
- China studies prospect of refining Sudanese oil in Pakistan
- Egypt tenders 30 plots for gas and oil exploration
- BHP Billiton enters oil and gas exploration in South Africa
- Nigeria determined to sell power utility NEPA
- SPDC loses 20,000 barrels of oil to theft
- Eleven banks pledge loan for NLNG
- Nigeria pre-qualifies bidders for 21 marginal oilfields
- Shell increases Nigeria crude oil reserves
- Sonangol to build oil refinery in Lobito
- Panel approves that ONGC buys Talisman’s stake in Sudan
- US firm to conduct study on new power projects
- Petronas wins joint venture deal from Mozambique
- New vessels to deliver additional LNG for NLNG
- Ghana signs deal with energy consortium and Gas of Nigeria
- Egyptian investment authority approves petrochemical complex
- Volta River Authority signs deal with N-Gas of Nigeria
- South Korea’s LG to develop Libya's Zawya oil refinery
- Libya to buy stake in Egypt's Midor oil refinery
- BP’s Angola accounts to be strictly scrutinized
- Over 1000 jobs to go as NNPC
begins commercialisation
- NNPC and PAN Ocean Oil sign operator agreement
- BHP Billiton to focus on exploration in Brunei and South Africa
- BG increases LNG investments in Egypt
- Fusion signs Western Sahara deal
- NNPC wins damage claim from Petrec
- NNPC accuses oil company of evading taxes
- Uganda urges Kobil to invest in research in oil reserves development
- Nigerian Delta state to build its own refinery
- Energy Africa to spend about $ 130 mm on exploration and development
- Agip enters partnership with NPDC
- Angola’s LNG project delayed until 2007
- Amerada acquires stake in Fusion’s African assets
- Shell to inject funds into Nigerian gas
utilisation
- Nigeria has yet to approve of international mergers
- Ghana hopes to attract investors after petroleum legislation reforms
- NNPC to be involved in deepwater oil exploration activities
- NNPC signs agreement with ExxonMobil, Chevron and Phillips
- Shell appraisal drilling in Bonga-2 field yields 1-bn barrels of oil reserves
- Nigeria to build more LNG plants
- Ghana to sign first major gas order with West Africa Gas Pipeline
- Oil companies threaten to withhold crucial funds from Niger Delta
- Nigerian oil industry makes profit in first two months of 2002
- TotalFinaElf issues tenders for Angola oilfield
- Sonatrach to offer gas project to foreign investors
- Nigeria yet to recognize foreign oil firm mergers
- South Africa, Mozambique and Sasol launch natural gas project
- Zimbabwean petroleum marketers to ensure cheaper fuel supplies
- Nigeria to review joint venture accords with oil majors
- ExxonMobil to raise Equatorial Guinea oil output
- Equatorial Guinea's Gepetrole to launch licensing round
- Woodside to drill more wells offshore Mauritania
- South Africa to restructure power sector
- Chinese officials inspect power plants in Nigeria
- Shell and Sasol both plan pipeline to Western Cape
- Sasol begins work on Temane and Pande fields in Mozambique
- Nigeria and Namibia to conduct joint oil refinery project
- Shell plans gas pipeline from Kudu field to Cape Town
- China to build gas-fuelled power plants in Nigeria
- ExxonMobil begins expansion of Zafiro field
- Energy Africa receives permit for Gabon field
- Comoil investing into development of Zimbabwean service station
- Sasol acquires stake in Equatorial Guinea block
- NNPC asks oil firms to indigenise operations
- South African firm to run Tanzanian power utility
- Nigeria seeking funds for Chinese power plant project
- Nigeria and Namibia to discuss joint oil refinery
- BP launches new lead-free petrol in South Africa
- Shell South Africa chooses Thebe as refinery partner
- Chevron and NNPC sign deal with
SasolChevron for gas plant
- Shell refurbishes compressor stations to improve on gas flaring
- ExxonMobil Angolan exploration well proves dry
- Sasol forms GTL alliance with Japanese engineering consortium
- Woodside plans Mauritania drilling program
- Petronas to start drilling in Morocco before end 2002
- Morocco and Malaysia sign cooperation accords
- Black South African group acquires stake in Shell downstream marketing unit
- Four consortia bid for Jordan-Egypt gas pipeline construction
- Shell Nigeria makes breakthrough in environment regeneration
- Oil firms in Angola should be encouraged to be transparent
- Tunisian gas fields to feed independent gas-power project
- Anadarko and Sonatrach announce start-up of fourth train at Hassi Berkine
- Nigerian Gas Company signs refurbishment contract with Shell
- Chevron Oil and the Savimbi case
- ExxonMobil undertakes oil exploration in Cameroon
- El Paso Global LNG to work with EGAS and EGPC in Egypt
- Iberdrola cuts back purchase contract for Nigerian gas
- Zambia National Oil Company dissolved
- US urges Nigerian firms to form strategic alliances with foreign companies
- ExxonMobil begins oil drilling in Chad
- Nigeria earmarks funds for construction of additional LNG trains
- Indeni and TotalFinaElf to import oil for Zambia
- Nigeria and Equatorial Guinea resolve maritime border dispute
- Apache starts production from Egypt oil and gas development
- Chinese companies to build two power plants in Nigeria
- ONGC to acquire oil fields in Sudan and Oman
- Shell, Agip and TotalFinaElf to invest in Nigeria LNG
- Sonangol and ChevronTexaco in Angola LNG project
- NEPA needs N 100 bn to re-engineer its operations
- Shell in court over oil spillage and human right violations
- Shell plans major expansion of Nigerian operations
- Talisman Energy faces lawsuit over army's cleaning-up operations
- Lundin suspends Sudan operations
- NNPC increases price of natural gas sold to NEPA
- First Calgary Petroleums excavates oil in Algeria
- Nigeria LNG to send gasto Italy in 2005
- Oil exists in all parts of Nigeria
- Kenyan president opens one of Africa's largest power projects
- TotalFinaElf to double Nigerian production by mid-2003
- TotalFinaElf stops oil search in north of Nigeria
- Sonatrach signs gas deal with Iberdrola
- Energy Africa starts year with series of exploration successes
- Shell introduces gas in Uganda campaign
- World's largest offshore oil platform inaugurated off Angola
- Fuel import by private Nigerian operators hits 58.4 mm litres
- Talisman tries to sell Sudan oil property
- ACC probes Total oil deal with Zambia
- Shell to face Nigeria human rights lawsuit
- Shell Uganda launches
environmental protection awareness campaign
- ChevronTexaco to upgrade facilities in Nigeria
- Nigeria sets $ 176 mm maximum fine for oil spills
- Nigeria LNG to sell more gas to Portugal from 2005
- Shell South Africa signs empowerment deal with Thebe
- Nigerian oil companies participate in sporting extravaganza
- Sasol to explore for natural gas offshore South Africa
- Zambia seeks permanent crude oil supplier
- Anadarko eyes new oil and gas blocks in Algeria
- Birla ties up with ONGIO International for Nigerian market
- NNPC in need for more competition
- Lundin reports on Sudan Thar Jath Field reserves
- Saudi Coral Oil Group increases investments in Morocco
- Nigeria does have oil in the north
- Shell teams up with South Africa in gas project
- Shell hopes to raise Kudu reserves in Namibia
- Chinese consortium seals pact with Clog Oil Group Nigeria
- US allows oil firms to renegotiate Libyan deals
- New lease on life for South African oil and gas exploration
- Council warns NNPC about ageing pipelines in Niger Delta
- Tribunal approves merger between Shell and Tepco
- Zimbabwe gives Libya first preference to acquire oil firm
- TotalFinaElf to move on with West Sahara oil search
- Canadian Natural commences oil production in Cote d'Ivoire
- Vanco wins PSC interest offshore Equatorial Guinea
- Gazprom and Algerian
minister call for international gas forum
- ENI and NOC launch gas project in Libya
- PGS and Petroleum Agency to cooperate offshore South Africa
- Shell and Eskom win power project in Nigeria
- Sonatrach receives loan to improve oil and gas recovery
- Siemens to build world's largest diesel-power plant in Sudan
- Nigeria to build world's biggest deep-sea oil buoy
- BG to supply Egyptian LNG to Gaz de France
- Shell to sign contract for Afam Power Station
- BP sends first major Girassol cargo to South African refinery
- Tentative timetable for privatisation of Nigerian services
- Nigeria and Sao Tome set up joint oil authority
- Moroccan refiner Samir to invest $ 700 mm to boost
output
- Nigeria halts privatisation of NPDC
- Anadarko starts production from Hassi Berkine oilfield
- Shell concentrates on land and sea exploration in Gabon
- Slavneft to explore for oil and gas in Sudan
- Nigerian firms win oil contracts from Shell
- Nigeria opens bids for four private refineries
- Shell increases natural gas investments in Nigeria and China
- Algeria plans for a portfolio of power projects
- Shell plans new investment in Nigerian oil and gas sector
- Nigeria to sell first of four refineries this year
- Shell, World Bank and Diamond Bank sign deal for Niger Delta
