LAPSSET CEO to deliver update on East Africa’s largest infrastructure project at EAOGS 2016

In the upcoming East Africa Oil & Gas Summit (EAOGS), the region’s largest oil and gas conference and exhibition, Mr. Silvester Kasuku, Director General and CEO of Lapsset Corridor Development … Read More

ONGC Videsh Sponsors Mozambique, South Sudan students to Study in India

A delegation of five students from Mozambique arrived recently in Delhi under the CSR initiative of ONGC Videsh to pursue a 5 year B. E. program in Petroleum Engineering at … Read More

National Petroleum Data Management for Africa Set for Uganda in April

Uganda will host a workshop on managing national petroleum data organised by Norway, under the Oil for Development (OfD) Programme which is currently active in 8 countries in Africa including; … Read More

Confusion in East Africa Over Export Oil Pipeline Route

Months after the Kenyan and Ugandan president reached a deal to have the pipeline go through northern Kenya to the Kenyan coast the pronouncement has been thrown into a spin … Read More

India Seeks Bigger Bite in Africa’s Hydrocarbons Sector

The 4th India-Africa Hydrocarbons Conference being organized by the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Government of India, to advance discussions on energy co-operation between 24 African nations and India … Read More

ONGC Videsh to sponsor students from South Sudan to Indian universities

ONGC Videsh has offered to sponsor 20 students from South Sudan for the graduate level technical course in Petroleum Engineering in reputed institutes in India. Under this program, the first … Read More

East African Countries Agree on Two Oil Pipelines

East African leaders from Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda have agreed to construct two oil pipelines that will enable Uganda and Kenya commence exports of discovered resources as well as relieve … Read More

ABA 2015 Africa Forum Opens in Nairobi

The 2015 Africa Forum has opened in Nairobi with focus on legal policy and frameworks surrounding the energy and extractive industries in Africa with a focus on East Africa. According … 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