Total's ambiguous ambitions for its future in exploration in the country is making the Congolese authorities' heads spin. As for, Tullow Oil, the junior has already taken a swipe at the new government, allegedly with the French major's approval.
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Tullow Oil has clashed with the Ugandan authorities as the cracks begin to appear in the crude oil export project.
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The British junior is pressed for time to lock in partners so it can finance the development of its discoveries.
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The Chinese state-owned oil firm CNPC wants to waste no [...]
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According to our sources, the head of Namibian state-run firm [...]
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As we revealed (AEI 836), Kosmos Energy had wanted to shed a large portion of its shares in the Senegalese [...]
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American junior Vaalco is being driven to despair by the slow pace of the Equatorial Guinean government's handling of block [...]
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NOC's pre-emption of Marathon's assets has the French firm caught in a difficult holding pattern.
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A number of newcomers have used the period of transition and hesitation after Felix Tshisekedi's election to move into upstream business.
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While the American self-made billionaire John Paul DeJoria won his case against Morocco in the Talsint oil affair before the [...]
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The owners of the Touat gas field, operator Neptune Energy (35%,) Sonatrach (35%) and Engie (30%) are having trouble getting [...]
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According to our information, the Austrian firm OMV, operator of onshore permit Grand prix pulled its operations out of Madagascar [...]
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Luanda has grand ambitions for the state-owned Sonangol in 2022, the year it is planned to be partly privatised. The [...]
By authorising the Irish firm Process & Industrial Developments (P&ID) to begin proceedings to seize nearly $9 billion worth of [...]
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By picking up the pace on key areas that his predecessor failed to round off, the new NNPC boss wants to show he is the man for the job.
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The arbitration between FAR and the previous SNE operator ConocoPhillips over the sale of its shares to Woodside Energy are playing havoc on the site development plan.
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Norwegian firm Aker is pushing to have DWT/CTP developed on its terms only to have each one denied by the GNPC on legal grounds.
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The head of trading house Master Energy Group , Uchechukwu [...]
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The committee charged with shedding light on South Sudan's crude [...]
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The UAE-Norwegian firm Petronor – which merged with African Petroleum [...]
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SNPC and the Congolese ministry of petroleum are in the [...]
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According to our information, French major Total is preparing to [...]
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Malawi's new minister of natural resources, energy and mining Bintony [...]
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Prior to his appointment as Congo-K's new vice minister for [...]
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Erin Energy suspects the Nigerian government of violating an automatic stay prohibiting the seizure of the bankrupt company's assets.
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After auditing the accounts of oil firms for the 2014-2017 period, the Angolan head of state has kept the pressure up by asking for a new report for fiscal years 2018 and 2019.
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The International Finance Corporation (IFC, the private sector arm of [...]
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According to our information, the recoverable reserves on the Hibiscus [...]
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Four years after the first discoveries on Grand Tortue-Ahmeyim (GTA) [...]
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The new minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Obot Akpabio, appointed on August 21, has established his legitimacy and authority [...]
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For one of the most prize political appointments in the Niger Delta, to join the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) [...]
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As we revealed (AEI 845), Michel Hochard will be leaving Maurel & Prom in the coming weeks and his mandate [...]
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Appointed interim manging director of New Age in July (AEI 844), French national Pascal Nicodeme will be joining Africa Oil's [...]
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