- CMS and Marathon Oil close deal for Equatorial Guinea interests
- UAE and Egypt firms plan petrol stations in Egypt
- NNPC begins crude oil production from Okono field
- Enel and Wintershall sign Algerian gas pipeline study deal
- ExxonMobil and Philips withdraw from Nigeria's deep sea oil region
- NNPC signs news oil contracts with Agip and Petrobras
- Sonatrach compromise over oil and gas reform on its way
- Saipem and Odebrecht set up joint venture
- Heritage Oil progresses on Uganda exploration programme
- Shell wins bids for Nigerian power projects
- Halliburton expands relationship with Vanco Energy
- Bula Resources gives Libyans stake in business
- Shell farms out 12 % of Egypt block to Petronas
- EdF to build two
Egyptian power stations
- TotalFinaElf brings first production on stream from Girasol field
- Zimbabwe blames oil companies for erratic fuel supply
- BP drills dry hole in Angola's first ultra-deep well
- Sasol project in Mozambique to face host of hazards
- Angolan oil deals lift market spirits
- Three oil firms win production sharing contract with Nigeria
- TotalFinaElf and Cepsa plan joint Algerian refinery
- Siemens, ONE and Endesa to build Morocco power plant
- Key Algerian oil and gas tenders attract world majors
- Key Algerian oil and gas tenders attract world majors
- TotalFinaElf and Cepsa submit joint offer for Algerian refinery
- Sasol Gas and Tractebel sign MoU on
co-generation in South Africa
- Chevron and NNPC to sign first deep-sea oil deal
- TotalFinaElf buys Agip's Zambian assets
- Sasol to use Mozambique gas for South African industry
- ChevronTexaco to save $ 50 mm in Angolan operations
- ChevronTexaco's plan for Angolan LNG plant hits delay
- NNPC to sign more PSCs with oil firms
- TotalFinaElf aims to expand Angolan oil refinery
- Repsol-YPF negotiates contract terms for Libya oil package
- Sonatrach and Sofresid sign turnkey deal
- Shell to focus on deep offshore Angola
- Volta River Authority seeks funding to improve power supply
- Roc Oil and Woodside to acquire data offshore Senegal
- Libya to hold
more oil talks with Occidental
- Gaz de France signs natural gas deal with Egypt companies
- Fluor/AMEC selected for Esso deep-water project in Angola
- Sonatrach secures loan from Arab investment companies
- TotalFinaElf to add to Nigeria's oil production
- JBIC pledges $ 176 mm credit for Algerian oil project
- Algerian firm in oil deal with Iraq
- Angola to sign gas pact with TotalFinaElf
- International bid to be offered for Egyptian power plant
- Oilinvest and SOCO form joint venture ODEX Exploration
- Marathon to buy energy properties in Equatorial Guinea from CMS
- AES and PanAfrican Energy to sponsor Songo Songo gas field project
- Conoco begins feasibility study for oil
in Nigeria's southwest
- Technip-Coflexip to build two natural gas pipelines in Nigeria
- Talisman plans to halt activities in Sudan
- Energy Africa needs to raise funds for development programme
- Ocean Energy starts oil output from new Egyptian discovery
- Commissioner calls for amendment of NNPC Act for Chad Basin
- Nigerian Agip seeks export market for gas to end flarings
- Petro to take lead in evaluating potential of west coast gas
- JNOC to end oil exploration projects in Algeria and Brazil
- NNPC bows to mounting pressure from LPG marketers
- Polisario urges UN interference to annul oil exploration contracts
- BHP Billiton pledges investments in Algerian energy sector
- TotalFinaElf to carry out hydrocarbon studies in Dakhla region
- ROC acquires interest in Cabinda South block onshore Angola
- Enron power project to generate additional electricity in Nigeria
- TotalFinaElf's Girasol set to raise daily output in Angola
- Sonatrach signs five oil and gas exploration deals with foreign firms
- AES Tanzania completes financing for Songo Songo project
- South Africa and Ibhubesi project to merge for energy interests
- Energy Africa wins exploration licence in Uganda
- Hardman Petroleum and Energy Africa sign PSA with Uganda
- Repsol wins exploration contract in Algeria
- Phillips to invests in Nigerian independent power project
- Nigerian Central Bank
accuses oil companies of destabilising forex
- Burlington keen to gain foothold throughout North Africa
- TotalFinaElf wins Algerian exploration licenses
- Algeria awards five licenses for Berkine basin
- Canadian Atrim to start oil exploration offshore Tanzania
- Libya to meet US oil firms barred by Washington since 1986
- Disagreements between Nigeria and oil multinationals block new contracts
- Shell needs 18 months to rebuild its Nigerian flow station
- Sasol announces capital investment plans
- NNPC/Chevron joint venture to construct GTL plant in Nigeria
- Star, Dana and Affrex win Kenyan exploration licences
- Slavneft ready to start working on Sudan oil and gas block
- Elf-Congo seeks new oilfields to boost offshore exploration
- Kerr-McGee acquires permit for Moroccan offshore block
- Dana, Devon and Hunt Oil undertake oil exploration in Ghana
- Canadian-South African consortium to start oil exploration in Uganda
- ABB and Heerema to build deepwater platform offshore Angola
- Woodside and partners plan exploration programme offshore Mauritania
- Lagos Federal High Court approves merger between Total and Elf
- Petrobras executes new petroleum contract in Angola
- Sasol confirms gas transmission agreements with Mozambique
- Uganda chooses six companies to bid for its power sector
- SN Technigaz consortium to build two LNG tanks in Egypt
- Phillips,
co-venturers and Nigeria to study LNG facility development
- Phillips signs agreement with Sonangol
- Shell wins tender to supply motor fuel to Nigeria
- ENI/Agip and Phillips to undertake study for third Nigerian LNG plant
- Sasol produces top results for year up to June
- Entrepose to build hydrocarbon processing unit in Algeria
- Engen pledges continued investment in Zambia
- NNPC and Chevron Nigeria sign agreements on Escravos Gas Project
- Chevron invites companies to bid for Nigerian gas deal
- Cameroon selects Schlumberger to help create National Data Repository
- ExxonMobil begins construction of Angola's Kizomba A project
- DSND consortium and Stolt to build longest offshore pipeline in
Nigeria
- Nigeria and Chevron sign agreement on ending gas flarings by 2008
- Chevron and partners celebrate first oil from North Nemba platform
- Sasol signs agreement with Gabonese ministry
- Halliburton unit and Sonatrach to jointly develop In Salah gas reserves
- Labourers clash over excavation of abandoned Shell pipelines in Oganiland
- Novus Petroleum sells Egyptian portfolio of assets to Apache
- RWE to invest in prospecting Egyptian oil and gas
- Six local oil service companies win drilling jobs from Chevron Nigeria
- Shell Oil Botswana introduces new chairman
- Nigeria to construct Abuja power plant project with Shell
- Daewoo to build gas plant in Nigeria
- Nigeria
could exhaust oil reserves over next 29 years
- Egypt and Libya form company to exchange oil and gas
- Zambian oil companies set up consortium
- BP to invest $ 7 bn in operations in Angola
- NNPC at centre of two major scams
- NNPC to soon sign agreement with Agip on deep-offshore block
- Ghana to restructure the Ghana National Petroleum Company
- Shell Nigeria awards contract to indigenous oil service company
- Nigeria signs power purchase agreement with Agip
- Nigeria signs power project agreement with ENI
- Shell Nigeria committed to increase national oil production
- ENI to build power plant in Nigeria with Phillips and NNPC
- Chevron on track with Nigerian GTL
project
- Chevron to bring West African gas pipeline on stream in 2005
- AES to add power to Nigeria's National Electric Power Authority
- NLNG progresses plans for fourth and fifth trains for 2005
- Slavneft signs cooperation agreement with Sudanese government
- AES acquires interest in Cameroonian integrated electricity utility
- Shell Gabon signs two offshore agreements
- Nigeria to sell West Africa Refining Company
- Shell signs two offshore deals with Gabon
- NLNG signs agreement with Enron for sale of LNG volumes
- IDB grants Sonatrach loan for construction of oil facilities
- ExxonMobil welcomes phasing out of leaded fuel in sub-Saharan Africa
- Qatar Petroleum and Sasol
sign gas-to-liquids project deal
- Nexant wins consultancy for Kenya to Kampala oil pipeline extension
- Equatorial Guinea to negotiate better deal for offshore oil rights
- Ghana wells could lift Dana's asset base considerably
- Tepco to buy stake in Shell's South African downstream oil business
- Sasol to commence seismic acquisition in Western Cape
- Nigeria signs contract with Conoco for bitumen and heavy oil exploration
- Nuevo Energy to acquire portion of Coho Anaguid's interest in Tunisia
- Shell suffers another oil spill in Nigeria
- NNPC only temporarily stops search for black gold in Chad basin
- Premier Oil buys interest in Guinea-Bissau exploration license
