Posts Tagged ‘Oil’

PetroTrans May Face Attack in Ethiopia Oil Search, Group Says

August 9 | Posted by Ethiopiaforums | Economy, Ethiopia, News, Uncategorized Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

Petrotrans Co., a Chinese oil exploration company, may face attack in Ethiopia’s restive Ogaden region if it begins operations in the area, a U.S.-based advocacy group said. “We urge all foreign oil companies, especially the Chinese oil and gas company PetroTrans, to refrain from undertaking any oil exploration missions in Ogaden,” the Resolve Ogaden Coalition said in an e-mailed statement today. Ethiopia’s... Read more

Ethiopia hopes gas production from Ogaden region in six years

August 4 | Posted by Ethiopiaforums | Economy, Ethiopia, News, Uncategorized Tags: , , , , , ,

Eleven firms licensed in 31 blocks * Chinese firm to spend $4 bln By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA, (Reuters) – Ethiopia, which has seen a surge in requests for exploration rights, hopes to produce gas from its huge and under-developed reserves in its Somali Region in six years time, an official said on Wednesday. Eleven companies have now been granted licences to develop 31... Read more

Meet the guy who owns half of D.C.’s Gas stations, Joe (Eyob) Mamo, D.C.’s Gas-Station Master

February 17 | Posted by Ethiopiaforums | Ethiopian, Featured, People, Uncategorized, United States Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

To hear him tell it, Joe Mamo’s move from Ethiopia to North Dakota in 1981 was accidental. Mamo’s father, Yenberber Mamo, was a public transit mogul who manufactured buses and ran the first fleet to provide service across Ethiopia. The operation made his father’s Mamo Kacha bus line a household name in the East African country. It provided a nice life... Read more

Ethiopia braces for oil shortage as Sudan shuts pipes

February 10 | Posted by Ethiopiaforums | Economy, Ethiopia, News, Sudan, Uncategorized Tags: , , , , , , ,

Afrik:by Desalegn Sisay, Fuel prices in Ethiopia will be raised in March following an increasing consumption of fuel and its consequent impact on the government’s fuel expenditure. A recent decision by its Sudanese suppliers could also affect fuel availability in Ethiopia. The Horn of Africa country spends an average annual 20 billion birr on the importation... Read more

Canada’s Africa Oil Corp. Agrees to Survey New Ethiopian Block

December 10 | Posted by ocean | Economy, Ethiopia, News, Uncategorized, World Tags: , , , ,

Africa Oil Corp., a Canadian oil and gas exploration company, said it signed an agreement with the Ethiopian government to survey the Rift Valley Block. The company will carry out an airborne geophysical survey of the 42,519 square-kilometer (16,417 square-mile) block, it said yesterday in a statement. The area is north of the South Omo Block where Africa Oil has a... Read more

Petronas May Begin Ethiopian Gas Exports in 2015, Ministry Says

July 2 | Posted by ocean | Ethiopia, News, Uncategorized Tags: , , ,

By Fred Ojambo (Bloomberg) — Petroliam Nasional Bhd., Malaysia’s state-owned oil company, may begin exporting natural gas from Ethiopia in five years, when production starts at a plant it is building in the country, a Mines Ministry official said. Fields being developed by Petronas in Ethiopia contain as much as 4 trillion cubic feet of gas, Eshetu Chala,... Read more

Petronas suspends oil exploration work in Ogaden

May 22 | Posted by zemen | Ethiopia, News, Uncategorized Tags: , , , ,

- ONLF attacks military base five days before national elections By Kaleyesus Bkele The Malaysian oil and gas giant, Petronas, has suspended exploration work in the Ogaden basin due to security problems. According to reliable sources, the company suspended work after Jason Read, a 39-year-old British geologist working for IMC on oil exploration, was killed last April by unidentified gunmen in Danot... Read more