The state-owned Angolan oil company Sonangol could play a major role in the partial privatization of Portugal's Galp Energia, which holds a portfolio of important assets in Angola. Africa Energy Intelligence has taken a look at how Sonangol may play [.
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We understand that Total made a discovery early this year on the Mer Tres Profonde Sud concession it operates and [...]
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In announcing last week that development of the Chinguetti field was about to start the operators indicated there was no place for the government in the venture.
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A company that has just been awarded Ocean Energy's former permit in Ivory Coasts's offshore, Africa Petroleum, has a number of veteran American intelligence men on its staff.
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An investigation into the alleged payment of bribes in the construction of Nigeria LNG is now focussing on the circle of late president Sani Abacha.
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Shareholders on block H in Equatorial Guinea's offshore have handed the U.S. firm Pioneer a stake in return for financing a first well.
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Ordered by the Swiss courts to pay heavy compensation to entrepreneur Antoine Tabet, France's Total is looking for an escape route.
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After year-long talks, Maurel & Prom last week signed a PSC for Mafia island's offshore.
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While the majors were all waiting for a peace accord to be signed before resuming relations with Khartoum - the treaty was finally penned last week - the juniors were quick off the mark and are now firmly installed.
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The U.S. group Amerada Hess plans to drill two exploration [...]
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Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas has issued an invitation to tender [...]
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Although the offshore Ehra field won't officially go into production [...]
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Marathon announced last week that all the agreements relative to [...]
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Meeting on June 4, the Congo-B government awarded the Haute [...]
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Built in partnership with Norway's Norsk Hydro, PetroSA's GTL plant [...]
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Facing the threat of power shortages, the South African government has announced its intention to issue an invitation to tender [...]
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Launched in 2002 but systematically put back ever since, the privatization of Sonabel is now unlikely to take place until 2007.
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Italy's Salini group has just signed an agreement with the Ethiopian government to build the second phase of the Gilgel Gibe dam that is to generate an additional 450 MW.
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Like France's Alstom, the Swiss-Swedish group ABB is working in Sudan as a sub-contractor to Chinese companies.
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Taking their cue from the Chinese, Indian firms are making their debut in Sudan's power sector.
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Denmark's Peter Felter has stepped down as boss of Cliveden Petroleum, a British company active in Chad and Sudan, following [...]
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In keeping with the rotating presidency rule at the Joint Development Authority, the body that manages the Joint Development Zone [...]
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Vice president in charge of Anadarko's operations in Canada since 2001, Robert Daniels was put in charge of all of [...]
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A senior accountant at the Pipeline Product Marketing Company (PPMC), an agency that holds a monopoly on the import of [...]
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A central figure in the Bush administration's diplomatic deployment, John Danforth, a Republican senator from Missouri, has been nominated as [...]
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The Chinese government is continuing to press its efforts to secure part of its supply of oil from Africa. Two [...]
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The aim of a visit by assistant secretary of commerce William Lash to Tripoli last week was primarily to back [...]
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Published last month by the Angolan government under pressure from NGOs but also the International Monetary Fund, a KMPG audit [...]
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Equatorial Guinea and Gabon have given signs in recent weeks that they might be ready to put their dispute for [...]
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Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo has been in the United States since the weekend on a private visit during which [...]
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Chaired by Ahmed Ould Abdallah, U.N. secretary-general Kofi Annan's special representative for West Africa, the joint Cameroon-Nigeria committee that is [...]
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Highly active in African oil through its investment bank African Merchant Bank, Belgium's Belgolaise Bank, a wholly owned affiliate of [...]
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In recent weeks several American banks have sent envoys to Libya to make the contacts required to establish a presence [...]
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Invited to the Oil & Gas in Africa conference in London on May 24-25 by the Royal Institute of International [...]
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Gabon last week obtained a green light from the International Monetary Fund for a $102 million loan spread over 14 [...]
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Ten banks took part in an oil-backed loan syndicated by Standard Chartered Bank on behalf of Angola's Sonangol and partially [...]
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The South Africa Revenue Service has tightened controls of oil companies following a report from the government's auditor-general that uncovered [...]
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Former manager of the Gilgel Gibe dam project at the [...]
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Sonatrach's insurers and re-insurance companies are to pay out $500 [...]
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The World Bank sent officials to Madagascar two weeks ago [...]
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A World Bank program to assist Kenya's power sector has [...]
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Australia's Woodside has pulled out of three licenses in Kenya's [...]
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Highly active in the African oil industry - it advised [...]
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Amerada Hess has just set up a joint venture to [...]
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BTU Power, an investment fund that bought the stake of [...]
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Energy Net is organizing a conference at the RAI Congress [...]
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The CWC Group is organizing its annual conference on the [...]
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