In recent weeks, there has been an intensification of discussions between the foreign ministries and employers' associations ...

The committee charged with shedding light on South Sudan's crude oil export trading contracts and contracts for fuel imports to the country has still not given its findings. These were initially to be ...

According to information obtained by the Indian Ocean Newsletter, the director of the Port of Djibouti and brother of President Ismail Omar Guelleh (IOG), Saad Omar Guelleh, was evacuated to Paris in ...

The secretary-general of Algeria's security agency Direction Generale de la Surete Nationale (DGSN), Mahmoud Mohand-Amokrane, is to attend courses this year at France's Institute for Higher Domestic ...

PetroCanada is scheduled to invest US$30 million this year on its Tinrhert permit in Algeria to develop the Tamadouet oil discovery and press ahead with exploration. Tamadouet has reserves estimated ...

On Dec.4 Chevron signed a production sharing agreement with Congo's hydrocarbons ministry for the Marine IV block. The permit lies off Pointe Noire, one of the most heavily explored in Congo's ...

A major reorganisation is under way at LAMHCO (Libyan Arab Maltese Holdings Co.), the joint venture between Libyan sovereign fund LAFICO (Libyan Arab Foreign Investment Co.) and the Maltese state.

Total and Congolese President Denis Sassou Nguesso are preparing for a very heated round of negotiations as the French major's concession contract for the Djeno terminal comes to end in November 2020.

After drilling its second well in deep water in Block 17 from July, Elf Angola will use the option it has for another well with Neddrill 1 (AEM 149). The well will be drilled in Block 3 where Elf also ...

According to our sources, Congolese ministry of oil Jean-Marc Thystere Tchicaya wrote on November 20 to the general director of Soco, Ed Story, to inform him of the state's refusal of the transaction ...

Max Munga Mibindo, the director of the coordination and management unit in charge of projects at the state-owned Societe nationale d'electricite (SNEL), has been trying since early May to settle a ...