John Hofmeister to take over as Chairman of Erin Energy

Erin Energy Corporation has appointed  former President at Shell Oil Company John Hofmeister as Chairman of the Board of Erin Energy Corporation. The appointment will be effective the day immediately following … Read More

The Africa Energy Forum set for Dubai in just two weeks

The Africa Energy Forum is set to come up in Dubai in just two weeks’ time attracting some 456 unique companies have registered from 63 countries worldwide. The delegates spanning … Read More

Tullow Oil sees 8,000 scholarships applications in Kenya

The just concluded Tullow Oil Group Scholarship Scheme applications that concluded on March 31st saw 8,000 applications from Kenya according to British Council who oversee the exercise. This is about … Read More

Kenyan, Ugandan Contractors Earn Over $100 million in payments from Tullow Oil – Report Highlights

2,240 suppliers working directly for Tullow in Uganda, Kenya and Ghana took home $255M of the total  $1.4 billion Spent with suppliers in 2014 according to the latest Corporate Responsibility … Read More

Tullow Group Scholarship Scheme Applications set to close in two weeks

Tullow Oil’s application process for the 2015/16 Tullow Group Scholarship Scheme that opened in mid February is set to close on 31 March 2015. Scholarships are available to post graduates … Read More

Horn Petroleum rebrands to Africa Energy, hires additional management

Horn Petroleum Corporation has announced that it has invoked a new corporate strategy to take advantage of the current downturn in oil prices and intends to aggressively pursue onshore and shallow-water … 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