United States
Lone Star Fights Back

Central Asia
Energy Cards Reshuffled in Central Asia

In less than a month, the stalemate on the share-out of the Caspian Sea's oil and an agreement on future pipelines have altered the whole power picture in Central Asia.

United States
Alastair McKechnie

One of the World Bank's longest-standing experts on Afghanistan, Alastair McKechnie, is preparing to help oil and gas majors to [...]

An Asian Oil Enclave?

State-owned Asian companies are endeavouring to establish a true oil enclave straddling the borders of Chad, Sudan and the Central African Republic

Rabat vs Laayoune, Round Two

Reacting to an agreement signed between Polisario and Fusion Oil, Onarep has penned a contract with the seismics company TGS Nopec in its turn.

Rival Financial Packages for Calub

Rivalry between Russia's Methanol and the U.S. firm Sicor to extract gas from the Calub field has boiled down to how the projects are to be funded.

Skidmore vs Dallah Albaraka

The U.S. firm Skidmore feels it was hard done by the drastic dilution of its stake in Lone Star, which has been re-named Maghreb Petroleum by the Saudi Arabian company Dallah Albaraka, and is reportedly planning legal action.

Chester Crocker, Oil Agent

Former U.S. assistant secretary of state for African Americans Chester Crocker is endeavoring to promote oil exploration around Lake Tanganyika.

AMERICANS STILL KEEN

The U.S. energy branch is still showing a keen interest in Africa, with oil companies advancing mainly on West Africa, [...]

BECHTEL FOR PIPELINE

Sonatrach has awarded Bechtel the contract to install the Algerian section of the North Africa-Europe gas pipeline running from Hassi [...]

A MURKY TALE

Several new twists have been added to the jumble of Sudanese projects revolving around Chevron's discoveries. Within the space of a few days the political-industrial-financial saga took on dimensions far beyond what would be considered normal for a country that [.

CBM PROJECT GATHERS STEAM

A project to develop and use coal-bed methane (CBM) in the Lowveld region of Zimbabwe is expected to be carried [...]

SYNTHETIC DIESEL OIL PROJECT

As Zimbabwe presses ahead with the appraisal of coal bed methane reserves in the south east of the country, Africa [...]

NEW HEADWAY FOR GAS PIPELINE

The Algerian, Moroccan and Spanish ministers in charge of the energy branch --Nordine Ait Laoussine, Driss Alaoui M'Daghri and Claudio [...]

PRESSURE BUILDS UP

Although it had no bearing on oil, the U.N. Security Council embargo on air travel and arms supplies to Libya, to come into effect on April 15, nonetheless ruffled oil markets. On one hand, the industry is concerned over the [.

An IFC report on its activities in Morocco following its [...]