Rosneft and Mozambique’s ENH sign Memorandum of Understanding

Igor Sechin, President and Chairman of the Management Board, Rosneft, Nelson Ocuane, President, Empresa Nacional Hidrocarbonetos De Moçambique (Mozambique National Oil Company, ENH) and Paulino Gregório, Director, ENH signed a … Read More

Shell, CNOOC Sign Global Strategic Alliance Agreement

Shell and China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) have announced the signing of a Global Strategic Alliance Agreement that reconfirms both parties’ commitment to the existing strategic partnership in China … Read More

From Oil Field to Football Field: Why Are So Many World Cup Contenders Resource-Dependent?

Source: resourcegovernance.org Qatar’s alleged plot to “buy” the 2022 World Cup has been making global news recently, with salacious stories of bribes paid to African and South American FIFA officials and deals to exchange natural … Read More

Nairobi gets its first oil industry dedicated office building

Global oil companies in Kenya can now share an office block following the launch of the Nexgen Petro center by the principal secretary for energy yesterday. The Petro Center developed … Read More

East African crude oil pipeline construction an ‘emergency project’

The Kenyan government has announced that the construction of its 800km pipeline  part of the 1300 kilometer Uganda-Kenya pipeline will be classified as an emergency project. The entire pipeline which … Read More