ENI and Anadarko, the oil groups that operate Mozambique’s block 1 and 4 where 180 TCF of gas have been identified since 2010, are continuing to work separately on their patches, and even against one another.
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Set up almost 30 years ago, the Nigerian group Yinka Folawiyo Petroleum Co that belongs to the Yinka Folawiyo & [...]
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The authorities haven’t given up hope of resuming work on the jinxed field lying off Nouakchott.
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A strike that lasted two weeks will leave a mark on a company where labour-employer relations are strained and reasons for new conflicts are already popping up.
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Accra is hoping to develop a big regional services and logistics port for oil companies to boost earnings for local industry.
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One of the last decisions by the out-going oil minister reportedly resolved an issue on extending licenses that had been dragging on for years.
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Total is expected to alter its exploration program in Ivory Coast this year. Initially focused on block CI-100 that lies [...]
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A relative newcomer to Africa, the American oil engineering firm McDermott International has made its debut in Ghana by signing [...]
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While waiting for its gas fields to come fully on stream (it has invested enormously in them over the past [...]
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Ivory Coast’s oil and energy minister Adama Toungara introduced Robert [...]
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The Canadian junior Simba Energy run by Hassan Hassan has [...]
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Former managing director of Addax Petroleum in Nigeria, Vance Querio, [...]
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The companies that own the Mazagan offshore permit (lying off [...]
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Following the departure of financier Chris Harrop, former vice president [...]
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The American explorer has become the first company to make a discovery in the deep offshore. But there’s no lack of obstacles to developing it.
Unlike many oil companies in North Africa, Petroceltic International can look ahead to the coming year with equanimity. Although it [...]
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The Petroleum Agency of South Africa (PASA) is getting around to examining applications for shale gas exploration rights in the [...]
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ENI’s management joined forces with the Italian employers federation Cofindustria [...]
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With Namibia still failing to meet its electricity needs, the [...]
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With South Africa caught in a grim energy squeeze, the [...]
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Kinshasa has decided to make up for shortcomings in its power grid by importing electricity from its neighbours.
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The Bavarian firm Kochendörfer Wasserkraftaniagen has picked up a series of new contracts in Rwanda. And it did so with [...]
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Guinea Bissau’s government is to shortly be offered a loan worth around $100 million from the World Bank to build [...]
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Vincent le Guennou, boss of the American private equity fund [...]
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Equatorial Guinea’s energy minister, Gabriel Mbaga Obiang Lima, hardly enjoyed [...]
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A senior adviser on international financial markets to the Bank [...]
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A partner who heads the bank and financing department of [...]
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