Dan Etete, oil adviser to the late Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha, could return to his country's petroleum and political arena.
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Still under embargo and obliged to seek U.N. approval to export its crude, Iraq has increased the number of its [...]
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After winning three licenses in Kenya, companies controlled by Henry David Kennedy, president of Pancontintal, look set to keep expanding in Africa.
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The mandates of ENI president Gian Maria Gros-Pietro and the managing director, Vittorio Mincato, will both come up for renewal [...]
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Natexis Banques Populaires, the investment bank of the French cooperative [...]
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Barclay's Bank, which at present uses the services of the [...]
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The U.K. firm Exploration Consultants Group, which operates in Africa [...]
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The CWC Group is organizing a conference in London on [...]
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Shell's proposed acquisition of Enterprise Oil, the last British independent, would give it a foothold in Morocco's offshore and onshore.
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If the deal goes through, Lundin's acquisition of the small French oil company Coparex will give the Swedish group significant assets in Tunisia.
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A delegation from ONGC Videsh, the international arm of India's [...]
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Spain's Repsol YPF has just made a first discovery on [...]
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Italy's ENI group has begun developing its Wafa field on [...]
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Already active on Anaguid in Tunisia, which it bought from [...]
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Anadarko and Sonatrach have just put a fourth train into [...]
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Germany's Deutsche Bank and Morocco's BCME Capital are going to [...]
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The European Investment Bank (EIB), the Agence Francaise de Developpement [...]
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The U.S. Trade Development Agency has offered Office National Marocain [...]
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Over the past six months U.S. government envoys and officials [...]
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With tension rising constantly between Nigeria and Cameroon – the two are slugging it out in court in The Hague and on their borders – Abuja is busy sewing up oil pacts with its other neighbors.
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Underway since Bill Clinton was in the White House, a move to establish closer ties between Washington and Equatorial Guinea looks likely to soon win the blessings of the Republican administration.
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On the eve of Chinese president Jiang Zemin's visit to Nigeria two Chinese firms have just won a $390 million BOT contract.
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Since the break with Vivendi concerning the privatization of Senelec, the government's negotiations with AES are unfolding in the deepest secrecy. Here are some details.
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Washington's rapprochement with Equatorial Guinea (see report on P.4) owes a lot to Bruce McColm, president of the NGO Institute [...]
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The deadline for bids for nine offshore concessions that were [...]
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Alan Fergusson, former Nigeria manager for the Baker Hughes oil [...]
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Holding assets in the offshore area between Nigeria and Sao [...]
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Nigeria's Supreme Court handed down its findings on April 5 [...]
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South Africa's energy minister, Phumsile Mlambo, is presently leading a [...]
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The settlement of the dispute between Angola and Congo-B on their maritime borders will benefit ChevronTexaco most of all. It's going to explore "Structure K" that straddles the two countries.
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Managed by the South African trading company Thebe Petroleum, a contract to supply Congo-K with oil products looks like being ditched.
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After completing the development of Girassol, France's TotalFinaElf group must meet a number of development objectives in Nigeria, Angola and Congo-B this year.
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Currently representing Cameroon in its case against Nigeria on the delimitation of maritime and land boundaries (see our report P. [...]
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The new president of Sao Tome e Principe, Fradique de Menezes, named Gabriel Costa as prime minister on March 27. [...]
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Holding degrees in mathematics and management, 44-year-old Denis Ngokana might be named oil and energy adviser to president Denis Sassou [...]
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Jean-Michel Runacher, managing director of Perenco, has written to Africa Energy Intelligence to correct a number of mistakes in our [...]
Rivalry between Russia's Methanol and the U.S. firm Sicor to extract gas from the Calub field has boiled down to how the projects are to be funded.
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Speaking last week during a seminar concerning the Energy Regulation [...]
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The Kenyan Power and Lighting Corporation has chosen a team [...]
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Named by Jacques Sylla, prime minister of Madagascar's "self-proclaimed" president Marc Ravalomanana, Elise Razaka has been appointed Madagascar's energy and [...]
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On ice since the merger between Chevron and Texaco, the [...]
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Sasol's gas fields in the Temane region in Mozambique will [...]
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South Africa's Central Bank has opened an investigation into Sasol's [...]
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The South African affiliate of the Swiss-Swedish ABB consortium, ABB [...]
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