Trans-Saharan Gas Pipeline: What it Means for West Africa
February 5th, 2024
Courtesy of Energy, Capital, and Power, a report on the Trans-Saharan Gas Pipeline and what it means for nations such as Nigeria, Algeria, and Niger: The aim of the Trans-Saharan Gas Pipeline – set to run from Nigeria’s resource-rich fields in the Warri region through Niger and to the town of Hassi R’Mel in Algeria […]
Read more »Sonatrach, QatarEnergy Face Off Over Gas Supply To Europe
September 27th, 2023
Courtesy of The Africa Report, a report on how Algeria’s Sonatrach and QatarEnergy are battling to bolster their status as key partners on the Old Continent as winter approaches: Algerian Energy Minister Mohamed Arkab and Qatari Ambassador Abdulaziz Ali Al-Naama met in Algiers in mid-August to discuss the development of new bilateral projects. Behind this […]
Read more »Will Sonatrach’s Hydrocarbon Discovery Make Algeria A Key Energy Partner For Europe?
April 14th, 2023
Courtesy of The Africa Report, a look at a new energy discovery in Algeria: Following a record-breaking year in 2022, the national company Sonatrach has announced the discovery of six new deposits in the first quarter of 2023. In the midst of a global decline in production, the oil and gas boom shows no signs […]
Read more »Oil and Gas Discoveries Boost Algeria
August 2nd, 2022
Via African Business, a report on three (3) discoveries made in the Algerian desert last week should expand Algeria’s gas and oil deliveries to Europe as the continent looks beyond Russia for gas deliveries: Algeria’s state-owned oil company Sonatrach has announced three major oil and gas discoveries in the Sahara desert. Since the outbreak of […]
Read more »Renewed EU Support for A Trans-Saharan Pipeline
September 27th, 2008
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an interesting article on the EU’s recent offers of financial and political backing to Nigeria for a €15bn ($21bn, £12bn) trans-Saharan pipeline to pump its gas directly to Europe. As the report notes: “…Renewed European interest in the project comes against a backdrop of mounting fears that Gazprom, the Russian […]
Read more »Russia’s Chess Match in The Middle East & North Africa
August 1st, 2008
From The National, an interesting analysis of Russia’s recent diplomatic and trade activities in the Middle East and North Africa in a bid to enhance its geopolitical clout and gain access to, and at least partial control over, the region’s oil and gas reserves. As the article notes: “…Among the former global superpower’s tactics: linking […]
Read more »Focusing primarily on The New Seven Sisters - the largely state owned petroleum companies from the emerging world that have become key players in the oil & gas industry as identified by Carola Hoyos, Chief Energy Correspondent for The Financial Times - but spanning other nascent opportunities around the globe that may hold potential in the years ahead, Wildcats & Black Sheep is a place for the adventurous to contemplate & evaluate the emerging markets of tomorrow.