Placed in administration by Gabon’s presidential office at the end of September (AEI 755), the state-owned Gabon Oil Co (GOC), symbol of president Ali Bongo’s new oil strategy, has proved to be a complete bust.
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In acquiring the interests of Afren in Kenya and Tanzania, the executives of the Canadian firm Octant Energy, listed on [...]
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The drop in the oil price is going to prevent the national oil company from paying back loans it contracted with banks.
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Relying totally on American firms, Equatorial Guinea’s oil minister is determined to break that dependency in coming years.
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Ivory Coast’s oil ministry is continuing to lobby for tie-ups between Petroci and Nigerian traders.
Even though Noble Energy and ExxonMobil won applause from Libreville in 2013 when they offered more money for block C11 [...]
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Hilong Holding is one of the umpteenth Chinese oil services groups that have set up shop in the country: its [...]
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Already stymied on infrastructure projects in Benin and Niger, Petrolin group finds itself also held back on its exploration concessions.
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Spain’s Cepsa will shortly receive a go-ahead from Alnaft to [...]
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According to our sources in government circles, the American giant [...]
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Founded in Luanda three years ago, the services group Cesco [...]
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Africa Energy Intelligence understands that Tullow Oil's vice president for [...]
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The British engineering company Penspen recently handed the governments of [...]
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Sanctions slapped on Russia have prompted the country’s investors to find a home for their money abroad. And African oil has come into fashion, of sorts.
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A long-simmering dispute between Abuja and Accra has finally been laid to rest. The problem had been debts that Ghana’s [...]
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The Mozambique government had every right to be pleased when the big oil companies submitted bids in the latest licensing [...]
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Having recently received a green light from Zimbabwe’s energy minister, Samuel Udenge, the Australian explorer Invictus Energy Resources is hoping [...]
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Well over a year behind schedule, China Harbour Engineering Co. [...]
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AziNam, an explorer that focusses on Namibia’s offshore and belongs [...]
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Havana’s special ties with Luanda don’t concern just oil. Cuba is gradually becoming a key electricity player in the country as well.
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According to our sources, Tanzania's Kinyerezi 1 power plant built by Norway's Jacobsen Electro and inaugurated in October by outgoing [...]
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Exim Bank of India feels much appreciated in Ivory Coast. It has just lent $24 million (FCFA 14 billion) to [...]
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The signing of a MoU in late October between Rwanda [...]
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A drought that has lowered the water level at the [...]
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The former head of Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos (ENH), Nelson [...]
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The London-based consultancy PVE Consulting headed by Peter Elliott is [...]
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