Petroleum in Africa

The Sudan oil and gas map at the top is from the English and German Wikipedias, the article is "Sudapet", the link is listed below.

The trend in oil and gas in Africa now seems to be something like "China is a relatively newly industrializing country with a strongly rising demand for oil; China (and other Asian countries) are dominating the purchase of African oil."

To continue with the oversimplification: "America has been using a lot of petroleum for many decades and the USA is not quite sure how to wedge themselves into the new African market. Russia and former members of the USSR have been coming online with lots of oil and gas in the last 10 years and Europe of course is the big customer."

Another trend is: "Every week, new discoveries of small to medium amounts of oil are reported, in Africa and around the world."

A third trend is: "Oil companies are developing alternative forms of energy so they don't run out of money when they run out of oil."

Angola is China's biggest petrovendor, surpassing Saudi Arabia last year.

As of 2007,

Nigeria
Libya
Algeria
Egypt
Angola

account for over 80% of Africa's oil production.

Other oil producing countries include:
Gabon
Congo
Cameroon
Tunisia
Equatorial Guinea
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Cote d'Ivoire

Yet more countries producing oil:
Chad
Sudan
Namibia
South Africa
Madagascar

More countries that appear regularly at Oil and Gas.com:
Kenya
Mozambique
Tanzania
Uganda
Zambia
Zimbabwe

et cetera, et cetera.

Here are the last 3 weeks' Africa Company News articles from oilandgas.com:

volume 12, Issue #13,
Friday, July 13, 2007

BP to share oil and gas discoveries with Libya
Essar wins offshore oil block in Nigeria
Zambia orders refinery to release more diesel stocks
Oil politics: Bringing China on board in Uganda
Iranian firm to upgrade Kenyan power project
Nigeria reverts disputed oil block to Malabu Oil and Gas
India allows ONGC to buy stake in Egyptian block from Shell
Nigeria Brass signs contract for LNG export project
PGNiG wins bid for Bahariya concession in Egypt
Shell denies plan to move out of Niger Delta
Agip urged to clean up oil spillage in Nigeria’s Bayelsa state
Madagascar approves Candax PSA
Petronas assessing bids for Sudan refinery project
Libya sells Tamoil to US firm Colony

volume 12, Issue #12,
Friday, June 29, 2007

Libyan Tamoil wins refinery deal in Kenya
First Calgary Petroleums wins contract from Sonatrach
Hellenic Petroleum moves into Egypt
AT&V sells oil storage and pipeline equipment to Ghana
White Nile to join consortium in South Sudan
Leni announces seismic start-up offshore Malta
Shell says security issues delay plans to end gas flaring in Nigeria
Ghana invites Samsung to invest in refinery
Kenya Power and Lighting to upgrade sub-stations
BP is lucky in Libya
Dangote Group signs MoUs with NNPC
Nigeria's shut-in oil output now 740,000 bpd
Mozambique to issue more gas exploration licences
Enagas to studyNigeria-Algeria pipeline project if it materialises
Nigeria hands over privatized refineries to investors
China-built Papalanto gas power station starts operation in Nigeria
Aminex unit eyes Tanzanian oil
BP agrees on exploration and production deal with Libya
Kenya to sign oil exploration deal with four firms
Statoil wins Tanzanian petroleum exploration area
Energy conference urges Africans to tap gas supplies
East Africa attracts hunters for oil and gas
Dana Oil & Gas wins Nigerian oil block
Shell resumes oil output at Bonny Light field

