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Germany’s RWE Dea has signed a gas sales agreement with Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) and Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company (Egas) to deliver natural gas to the domestic market from its North Idku offshore concession in the Nile Delta.

London-based Invensys Process Systems has joined the local Engineering for the Petroleum & Process Industries (Enppi) and Egyptian Natural Gas Company (Gasco) in a joint venture to create Invensys Process System Egypt.

Nigeria agreed to supply Ghana with 60,000 b/d of crude on a government-to-government basis, during talks in Abuja between President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua and his Ghanaian counterpart John Agyekum Kufuor.

In an unusually frank interview by Libyan standards, National Oil Corporation (NOC) chairman Shokri Ghanem has told state-owned newspaper Al-Shams that petrol supply shortages were linked to excessive demand stimulated by heavily subsidised

IOCs and consumer governments are indulging in intense speculation about Gazprom’s Nigerian love-in, with indications that Moscow might also revive co-operation with Algeria and invest big in several other African gas plays.

Australia’s CityView Corporation says it has teamed up with “a

A flurry of deals, some confirmed some still speculative, suggests that a lengthy hiatus in the development of Libya’s downstream sector may have broken, writes John Hamilton.

A flurry of deals, some confirmed some still speculative, suggests that after years of false starts National Oil Corporation is now pushing refurbishment plans at its two main refineries and actively soliciting investments for new projects.

President Jakaya Kikwete has given his support for plans by Artumas Group to export compressed natural gas to Kenya, signalling an apparent change of heart by the Tanzanian government.

Vancouver-based Winfield Resources has been advocating projects across north-west Africa where few downstream players yet venture. So far, most of its …………………..

Sonatrach has secured a revised deal with Norway’s StatoilHydro that underlines the Algerian state company’s determination to build up a much greater international profile by working in tandem with IOC partners, with a 1 March agreement to extend a liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply accord and give it access to a US east coast regasification terminal.

ANGOLA: LNG technology deal; REPUBLIC OF CONGO (BRAZZAVILLE): Refinery contract; LIBYA: Indonesians agree long-term crude supply

President Umara Musa Yar’Adua wants a stronger national industry – as he noted, opening CWC Associates’ Nigeria Oil & Gas Conference 2008 in Abuja on 19 February, “the provision of petroleum projects is dependent on expertise from other countries.”

Plans are moving ahead for the most radical overhaul of Nigeria’s hydrocarbons industry in 40 years, according to the draft report seen by Our Gulf of Guinea Correspondent. Also in African Energy, Eleanor Gillespie in Abuja and Leonard Lawal in Lagos report on joint ventures and other aspects of the reform promised across the industry, which may not be to the taste of many IOCs but fulfill a need for real change in Nigeria.

Agreeing to a higher price for gas sold by IOCs to the government should improve production capacity as companies are encouraged to invest, but it will also increase Egypt’s spiralling subsidy bill, writes Nadine Marroushi.