While Gabonese president Ali Bongo generally follows the guidelines laid out by his late father, Omar Bongo, he has made a clean break when it comes to oil by setting up a national petroleum company and ordering the oil ministry [.
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Long kept out of Angola’s offshore by their Chinese competitors, Indian oil companies may soon have their revenge. Invited to [...]
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The British group is having trouble getting a go-ahead for the sale of its Algerian assets to TNK-BP. Algiers is squabbling with one of the Russian group’s stakeholders.
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Summa Energy is struggling for control of the oil reserves of Kito island against some of its former associates who have banded together in Kito Energy.
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Hess and Afren need to find other companies as soon as possible to help finance their drilling campaigns in Ghana’s offshore.
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Among all the assets put on the auction block by Shell the greatest interest has focused on OML 30. Four consortiums are racing to acquire it.
On the eve of drilling a first well in the joint zone between Senegal and Guinea Bissau, Ophir is seeking partners to help shoulder the costs.
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The results of work by Norwegian companies to improve the [...]
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The firm Madagascar Oil, which operates four blocks in Madagascar, [...]
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Algeria's Agence Nationale pour la Valorisation des Ressources en Hydrocarbures (Alnaft) appears on the verge of approving the development plan [...]
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After buying out Petronas’ blocks in the Ogaden region, the SWE firm is interested in six shale gas licenses in the Jimma area.
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Gazprom and Tullow Oil haven’t yet reached an agreement with Nampower to build a power station supplied by the Kudu gas field.
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Gas producers are throwing themselves into electricity-generating projects in order [...]
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Kinshasa has given itself two months to find a company capable of financing, building and operating the huge Inga 3 [...]
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France’s Bouygues group and the Indian concern Kalpataru vied for a contract to build a transmission line between the Inga dam and Congo’s capital. The Indians won.
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Emergency power stations are the only alternative for mining groups operating in countries that lack a nation-wide power network.
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After being put off on several occasions (AEI 632/636). a [...]
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Barbara Hogan’s failure to pull the country’s power sector out [...]
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The fact that mines and energy minister Souleymane Mamadou Abba is close to the former number two man in the [...]
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The representative of Sterling Energy in Nouakchott since 2006, Alain Gubian will retire at the end of this year. Have [...]
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Petroceltic appears to be attracting a lot of former talent from Tullow Oil. Brian O’Cathain, currently the chief executive of [...]
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Italian engineer Giuseppe Ciccarelli is fast becoming a man to be reckoned with in central Africa. Advising the juniors Caprikat [...]
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By year's end, Cameroon's Societe Nationale des Hydrocarbures is expected [...]
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Ghana’s parliament is due to vote by year’s end on [...]
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The state-owned Angolan company Sonangol is due to launch its [...]
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Just prior to his recent dismissal (see Page 8), Niger’s [...]
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Oil companies appear determined to bring about changes in a [...]
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The latest draft of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) under [...]
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The managing director of Brazil’s HRT company, Marcio Rocha Mello, [...]
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Credit Suisse is advising Kosmos on its plan to float [...]
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After triumphing this spring in its long battle to get [...]
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The former chairman of BP, John Browne, looks set for [...]
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The case involved pretty well the entire oil services trade: [...]
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Higher oil prices have made the heavy oil fields owned [...]
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Spain's Gas Natural is being advised in its conflict with [...]
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The French bank seems ubiquitous in the sell-off of RoyalDutch/Shell [...]
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The Canadian concern CIC Energy, which is developing a huge, [...]
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Emmanuel Egbogah, the oil adviser to Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan, [...]
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Armando Guezbuza, president of Mozambique, paid an official visit to [...]
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Julien Nkoghe Bekale, the oil and mines minister of Gabon, [...]
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