- Total Uganda says growth in industry
has slowed this year
- Premier Oil buys license interest off Guinea-Bissau coast
- Western oil companies are playing it cool amid Algerian turmoil
- Seven foreign firms to invest in Nigerian ship-building company
- Four companies express interest in Ugandan oil concessions
- Chevron Nigeria seeks contractors for Tubu oil field development
- Mobil Nigeria seeks tenders for Yoho field development
- Bouygues-Stolt joint venture successfully installs first riser tower
- NNPC gives fresh conditions to all operators of private fuel depots
- PetroCanada buys Libyan oil assets from Lundin Oil
- Shell and World Bank plan financial lifeline for Niger Delta contractors
- Talisman purchases Lundin's interest in
Sudan
- IFC to finance Nigerian oil and gas subcontractors in Niger Delta
- Tatarstan concludes agreement on joint oil processing in Sudan
- Shell believes zero-flare target date of 2004 to be unrealistic
- Energy South Africa buys Middle East gas and oil to fill supply hole
- Shell announces proposed investment of $ 7 bn in Nigeria
- Sasol to begin oil production off Gabon coast within next year
- ExxonMobil announces results of drilling on Angola block
- Positive results for Chinese Petroleum in Uganda oil
- Foster Wheeler SA to provide services to Mossgas
- Noble Affiliates announces successful well testing in Equatorial Guinea
- PanAfrican Energy announces drilling results offshore Gabon
- CMS successfully completes testing of well in Equatorial Guinea
- RSM to exploit natural gas in Cameroon
- South African field ripe for foreign direct investment
- Forest Oil's South Africa drilling results "extremely promising",
- Namcor still waits for "fully-fledged" applications for exploration licences
- Unipetrol diversifies into natural gas venture
- Gaz de France and Sonatrach form new firm to sell LNG
- Unipetrol Nigeria diversifies into natural gas venture
- Nigerian Minister explains role of Sahara Energy Resources
- BP hopeful of further success in Egypt
- Stratic Energy secures rig to drill onshore Gabon
- Pioneer to explore onshore Tunisia
- Apache signs MoU with EGPC
- Shell comes up against opposition in Africa
- Woodside believes in oil offshore Mauritania
- Shell fixes sight on Africa's deepwater basins and Americas
- TotalFinaElf to extend plateau oil production in Angola
- Braspetro applies for oil licence offshore Tanzania
- Angola's goal is to have a long production plateau
- Angola must move quickly for LNG customers
- Norsk Hydro to drill in Angola's ultra-deepwater block
- NNPC ready to give up refining monopoly
- Dana Petroleum has string of successes in Ghana and Mauritania
- Sonangol and Texaco continue proposed LNG project in Angola
- Japanese bank grants loan to
Sonatrach
- Pioneer announces test results from offshore Gabon well
- Shell increases crude production in Nigeria
- Five oil companies could lose their licences in Nigeria
- Nigerian Senate questions oil majors over foreign contractors
- NNPC to recruit and train about 100 graduates
- Wintershall surprised by US objections to investment in Libya
- ExxonMobil to strengthen position in oil world and to invest in Nigeria
- Kenya's National Oil Company signs agreement with Star Petroleum
- Wintershall seeks permission to drill for oil in Libya
- PGS to assist Sao Tome in promoting future license rounds
- Petronas wins exploration and production contract from Sudan
- Dana wins oil andgas production sharing contracts offshore Kenya
- Nigeria discusses possibility of LNG project with Phillips and ENI
- NNPC says oil and gas sector must find ways to cut costs
- Slavneft to prospect for oil around Khartoum
- A.P. Moeller to search for oil in Libya
- Sonatrach to re-auction Anadarko exploration block
- Algeria signs contracts with US-Algerian consortium and Stroitransgas
- Less than 5 % is invested on local content in Nigeria by oil companies
- BG to develop an integrated LNG export project in Egypt
- Triton extends Ceiba Field size and encounters more reserves
- Angolan fisherman demand more compensation from Chevron
- IMF warns Congo that oil sector needs greater transparency
- Elf-Oil Mauritania and BP sign new partnership deal
- Italgas expects to increase gas sales by 4 % per year
- Fusion Oil & Gas to participate in north-west Africa's deepwater wells
- Sonatrach to open gas development project to bidders
- Nigeria suspends operating licenses of 15 oil products marketing firms
- TotalFinaElf asks Morocco for offshore prospection permits
- Sonatrach to launch international bidding round for Tinhert gas fields
- TotalFinaElf asks Morocco for Atlantic prospecting permits
- Equatorial Guinea newest oil frontier
- Stroytransgaz to bid for Sasol pipeline
- Elf Petroleum outlines Niger Delta development plans
- Repsol-YPF sells Egyptian assets to RWE-DEA
- Anadarko to resume exploration with Sonatrach
- Oceaneering to charter FPSO Ocean Producer for offshore Angola
- Energy Africa raises stake in Gabon
- Sonatrach initials agreement with Rosneft and Stroitransgaz
- ENI and BP to build LNG facility in Egypt
- Elf Petroleum Nigeria to stop gas flaring by 2008
- Tullow Oil acquires participating interest in Algerian oil field
- Consortium strikes oil at Sudan's Thar Jath site
- Stolt Offshore wins West African Shell deal
- Vanco contracted for deepwater Majunga Basin offshore Madagascar
- Nigerian government's cash calls amount to $ 4.5 bn in 2001
- Teikoku Oil to join Agip and Tullow Oil in exploration in Algeria
- BHP in $ 57 bn merger with Billiton
- BHP and Billiton to merge to form global giant
- Cameroon grants oil exploration concession to Fusion Oil and Gas
- Shell to develop deepwater Nigerian Bonga oil field
- Shell plans road project for Niger Delta
- Nigeria's first privately owned refinery to come on stream end of this year
- BP to sell Hassi Bir Rekaiz license
- Woodside set to begin drilling offshore deep-water Mauritania
- Shell's unsuccessful start likely to set back Egyptian exploration bids
- Enterprise Oil consortium wins exploration contract for onshore Morocco
- Petronas and partners strike oil in southern Sudan
- Sasol in farm in deal with Chevron and Triton Equatorial
Guinea
- Sasol to join in Equatorial Guinea venture
- Morocco raises stake in Tahadart power plant to 48 %
- Energy Africa and Taurus Petroleum to explore offshore Morocco
- Sasol to expand in South Africa by opening 300 petrol stations
- Bouygues gets Cameroon refinery debottlenecking contract
- Construction of first privately held refinery in Nigeria begins
- TotalFinaElf announces production start-up in Gabon forests
- TransAtlantic Petroleum settling its disputes in Nigeria
- King Resources to acquire Nescor Energy's Gabon unit
- Nuevo abandons Ghana well and discovers natural gas in California
- Nigerian Ijaw demand $ 1.5 bn compensation from Shell
- PetroCanada breaks off
talks with Algeria for major gas project
- Algeria's In Salah project nears construction phase
- Angola's Girasol to begin producing in November
- Sonatrach and Edison Gas sign agreement to study partnerships
- Youngest Nigerian shipping company appoints three technical partners
- West African Gas Pipeline Project a catalyst for industrial revolution
- PanAfrican announces three developments in Gabon projects
- US and UK battle over Nigerian oil contract
- Exxon Mobil, Texaco, Conoco and Chevron to sign MoU with Nigeria
- Egypt and Shell discuss increasing the volume of investments
- Congo launches exploitation of two small off-shore oil wells
- Nigerian oil companies owe N 35 bn to Nigerian Ports
Authority
- Nigeria to benefit from total restructuring of NNPC
- Nigeria and others to get direct investment from CDC
- Algeria awards blocks in first public exploration tender
- Nigeria signs MOU to study feasibility of second LNG plant
- Anadarko wins public bid for exploration block in Algeria
- ABB to explore investment opportunities in Nigeria
- Somalia and TotalFinaElf sign oil exploration agreement
- TotalFinaElf turns over information for audit of Angola's oil books
- UK companies to establish partnerships with South African firms
- Triton celebrates start of oil production from Ceiba Field
- NEIC recommends structural reform of Nigeria's NNPC
- IOC to invest in
Mauritius downstream petroleum sector
- Demonstrators oppose oil exploration contract in Somalia
- Senegal and Fortesa sign hydrocarbon prospect contract
- Shell to acquire NATGAS shares from Egypt Kuwait Holding
- Norsk Hydro and Sonangol to operate Angola's ultra deepwater oilfield
- Woodside, AGIP and Hardman to proceed Mauritania drilling campaign
- TotalFinaElf and Somalian government sign oil exploration deal
- Sonatrach and Anadarko to quadruple oil production in Hassi Berkine fields
- Daewoo to build Angolan marine crude oil facilities
- PetroVietnam hopes to invest in Algerian oil exploration and exploitation
- Foreign oil companies welcome Algeria's new hydrocarbon law
