Searching for blogs coming out of West Africa, I found an excellent one covering, as the title of this diary would indicate, oil production - with recent posts touching on Al Qaeda, US involvement in the region, and OPEC and non-OPEC African oil.
This article in Asia Times notes that Dick Cheney's 2001 energy task force reported that Africa is one of America's "fastest-growing sources of oil and gas."
It seems to have few readers currently, but the level of content here puts a lot of well-known blogs to shame:
http://africanoilpolitics.blogspot.com/
I hope the owner doesn't mind a little publicity. Check it out.