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The ‘Arab Spring’, which offered such hope of radical change across North Africa, has entered a long hot summer of doubts and fears, as the Libyan conflict drags on and populations from Morocco to Egypt wait to see if promised political reforms will deliver the hoped for dividends of more open decision-making, fairer legal systems and equitable economic opportunities that will help reduce levels of poverty and give real jobs to the region’s disaffected youth

Norway’s DNO International and United Arab Emirates-based RAK Petroleum have signed a heads of agreement to merge RAK Petroleum’s Middle East and North Africa (Mena)

Higher oil and gas sales and better prices helped North Africa player Circle Oil move into profit for the first time in 2010, reporting a net profit before tax of $10.40m

New Zealand Oil & Gas Ltd (NZOG) has made a first foray outside its home area with the Diodore permit in the Gulf of Gabes. Chief executive David Salisbury, who travelled to Tunis for the signing ceremony, said NZOG had been assessing opportunities in Tunisia since 2008

National Oil Corporation chairman Shukri Ghanem appears to have defected to the opposition, taking with him vital intelligence on the regime's fuel supplies, in a major blow to Muammar Qadhafi's hopes of clinging to power, writes John Hamilton

Prime minister Béji Caïd Essebsi has promoted a well-known technocrat to control the energy industry in his new interim government. Industry and technology minister Abdelaziz Rassaa

Office National de l’Electricité (ONE) has prequalified seven companies to build the 150MW Taza wind farm. Each of the bidders is a major company from a leading industrialised economy, with less familiar corporates and emerging market bidders being dropped from the list. ONE in December said it had received expressions of interest

Political risk insurance (PRI) and other risk mitigation markets are having to adapt to the more difficult outlook. Egyptian General Petroleum Company (EGPC) has become a particular focus for PRI underwriters and the price of cover ""has more than doubled for Egypt and Tunisia since the crisis period began

Tunisia’s Jasmine revolution, which drove Zine El Abidine Ben Ali into exile in Saudi Arabia on 13 January, was the unexpected trigger that has made Arab populations wake up after decades of submission to personalised, autocratic regimes. But it is events in Egypt that will drive how the ‘Arab street’ and those who seek

The street protests which were ultimately to bring down the regime of President Zine El-Abedine Ben Ali had taken hold of the country - and were just ten days from their crisis - when Austria's OMV announced it had acquired the Tunisian exploration and production subsidiaries of the US' Pioneer Natural Resources.

Australia’s ADX Energy has signed a letter of intent with Challenger Limited for the use of the Rig 37 onshore drilling unit to drill the planned Sidi Daher exploration well on the onshore Chorbane permit.

It hardly rates on the scale of the drama that a courageous Tunisian population delivered to the world in ousting Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, but manoeuvrings by members of the former presidential circle to allow them to profit handsomely with little effort from the award of contracts for a gas-fired

Technical and economic feasibility studies for a wind farm to generate up to 120MW - 60MW in the first phase - have got under way, according to Nafaa Baccari,

Tunisian state utility Société Tunisienne d’Electricité et du Gaz announced on 25 November that it had been awarded a TD100m ($69m) contract by Rwanda Electricity Corporation to connect 50,000 households in six provinces in the north-east to the national grid

The international upstream arm of state-owned Kuwait Petroleum Company (KPC) has a mandate to increase its reserves and production mainly through acquisitions across Africa and elsewhere