- Sonangol seeks strategic
partners to build refinery
- SK and KNOC jointly acquire stake in Ghana oil exploration project
- Burlington to invest $ 450 mm in Algeria in next five years
- South Africa awards Ranger Oil natural oil prospecting sub-lease
- Nuevo Energy adds two new partners in Ghana Accra-Keta Permit
- Vanco starts 3D seismic survey off Atlantic coast of Morocco
- BP, IEOC and GASCO to invest in Egypt gas plant
- Ethiopia signs deal with Gambella Petroleum
- Energy Africa sees 17 % output rise
- AGCC to help UK service companies exploit business in Angola
- Agip Nigeria sets earlier date to end gas flare
- Shell divests 40 % interest in Echira field to Energy Africa
- Apache buys Repsol
Egypt's major oil and gas interests
- TotalFinaElf's project in Niger Delta region to come on stream 2003
- Apache to buy Repsol YPF's Egyptian oil and gas concessions
- Shell, BP Amoco and Caltex cancel plans for supply joint venture
- Sonatrach, GdF and Petronas to develop a natgas field in southern Algeria
- AES acquires major interest in Enron's Nigerian power barges
- Triton acquires 25 % interest in Gulf of Guinea block
- ONGC explores business opportunities in Morocco
- India to ask Nigeria for increase in crude supplies
- GNPOC to drill 42 wells in southern Sudan this year
- Huge clean up operation underway in the Nigerian Delta State
- Tanganyika reports on drilling results in Egypt and
Tanzania
- Guinea Bissau government accuses Elf and Shell of blackmail
- NNPC calling for bids for pre-qualification
- Nigerian industrialist advocates direct supply of petroleum products
- Nigeria signs MoU with ENI Oil for expansion of NLNG
- Nigeria defends award of prize offshore oilfield to Chevron
- Woodside and BHP to develop Ohanet wet gas project in Algeria
- Sonatrach and CEPSA choose five companies for pipeline project
- Texaco calls tenders for Nigerian Agbami oil field
- Eight German companies interested in contributing to Nigeria's economy
- Zambia's Indeni oil refinery threatened to stop import of crude oil
- Shell Gas Nigeria wins NLNGPlus project contract
- Localcompanies to be allocated Nigerian oil fields
- Chevron wins most sought after oil block in Nigeria
- Chevron announces successful appraisal of Angolan Lobito field
- First pipe shipment to build Chad-Atlantic pipeline project has arrived
- Eight oil firms winners of bids for Nigerian oil blocks
- Appraisal confirms presence of oil for Apache in Egypt desert
- Conoco and Sonatrach to evaluate Algerian natural gas reserves
- Eight firms win Nigerian oil blocks
- Agip and NNPC sign agreement for two Nigerian oilfields
- Conoco and Sonatrach sign Memorandum of Understanding
- TotalFinaElf launches basic engineering studies for Dalia project
- NNPC signs service contract with Agip Energy
- Nigeria earmarks 116 oil fields for indigenous firms
- Sasol to issue more debt to fund various offshore projects
- Boots & Coots and Sonatrach sign contracts for Safeguard Program
- Dublin starts oil drilling in southern Lindi region of Tanzania
- PDVSA to help maintain troubled Nigerian refineries
- Nigerian oil firms accused of denying government revenue
- Dublin International starts drilling in Tanzania
- Sasol to acquire Condea
- Sasol signs agreement for gas transmission from Mozambique
- Conoco to produce oil in Nigerian deep-sea within next five years
- Texaco and Sonangol to announce partners for LNG project
- Kerr-McGee acquires full working interest offshore Benin
- Sonatrach and ENI celebrate 25th anniversary of TransMed Pipeline
- Stroitransgaz seeks financing for Algerian contract
- Mobil Oil petitioned to cease discriminating AIDS/HIV employees
- BP Amoco starts propane exports from Egypt
- UK consortium wins eight-year licences in southern Morocco
- Ceiba Field starts oil production for Triton Energy
- KPMG to study Angola's oil account
- Kerr-McGee acquires exploration license offshore Morocco
- International oil firms may have to negotiate new terms with Angola
- Agip-NNPC partnership to bid for oil concessions outside Nigeria
- Shell supports Nigeria's efforts at wiping out corruption
- US Forest Oil and Anschutz drill new West African gas
fields
- Marathon and Santa Fe start production from Gabon oil field
- Angola orders ExxonMobil to cancel tender
- ENI to supply gas from Libya to Gaz de France
- CNPC becomes operator of new oilfield in Sudan
- Egypt extends deadline for deepwater exploration bids
- Stroitransgaz to build Mozambique-South Africa gas pipeline
- ONGC and Reliance join hands with Sonatrach
- Vanco and Lasmo sign exploration permits with Moroccan ONAREP
- KPMG wins tender to audit Angola's oil industry
- Talisman to soon drill three new exploration wells in Sudan
- Egypt extends deadline for deepwater exploration bids
- Tanzania and Western Geophysical to jointly conduct seismic survey
- Stroitransgaz to open office in South Africa
- Soekor signs joint exploration agreement with Sonatrach
- Marathon and Shell potential bidders for Algerian blocks
- Independent Petroleum Group signs deal with Zimbabwe
- ONGC and Sonatrach to jointly bid for Iraqi oil field contract
- Petronas is South Africa's ally in oil and gas industry
- Algeria waits for BP to provide environmental guarantee
- Shell signs agreement for Egyptian gas-to-liquids project
- Nuevo Energy to sink exploration well offshore Keta
- World Airways accomplishes first flight between Luanda and Houston
- Nigeria to invest in oil interests abroad
- Nigerian Conpetrol chosen as core-investor for ailing
NOLCHEM
- Egypt's EGPC reports on oil output in October
- South Africa to probe secret deal at state oil firm
- Angola to sell off upstream oil assets of Sonangol
- Western Geophysical and Sonatrach to start seismic survey
- Agip calls for bids for upgrade of facilities to increase supply to Bonny LNG
- NNPC activities face investigation
- NNPC oil refineries ready to boost output
- Energy Africa negotiates to acquire Moroccan concession
- Nuevo Energy transfers 25 % participating interest in Ghana permit
- VAALCO Energy signs letter of intent with Western Atlas Afrique
- CNPC unit wins second Sudan oil well drilling contract
- BP plans Algerian drilling wells early next
year
- Mossgas to increase supply of environmentally-friendly fuel
- Mossgas to supply environmentally-friendly fuels and chemicals
- Dana and Woodside sign farm-in agreement covering Mauritania's offshore
- Sasol signs three gas deals with Mozambique
- Kenya signs oil exploration contract with UK firm
- Sasol Petroleum International announces drilling programme
- Tanganyika Oil to drill two test wells in southern Tanzania
- Morocco to start negotiations with General Electric and Siemens
- Nigeria sells controlling stakes in National Oil to Conpetrol
- Optimisation of EM field to extend gas supply to Mossgas
- JGC and Initec receive order for Algerian oil production plant
- Greater Nile Company finalises deal with Petronas to boost output
- Sonatrach in hydrocarbon talks with international oil companies
- Petronas' subsidiary wins contract to develop more fields in Sudan
- Namibia and Shell in talks about Kudu gas project
- NNPC and Chevron unfold investment plan on two gas projects
- Chevron values oil and gas reserves of Texaco at $ 5.9 per barrel
- Mart Resources and Optimum sign JVA for Nigerian exploration
- ROC and Woodside to explore offshore Senegal
- Canada's SNC-Lavalin signs MoU with Algerian government
- Tanganyika Oil completes seismic acquisition program in Gulf of Suez
- Sasol and Chevron agree to global gas-to-liquids venture
- Agip and NNPCsign MoU to develop offshore Nigerian oilfields
- Engen buys stake in Afric Oil from World-wide African Investment
- Angola plans to privatise Sonangol
- Former Shell executive nominated to lead Nigeria's NDDC
- US to invest in West African Gas Pipeline Project led by Chevron
- Crosco to provide drilling services for Marathon in Tunisia
- Santa Fe and Anadarko to search for oil and gas in Ghana
- Soekor considers business in Nigeria, Gabon, Algeria, Libya and Egypt
- Coflexip Stena Offshore wins Kuito Phase 1C development
- Aker Geo joins Nigerian group of up-stream seismic service companies
- NNPC calls on government for national petroleum policy
- Tesco and Sonatrach announce agreement for
Algeria
- Pele negotiates in Nigeria on behalf of Petrobras
- CMS announces successful results of Equatorial Guinea gas field
- Texaco takes final decision on Angolan LNG project in 2002
- Heritage Oil & Gas to start drilling near Uganda's Lake Albert
- Lone Star plans drilling for hydrocarbons offshore Morocco
- Anadarko to participate in Devon's West Africa offshore blocks
- Moroccan State Oil Company invites bids for petroleum exploration rights
- MOL sells Tunisian exploration assets to Athanos Tunisia
- NNPC and Shell on financial collision course
- British firms aim for long term prospects with Libya
- TGS-NOPEC to start new 2D non-exclusive program offshore Liberia
