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The federal government has reversed the award of three oil blocks – OPLs 226, 2005 and 2006 – to India’s Essar Exploration and Production and Sterling Global Resources during last year’s licensing round. ThisDay newspaper quoted a letter from Ministry of Energy (Petroleum) permanent secretary Sadiq Mahmood as saying neither of the firms had met the prequalification requirements for the 2007 bid round.

Few issues have the potency to stir up western chanceries and international oil company boardrooms as much as Gazprom’s flexing of its muscles in countries whose supply of energy is deemed so critical to the European Union. These include Algeria, Libya and Nigeria, the targets for what

The Export-Import Bank of the United States has doubled the size of its Nigerian bank facility to $1bn. Ex-Im Bank said the move met with a growing demand from Nigerian banks for medium- and longer-term financing.

A N26bn ($220m) financing agreement for the Escravos gas-to-liquids (GTL) project was signed on 21 June between a consortium of Nigerian banks and Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and its joint venture partner Mobil Producing Nigeria (MPN).

Presidential adviser on energy Rilwanu Lukman has said he expects final government approval of his report on the restructuring of the Nigerian hydrocarbons sector “in the next week or two”.

UK-based Africa Oil Exploration Plc (AOC), which listed on London’s PLUS market in January 2008, raising £1.03m, recently bought a 9.68% stake in London-based Wilton Petroleum. AOC’s managing director David Carr told African Energy

CBM pilot drilling; EEPCo seeks Gilgel Gibe 3 links;Accra looks to nuclear power; Gurara Falls HEP scheme; Rural electrification tenders; Gariep hydro rehab; AfDB financing

Former GNPC head jailed; Winfield wins approvals for refinery project; Abu Dhabi plans refinery; Chemical distribution deal; Petronas puts refinery on hold

Afren and its partner Amni International Petroleum Development Company have announced the start of production from the Okoro Setu project in OML 112. Initial production from the first of two wells drilled to date has commenced at a rate of more than 3,000 b/d of 27º API gravity oil. .

To much fanfare, Nigerian President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua has announced plans to hand over Royal Dutch Shell’s interests in Ogoniland to Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and bring them back into production. This may not be such a big deal: Shell is hoping

Aker Nigerian contract; MOL agreement with Libyan SWF; Aoun’s move to Shell underlines management change; WAVEFIELD secures big BP contract in Libya

French partnership agreement; Sudan and China have signed eight agreements

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has produced an atlas of ‘before and after’ satellite images documenting environmental change in Africa. Some of the changes, like the shrinking of Lake Chad, now one tenth of its size 40 years ago, and falling water levels in Lake Victoria, are already well recorded, while others, like the disappearance of glaciers in Uganda’s Rwenzori Mountains vital to the region’s

Flex LNG Nigerian project; Chinese CTL plans; Total/CNOOC New energies co-operation

UK gas operator Centrica has denied reports from Lagos that it has signed a $12bn deal with Akwa Ibom State to build a new liquefied natural gas plant. Reuters on 27 May quoted state governor Godswill Akpabio as saying that the plant would be built on Tom Island in Mbo district.