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

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

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

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

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

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

Uganda to auction six more oil blocks

Uganda’s cabinet has approved the auction of six new exploration blocks in the oil rich Albertine basin in what will see the country’s first competitive bidding round. The new shift … 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

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