- Shellto upgrade Nigeria's Bonny crude oil export terminal
- Shell to replace flowlines in Niger Delta
- ENI says Nigeria to be central in achieving plan to double oil output
- Statoil and Texaco may jointly develop Nigerian Agbami field
- Shell's announces huge Nigerian investment in gas sector
- Planet Oil to purchase share capital of Star Petroleum Kenya
- Sonatrach and Cespa create joint company
- Investigation of NNPC set up
- Eximbank promises field development loan for Sonatrach
- Lundin's Libyan subsidiary to go ahead with oilfield development
- Cepsa invites four Spanish power companies in Algerian venture
- Saibos CM signs commitment letter with Elf Petroleum Nigeria
- Heritage Gas and Oil to start drilling for oil in western Uganda
- Norwegian oil companies to invest in Angola's offshore oil exploration
- Nigeria ordered ExxonMobil to pay compensation for oil spillage
- Chevron and NNPC join in GTL-project
- MOL sells Egyptian exploration interests to RWE-WEA
- Sasol signs gas supply deal with Egoli Gas
- Congo's SNPC takes over CORAF oil refinery
- Shell to negotiate exploration blocks in Libya
- Sonatrach acquires exploration permit for offshore Algeria region
- Sasol to start drilling on Sofala prospect offshore of Mozambique
- Morocco and US Lone Star to drill at newly discovered reserves
- Exxon Mobil raises estimates for Angolan offshore
block
- Ivory Coast gives Ranger Oil decree to pump oil from Espoir field
- Agip calls tenders to double Nigerian output capacity
- NNPC names Agip as partner in development of new fields
- Sonangol and Elf drill 10th offshore oilwell in Block 17
- BP Amoco to plan gas pipeline linking Algeria to Spain
- JNOC terminates loss-making oil and gas drilling project in Gabon
- Russian state enterprise applies for Namibian exploration license
- Western Geophysical announces Tanzanian 2-D seismic program
- TotalFinaElf drills first of 40 wells offshore Angola
- Nigeria asks Shell to help clean up oil spill in southern Delta State
- Baker Energy to service new NLNG liquefaction plant
- NNPC officially executes farm-out agreement
- Algeria approves transfer of oil interests to Agip
- TotalFinaElf plans to double output in Nigeria
- Chevron and NNPC to develop marginal fields in Nigeria
- Global Energy signs agreement with South African PTY
- Sonatrach receives two-year exploration license offshore Annaba
- Lundin Oil and Edison Gas to bid jointly on new Libyan areas
- Shell's recent Nigerian oil discovery to come on stream in October
- South African units of Shell, BP and Caltex propose joint venture
- Kenya's oil refinery to return to profitability next year
- Nigerian militant youths agree to free 165 Shell hostages
- Nigerian unit of Agip to raise output of natural
gas liquids
- AES to acquire 49 % of Tanzanian gas to electricity project
- Samir to invest $ 600 mm to update equipment and increase refining capacity
- 165 Shell employees held hostage at oil installations in Nigeria
- Nigerian unit of Agip to raise output of natural gas liquids
- Islamic Development Bank lends $ 43 mm to Sonatrach
- Burlington Resources acquires 5.3 mm acres in offshore Gabon
- Shell looses 86 mm barrels of crude oil in delayed Nigerian production
- Triton Energy acquires 38 % interest in blocks offshore Gabon
- J. Ray McDermott to design Hibiscus project offshore Trinidad
- Second phase of Chevron's Nigerian gas project to come on stream
- Samir to invest $ 600 mm to update output
equipment
- Triton Energy reports on Ceiba-5 well offshore Equatorial Guinea
- ABB receives order to design and build Algerian gas processing plant
- Vanco Energy and Aker Geo launch 3D survey offshore Namibia
- BG and Edison announce drilling results of two successful appraisal wells
- BR, Talisman and Sonatrach to develop MMW field in Algeria's Berkine Basin
- US Engelhard to produce advanced catalyst required by Sasol process
- BG confirms reserves of natural gas at Simian field offshore Egypt
- BR, Talisman and Sonatrach announce oil field development in Algeria
- Nigerian NNPC officials said to be involved in pipeline vandalisation
- Norway's Statoil starts exploration drilling offshore Nigeria
- Petronas negotiating stake in new Sudanese oil exploration
- NNPC and Chevron Nigeria to upgrade some crude oil production platforms
- Nigeria still pressing ahead with search for oil in Lake Chad
- Shell and 21 other multinationals submit bids for 22 Nigerian oil blocks
- Multinational oil companies submit bids for 22 Nigerian oil blocks
- BHP signs risk service contract with Sonatrach
- Nigeria pays billions in debt to joint partners in oil industry
- Nigeria's agreement with Enron signals the opening of Nigeria's power industry
- Centurion Energy declares commerciality for Egypt's El Wastani field
- Global Offshore International completes expansion of West African gas field
- Angola to ask for international
bids for 50 % non-operating share block 34
- Triton's Ceiba-4 well to be prolific producer
- Shell to raise Nigerian output to 1 mm bpd by 2002
- IHS Energy Group to assist Moroccan State Oil Company in licensing round
- Egypt's EGPC extends closing date of deepwater licence
- Isramco signs up with drilling contractor for Congo
- BHP to develop oil field in Algeria's Berkine Basin
- Hydrocarbon leads look promising offshore Mauritania
- ExxonMobil's Jade Platform produces first oil at Equatorial Guinea
- First Calgary Petroleums signs agreement with Sonatrach
- Exxon Mobil begins production at offshore Equatorial Guinea platform
- Vanco signs agreement for license area 1711 with government of
Namibia
- Spanish Union Fenosa to invest $ 1 bn in Egypt gas sector
- Texaco, Braspetro and Famfa report on preliminary Nigerian wildcat results
- Shell to acquire AgipPetroli's oil products operations in 5 African markets
- Elf to develop Nigeria's Amenam oilfield
- BP confirms agreement with EGPC for two major gas projects
- Sonatrach and Gaz de France announce joint venture
- Namibia has enough gas to meet electricity demand for next 1,000 years
- BP Amoco and EGPC sign LoI on two new Egyptian gas projects
- TotalFinaElf to lend Nigeria's NNPC $ 1.16 bn
- Sonatrach in talks to expand global oil and gas interests
- BP Amoco to build NGL and LNG plant on Egypt's Mediterranean coast
- West Africa Gas Pipeline likely to be routed on and offshore
- Shell Uganda looking to buy Agip assets in different parts of Africa
- Nuevo acquires agreements in two Tunisian exploration permits
- Lundin Oil soon ready for tendering for Libyan developments
- Nigerian's NNPC to pay market prices for crude
- Chevron to open up to Nigerian contractors
- Italy's ENI to invest $ 450 mm for new drilling in Egypt
- South Africa's Sasol to build new 1 bn rand detergent alcohol plant
- Sasol and Enron to conclude Mozambique gas deal
- Petro-Canada has no plans to abandon North African exploration
- Sasol and Enron agree on Mozambique gas
- Energy Africa ups daily average rate of oil production
by 7 %
- Chevron to explore for oil offshore Equatorial Guinea
- Drucker Industries announces logging completion onshore Algeria
- UK's BG boosts new gas production investment in Tunisia
- Petronet proposes to be partly privatised
- Nigerian Ofon oil field reaches designed capacity of 60,000 bpd
- Foreign investors optimistic as Algeria vows liberalisation
- BP Amoco becomes biggest foreign player in Algeria
- BP Amoco reports on Algerian In Amenas gas flow rates
- Algeria's Sonatrach acquires stake in Rhourde El Baguel oilfield
- Burlington Algeria and Talisman announce successful well results
- BHP applying for production license in Algeria
- Amerada Hess and Sonatrach to join
in SONAHESS
- Algeria plans to liberalise oil & gas sector
- Morocco and US Lone Star sign oil exploration deal
- Texaco pushes ahead with Nigerian Agbami oilfield
- Nigeria estimates Exxon oil find reaching 250,000 bpd in 2003
- Agip forerunner to move into Nigeria's power sector
- Amerada Hess signs upstream deals in Algeria
- Texaco says Nigeria takes 40 % stake in Agbami deep-sea oil block
- Second phase of Nigerian offshore gas gathering project ready by Q2 2000
- Chad approves changes to Doba oil project consortium
- Morocco grants Conoco 1-year oil exploration license
- Four core investors bidding for National Oil and Chemical Marketing Company
- Chevron takes 25 % in Chadoil project
- Vanco awarded Corisco deep block offshore Equatorial Guinea
- South Africa cold get gas-fired power station after gas finds
- OTI South Africa in Gasoline Management System operation with Total
- Chevron to begin wild cat drilling in northern Nigeria
- India in talks for crude supply contract with Nigeria
- 15 gas and power companies bidding to set up IPPs in Nigeria
- CMS and Volta announce commercial operation of 110-MW power plant in Ghana
- Ocelot Gabon well tests at over 1500 bpd of light oil
- Shell signs loan facility for Nigeria Ima field
- BP Amoco sees Trinidad LNG expansion at a roadblock.
