The U.S. major Chevron is planning to make quite a splash by debuting in the offshore of several North African and West African countries, deliberately leaving East Africa to its American rivals Exxon and Anadarko.
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Yann Desjeux, a French national held hostage by Islamists along with scores of others at the In Amenas base, was [...]
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Only three days after he was confirmed in his post as mines minister in a government shuffle, Amadou Baby Sy [...]
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The transitional government in Libya still hasn’t recovered the African assets of the Libya Oil holding company that were frozen by the United Nations and European Union in March, 2011.
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A new oil block has been awarded by Niger's government to a firm based in Australia that's making its first-ever acquisition.
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Active in East Africa and Kurdistan, the New Age group headed by Steve Lowden is angling for blocks in Nigeria and Congo-B.
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The Israeli firm Elenilto marked the end-of-year holidays by winning a new block in Senegal’s shallow offshore on top of another acquisitions it made elsewhere in 2012.
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Cheered by its discoveries in Tanzania and countryman Anadarko’s in Mozambique, Exxon has picked up four concessions north-east of Durban in what promises to be only a start.
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The award of block 1 to Sacoil on Dec. 12 [...]
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French president François Hollande's visit to Algeria between Dec. 19-21 apparently didn't budge Algeria's position concerning the long-term contracts of [...]
The economic princh in Spain has forced some of the country's energy firms to reluctantly sell off assets.
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The ill-starred field off South Africa’s west coast is pursuing its rocky course. It has a new owner, once again.
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Firms pre-qualified to bid for the contract to design the Rusomo Falls hydro power dam (90 MW) on the Akagera [...]
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The unveiling of the Inga dam project will have to wait for a while as politics and the security situation in the east grab the headlines. And technical and financial choices are still under discussion.
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The World Bank is financing not only an interconnection between the north and south of the country but also an upgrade of the grid in the capital, Lusaka.
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France's Alstom has every reason to celebrate a major contract [...]
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Close to Mauritanian oil minister Taleb Ould Abdi Vall, Mamadou Amadou Kane was appointed boss of the new Societe de [...]
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A former senior executive Marathon Oil in Tunisia between 1983-96. Mongi Haffouz and his new firm Rift Basin International Corp [...]
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One official must be particularly cultivated if oil companies hope to win concessions in Malawi in coming years. He’s Leonard [...]
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Virtually the entire board of Madagascar Oil is going to change in 2013. For instance, Laurie Hunter has been replaced [...]
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On Dec. 27, Guinean mines minister Mohamed Fofana finally authorized [...]
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Algeria appears to be looking forward to a brighter year [...]
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Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos de Mocambique (ENH) is highly pleased [...]
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A meeting of the steering committee on the Agadem field [...]
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A mediator from the European Union is going to look [...]
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During a visit to Lubumbashi in December, Congo-K’s oil and [...]
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According to our sources, the winner of a tender to [...]
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After instigating arbitration proceedings against Tunisia in October (AEI 684), [...]
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According to our sources, the arbitration proceedings that have pitted [...]
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Oando, an oil group headed by Wale Tinubu, proceeded with [...]
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The World Bank will decide in August on whether to [...]
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Already acting as a lobbyist for Ivory Coast (AEI 657), [...]
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The Anglo-Danish security giant G4S has named Tim Weller, finance [...]
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An adviser to Cameroon's Societe Nationale des Hydrocarbures (SNH), the [...]
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Stephen Mukitale, a lawmaker from the National Resistance Movement (NRM) [...]
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Philippe Laborde, former head of the African department of the [...]
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Awad Al Jaz, Sudan’s oil minister, has set up a [...]
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