To diversify its revenue from the oil sector, derived largely at present from big projects headed up by Total and ENI, President Denis Sassou N'Guesso and his circle are opening fresh areas for exploration and welcoming new operators.
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Africa Energy Intelligence understands the Nigerian firms Afren and Taleveras are to work together on some blocks in Ivory Coast. [...]
Several companies are still battling to obtain the last service contracts for the oil complex operated by Tullow Oil. At least one enjoys the advantage of employing executives with good connections.
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Future auctions of marginal fields in Nigeria could well attract former executives of oil majors who are keen on starting up their own businesses. And their moves will be watched by certain would-be foreign partners.
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Considered the most promising asset put up for sell by Shell, OML 29 has drawn four bids that the company deems interesting.
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Cash-rich and determined to develop in the upstream, Glencore has elbowed its way into the sale of assets by Western majors in Nigeria.
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The difficult geology and bureaucratic delays in Kinshasa are prompting several oil companies to withdraw from Lower Congo province.
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The French major Total has finally made its choice for [...]
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Ophir Energy can breathe a sigh of relief. The British company has found a partner with deep pockets to buy [...]
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Companies like Shell that are champing at the bit for shale gas licenses are going to have to wait for several months.
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After a month-long halt for maintenance, the Angola LNG liquefaction plant resumed operations last week, but it is still encountering chronic hitches.
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Several Israeli companies already operating in various fields in Angola could shortly plant their flags in the energy sector. One [...]
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South Africa has taken on Spanish specialists to help it get the most out of its partnership with Congo-K’s government on the future Inga dam and from its dealings with financial institutions.
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Constant power cuts in Mbuji Mayi are holding back diamond production and preventing East Oriental province’s economy from taking off.
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The 600 KW hydro power dam at Befanova on the [...]
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Former deputy managing director of Perenco in Gabon, Jean-Felix Obamba, seems a force to be reckoned with in the local [...]
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French businessman Vincent Miclet has set up a team of experienced geologists to manage his firm Petroplus Overseas which is [...]
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Ghana’s Petroleum Commission now has a new acting managing director, Theophilus Ahwireng, who was previously boss of the geophysics department [...]
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Madagascar’s former mines minister, Mamy Ratovomalala, has thrown his support behind Robinson Jean-Louis in the run-off in the country’s presidential [...]
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The state-run Algerian company is working with a new partner [...]
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Taking note of fast growth in shale gas output in [...]
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With a licensing round in the Kwanza basin having been [...]
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Talks on the maritime boundary between Ivory Coast and Ghana [...]
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Oil companies operating in Ghana all appear up in arms [...]
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Lawyer John Berdsworth from the American firm Hunton & Williams [...]
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According to our sources, the Instituto Nacional de Petroleo (INP), [...]
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No less than two arbitration tribunals are being asked to [...]
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As in Lundin’s case, fiscal squabbles between Tullow Oil and [...]
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The African Union Commission has awarded a $8.5 million loan [...]
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The Societe Ivoirienne de Raffinage (SIR) is unlikely to have [...]
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In addition to Tunisian lawyer Othman Ben Fadhel, the Swedish-Swiss [...]
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The African department of Eversheds, run out of Paris by [...]
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The International Finance Corp., private investment arm of the World [...]
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Ahmed Ould Teguedi, Mauritania’s foreign minister, was in the capital [...]
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Abdou Nassur Madi, energy minister for the Comoros Islands, signed [...]
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James Mugarwa, managing director of Tullow Oil’s subsidiary in Uganda, [...]
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