- Sedco Forex and Elf Angola amend contract on new semisub Sedco Express
- BP Amoco Algeria's In Amenas gas development surpasses early expectations
- Algeria plans for Sonatrach to be partially privatised
- Shell to spend $ 1.8 bn to develop Bonga field offshore Nigeria
- Shell plans $ 8.6 bn new investment in Nigeria in coming 5 years
- Elf to drill first wells on Angolan deepwater Girassol B project
- Irish Tuskar and Acker to conduct further exploration in Nigeria
- Boeing prime contractor on study for natural gas/solar power plant in Egypt
- BP Amoco and Sonatrach to develop $ 2.5 bn gas complex in Sahara
- Contract for production facilities for Algeria's Ourhoud field to be awarded mid 2000
- Conoco wins concession to explore off the coasts of north-east of Morocco
- China CNPC
indifferent to US sanctions on Sudan
- Consortium hands over first train of Nigeria LNG
- Conoco finds oil assets in Libya back in good condition
- Duke Energy sells 2 LNG vessels to Nigeria LNG
- Shell confirms probable withdrawel from Chad pipeline project
- Triton signs FPSO contracts for Ceiba oil field
- Oil operations are worsening the Sudan civil war
- Elf signs deal with Mozambique for deep water exploration work
- Shell and Egyptian aic form gas distribution company
- Foxboro establishes support facility in Cairo
- Two significant discoveries in Egypt for Apache
- South-African oil firms call for timetable for deregulation
- Multinationals making a fresh push for
exploration of offshore Angola
- Chevron announces successful completion of appraisal wells in Angola
- Sonatrach exercises its right of first refusal on the Rhourde El Baguel field
- Petronas takes up 35 % in Chad oil production project
- Oil majors and Nigeria still talking on new terms for operating joint ventures
- Chevron, Unocal and Teikoku Oil to invest in offshore drilling in Congo
- Zimbabwe to source fuel requirements from Sasol
- Now BP Amoco looking at Nigeria oil retailing
- Shell to sell its holding in Nigeria's National Oil and Chemical Marketing
- Citibank offers NNPC $ 200 mm to assist in revitalisation
- Red Sea Oil's En Naga Project in Libya approved
- Triton Energy plans deepwater
drilling off Equatorial Guinea
- Lasmo plans to triple its oil production capacity in Algeria
- Lasmo plans to triple its oil production capacity in Algeria
- Equatorial Guinea approves Triton's plans for the Ceiba Field
- Texaco confirms potential Agbami to be over 1 bn barrel recoverable
- Chevron announces first oil from Angolan Kuito
- Coflexip, SBM and ABB achieved first oil from the Kuito field offshore Angola
- First Elf gas to Bonny
- NLNG gets loan to purchase ships to expand exports
- Hana field initial production averaging 3,000 bpd
- Shell bids for controlling stake in Nigerian oil marketing company
- Ivory Coast receives two bids for stake in refiner SIR
- Petronas links up with ENI for exploration project in Africa
- Apache's production in Egypt exceed 100,000 bpd.
- Shell to develop Nigerian deepwater Bonga field
- Egyptian onshore Hana field granted commercial status
- Ethiopia signs $ 1.4 bn joint venture deal with Sicor
- Shell and Elf to stay with Chad pipeline project but with different stake
- French re-refining process cleaner than other re-refining processes
- Enron to supply electricity to Nigerian power utility NEPA
- Santa Fe signs exploration deal with Gabon
- Santa Fe signs deep offshore exploration
agreement with Gabon
- NNPC looking for partner for developing block OPL 91
- Elf-Aquitaine inaugurates new oilfields off the coast of Congo Republic
- Petro-Canada looking to develop large natural gas project in Algeria
- NNPC to split the to be awarded crude exchange contract for Kaduna refinery
- UK company to develop South African gasfield
- BP Amoco welcomes Egypt decision to proceed with gas exports
- Turkish Petroleum to drill in Libya
- Sonatrach sets up club to exchange information over sector's development
- Talisman says people of Sudan are not better served by an absence
- Nigeria and Shell sign new style financing to develop oilfield
- Chad people protest against withdrawal of Shell and
Elf
- Gabon grants Australian firms oil exploration permits
- Enron's plan for power for Lagos held up
- Raymond Wilcox to succeed George Kirkland as CEO of Chevron Nigeria
- OMV awarded licence to explore in the Murzuk Basin in Libya
- Shell and Elf withdraw from Doba Basin development in Chad
- Five consortia bid for stake in Ivorian oil refining company SIR
- Oil companies in Nigeria want debt settlement with government
- Australian Roc exploring for oil off Senegal
- Santa Catalina acquires interest in concession onshore Algeria
- Nigeria oil joint ventures propose budgets of about $ 5 bn for 2000
- Shell plans $ 1 bn Nigerian oilfield development
- Novus gets extra 3000 bpd
of oil from a gas exploration well in Egypt
- Texaco raises stake in Nigeria offshore blocks
- Elf Aquitaine returns to Algeria
- Sonatrach will try to speed up the system of negotiations
- Technip looking to come back to Algeria after 13 year
- Shell agrees $ 1 bn development plan for Nigerian offshore EA field
- Nigeria oil joint ventures are upping budgets for 2000
- Mobil giving up OPL 221 offshore Nigeria
- Texaco to start drilling in Angola's Kwanza Basin in 2000
- Senegal and Vanco International sign oil exploration deal
- Shell gaining more confidence after first Nigeria LNG cargo
- Mobil's Nigerian NGL plant on target
- Vanco to farm-in in Lasmo's Ras Tafelney permit
offshore Morocco
- Sao Tome starts legal action against Environmental Remediation
- Mobil Nigeria increases storage capacity
- Sao Tome dissolves oil exploration partnership with Environmental Remediation
- Shell and Enterprise near to securing exploration contracts with Morocco
- Anadarko signs deal with Sonatrach to build processing capacity
- Sonatrach expects to sign deal with foreign firms to develop Oughroud oilfield
- Nigeria's Oil firms need to submit proposals on dealing with pollution
- BP Amoco and ENI sign agreement to sell gas from Egypt to Egypt
- Nigerian Environment Minister indicts major operators for shoddy waste management
- Oil multinationals operating in Nigeria are Y2K ready
- Texaco'sNigeria Agbami oil field seen starting in 2001
- Elf returns to Algeria taking interest in Rhourde El Baguel field
- Small Swiss firm offering their share in Angola's Block 32
- BP Amoco in Angola for the very long term
- Sonangol confirms farming out deepwater Block 34
- Angola, the world's hottest exploration prospect
- BP Amoco in Angola for the very long term
- Texaco has big plans in Angola
- Chevron interested in Angolan ultra-deep oil block 34
- Fresh round of search for crude in the northern part of Nigeria
- Shell says Sudanese crude oil of good quality
- Texaco signs peace agreement with Nigerian oil communities
- Chevron operated oil output in Angola set to
rise
- In Angola Elf may be paying the price of being first and fast
- Chevron Nigeria says capacity Escravos export terminal risen 45 %
- NNPC plans to boost output
- Shell Nigeria reorganisation approved by oil workers' unions
- BP Amoco eyes Nigerian oil marketing company African Petroleum
- Shell to invest in Gabon
- Chevron named project manager for West African Gas Pipeline project
- Enron to bring light to Lagos
- Heritage sues Nigerian government
- BG and Edison sign gas deal with EGPC on the largest gas field in Egypt
- Brazil plans to reinforce its presence in Angola
- Chevron naming FPSO Kuito
- Chevron, Shell and four West African countriesto sign gas deal
- Rwanda sells state-owned oil company to Shell
- Multinational in Nigeria worry about increasing penalties for flaring
- Italian ENI to develop Libyan offshore reserves
- First oil from Banzala
- Mobil pulls out of Nigerian deepwater block OPL 221
- China completes Sudan project
- Texaco signs accord to plan Angola LNG project
- InterGen completes financing on Sidi Krir 3 & 4 Project in Egypt
- Shell and Elf to develop oil fields in Nigeria using new funding schemes
