Carried out a few weeks ago, Sonangol's latest operation to win loans against future production was the first-ever of its kind for an African oil company. For once it didn't wrap up an agreement with a single trader for several [.
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Plagued by power shortages over the past six months, Cameroon would like to develop its gas fields in order to [...]
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The Nigerian government's hopes of getting five major oil companies to take part in power projects with NNPC have fallen victim to funding concerns.
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EEPCO appears fed up with delays by Mohamed Al Amoudi's group to start building a power station on the Gojeb river.
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The World Bank's funding for AES' project to build a [...]
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Canadian firms operating in Africa have set up a Canadian Council on Africa along the lines of the U.S. Corporate [...]
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A fight has broken out in powerful circles for control of Slavneft, an oil company that is currently negotiating to [...]
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The star of this year's Crans Montana forum organized by Jean-Paul Carteron was unquestionably Theodoro Obiang Nguema, president of Equatorial [...]
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After opening an embassy in Tripoli a month ago, the Australian government was due to sponsor a visit to Libya [...]
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The Dutch Parliament has asked the government to call for an inquiry into the books of Talisman Greater Nile BV, [...]
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After adopting a highly ambitious drilling program for its Equatorial Guinea concessions (AEI 323), the South African firm Energy Africa [...]
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The Cyprus-based firm Medex has just won two new concessions in Algeria after signing up for the Bordj Omar Idriss field early this year.
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The latest concession awarded to Canadian Natural Resources is a left-over from licenses held by Ocean Energy and Mondoil.
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Put back on several occasions, the West African Gas Pipeline project is expected to make headway this summer although uncertainty over its future won't be entirely lifted.
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Set up last year, Equatorial Guinea's oil company, Gepetrole, has called for assistance from consultants to make up for a shortage of qualified staff.
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A welfare fund headed by Angolan government officials holds an interest in a small British firm working alongside ROC Oil on the Cabinda South license.
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To persuade Congo-K to sign a production sharing agreement (PSA), Heritage will fly Congolese officials to Uganda to see how it operates there.
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The four refineries still in the hands of Nigerian National [...]
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ENI and NOC are continuing to award development contracts for [...]
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The U.S. firm Pioneer has bought the 40% stake that [...]
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The Mauritanian government has picked Aurora, a company headed by [...]
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The signing of a production sharing agreement between TotalFinaElf, Mitsubishi [...]
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The U.S. firm Pioneer Natural Resources has made another find [...]
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Caught napping by ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillipps and Anadarko which sponsored president [...]
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ChevronTexaco has finally signed an extension of its concession on [...]
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Osprey Oil & Gas, a company founded by John Bentley and Jim Rutland, former bosses of the South African oil [...]
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New investment funds set up recently to operate in Africa have very precise ideas of what sectors of the oil [...]
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The Societe Tunisienne de l'Electricite et du Gaz (STEEG) has just won a 150 million Euro ($145 million) loan from [...]
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The Japan Bank of International Cooperation (JBIC) is going to take part in the Japanese government's drive to help finance [...]
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The International Finance Corp., private investment arm of the World Bank, is thinking of financing new energy projects in Africa [...]
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Another go-between in African deals, Pierre Aim, has landed in legal hot water only a few weeks after Elie Khalil [...]
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Named CEO of Eskom Enterprises last week in succession to Jan de Beer, Enos Banda served as chairman of South [...]
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The defeat of Earl Hilliard in the Democrat primary in Alabama last week deprives Libyan leader col. Muammer Kadhafi of [...]
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The all-powerful managing director of Societe Nationale de Raffinage du Cameroon (SONARA) died on June 25 in hospital at Douala [...]
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Former vice president of Seagull Energy for international affairs, Michael Coffield has been put in charge of all of Vanco [...]
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The national oil company Sonatrach has been reining in costs [...]
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AEI has learned that various draft bills designed to increase [...]
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A new gas code for SNH will shortly be adopted [...]
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A $100 million loan for Nigeria's ?transmission development project? that [...]
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The Texas-based consulting and public relations company Ward Creative Communications [...]
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Two lawyers from the Lisbon firm Miranda, Correia, Amendoeira & [...]
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The Texas-based consultancy Eco-Tankship is trying to recover an LNG [...]
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RoyalDutchShell has picked two lawyers from the London office of [...]
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The decision in a case involving the Canadian consultancy Acres [...]
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The CWC group is organizing a conference on the oil [...]
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ESI Africa is organizing the fourth Eastern Africa Power Industry [...]
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Algeria's energy and mines ministry, Sonatrach and the CWC Group [...]
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