4th Oil & Gas Africa – Int’l Trade Exhibition set for Nairobi in a fortnight

The 4th Oil & Gas Africa  Intenational Trade Exhibition that hopes to attract leading oil, gas and petroleum companies from around the world will be held 27th to 29th April 2015. … Read More

Africa Future Energy Forum set for May in Nairobi

Global Energy Initiative and MCI-Middle East will be co-hosting the Africa Future Energy Forum on 27 – 28 May 2015 in Nairobi, Kenya under the themed Unlocking Africa’s Energy Potential. The two-day forum … Read More

The first 100 students in the Total Young Graduate Programme almost completing training

Total founded the Young Graduate Programme in April 2014 – an innovative initiative aimed at young graduates from more than 40 of the countries in Africa and Middle East in … Read More

Oil & Gas explorers need to rethink their capex on exploration activity in Africa – PWC

Oil & gas explorers must rethink their capital expenditure on exploration activity across the African continent in the wake of the significant drop in the global oil price, according to … Read More

Talks between Afren and SEPLAT Petroleum Development Company fail

On 22 December 2014, Afren plc announced that it had received a highly preliminary approach from SEPLAT Petroleum Development Company plc (Seplat) regarding a possible combination with Afren. Seplat was … Read More

Africa’s extractive industries have more to offer investors – KPMG

Improvements in political and macroeconomic stability, policy certainty and legal systems in many African countries, as well as Africa’s growing middle class and rise in consumption, continue to raise the … Read More

Tony Blair top speaker at Africa’s biggest mining conference

[twitter-follow screen_name=’oilnewskenya’] Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has been named as the key speaker at the Africa Mining Indaba conference taking place on 9th to 12th February 2015 in … Read More

Security in Africa: Structural challenges are reaching crisis point

[twitter-follow screen_name=’oilnewskenya’] The latest report from Think Security assesses changes in Africa’s security situation between 2013 and 2014 in three main categories: (1) Challenges impacting the national chain of command, … Read More

Inchcape Shipping Services expands Nairobi office as East Africa production nears

Global marine, cargo and supply chain solutions provider  Inchcape Shipping Services (ISS) has announced another key hire to its African regional management team, as the company gears up for ambitious … Read More