Largely unnoticed in Nigeria where the media and politicians are riveted on the presidential election on Feb. 14, a unit of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corp (NNPC), Pipelines and Product Marketing Co (PPMC) renewed swap contracts in early January that [.
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The relinquished parts of the highly prolific West Cape Three Points concession, on which the fields of Jubilee and Mahogany [...]
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While Western majors are slashing their exploration and production budgets, China’s state-run oil companies are doing precisely the same
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The American junior hasn’t yet been given the green light from the authorities to develop heavy oil at Tsimiroro.
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Under pressure from the oil ministry, Shell has rejected a move by Crestar to acquire its shares on OML 25. The Nigerian firm hasn’t taken that lying down and is mounting a counter-attack.
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The Texas junior has found itself with no choice but to give up on developing its block in Gabon for want of money that should have come from Venezuela.
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Abandoned at the end of 2013, an abortive plan by PA Resources to invest in the Azurite field in Congo-Brazzaville [...]
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Five years after it was founded, First E&P seems poised to acquire the 40% of OML 83 and OML 85 [...]
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Africa Energy Intelligence understands Tullow Oil believes the sanitary situation in Guinea has stabilized and is poised to resume its [...]
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The Sapetro company owned by Nigeria’s former defence minister Theophilus [...]
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Holding a reconnaissance permit on Kafra in northern Niger since [...]
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The Canadian oil concern Maxim Resources held several meetings with [...]
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The London- based oil company Genel Energy headed by Tony [...]
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Hit by the drop in the oil price, South Sudan’s [...]
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Energi Mega Persada wants to switch the focus back to its native Indonesia and is seeking to dump its Buzi asset.
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According to our sources, Anadarko has asked consultants studying the design of LNG trains at Afungi in Cabo Delgado to [...]
Bending to local content legislation, ENI Ghana awarded part of the FPSO contract for the development of gas and oil [...]
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Six months after being named managing director of Sonatrach, Said [...]
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The project for a gas pipeline dubbed Galsi between Algeria [...]
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According to our source, Anadarko recently awarded catering and maintenance [...]
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The authorities are increasingly farming out big power projects to private operators.
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Technical staff from the Portuguese concern Efacec (AEI 718) were called in urgently on Jan 23 to help repair one [...]
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A project to build the Inga 3 dam with a capacity of 4,800 MW that was supposed to start functioning [...]
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The British emergency power plant operator Aggreko announced in late [...]
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The national utility Eskom has any number of ills to [...]
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On the strength of encouraging results from a seismic survey [...]
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A former head of the oil and gas department at [...]
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