- Repsol begins production at gas processing plant in Western Egyptian Desert
- Libya - Italy project contract award delayed again
- Marathon to sell interests in Egypt to Eni
- Eni completes acquisition of 2 oil and gas fields from Marathon Egypt
- Chevron sees gas flaring eliminated by 2004
- BP Amoco Angolan Plutonio well tests up to 5,700 bpd
- China's Sudan project gone into operation
- Shell appraising results in Nigeria's Gongola Basin
- France to increase oil import from Angola
- Anadarko and LASMO sell Algerian concession to Agip
- Chevron and Sasol plan GTL-plant for Nigeria
- Lasmo to sell Algerian assets
- Elf Nigeria first needs to meets the terms of an agreement entered into in 1993
- Nigeria's LNG plant has begun test runs
- Sonatrach looking to expand its international presence
- Nigeria starts o clean up its oil
industry
- Shell Nigeria admits spillage responsibility
- Nigeria's power firm to soon sign a deal to buy power from Mobil plant
- Texaco forced to call a force majeure in Nigeria
- Sonangol and Technip form Technip Angola
- German and Yemeni joint company form supplying and distributing firm in Ethiopia
- Sao Tome and Principe to sign shared production agreement with Mobil
- Nigerian LNG signs supply contract with Transgas of Portugal
- South Africa's Energy Africa to participate in Angola's oil exploitation
- A new MD for Nigerian LNG company
- Chevron in JV with Sasol on GTL
- Ivory Coast inaugurates Foxtrot gas field
- Texaco halts moves to acquire interests in Nigerian oil
blocks
- Shell takes over Petro-Rwanda
- European firms bid for West Libya Gas Project
- Exxon signs PSAs on three additional large deepwater blocks in Angola
- BP Amoco signs PSA with Angola
- Elf wins operatorship of deepwater Angola oil block
- Shell to supply gas to industrial centres in Nigeria
- Global Industries selected for Alba Field offshore Equatorial Guinea
- Lasmo close to sale of Algerian Berkine Basin oil stake
- Nigeria awards Warri refinery maintenance contract to consortium
- Total Fina consolidating its West African interests
- Six companies named as joint developers for West African Gas Pipeline Project
- Petronas thinking of bringing its Sudan crude to South
Africa's Engen refinery
- Chevron keen to proceed with West Africa Gas Pipeline Project
- BP Amoco's pullout of Nigeria's deep offshore sparks interest with others
- Angola approves drilling licences to BP Amoco , Elf Aquitaine and Exxon
- Offshore Petroleum Association of South Africa launched
- BR and Talisman test oil and gas in Berkine Basin in Algeria
- BP Amoco and Elf to explore in Egypt's deep waters of western Mediterranean
- Enron to develop a gas, iron and steel project in Mozambique
- Shell changing plans for Kudu
- BP Amoco reviews Nigerian concessions
- Operators in line to take over from BP Amoco in Nigeria
- Algeria signs major gas deal with Italy
- Nigeria LNG
expects to sell extra output to Brazilian and Mediterranean markets
- Vanco awarded deepwater blocks offshore Cote d'Ivoire
- BP Amoco and Statoil awarded interest in Angolan offshore block 31
- Shell secures breakthrough deal with Nigeria for development offshore EA oilfield
- Shell cutting E & P spending further and selling assets in Africa
- Mobil Nigeria warned to compensate communities for oil spill
- Australian company to explore offshore Tanzania
- Nigeria awards oil blocks to Nigerian entrepreneurs
- Gas Natural signs new supply contract with Nigerian gas company
- Soon tenders on vessels for NLNG
- BP Amoco signs new concession agreement for Gulf of Suez fields
- Petronas and Sasol sign Memorandum
of Understanding
- Western Geophysical with offshore Angola 3-D multi-client survey in new phase
- BHP considers acquiring Lasmo's Algeria interests
- Talisman sees recoverable oil reserves in Sudan grow
- Hydro-Quebec acquires 34 % in SENELEC in Senegal
- Daytona Energy to study oil exploration in Liberia
- Sasol interim financial results for second half 1998
- Shell cutting jobs in Nigeria and ready to invest
- Proposal for a large integrated oil and gas development project in Nigeria
- CMS to build power plant in Ghana
- Apache announces results of Foxtrot A-1 gas field in Cote D'Ivoire
- Esso signs PSAs on 3 deepwater blocks with Sonangol
- Monument signs oil exploration
deals with Sonatrach
- CanadianOxy acquires interests in Nigeria
- Monument buys shares in Algeria's El-Ouar
- Shell stepping down as advisor for shipping operation Nigeria LNG
- Phillips takes stake in Angola's Block 7 offshore oil field
- Esso Angola signs PSAs with Sonangol
- ABB building power plant and transmission system in Ivory Coast
- Mobil Nigeria increased reserve and production via 3-D technology
- West African Gas Pipeline Project beneficial at all sides
- Sasol to build third hexene production unit
- Sasol to build high-purity ethanol plant
- Sasol to construct ethyl acetate plant
- Texaco acquires operatorship Block 1 off Angola
- Amoco's investments in Egypt
- PSCs in two deepwater blocks offshore Gabon
- Paladin to earn part in Tanzania exploration concession
- Ex-Im bank considering $ 350 million Angola loan
- Algeria's Sonelgaz has $ 12 bn plan to expand power generation
- Chevron to supply fuel for Ghana power plant
- JV to improve the power supply in south Mozambique and Swaziland
- GE Capital completes financing of Senegal power plant
- Texaco in PSA for Angolan offshore Block 9
- Chevron awards contracts for Kuito Field off Angola
- Algerian cabinet endorses Amoco gas deal
- French-Nigerian JV seeks $ 1 bn for development oil field
- Western Geophysical opens data processing
centre in Angola
- Elf seeks $ 1.0 bn to develop Nigerian Amenam field
- Bouygues Offshore reviewing bids on FDS for Girassol
- Unclarity about delays for repair Nigeria's Kaduna refinery
- Shell appointed as technical advisor for Nigeria refineries
- Mobil to build power plant in Nigeria
- More exploration in northern part of Nigeria
- Mobil to evaluate oil-potential around Sao Tome & Principe
- Apache and partners to increase production in Egypt
- Arco negotiating further development for Tunisian oilfields
- Pioneer signs E & P agreement with South Africa
- Vanco signs permit for block offshore Morocco
- Angolan Girassol oilfield to produce 200,000 bpd by 2001
- Oso NGL project in Nigeria started
- Trouble for Shell's Nigeria exports
- Mobil to evaluate offshore potential in Sao Tome and Principe
- Three bid on refinery modernisation project in Egypt
- Total now owns 90 % Total Fina Gabon
- Consultancy agreement for West African gas pipeline project
- Mobil plans increase in production in Equatorial Guinea
- China ready to start building Sudan pipeline
- West Africa gas pipeline expected to be ready by 2001
- Shell gives details of 1,850-barrel Nigeria spill
- Shell negotiating to repair Nigerian refinery
- Total increases stakes in West Africa operations
- Contracts for first private power project in Egypt
- Exxon to integrate Angolan finds in integrated development
- Zarara, Sasol and Arco sign PSA for Sofala and M-10 in Mozambique
- Arco, Sasol and Zarara sign PSAs in Mozambique
- First specs from Benguela discovery off Angola
- Samsung to build refinery in Ghana
- Elf launches big Angolan offshore development
- Amoco to develop gas field in southern Algeria
- Moroccan oil refiners to merge in 1999
- Pioneer in E & P agreement with South Africa
- Nigeria LNG to build third train
- South Koreans sell Egyptian assets
- GHP expanding in Egypt
- Abacan and Enron to build gas pipeline and power plant in Benin
- Agip to operate Angolan
deepwater Block 25
- Air Products' South African affiliate operates new industrial gas plant
- Esso named operator of Angola's deepwater Block 24
- Lasmo granted license offshore western Morocco
- BG investing in Tunisia and urging for better terms
- Chevron's first oil from Lomba field off Angola
- Benton signs agreement with Guinea Bissau and Senegal
- Anadarko starts pumping oil in Algeria's Sahara
- Apache wells in Egypt test 90 mm cfpd and 6,800 bpd.
