With fellow oil companies finding it hard to land contracts, the junior African Petroleum founded by Frank Timis, an Australian of Romanian origin, has been winning a raft of new concessions in West Africa’s offshore.
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The four companies shortlisted to bid for the distribution and storage assets of Addax and Oryx Group had until Dec. [...]
The fact that Petronas’ exploration rights on block 6 in Mauritania’s offshore are about to run out has sparked a fight between companies already active in the area.
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Tony Buckingham’s group is on the verge of pulling off a coup in the Niger Delta.
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Now owned by South Korea’s national oil company KNOC, Dana Petroleum is currently in talks with Cameroon’s government to operate Bakassi West.
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A series of dry wells has made it harder for Lundin and Vitol to sell off concessions in Congo-Brazzaville.
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With production marking time at just 100,000 bpd since the independence of South Sudan, Khartoum’s new oil minister is being forced to speed up exploration.
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As Africa Energy Intelligence anticipated would be the case in [...]
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After its success in Mozambique's offshore, where it identified 30 [...]
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PetroTrans, a Hong Kong-based company which bought Petronas’ concessions in Ethiopia last July, is expected by the end of January [...]
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Sonangol, a discreet firm in London that sells crude for the Angolan government, will shortly be joined by a small twin sister in charge of spot sales of LNG.
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With a rush building up on Mozambique’s offshore following Anadarko’s finds (estimated at between 15 and 30 TCF) and those of ENI (22.5 TCF). Cove Energy intends to profit as well.
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After thinking of joining forces with Canadian Natural Resources (CNR) [...]
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Two state-run companies run by supporters of ousted president Laurent Gbagbo are going to be folded into one, officially to [...]
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European donors are ready to pour money into Tunisia’s power sector as a new government dominated by Islamists takes office.
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Mozambique is gaining the upper hand in its bid to buy Portugal’s remaining shares in the Cahora Bassa dam because of Lisbon’s financial difficulties.
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As we reported in an alert to our subscribers on [...]
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Total's representative in Mauritania, Pierre Desvoyes, will be succeeded in early January by one of the French major's bosses in [...]
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Total overhauled its marketing and refining & petrochemicals branches on Jan. 1. Responsibility for the first was handed over to [...]
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The managing director of the Canadian firm Vanoil, Dal Brynelsen and his co-worker, Michael Mackey, were forced to resign in [...]
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Madagascar’s new hydrocarbons minister, Bernard Marcel, is still struggling to take charge of the exploration and production sector. While he [...]
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Under questioning in Algeria’s parliament on December 29, energy minister [...]
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Hydrac, the research lab of Cameroon's Societe National des Hydrocarbures [...]
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The panel that regulates Nigeria’s oil products sector, Petroleum Products [...]
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The U.S. State Department has opened an Office of the [...]
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For want of finding a clever way to do business [...]
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The contract was modest enough but it could well spark [...]
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Africa Energy Intelligence understands that the United Arab Emirates consulting [...]
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The European Investment Bank is going to include Libya among [...]
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With French banks reluctant to commit themselves to Nigerian oil [...]
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) finally gave a green light [...]
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Initially set at $100 million (AEI 649), a World Bank [...]
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A British company in charge of developing the second section [...]
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The American bank has teamed up with the International Finance [...]
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Scotland’s Bowleven group has retained Zebra Data Science to find [...]
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Yang Jeichi, China's foreign minister, plans to visit Niamey, Abidjan [...]
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Goodluck Jonathan, Nigeria's president, struck out against oil smuggling groups [...]
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Yoweri Museveni, Uganda's president, has put the question of Uganda's [...]
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