There’s a special kind of irony in owning the biggest oil refinery on the continent and still not getting enough oil. That’s Nigeria’s problem right now, and the government finally seems to be doing something about it. Nigeria runs on something called the Domestic Crude Supply Obligation, a rule that says local producers have to…
Four Ugandan farmers have filed a case at the High Court in London against EACOP Ltd, the UK-registered company behind the East African Crude Oil Pipeline. Their lawyers, from the London firm Leigh Day, are asking English judges to apply Ugandan constitutional, environmental, and climate law against a company incorporated in England and Wales. If…
Libya’s National Oil Corporation just announced three fresh oil and gas finds one offshore with Italy’s Eni in Block D, one onshore in the Murzuq Basin with Spain’s Repsol, and one in the Ghadames Basin near the Wafa field with Algeria’s Sonatrach all coming out of 2008-era Exploration and Production Sharing Agreements, and all signaling…
Rwanda just did something landlocked countries rarely get to do: it picked a supplier. Not begged for one, not settled for whichever port answered the phone first. It weighed Tanzania against Kenya and told Tanzania, politely, “It’s not you, it’s your dwell times.” Somewhere in Yaoundé, I felt that. Because Cameroon isn’t landlocked, but half…
Every night across the Niger Delta, the sky glows orange not from city lights, but from gas being set on fire at oil fields because nobody bothered to build a pipe to catch it. The World Bank’s 2026 Global Gas Flaring Tracker just confirmed what people living under those flames already know: in 2025, the…
The global crude oil market is going through one of its most dramatic rollercoaster rides in recorded history. Prices spiked to near $150 a barrel when the Strait of Hormuz effectively shut down after the US-Iran conflict in February 2026, then came crashing back toward $82 by mid-June as ceasefire talks gathered pace. For Africa’s…
For most of the past decade, Nigeria’s oil story has been one of unrealised potential. Africa’s largest oil reserve holder sitting on 37.5 billion barrels of proven crude has repeatedly failed to convert that endowment into consistent production. Oil theft, pipeline vandalism, chronic underinvestment, and operational shutdowns turned what should have been a production growth…
In a bold move to align with Congo-Brazzaville’s ambition of significantly increasing oil production by 2030, independent oil and gas operator Perenco has launched a pivotal infrastructure project. The company is investing $200 million into the construction of a new offshore production platform Kombi 2 a strategic asset that underscores its long-term commitment to the…
