No sooner had the licensing round in the Joint Development Zone between Sao Tome and Nigeria been called off than it was launched again, and is to close on Dec. 15. At the same date, ChevronTexaco will have finalized its [.
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The failure of Paris and Luanda to reach agreement on the ?Angolagate? affair is weighing ever-more heavily on the French [...]
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Despite the efforts of numerous oil companies, the sale of a Bulgarian firm's concessions was put off because of a diplomatic spat between Sofia and Tripoli.
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Highly active in Libya, where the group is trying to obtain acreage through Odex, Soco has just sold off its interests in Tunisia to PA Resources.
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Although Repsol and Gas Natural were awarded the development contract for Gassi Touil, Sonatrach retained a lock on the transportation and sale of the sale of the gas.
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Norway's Norsk Hydro is expected to debut in Nigeria by teaming up with Syntroleum to liquefy gas from the Aje field.
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South Africa's Sasol is gradually withdrawing from Equatorial Guinea's offshore in order to focus on Nigeria.
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A former adviser to South Africa's Tokyo Sexwale is preparing a public share offering for Scotland's Bowleven, which owns three concessions in Cameroon's shallow offshore.
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After conducting surveys in the Ogaden basin over the past two years, Petronas is about to acquire a block in the region.
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A regular customer of African crude, Pertamina has just cancelled [...]
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The World Bank's endorsement of a $125 million financial guarantee [...]
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Re-named Energem in August to mark its return to focussing [...]
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The World Bank last week began mediating in Washington in a dispute between Mali's government and SAUR International, an affiliate [...]
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Sinohydro won a contract to build the Tekeze dam on a promise it would construct the facility in record time. It has now asked for the timetable to be extended, to the displeasure of Addis Ababa.
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Denmark's BWSC, a subsidiary of Mitsui, is doing specially well with Mauritius' Central Authority Board.
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Portugal is preparing to withdraw from the power sector in Cape Verde Islands and is endeavouring to obtain recognition of Mozambique's debt for the Cahora Bassa dam.
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The U.S. Ex-Im Bank and the French export credit guarantee agency COFACE both returned in Libya in November. Just before [...]
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The Nigerian authorities are drafting a new model of a producing sharing contract as they prepare for a licensing round [...]
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The Swiss Supreme Court is to hand down its verdict by the year's end on an appeal filed by Total [...]
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Revealed by Africa Energy Intelligence (AEI 378), a $32 million oil-backed loan mounted by BNP and Trafigura last year to [...]
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Following setbacks in its competition with China for oil acreage in Angola and Nigeria, the Indian government has formed a [...]
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Russian natural resources minister Yuri Petrovitch Trutnev travelled to Pretoria two weeks ago with officials from Gazprom and Stroytransgaz as [...]
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Now that the World Bank no longer finances power stations in Africa the baton has been passed to European governments [...]
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The pro-active stance adopted by the law firm Pennington's, which is representing Equatorial Guinea in moves against the British sponsors [...]
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Operator on the Etame oil field in Gabon, which it is developing with funding from the World Bank, the U.S. [...]
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Long-standing financial director of the U.S. independent Pioneer, Timothy Dove has just been named chief operating officer of the group [...]
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A veteran of Australia's oil industry, Neale Taylor, who worked for Esso Australia, Terra Gas Trader and Nexus Energy, has [...]
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Conoco has named Todd Creeger as head of its affiliate in Lagos following the departure of Rob Smith who is [...]
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Sonatrach has named Abdelhafidh Feghouli as head of its downstream operations in succession to Bachir Achour who was appointed adviser [...]
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The CWC Group is organizing a conference at the Noga [...]
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The CWC Group is organizing a conference in Kuala Lumpur [...]
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The Mauritanian government has founded a firm named Groupe Projet [...]
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The Societe Nationale des Petrole du Congo has begun work [...]
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According to in-house estimates, Sonatrach will export 58 billion cu.m. [...]
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Talks by officials on the China-Nigeria technical panel that is [...]
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A long-standing lobbyist for Triton Energy, the Burson-Marsteller affiliate BKSH [...]
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Set up in July, the U.S. Libya Chamber of Commerce [...]
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Founded by Thomas Stoner, an ex chairman of EUA Highland [...]
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