volume 12, Issue #11,
Thursday, June 14, 2007

Shell resumes 170,000 bpd production in Niger Delta
Nigeria’s privatisation program enters critical stage
Essar Energy wins oil block in Nigeria
Blue Star offers $ 561 mm for Nigerian oil refinery
IOC to import Azeri and Angolan oil to reduce dependence on Nigeria
Shell seeks $ 500 mm in damages from Nigerian court
Essar to invest $ 3.4 bn in Egyptian refinery
ExxonMobil Nigeria invests $ 3 bn to end gas flaring by 2008
Kenya seeks new partners to upgrade Mombassa oil refinery
Conoil and Dangote battle for Nigerian oil blocks
Nigeria's outgoing government sells oil concessions
ENI to invest $ 12 bn in Egyptian natural gas operations
PdVSA and PetroGambia to continue offshore exploration activities
Chevron to pay fine over kickbacks under Saddam Hussein’ regime
Equatorial Guinea may levy gas fines on ExxonMobil
Group calls on Shell Nigeria to respect ruling on gas flaring
Uganda wants a fair plan for its oil finds

http://www.gasandoil.com/

Here is a typical article:

White Nile to join consortium in South Sudan

06-06-07 UK-based explorer White Nile said officials of the semi-autonomous South Sudan government had told the company it would form part of an international consortium which will be given rights to explore an enlarged area of the region's Block B. However, the company said it was still awaiting the outcome of talks between Sudan's separate northern and southern governments covering oil exploration and production to clarify its position in the region.
White Nile halted drilling on its Kedelai-1 exploration well on Block Ba in May, reportedly on orders of Government of South Sudan President Salva Kiir.

White Nile has been concerned about the future in the block following the absorption of Paulo Matip's Southern Sudan Defence Force into the Southern Sudanese government. Matip was not part of the original 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement between the Khartoum government and rebel groups which created the Southern Sudanese government and did not recognise the White Nile deal. Matip is now Kiir's deputy, and were reported to have held talks over the White Nile deal in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi late in May.

White Nile said officials in the Southern Sudanese capital of Juba had told it the new block would include White Nile's existing interest in Block Ba, as well as Block Bb and Bc, the company said. It said the consortium would also include French giant Total, Kuwait's Kufpec and Sudapet and NilePet, the national oil companies of northern and southern Sudan respectively.
The report echoes the recommendations of the National Petroleum Commission of the southern Sudanese government, which said earlier it had recommended Total and White Nile share Block B.

White Nile said it was confident the present talks would be resolved in its favour. The company said it had urged the governments to provide clarity on the matter as soon as possible.
However, White Nile said it understood the South Sudan government would not comment on the outcome of the negotiations with regard to oil exploration until talks with northern Sudan dealing with other issues had been wrapped up.

Source: http://www.gasandoil.com/ Click "News and Trends" or "Company News" or "Discoveries".

Other AfroPetroLinks include:

MBendi Africa::Oil and Gas Overview with hundreds of MBendi article links to individual country reports, company reports, reports on individual oil fields, African government energy agencies, et cetera. MBendi has African and worldwide coverage of mining, stock markets, agriculture, business planning and much more.

African Oil Journal Daily and weekly reports, country and corporate reports.


Sudan:
wiki:Sudapet
MBendi: Sudan Oil & Gas: An Overview
SudanUpdate's petroleum company summary
White Nile Petroleum Operating Company in Khartoum
Sudan Khartoum Refinery Company (English/Chinese)
Petronas of Malaysia
Sinopec
China National Petroleum Corporation

Nigeria
Shell Nigeria
Wiki::Petroleum in Nigeria

Angola
Sonangol Group
wiki:Sonangol Group

Egypt
Egyptian Ministry of Petroleum
wiki:Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources

Libya

Algeria

Gabon
wiki:Société Nationale Petrolière Gabonaise

Guinee Equatoriale
GEPetrol

South Africa
Sasol (originally 'Suid Afrikaanse Steenkool en Olie')

ExxonMobilAfrica

Wiki::Peak oil: "In the context of Hubbert peak theory, peak oil is the date when the peak of the world's petroleum (crude oil) production rate is reached. After this date the rate of production is predicted to enter terminal decline, following the bell-shaped curve predicted by the theory....."

and

Trans Mediterreanean Regional Energy Cooperation




The map doesn't really say, it's just as easy to build a line to Kinshasa and Brazzaville, as easy as Milano and Amsterdam.