Kosmos Energy says its oil field at West Cape Three Points is the largest discovery in deep water West Africa.

The fuel industry seems immune to competition at the continual expense of the motorist and transport industry.

ONE of the good things about a highly diversified entity is the ability to make money - even in adverse market conditions.

ExxonMobil said yesterday that it has returned its crude oil output in the country to normal levels.

Recent power cuts in electricity might be a source of embarrassment and bad business for the business community in various sectors, but electric equipment suppliers are selling the much needed generators like hell, The Daily Monitor has learnt.

Representatives of the US oil company Apex Petroleum Engineering on Tuesday in Ottawa (Canada) met with the Angolan ambassador to that country, Miguel Nzau Puna, to whom they manifested their interest in working in the Angolan crude market.

The City of Cape Town plans to spend R2-million upgrading its statistical metering system to determine its exact energy savings.

There are 227 filling stations in Mozambique - but 43 per cent of them are concentrated in Maputo City, according to the Deputy Minister of Energy, Jaime Himade.

Botswana last week banned the export of bulk fuel to Zimbabwe, in a move seen as welcome regional pressure on Mugabe's regime, to respect the will of the people.

Only in extreme and emergency cases would there be load-shedding in the cold winter months, says Minister of Public Enterprises Alec Erwin.

THE Niger Delta Peace Parley jointly organised by the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) and the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) ended yesterday in Port Harcourt with a call on the National Assembly to review laws regulating the oil/gas sector as