- Centurion acquires exploration and exploitation permit in Tunisia
- Enron entering Africa in Benin
- Geco-Prakla completes 2-D seismic survey over Gabon ultra-deepwater
- West Africa Growth Fund to invest in Foxtrot gas field
off Ivory Coast
- Start-up of 'Zero-Flare' Gbokoda oil field in Nigeria
- Chevron and Sasol to build 20,000 bpd GTL plant in Nigeria
- Sonangol soon to announce new deep water operators
- Elf Angola awards second ultra deepwater drillship to Pride
- Eurogas has started drilling in Bazma permit in central Tunisia
- Senegal 50 MW power project is largest current US investment in Senegal
- Petro-Canada with ETAP to explore in south-central Tunisia
- Oriental Petrochemicals chooses UNIPOL for new PP plant in Egypt
- Willbros to construct pipelines in Ivory Coast
- Algeria El Merk oil field to contain at least 100 mm barrel
- Morocco and Australian Roc Oil signs agreement on oil hunt
- Apache gives test results for Alamein West #1 discovery
- Elf finds more oil off Angola
- Scimitar to concentrate on Buzi-Divinhe
- Sudan signs pipeline contract with British, Chinese and Argentinean firms
- Lasmo increases reserves estimate of Libyan discovery
- Leopardus in agreement with Zarara for Temane
- CMS Energy to acquire and expand Takoradi power plant in Ghana
- UMC for 20 % in deepwater block 19 in Angola
- Equatorial Guinea talks with Mobil on Zafiro terms
- Pioneer in Technical Co-operation Agreement with South Africa
- Pride in JV with Sonangol to build deepwater drillship
- Tornado sings MoU with Tanzania on power project
- Ranger to invest
more in Ivory Coast
- Mobil apologises for Nigeria oil spill
- Ashanti Gold looking to build own power plant
- Shell goes deep offshore in Nigeria
- Oryx signs oil exploration deal with Sonatrach
- Western Geophysical starts major Angolan seismic survey
- Production sharing contracts signed in Cote d'Ivoire
- Agip and Anadarko swap shares in Red Sea and Tunisia
- Petroleum Geo-Services starts first 12-streamer tow
- CMS Energy to explore in Cameroon
- Mobil to launch second phase of Nigerian project
- Elf to contract Sedco Forex for new-generation deepwater semisub
- Chevron estimates Angola output at 500,000 bpd by 2000
- Major seismic survey to be
conducted offshore Angola
- Nigerian LNG set to resolve gas dispute with Italy's Enel
- Ghanaian parliament approves licence
- Turnaround maintenance of Nigeria's Kaduna refinery to begin in January
- Egypt grants oil exploration block to Tanganyika Oil Company
- Elf announces promising results from Angola test well
- Algeria's Sonatrach to supply 30.7 bn cm of LNG
- Anadarko and Agip announce exploration agreements
- Eurogas announces farm-ins to Tunisian Bazma Permit
- Archean Energy ventures in Benin.
- Benton signs MoU with Senegal
- Australian Hardman signs oil exploration agreement with Uganda
- Kappa successful in Egyptian bid
- Chevron approvessecond phase Escravos gas project
- Seismic data available West and South of Kudu gas field Off Namibia
- Changes in oil acreage in Gabon
- Scimitar signs agreement to proceed with heavy oil project in Egypt
- Escravos Gas Project needs incentives for second phase
- Refinery moves in sub-Saharan Africa
- Ranger signs additional PSC in Cote d'Ivoire
- Chevron Nigeria budgets $ 1 bn for 1998
- Repsol's Libya investment under embargo limits
- Chevron tries to find markets for Nigerian gas
- Elf sees promise in deep waters off Gabon
- Chevron Nigeria plans production of 600,000 bpd by 2001
- Vanco to conduct 3000 km 2D seismic survey offshore Gabon
- Escravos Gas Project needs incentives for second phase
- Refinery moves in sub-Saharan Africa
- Ranger signs additional PSC in Cote d'Ivoire
- Chevron Nigeria budgets $ 1 bn for 1998
- Repsol's Libya investment under embargo limits
- Chevron tries to find markets for Nigerian gas
- Elf sees promise in deep waters off Gabon
- Chevron Nigeria plans production of 600,000 bpd by 2001
- Vanco to conduct 3000 km 2D seismic survey offshore Gabon
- Exxon launches www.essochad.com
- Bidding for Girassol development
- Bula and CanOxy awaiting government approval in Libyan deal
- Elf's Girassol field reserves upgraded to 660 mm barrels
- NuevoEnergy signs exploration deal off Ghana
- Mobil re-entering South Africa
- Mobil and Shell estimate Nigeria refinery repairs at $ 1 bn
- Union Texas acquires new interest in Ghadames Basin in Tunisia
- Anadarko's Algerian acreage to contain 2.0 bnb
- Western Geophysical plans seismic survey off Equatorial Guinea.
- Algeria's Sonatrach receives $ 340 million loan from EIB
- Sasol to build new methanol production plant
- Shell continues Angola exploration
- Norway helps Zambian power to more efficiency
- Apache sees Egypt's North Qarun Field extended
- BHP interested in Angola
- Scimitar expands exploration block in Mozambique
- Western
Geophysical to survey deepwater offshore Senegal
- Shell plans to invest heavily in deepwater West Africa
- Gulfstream active in large concessions in Madagascar
- Seagull Energy signs development lease with EGPC
- Western Geophysical in deepwater Ivory Coast
- Abacan tests oil in Niger Delta Ngo No. 6 well
- Egypt and Libya talk joint projects
- Ocelot Energy enters third PSC in Gabon
- Santa Fe Energy Resources signs PSC with Ghana
- NNPC used $ 2.05 bn from government not for maintenance refineries
- Canop signs PSA with Tanzania
- Nigeria boots U.S. oil firm Ashland
- Scimitar to start drilling program in Mozambique
- Seagull to sell North American
assets to concentrate in Egypt
- NTI acquires 3-D data of Nigerian block
- Seagull completes successful well in Egypt
- BP/Statoil JV to resume oilsearch in deep offshore Nigeria
- Angolan North N'Dola gives first oil
- Algerian Sonatrach and BHP sign production-sharing contract
- Agip sees increasing potential in Algeria
- Austrian OMV to acquire interest Block 5A in Sudan
- Nigeria to start operating Escravos gas project
- Sudan Crude Oil Pipeline update
- Nigerian bid for prospecting leases
- Sasol to develop its first oil field, offshore Congo
- Texaco to be operator of Angolan deepwater oil field
- Statoil and BP suspend drilling in
Nigeria
- Power-supply agreement between Botswana and South Africa
- Arakis announces Sudan UMM Sagura drilling results
- First oil from new area offshore Angola
- Union Texas Petroleum in exploration JV In Algeria
- In Salah Gas to market gas in Southern European markets.
- Chevron discovers oil in deep-water area offshore Angola
- Output Libya's new Murzuk oil field growing towards 200,000 bpd
- Canadian Chauvco signs PSC's with Gabon
- Anadarko with Agip in joint Algerian deal
- New LNG tanker for Libya
- Tuskar Resources acquires additional oil interest off Nigeria
- Arakis confirms Sudan oil discoveries
- Nuevo signs Petroleum Agreement with
Ghana
- Oilcompanies want review of Nigerian MoUs
- Niger grants E & E permit to TG World Energy
- Offshore Benin Basin promising for Abacan
- Petronas joins IPC in southern Sudan
- NTI in JV with Peak in Nigerian offshore concession
- Kelman Technologies in Senegal
- Senegal's Petrosen invites Sonatrach to explore for oil & gas
- Crude pipeline agreement and PSA in South Sudan
- Shell investing $ 657 mm in Egyptian gas field
- Repsol to acquire larger share from oil refinery deal
- Egyptian IEOC from Agip finds
more gas off Nile Delta
- Nigerian gas to Ghana improves viability
- Shell to invest $ 657 mln in Egypt’s Western Desert Gas
- Large Amenam oil field in production in Nigeria
- BP persists in Nigerian offshore drilling
- Ambitious Ghana floating power plant project delayed
- IPC acquires southern Sudan block
- Abacan acquires huge offshore blocks in Benin Basin
- South African Energy Africa signs deal with Gabon
- Pennzoil awarded fifth oil concession in Egypt
- Shell would buy more Nigeria oil assets in case of privatisation
- UK Heritage granted rights to explore in Uganda
- UMIC and Shell explore deepwater Ivory Coast
- S. African Energy Africa in
E&P in Gabon
- Repsol signs $ 400 mm Egypt gas deal
- Petroleum Geo-Services sets record and starts largest 3D seismic contract ever
- Chevron Nigeria oil output 401,000 bpd in '96, 600,000 bpd in 2000
- Apache signs major gas contract in Egypt
- British Gas awarded Ulysse in Tunesia
- Nigerian consortium bids to build Ashland FPSO
- Tunisia grants British Gas offshore permit
- Sudan rebels warn Arakis
- Canadians explore Niger
- France has a good chance in Angola
- Lukoil with Sonatrach in Algerian hydrocarbons
- Lukoil with Sonatrach in Algerian hydrocarbons
- Nigerian firm strikes Nigerian oil
- Enterprise takes over
Tunisian operations
- Shell Nigeria records 36,000 barrels spill in 1995, most sabotage
