The coming 12 months could well be lost for development of the giant gas reserves in Tanzania's waters. And the replacement of all senior government officials in the sector over the past three months won't facilitate communications between private companies [.
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Belema Oil Producing, the partner of Seplat when it acquired Chevron’s 40% stake on OML 53 and 55, is going [...]
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The acquisition of Heritage last June by the Al Mirqab company owned by an ex-prime minister of Qatar has unleashed the Canadian explorer’s African ambitions.
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Nigerian companies are jockeying for the best position to snap up a company with handsome assets but empty pockets.
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Standing for re-election, the Nigerian president is campaigning on every front amid rising criticism of his handling of oil resources in the south.
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The Chinese company, dispirited by its poor performances in 2014, is pursuing its probe into dubious recruitments in its Gabonese affiliate.
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Although Uganda’s energy ministry has failed to offer a single new exploration licence since 2007, Ernest Rubondo, boss of the [...]
Up to now mainly operating in Equatorial Guinea’s offshore, where it had a good year in 2014, Noble Energy is [...]
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Founded in early 2012 by Brian Herlihy, former boss of Seacom, the company that equipped Africa with optical fibre in [...]
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The China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC) could well re-issue [...]
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Up to now active only on block LB-13 in Liberia, [...]
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Discouraged by the current oil price and disappointed with the [...]
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British legislators are calling on their government and the United [...]
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Despite posting losses in the last quarter of 2014 and [...]
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The tie-up between Jubilee’s gas reserves and processing plant at Atuabo is going to have a quick impact on oil companies.
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A year after its arrival in Tunisia, the Netherlands-based junior Mazarine Energy has begun drilling on its Zaafrane onshore block. [...]
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The Australian junior Tlou Energy has begun the test phase of extracting coal bed methane at Lesedi in eastern Botswana. [...]
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The British explorer Gulfsands Petroleum has just completed a third [...]
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The Scottish junior Bowleven can now be altogether reassured that [...]
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The annual report of Texas-based Anadarko, operator on block 1 [...]
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With electricity now split off from the oil ministry to which it had been attached up to now, the new power minister Kwabena Donkor is already under fire.
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Named in July, Guinea Bissau’s energy minister, Florentino Mendes Pereira has big plans for the country’s power sector between now [...]
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Problems are piling up for the Bendera power station (16 MW) whose restoration was deemed a priority by Congolese president [...]
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The American supplier of power plants APR Energy, which has [...]
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In late February, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) gave [...]
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Retained by Uganda to organize a tender for the construction [...]
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Two weeks after the unexplained death of Liberian lawyer Michael [...]
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