Already present in most of the countries in the region -Ivory Coast, Benin, and Equatorial Guinea, for instance - Nigerian oil companies are now turning their eyes to Ghana in the wake of recent finds by Tullow Oil in the [.
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After drilling a dry well, Britain’s Sterling group intends to relinquish a license in Gabon and has dropped plans to [...]
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Sonatrach recently indicated to oil companies operating in Algeria that it expected them to help the company flesh out its international portfolio. One by one the majors seem to be giving in.
A wealthy American, Malone Mitchell plans to buy a 44% holding in Canada’s TransAtlantic Petroleum and become its partner in Morocco.
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The private Tunisian group Topic could be granted a loan from the IFC to develop its concessions.
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Despite its problems with the Paris stock exchange, the Vietnamese group ATI Petroleum is intent on continuing to expand in Africa and hopes to debut in Guinea Bissau.
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South Africa’s Moneseke family has won control of South Africa Congo Oil, a mysterious consortium which owns block 3 on the banks of Lake Albert.
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British businessman Phil Edmonds is switching from company to company to develop his oil portfolio in Africa
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According to our sources, Nigeria is presently examining the possibility of Germany’s E.On Ruhrgas offtaking the gas that will be [...]
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Encouraged by recent discoveries on the Equatorial Guinea side of the Douala basin, Bowleven has acquired a gas permit in the region in Cameroon.
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ExxonMobil has told Nigeria’s president it is ready to build a GTL plant to help resolve Nigeria’s chronic gasoline shortages.
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Britain’s Aminex has identified new gas reserves to the east of the Songo Songo field.
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Founded by the Algerian tycoon Issad Rebrab, the Cevital group has launched itself into power generation with a plan to [...]
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The authorities in Senegal are persuaded that the country’s chronic production problems have been resolved.
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Sudan appears set to take up a project for a dam at Nimule that had been gathering dust for over 30 years.
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Madagascar’s energy ministry is proposing a number of power projects in order to put paid to the cuts and power shedding that are plaguing the country. It has issued a call for bids to install a new station.
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Alstom Hydro is to supply hydro and electromechanical equipment for [...]
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Exploration director and chief geologist at Kenya’s energy ministry, Don Riaroh, has just resigned. Riaroh, who held the job for [...]
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The Gasol group has just hired 45-year-old Rachel June English as its financial director. A British national with a degree [...]
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Chief executive of the oil engineering concern Bateman Litwin, Shuki Raz is to leave his job this month and will [...]
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Projects manager and a director of Ireland’s Tullow Oil, Matthew O’Donoghue retired early this week. The name of his successor [...]
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Founder of the Energulf oil company, Jeff Greenblum has been named chairman of the firm’s board following the departure of [...]
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The steering committee planning reforms of state-owned companies which will [...]
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After a long tug-of-war, Algeria's state-owned oil company has finally [...]
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Itezhi-Tezhi Power Corp (ITPC), a joint venture formed by the [...]
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Held in the Netherlands last year, the Gulf of Guinea [...]
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The leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the [...]
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Gabonese security forces took over the oil terminal of Gamba [...]
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Angola’s state-owned Sonangol has decided to indefinitely suspend a seismic [...]
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The Indian concern Bharat Heavy Electricals (BHEL) can count on [...]
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The European Union’s trust fund for infrastructure in Africa is [...]
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An executive in charge of the Africa/Middle East department at [...]
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Ocean and Oil (Oando), a company headed by Wale Tinubu, [...]
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The Norwegian NGO Western Sahara Resources Watch (WSRW) has written [...]
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The Industrial & Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) and South [...]
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An association of British lawyers sent a group made up [...]
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It was South Africa’s Deneys Reitz that advised South Africa [...]
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Partner of the Chinese group Poly Technologies on block B [...]
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Sergei Vybornov, president of the Russian mining giant Alrosa conducted [...]
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Daniel Muthmann, vice president of E.ON Ruhrgas AG, will be [...]
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Rilwanu Lukman, adviser to president Umaru Yar’Adua for oil affairs, [...]
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M.O. Mohamed el Hacen, Mauritania’s oil minister, will be in [...]
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