A month after his appointment as boss of Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC), Funsho Kupolokun has started eliminating 1,400 jobs.
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Discovered in 1956 by the French firm SN REPAL, Hassi Messaoud still remains Algeria's leading oil field nearly half a [...]
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France's Total Group has just been awarded a license in a totally unexplored region in Algeria's on-shore.
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Gabon appears to have offset the decline of its oil output in 2003 by enhanced recovery on its old fields.
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After long months of bargaining, the World Bank has not only agreed to guarantee the West Africa Gas Pipeline project but even to invest in it.
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After more than a year of cultivating Tripoli, Australia's Woodside has won concessions in Libya and teamed up with former partners of its fellow company Oil Search.
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The International Finance Corp., private investment arm of the World Bank, has been ordered by a court in Ivory Coast to pay Petro-Ivoire damages, a highly unusual situation for a company widely courted on the continent.
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As foreign companies work to develop Sudan's oil fields local companies have begun to make an impact on the industry.
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Although they are preparing to put a number of fields into production, the majors are already plotting development of the next series of fields.
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Started in 2001 by the Russian firm Stroytransgaz, construction of [...]
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Galsi, a semi-public company, has issued a call to bids [...]
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The state-owned Italian company ENI has just made a discovery [...]
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RoyalDutch/Shell last week signed a contract to receive 1.4 million [...]
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In coming weeks China National Petroleum Corporation is scheduled to [...]
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Zambia has reached an agreement with Iran that provides for the Iranians to build an oil pipeline to carry oil from Ndola in Zambia to Lubumbashi in neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo.
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After touring southern Africa last month, Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is presently visiting the Middle East and [...]
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The squabble that began early this year between Gabon and Equatorial Guinea over ownership of Mbagnie, Cocotier and Conga islands [...]
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The latest round in negotiations that began in Naivasha, Kenya, on Dec. 6 between Sudanese vice president Ali Osman Taha [...]
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Military chiefs from Congo-B and Democratic Republic of Congo - both of which have border agreements with Angola - visited [...]
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According to AEI sources, Algeria's energy ministry will issue an invitation to tender in coming weeks for construction of the [...]
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A bone of contention with Congo-K businessmen for years, the rates practiced by SNEL are being modified under pressure from the World Bank.
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The Portuguese government has ordered a bank audit of the Cahora Bassa dam as a prelude to eventually pulling out of the venture.
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Jean-Pierre Barbier, director of the central and southern African department [...]
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Kenya has asked the World Bank to take part in [...]
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Published in conjunction with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), a new book entitled ?Structure Commodity Finance? [...]
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The Belgian banking group Fortis has won a contract to fund an extension of gas pipelines operated by Sonatrach. Fortis [...]
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Initially set to cost $2.3 billion, the final price tag for the development of RoyalDutch/Shell's Bonga field will work out [...]
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France's Natexis Banques Populaires has mounted a three year loan worth $50 million to finance development of the M'Boundi field [...]
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Gabon's finance minister, Paul Tongui, said the International Monetary Fund's board, which discussed Gabon's situation on Sept. 5 had looked [...]
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In becoming operator of the Kudu gas field in Namibia following last week's announcement by ChevronTexaco that it was pulling [...]
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After spending 22 years as Malaysia's leader until his resignation in October, ex-prime minister Mahathir Bin Mohamad has been named [...]
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Boss of Tunisia's powerful Bouchra Holding SA, Rachid Bouchamaoui controls the MP Zarat oil company which has been mobilizing the [...]
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Appointed oil adviser to president Olusegun Obasanjo last month, Edmund Daukoru has resigned from the board of Platform Petroleum, a [...]
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Chief financial officer of the American independent Nuevo Energy, Janet Clark is to leave the company to become senior vice [...]
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Co-founder of the Global Energy firm, Kenneth Yellowe has just been awarded a license to build and operate a refinery [...]
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The Oasis Group made up of Marathon, Amerada Hess, Conoco [...]
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We understand that, like the majority of state-owned African companies, [...]
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Now in charge of just supervising South Africa's power sector, [...]
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The company that manages the Sonatrach group's affiliates and stakes [...]
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The Canadian firm CHC Helicopter Corporation which specializes in oil [...]
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The Italian affiliate of the Rothschild bank is advising ENI [...]
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The South African firm Global Pacific Partners organized two conferences [...]
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IBC Energy is organizing a conference on Dec. 10-11 at [...]
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The CWC Group is organizing a conference at the St. [...]
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