Tullow Oil had threatened over the weekend to shut down its oil wells in the Lokichar basin if the government does not act soon to remedy production, security, and transportation Continue Reading
Kenya’s oil industry is facing new challenges as Tullow Oil threatened over the weekend to shut down its oil wells in the Lokichar basin if the government does not act Continue Reading
The fuel crisis has returned to the three states of Kordofan, affecting transportation within towns and travel to other states. For a week, the authorities of Babanusa have stopped supply Continue Reading
Exxon Mobil and Eni announce they’ve submitted the development plans for a liquefied natural gas facility to the Mozambique government for approval. Photo courtesy of Eni July 9 (UPI) — Continue Reading
Ethiopia began on Thursday its first-ever crude oil production under a test production scheme that will see initial production of 450 barrels of oil per day. Ethiopia, a rather large Continue Reading
Ethiopia is to start extracting the first ever natural gas deposit from Ethio-Somali Region as of tomorrow, The Reporter learnt. It is to be recalled that back in March, 2018, Continue Reading
At least four in every 10 oil and gas contracts will be awarded to Ugandans, the government said yesterday. The Media Centre executive director, Mr Ofwono Opondo, said a Cabinet Continue Reading
The El Gezira and El Managil Agricultural Scheme has warned of the failure of planting sorghum, groundnut and cotton in the current agricultural season because of the increasing prices of Continue Reading
Anadarko Petroleum’s personnel at a planned liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant in northern Mozambique have been placed under ‘lock-down’ due to safety reasons, following Islamist militant attacks in the area, Continue Reading
Six years after British firm Tullow Oil announced that it had struck oil in Kenya, four tankers, each carrying 156 barrels arrived in Mombasa on Thursday. It is East Africa’s Continue Reading
Car owners and drivers of commercial vehicles in eastern Sudan’s Kassala are complaining about the newly set fuel quotas. People in West Kordofan denounce the rise of the public transport Continue Reading
Kenya took a step toward building an export pipeline from its oil fields to the port city of Lamu with the award of an early-phase design contract, Wood said. Oil Continue Reading
As East Africa’s oil producers race to meet their production targets, funding and infrastructural development hurdles threaten to delay the projects. Uganda, for instance, has been forced to rethink its Continue Reading
Racketeering is rife in Sudan’s Kassala as reports from the state complain that the fuel crisis has worsened in an unprecedented manner. A gallon of diesel now cost SDG 600 Continue Reading
Farmers of El Gezira and El Managil Agricultural Scheme are warning for “famine in the country”, as they doubt the upcoming farming season will bring about any yields. “The fuel Continue Reading
Hundreds of residents took to the streets of the Geziratelfil district of Wad Madani, capital of El Gezira, on Tuesday evening to demonstrate in protest against the fuel crisis, rise Continue Reading
Saudi Arabia would supply Sudan’s energy needs for five years on credit under an agreement being discussed by both governments, Sudan Oil Minister Abdulrahman Othman said on Monday. Othman said Continue Reading
The National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) has forbidden newspapers in Sudan from publishing any material related to the fuel crisis that has impacted the entire country for several months. Continue Reading
Sudan’s Prime Minister Bakri Hassan Saleh in Khartoum, Sudan March 2, 2017. (Reuters) In a rare admission, Sudan’s prime minister acknowledged his country’s crisis of foreign exchange shortages and economic Continue Reading
Reports from various parts of Sudan to Radio Dabanga tell of the paralyzing effect the fuel shortage has had on traffic and public transportation for nearly two consecutive weeks. On Continue Reading
It looks like a bombshell. A long story about what could be the last biggest oil discovery is taking place in Sudan in the newly tapped block-25, better known as Continue Reading
According to Sudan’s Central Bureau of Statistics, the inflation rate in the country in March reached 55.60 percent; up from 54.34 percent in February. Public transport prices nearly doubled last Continue Reading
Sudan — The fuel crisis has hit the capital of Sudan and all the states doubling the suffering of the residents in all the markets in the countryside, towns and Continue Reading
Sudan — The shortage of fuel and cooking gas has renewed in Khartoum and a number of states over the past two days. People reported to Radio Dabanga that buses Continue Reading
Clashes flared between Sudan Sudanese troops and rebels, complicating talks to end the civil war that has cut oil production, two days after a regional bloc called for the insurgents’ Continue Reading
