Two bills promulgated on December 29 and 30 pave the way for a referendum on self-determination in South Sudan. Scheduled for 2011, the ballot will oblige Sudan's federal government to share management of the oil sector with the south, the [.
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Flourishing in Angola and elsewhere in Africa thanks to its supposed links with the Chinese government (AEI 583), the Hong [...]
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Although Petronas hasn't yet succeeded in having its concessions renewed, Dana Petroleum has been awarded a one-year renewable extension of its contract in Mauritania's offshore.
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Gas finds by Delek in Israel have prompted the firm to sell off its assets in Guinea Bissau in order to concentrate on operations in its home country.
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With the U.S. State Department’s discreet backing, the president of Texas-based Hyperdynamics indirectly unveiled his company’s plans to Conakry in late December.
China is to begin work on the Zinder refinery in January as a condition of winning the contract to develop the Agadem field.
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Sonangol is thinking of raising money on the stock exchange to finance the development of two concessions it was awarded in Iraq.
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Zambia will announce the winner of a tender to supply [...]
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The American oil group Hess pulled out of Gabon on [...]
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A technical cooperation agreement awarded in mid-December to the Anglo-Dutch major RoyalDutch/Shell by Petroleum Agency Sa involving the Karoo basin [...]
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The champagne corks popped for Total in Algeria during the holiday season. The group was awarded the highly coveted Ahnet gas permit while its development plan for Timimoun was confirmed.
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Australia’s Sunset Energy is poised to buy out the explorer Bundu Gas & Oil which owns a concession in Eastern Cape that’s potentially rich in unconventional gas.
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The vice president of GDF Suez, Jean Francois Cirelli, and [...]
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Over the past 20 years Tunisia has managed to significantly [...]
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The World Bank is expected on March 4 to approve a USD 3.7 billion loan to the state-owed utility Eskom. [...]
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The national power utility has been in talks with Empower for some weeks on the construction of a 36 MW power plant.
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The Finnish company has finally landed a contract to build the Kipevu 3 power station after legal jockeying.
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The Zambian government decided at the end of December to [...]
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As Africa Energy Intelligence reported in November (No. 616), the [...]
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The chairman of the board of state-owned Sonangol, Manuel Vicente, was appointed in mid-December to the political bureau of the [...]
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The chairman of the board of Zambia Electricity Supply Corp. (ZESCO), Songowayo Zyambo, was dismissed in late December after serving [...]
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Just as Lion Energy saw its rights on the Dharoor and Nogal licenses in Puntland confirmed, the Canadian company (previously [...]
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The British concern Chariot Oil & Gas is continuing to pursue its strategy of hiring geologists who have already worked [...]
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A managing director of the World Bank and former Nigerian [...]
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The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersal) will make [...]
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The national utility Tanzania Electric Supply Co (Tanesco) has just [...]
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The instability gripping Guinea just as oil companies flock into [...]
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With the threat of an upsurge in violence in the [...]
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The 9th meeting of the joint Congo-K and Angola committee [...]
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Zambia’s mines minister, Maxwell Mwale, launched a new licensing round [...]
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On Dec. 17, an employee of Swiss trader Trafigura in [...]
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Macquarie Africa Pty, an affiliate of Australia’s Macquarie Group, and [...]
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After a lengthy call for bids, banks holding debt of [...]
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Tullow Oil will have to decide before Jan. 17 whether [...]
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The British branch of the oil services firm has been [...]
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According to our sources, the storage and distribution affiliate of [...]
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The Amsterdam firm specializing in defending human rights Bohler Franken [...]
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Andre Raphael Loemba, Congo-Brazzaville's oil minister, will attend the 4th [...]
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Karen Agustiawan, the chief executive of Indonesia's national oil company [...]
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Rilwanu Lukman, Nigeria's oil minister, stirred controversy by travelling to [...]
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