By NJ Ayuk Angolan President João Lourenço recently engaged in discussions with Aliko Dangote – founder and CEO of Dangote Industries – to explore potential opportunities,...
By Danilo Desiderio All members of the World Trade Organization (WTO), including countries and customs territories, undergo periodic reviews of their trade policies. The frequency of...
Reuters | Nigeria’s state oil firm, NNPC Ltd has revealed that one of its subsidiaries has agreed to supply 100 million standard cubic feet of gas...
Bloomberg | Senegal’s government set up a commission to examine natural-resource contracts awarded to foreign investors and establish whether they comply with the West African nation’s...
Reuters | Senegal will conduct an audit of the oil, gas and mining sectors, newly elected President Bassirou Diomaye Faye told the nation in a televised...
Bloomberg | Nigeria-based Riverside LNG said it’s in talks to supply gas to South Africa, in what would be the first such deal between the two...
By Gregory Simpkins Over the centuries, the natural blessings of Africa seem to have been more apparent to outsiders than even the rulers of African countries....
AFP | Ivory Coast (Cote d’Ivoire) reported a fresh discovery of offshore oil and natural gas by Italian firm Eni on Thursday, expanding the potential of...
As negotiators at the Glasgow climate talks try to agree on greenhouse gas cuts, African leaders say poorer countries can’t be expected to remake their systems...
Citizens cannot be forced to wait in order to have reliable energy and live modern, dignified lives
Ghana held emergency talks in Nigeria on Thursday to avert a threat to cut gas supply drastically, which could worsen the country’s electricity blackouts and present...
Trinidad & Tobago is facing an “unabated decline” in its oil and gas reserves and production, and the country must act quickly to revive the industry,...
OPEC member and gas exporter Algeria is in advanced talks for a first deal to start oil and gas exploration in Tanzania. The move sees a...
Nigeria’s interminable focus on fortifying its oil and gas sector could hamper its chance to diversify the economy. This is according to the 2014 Economic Report...
Sub-Saharan Africa’s economic growth is set to hit 5.2 per cent, up from 4.7 per cent, the World Bank has said. “This performance is boosted by...
One of Nigeria’s foremost gas processing firms, Seven Energy, has initiated negotiations with 10 power plants over the possibility of supplying gas, in a move which...
On paper, South Africa’s long-term energy plans look solid, with coal, nuclear, gas and renewables all viable options. But none are likely to prevent potentially crippling...
Tanzania’s energy regulator raised the price of petrol in east Africa’s second-biggest economy on Wednesday but cut diesel and kerosene prices, citing a weaker local currency...
Construction on a pipeline that will bring natural gas from Trinidad & Tobago to the island-nations of the East Caribbean will begin next year, according to...
(Reuters) – Zambia’s mines and energy said on Monday the government would revoke oil exploration licences of companies that had been awarded them but had not...
Oil rig in Uganda. PHOTO/Tullow Oil Uganda and Kenya are both individually expected to introduce new licensing for oil and gas exploration in 2013. Uganda first...
(Reuters) – Mozambique plans to take advantage of massive gas reserves to develop domestic industries as well as export liquefied natural gas, boosting government revenue by...
Oil rig in Uganda. PHOTO/Tullow Oil A shortage of trained oil and gas workers in East Africa is slowing development of new fields following a series...
(Reuters)- Some of the world’s biggest oil firms including Exxon Mobil and Shell are keen to play a part in developing Mozambique’s huge gas fields, an...
Tanzania has nearly tripled its estimate of recoverable natural gas reserves to up to 28.74 trillion cubic feet from 10 trillion and plans to introduce new...
(Reuters) – Norwegian oil company Statoil and partner ExxonMobil have made a large gas discovery in the Statoil-operated Block 2 license in Tanzania, the company said...
By David Jessop Trinidad and Tobagos Point Fortin LNG terminal. PHOTO/File In March 1980 David Renwick, the Trinidadian journalist, and I wrote an extended feature for...
