As the world watches and waits for the British company BP to stop the ecological disaster unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico, you would be forgiven for forgetting that elsewhere round the globe the oil industry is just getting on with it.
Away from the glare of the cameras, there is the routine business of contracts [...]

We are used to talking about the oil majors like Shell being in the spotlight over African oil exploration.
But a smaller player is making the headlines, with a soaring share price and two African discoveries in a week: one in Uganda and another off Sierrra Leone.
It is the Irish independent company Tullow that has the [...]

As president Obama reads the reactions to his first fleeting visit to the Middle East, his first proposed African visit is also causing quite a stir.
In just over a month, Obama will undertake his first visit to the continent. The country he will visit is not the powerhouse of West Africa, Nigeria, but its smaller [...]

When Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni launched their campaign against the oil companies in the Niger Delta in the early nineties, one of their key demands was that they should receive a greater share of the oil wealth from the oil drilled from under their land.
Its seems a no-brainer really that the locals should benefit [...]

A good article in today’s New York Times about oil development in Sao Tome, the small principality off the West African Coast.
In contrast to much of African oil development – that has been plagued by corruption – Sao Tome’s oil development was meant to be different and benefit the local people. It was meant [...]