The United States on Wednesday placed sanctions on 15 South Sudanese oil-linked operators it said were substantial sources of revenues for the government, aimed at increasing pressure on President Salva Continue Reading
The world’s longest river, a lifeline for hundreds of millions of people, is also fast becoming a fault line. Ethiopia’s ambitious $4.2 billion hydroelectric dam project on the Nile River’s Continue Reading
Kenya has decided to allocate 20 percent of future oil revenues to the communities where crude oil has been discovered, cutting the share from an initial proposal to give local Continue Reading
The East African Crude Oil Pipeline is has already been completed and it holds great opportunities businesses can benefit from. Among the partners that played a role to make the Continue Reading
Japan’s Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Europe Ltd (SMBCE), Standard (Stanbic) Bank, and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited (ICBC), the three financial advisors for France’s Total E&P, Uganda-Tanzania, and Continue Reading
Kenya plans to allocate 30 percent of future oil revenues to the community where the crude oil has been discovered, backtracking on a previous proposal to cap revenues at specific Continue Reading
Uganda will seek to join OPEC once the East African nation starts pumping crude out from Lake Albert oil fields along the western border with the Democratic Republic of Congo Continue Reading
Kenya’s mountains of plastic bags might not seem central to oil’s grand narrative, but they are. Last week, the East African country banned almost everything about them: making them, importing Continue Reading
South Sudan’s vulnerable financial state is making the civil-war-torn state easy prey for opportunistic oil and gas companies that could be offering Juba a fraction of the energy profits they Continue Reading
Attacks on foreigners working on South Sudan’s oil and gas facilities serve as a warning for multinationals to stay away from the new country’s national resources, just as oil prices Continue Reading
The main rebel group in South Sudan is threatening to disrupt oil production in the country, a day after it released three foreign oil workers it kidnapped earlier in the Continue Reading
Nigeria’s Oranto Petroleum International Ltd. plans to bet half a billion dollars that Africa’s newest nation can end a three-year civil war and create the conditions to revive its oil Continue Reading
ExxonMobil Corp. and Eni SPA have signed a sale and purchase agreement to enable ExxonMobil to acquire from Eni a 25% indirect interest in the natural gas-rich Area 4 block Continue Reading
Tullow Oil has found more oil with a closely watched exploration well in northwest Kenya, boosting the resources in its emerging oil province which is set to feed East Africa’s Continue Reading
An oil exploration tower in Lake Albert, Uganda. Total SA agreed to buy a stake in a project in Uganda from Tullow Oil Plc for $900 million as a recovery Continue Reading
As South Sudanese homemaker Sarah Kiden stirs a boiling pan of lentils, she remembers when her five children could count on more than one meal a day. For the first Continue Reading
The work towards the construction of a crude oil pipeline between Uganda and Tanzania is officially on, with project the developers inviting reputable contractors to undertake a social and resettlement Continue Reading
Public transport stayed off the streets, several squares and roads in Khartoum were deserted and many shops were shut in a mixed response to opposition calls for a nationwide strike Continue Reading
The Kenyan government has been urged to consider a pipeline for oil exports to reap maximum benefit from the proposed early production. According to oil and gas experts, the basic Continue Reading
According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the loss of most of Sudan’s oil export potential has exacerbated the crises in the country. Sudan as a united country started producing Continue Reading
Conflicts and a lack of business opportunities in the oil sector creating economic headwinds for Sudan, the International Monetary Fund said. File Photo by Debbie Hill/UPI Fragility in Sudan brought Continue Reading
Chinese train driver Liu Ji (R) and his Ethiopian colleague Geto wave hands before the start of the first passenger train of the Addis Ababa-Djibouti railway in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Continue Reading
Government expects Tullow, Total, Cnooc to drill 500 wells Companies expected to start crude production in 2020 Uganda expects three oil companies to invest $8 billion in the East African Continue Reading
Tullow said to plan eight more exploration wells in Lokichar Nation holds 750 million barrels of recoverable resources Tullow Oil Plc will put Kenya on the map of oil producers Continue Reading
Port cleared 525 TEUs in July, from average 4,000 TEUs at peak Forex shortage hurting shipment through Kenya’s Mombasa port Imports to South Sudan through Kenya’s main port have fallen Continue Reading
