Located on the crest of the African rift, where oil trap reservoirs are numerous but lie in an inaccessible region torn by civil conflict, the far eastern part of Ituri province could house major oil reserves.
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Amsas Consulting, a firm incorporated in Australia and headed by Ali Abdullahi, filed suit in the Puntland high court on [...]
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Announced some months ago, an end to state-owned Tanesco’s monopoly over the Tanzania’s power sector is likely to take place [...]
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Visiting Libya on Dec. 24-25, Russian foreign minister Sergueï Lavrov announced that president Vladimir Putin would shortly drop in on [...]
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Chinese foreign minister Li Zhaoxing was in Equatorial Guinea on Dec. 31-Jan. 1 on the second stop-over of an African [...]
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After putting its stakes in two concessions operated by ENI up for sale last month (AEI 453), Shell is now [...]
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The leading Arab oil investor in Africa, Kufpec is continuing to pick up acreage on the continent- after a pause.
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A mining company based in Perth has just bought one of Stratic Energy’s two concessions in Tunisia.
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Two companies from Dubai have signed up with NOC to renovate the Ras Lanuf refinery.
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In a single month, Algeria’s national oil company has been awarded four blocks in Mauritania’s Taoudeni basin as well as stakes in two of Total’s permits.
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The state-run group Tamoil has acquired acreage in areas in Chad and Sudan that lie along the border with Libya.
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The squabble over the U.S. firm Hyperdynamics’ production sharing contract in Guinea’s offshore has split the Conakry government into two camps.
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Russia's Gazprom carefully prepared the ground before starting negotiations with the Nigerian government last month.
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After achieving only mixed results in Nigeria, Mittal Investment, the holding company of Lakshmi Mittal, is about to buy stakes in Congo-B.
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In the first phase of its new licensing round, Sonangol pre-qualified 81 companies to submit bids for acreage. Among them were a number of small Angolan concerns.
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Debuting in 2005 on blocks 8 and 9 in Liberia’s [...]
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As several companies scramble to gain footholds in the province [...]
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Energoinvest has landed a contract worth USD 52 million to build transmission lines and a sub-station in Libya, bringing the [...]
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The South African engineering concern Group Five has won a new contract to build a power station, this time in Abia state.
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Four-fifths of the Merowe dam being built by Sinohydro on the Nile has been completed and the facility will start operating later this year.
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Delays in the program to rehabilitate the Hwange power station have resulted in the suspension of the boss of the Zimbabwe Power Company.
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Canada's Heritage Oil is thinking of floating on the London Stock Exchange (LSE). The group has retained the JPMorgan Cazenove [...]
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The Swedish firm PA Resources retained Pareto Securities in December to mount a bond issue worth USD 200 million and [...]
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Meeting just after the New Year, Sonatrach’s executive board decided to invest a total of USD 45 billion to promote [...]
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Africa Energy Intelligence understands that trader Samy Maroun, who heads the Monaco-based firm Quantic that is highly active in Congo-Brazzaville, [...]
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The firm Bujagali Energy., which operates the project for a 250 MW dam at Bujagali on the Nile, has announced [...]
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A former prime minister Casimir Oye Mba (1990-94) was given a key portfolio once again when president Omar Bongo named [...]
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The inspector general of police in Nigeria, Mike Ehindero, announced in late December that the number one and number two [...]
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Jarch, a company owned by Phil Heilberg, has just named Larry Johnson as vice president in charge of intelligence and [...]
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Issufo Anuar Dauto Abdula was replaced last month by Nelson Arnaldo Ocuane as chief of the national oil company Empresa [...]
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The CWC Group is organizing a conference on the latest developments in Nigeria’s oil industry along with a related exhibition [...]
Global Pacific & Partners is staging a conference in London on April 10-11 on the latest oil developments in the [...]
Global Pacific & Partners is organizing the 6th Maghreb & Mediterranean Oil & Gas Conference at the Residence Hotel in [...]
A Senegalese delegation composed of officials from Societe Natonale d’Electricite [...]
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In December, senior executives of Angola’s national oil company Sonangol [...]
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The World Bank is to put up USD 41.05 million [...]
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To renegotiate the contract with the Hyperdynamics oil company that [...]
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The state-run Algerian oil group Sonatrach has retained Ernst & [...]
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The United Arab Emirates group Dodsal, which is controlled by [...]
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The consortium of financial institutions and development banks that lent [...]
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