After its recent successes with Zohr and Nidoco NW, Eni has announced it has been granted two new exploration licences as an outcome of the 2015 EGAS bid round; North El Hammad and North Ras El Esh situated offshore Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea. The two new agreements are subsequent to the recent deep water Karawan and North Leil blocks awarded to Eni, Energy-pedia reports. The Oil and Gas...

The president of Nigeria Muhammed Buhari has announced leaving the post of petroleum minister after recently declaring to keep the post for himself vowing to fight corruption surrounding the oil industry. “He can’t be president and oil minister at the same time,” Femi Adesina, Buhari’s spokesman told Bloomberg. “He will supervise the ministry, so there will be no petroleum minister....

Towards easing the discomfort of prolonged power shortages in the country, Tanzania has introduced a $1.33 billion project to convey natural gas to Dar es Salaam. The 532 km (330 mile) Mtwara-Dar es Salaam pipeline and gas processing plants, which were backed by a Chinese loan, is among efforts to add 2,000 MW of power by 2018 in order to boost Tanzania’s capacity to 10,000 megawatts come...

Chevron SA’s new executive chairperson Shashi Rabbipal who was appointed last week has today commented on Government’s plan to build Africa’s largest refinery saying that, the slowdown in the economy has controlled demands and the country now has abundant gasoline production and for that reason South Africa does not need another oil refinery “Should another refinery be built, it would...

The food situation in Benin is worrying the Japanese government who decided to lend its support to Porto-Novo by allocating FCfa 2 billion in food aid. According to the Japanese ambassador in Benin, Tokyo is hoping through this gesture to help the country in making up for the food deficit which it is currently experiencing. This gesture, the last in a long series of gifts from Japan to Benin,...

In Côte d'Ivoire, the daily "L'Inter" has been suspended for 3 days. The decision from the National Press Council (CNP) dates back to 2 October 2015. The regulatory body has also slapped a suspension of one month on journalist Cyrille Djedjed. During this period, his journalist and media professional ID will taken away. The newspaper and the journalist are sanctioned for an article published on...

Algeria will make, on the basis of a barrel price of USD 45, oil revenue estimates for the country for 2016, against a price of USD 60 in 2015, according to Hadji Baba Ammi (photo), Deputy Minister in charge of the Budget and Planning, Maghreb Emergent reports. "The prudential economic and budget policy adopted by Algeria for many years now, will continue in 2016 with a budget bill anticipating...

The national telecommunications operator Tunisie Telecom and the Qatari mobile operator Ooredoo signed a partnership agreement on their radio infrastructure this 9th October 2015. Through this operation, both companies will be using each other’s equipment and frequencies to carry the telecom services of the other in areas not covered by its network. We are talking here about 3G network. In...

The Tunisian civil society received this Friday 9th October the Nobel Peace Prize for “its determining contribution to the construction of a pluralistic democracy in Tunisia after the “Jasmin Revolution” of 2011”. Two years ago, at the height of the crisis, following the assassination of progressive leaders, the National Tunisian Labour Union, the Employers’ federation UTICA, the...

Gabon and the World Bank are currently working at introducing ICT within in the health sector. The goal is to improve the performance of the National Health Information System (SNIS – Système National d’Information Sanitaire) by strengthening the human and financial resources, and by updating the equipment and infrastructure of the health facilities. The project will be implemented with the...