ONGC Videsh and Rovuma Area-1 block partners to invest $6B in Mozambique

India’s oil minister Dharmendra Pradhan on return from a trip to Mozambique has announced that Oil India Ltd (OIL), its overseas subsidiary of Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) and … Read More

Sub-Sahara Africa’s growth to slow amid oil and other commodities price drop – World Bank

Sub-Saharan Africa’s growth will slow in 2015 to 4.0 percent from 4.5 percent in 2014, according to World Bank projections released today. This downturn largely reflects the fall in the … Read More

Cloud Applications in Oil and Gas Market expected to grow to $5.1 Billion by 2019

According to a new market research report, “Oil and Gas Cloud Applications Market by Type (Data Analytics, CRM, ECM, Collaboration, HCM, ERP, Project Management, SCM, GRC, Core Industry Applications) – Worldwide Forecast … Read More

Atlas Development & Support Services Expands into North Africa

Kenyan headquartered  and listed African focussed support services and logistics company Atlas Development  has announce that it has been engaged to provide civil engineering supervisory, advanced life support, security and … Read More

One on One interview with Malcolm Steyn General Manager for Oil & Gas at Freight Forwarders Kenya Group

How has the logistics industry changed the discovery of oil in Kenya and Uganda as well as Natural Gas in Tanzania? The regional logistics landscape has undergone significant changes due … Read More

Strathmore Extractives Industry Center to offer Executive Courses in Oil and Gas

Strathmore University’s Extractives Industry Center will next week offer a five day Executive Oil and Gas Course aimed at developing local capacity by enhancing the knowledge in the extractives industry … Read More

Scotland’s Oil and Gas sector sets its sights on East Africa

With some of the largest offshore gas fields in the world, no local supply chain and an immediate and significant demand for skilled workers, East Africa creates significant opportunities for … Read More

Call for Comments on Draft Uganda Standards for Oil and Gas Upstream Equipment and Materials

Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) in collaboration with the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development (MEMD), through the Technical Committee (UNBS/ TC 16/ SC2/WG1) is developing Standards for the … Read More

7th East African Petroleum Conference and Exhibition kicks off in Rwanda

The Prime Minister of the Republic of Rwanda, Rt. Hon. Anastase Murekezi officiated the 7th East African Petroleum Conference and Exhibition (EAPCE’15) that opened its doors on 4th March 2015 … Read More