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The government is in talks with India’s Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd about a $2bn oil refinery that could be operational by 2015

Law firm Gide Loyrette Nouel has announced that it assisted China’s Soluxe International on its $150m project to build the Soluxe International Industrial Zone – described as the “largest foreign investment project in Chad in recent years”

Tanzania plans onshore and offshore bid rounds this year, offering acreage beyond existing deep-water blocks. The fourth offshore round, which Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation (TPDC) hopes to launch at the AAPG conference in Houston in April,

Norway’s DNO has reported that the Chite-1 exploration well in the Inhaminga Block failed to find hydrocarbons.

Circle Oil has announced a gas discovery with the KSR-10 exploration well on the Sebou permit, north-east of Rabat in the Rharb Basin.

Amid growing interest in West Africa’s untapped potential, Bergen Oilfield Services (BOS) is to acquire a big multi-client 2D seismic survey extending from Senegal to Guinea.

Calgary-based UNX Energy has signed a 3D seismic contract with Petroleum Geo-Services

Africa Oil Corporation has extended its production-sharing agreements (PSAs) with the unrecognised republic of Puntland for the Dharoor Valley Nugaal Valley exploration areas.

The suspension of Madagascar Oil's shares two weeks after listing highlights the problems facing the transitional government, writes Paul Melly. Under the guise of a New Year courtesy call on mining and hydrocarbons minister Mamy Ratovomalala, a delegation of senior managers from oil companies active in Madagascar began to lay the ground for new development talks with the government. In mid-December 2010, Ratovomalala made operators and ..

While Côte d'Ivoire has managed without donors for more than a decade, the European Union raised the stakes on 14 January by imposing an assets freeze. The EU extended the visa ban imposed on 22 December on outgoing president Laurent Gbagbo and his inner circle, slapping restrictions on more people and entities accused

Despite a continuing stand-off over the sharing of oil facilities and future of oil-producing blocks along the border, the Government of Southern Sudan is pressing ahead with plans to develop its oil sector. South Sudan’s oil sector is both the most critical and the most contentious element of its economic future. According to BP’s latest statistical review of world energy, Sudan produced an average 490,000 b/d in 2009, and at year-end had proven reserves of 6.7bn bbls. An estimated 75% of known oil reserves are in South Sudan,

Tullow Oil has announced that the Tweneboa-3 appraisal well in the Deepwater Tano licence encountered gas condensate in high-quality sandstone reservoirs, confirming the Greater Tweneboa Area resource base potential.

Ireland’s Petroceltic International has announced that well AT-4 on its Isarene permit in the Illizi Basin confirmed the presence of a gas column

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.

Soco International has said its Bayingu-1 exploration well in the Nganzi Block was non-commercial.