Highlights From The CSR Forum On Women In The Extractives

High Commissioner Canada to Kenya David Angell Canada leading country in extractives with its companies accounting approximately 31 percent of global exploration expenditure and 50 percent of capital raised globally … Read More

Tanzania To Create An Oil And Gas Professionals Database

Tanzania through its ministry of energy and minerals has called for credentials from oil and gas professionals in a move it says will ensure they are utilized in the relevant fields … Read More

Aberdeen University to help develop oil and gas education in Tanzania

Aberdeen University has been awarded a £1.4million grant to help develop oil and gas education in East Africa. The grant will be split with Dar es Salaam University in Tanzania … 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

Panalpina opens new office in Nairobi to serve East African region

[twitter-follow screen_name=’oilnewskenya’] International freight forwarding and logistics company, Panalpina, has opened a new office in Nairobi Kenya. The company says the new office will support Panalpina’s growth strategy for the … 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

Callkey Network targets East Africa’s Oil and Gas Industry with its VSAT products

[twitter-follow screen_name=’oilnewskenya’] Internet Service Provider Callkey Networks has said it will be giving special focus to players in the oil and gas industry by providing specially customized products that suits … Read More

Insecurity, Political issues continue to haunt exploration in Puntland, Somalia

[twitter-follow screen_name=’oilnewskenya’] Insecurity continues to paralyze oil and exploration in Puntland with many companies holding back activities until a solution is sought. Just recently Horn Petroleum which holds licenses Puntland’s … Read More

Eni ranked best in transparency of corporate reporting

Eni was ranked first in the world for transparency of corporate reporting according to an assessment by Transparency International which examined the 124 largest listed companies in the world and … Read More

Kenya’s oil and gas regulator to fly out trainees under its upstream training programme

[twitter-follow screen_name=’oilnewskenya’] National Oil has unveiled a human resource capacity development programme for the emerging upstream oil and gas sector. The first group of 34 management trainees has already been … Read More