OPINION/EDITORIAL

Equatorial Guinea Year of Investment Advances, Despite Challenges

The Minister of Mines and Hydrocarbons promotes downstream projects and continues to sign contracts, as oil and gas industry adapts to COVID-19 April 30, 2020/Africa Oil & Power Conference. By Caty Hirst, Director of Programming at Africa Oil & Power COVID-19 has slowed global trade, but Equatorial Guinea is not […]

Short and long currency cycles

April 29, 2020/Coronation Report Last we noted that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is in no hurry to raise market interest rates and that – most of the time – Nigeria’s commercial banks are liquid, usually reporting over N500.0bn (US$1.3bn) in total closing balances. This situation is consistent with […]

East Africa’s Oil Industry: A New Story in the Making

The moving forward of the Lake Albert Development Project, and its export pipeline, is a major step forward de-risking other potential oil & gas projects in East Africa April 29, 2020/AEC The recent acquisition by Total of Tullow Oil’s entire interests in the Lake Albert Development Project in Uganda, including […]