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ANGOLA: New find on Block 15/06; EGYPT: Mitsui buys in; GABON: Perenco workover raises output; MOROCCO: Exploration progress; NIGERIA/SAO TOME: Total Takes Chevron’s Block 1 stake; NIGERIA: Drilling success for Sinopec; TUNISIA: AfDB funds for Etap; UGANDA: Butiaba appraisal success

ANGOLA: Top crude supplier to China; LIBERIA/NIGERIA: Crude supply deal

A big new loan for a Nigerian gas project underlines growing interest from private investors in the country’s potential, writes Kevin Godier. Two Nigerian banks have extended a landmark $60m project finance facility to part- finance the construction of a gas pipeline, central processing facility and associated infrastructure in Akwa Ibom state.

Eni and its partners have made a new oil discovery in Block 15/06 with the deep-water Cabaça SE-1 well. The well, located in 470 metres of water 100km offshore, encountered significant oil-bearing reservoirs in the Miocene series. An appraisal well is planned to be drilled in Q3 2010 with the objective of delineating and testing this oil accumulation. Cabaça SE-1 is the seventh exploration well drilled in Block 15/06 since the block was awarded at the end of 2006. The eighth well of the exploration drilling campaign, Mpungi-1, is currently being drilled,and it will complete the work commitment of the first exploration period. The block has delivered six commercial discoveries out of the seven prospects drilled to date.

EGYPT: IFC invests in Egyptian Refining Company; EQUATORIAL GUINEA: Refinery progress; KENYA: Enoc enters downstream; MAURITIUS: Products supply deal renewed; NIGERIA: Lagos seals refinery deal

US anger over Ghana’s resistance to ExxonMobil and African disillusion with France is opening the way for a new British investment push into Africa.

REPUBLIC OF CONGO: Nkossa contract extension; EGYPT: Technip contract for WDDM expansion; MAURITANIA: Taoudeni well makes slow progress; NIGERIA: Amenam contract extension; NIGERIA: Gas find for Conoil, Total; Chariot: Namibia seismic ready for inspection; MAUREL & PROM: Bullish on Nigerian acquisition; SEADRILL: Delivery of deep-water drillship West Gemini; SONANGOL: Venezuela move

Italian export credit agency Sace’s growing focus on Africa saw it reach E1bn ($1.26bn) in insured transactions in sub-Saharan Africa in 2009.

A new and obscure player has emerged in the battle to secure choice sub-Saharan Africa oil and gas reserves, with a $4.8bn bid by Lagos-based Sunrise for ExxonMobil’s Nigeria assets

A new and obscure player has emerged in the battle to secure choice sub-Saharan Africa oil and gas reserves, with a $4.8bn bid by Lagos-based Sunrise for ExxonMobil’s Nigeria assets.

In statements, press briefings and interviews, Royal Dutch Shell on 21-22 June sought to reassure Nigerian communities that it was reviewing the much-derided safety of its local operations following the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and making a vital contribution to the nation’s economy.

Two new committees to spearhead and monitor reform and efforts to unify contracts reveal the president’s focus on achieving stable power supply.

CAMEROON: Foster Wheeler wins Sonara work; CHAD: Pipeline completed; NIGERIA: KBR refinery contract

Climate Council launched; PRI markets stay closed to oil sector; USTDA backing for renewable energy

The Nigerian-German Energy Partnership's Nigerian chair is influential former diplomat Alhaji Hassan Tukur, who on 17 May became President Goodluck Jonathan's new principal secretary