The acquisition of Energy Africa by Ireland's Tullow Oil on May 4 isn't going to weigh much on the oil scales in Africa since the South African group produces just 22,000 bpd. However, the operation is highly significant from a [.
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A question of debt reportedly lay behind the successful move by heirs of Vittorio Fabbri to win back control of [...]
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Put off until October, bidding for the Gassi Touil oil field is stilling running into political and commercial hitches.
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All of the newcomers to Libya's oil market are fixing their eyes on the Sirte basin in the country's offshore.
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After marking considerable time Morocco has begun handing out acreage in the hope of striking it rich in its largely under-explored offshore.
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Already present in Sierra Leone's offshore, the Spanish group Repsol has bolstered its position in West Africa by debuting in Liberia as well.
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It took over 18 months of talks but the Swiss trader Glencore has finally joined ranks with Noble Energy to take its first steps in the West African offshore.
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The lone winner of the licensing round in the Joint Development Zone, ChevronTexaco has teamed up with an almost entirely unknown company, Equity Energy Resources.
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Angola's state-owned oil company Sonangol has open an office in Asia and is stepping up contacts with oil companies in the region.
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Now that it has signed its latest oil-backed loan, the Angolan government has thrown itself into a full-scale "transparency" operation.
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Five months after a blast destroyed three of six LNG [...]
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After lobbying for several months to buy into Medgaz, the [...]
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Last month's production start-up on new wells on ExxonMobil's Doba [...]
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Issued in January, the invitation to tender for a floating [...]
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Total announced in late April that it had made a [...]
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Already firmly installed in next-door Tunisia, France's Nexans group has landed a contract in Libya to build high voltage underground [...]
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The World Bank is preparing programs to back the power sectors in Kenya and Tanzania to the tune of nearly $200 million.
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After diversifying into telecommunications, aeronautics and high tech in recent years, Eskom Enterprises, the international arm of the South African utility, has decided to focus anew on electricity.
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Despite a month of high-level negotiations conducted initially by Portuguese [...]
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Africa Energy Intelligence understands that Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, former Nigerian president and leading political opponent of Olusegun Obansanjo, recently travelled [...]
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Previously active in the objets d'art trade, Richard Granier-Deferre is now in business with Tacoma Resources, an oil company founded [...]
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Charles Soludo has been succeeded as president Olusegun Obasanjo's economic adviser by Ode Ojumu. Soludo was named chairman of Central [...]
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Chairman of the Joint Development Authority which manages the Joint Development Zone between Nigeria and Sao Tome, the Nigerian national [...]
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Chairman of Libya's National Oil Company until he was replaced by Abdallah Al Badri last month, Abdulhafidh Zlitni is expected [...]
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Two new directors have been appointed to the board of PanOcean, an oil company registered in Jersey and active on [...]
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The constant power cuts that plague Cameroon's state-run utility SONEL have finally cost Joseph Aoudou the post of energy minister [...]
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Appointed prime minister early this week by Guinea Bissau president Henrique Rosa, Carlos Gomes Junior had previously been in charge [...]
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A true diplomatic dance took place with the awarding of oil concessions on April 23-24 in the Joint Development Zone [...]
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Like several European countries, Norway has established oil cooperation with Nigeria via its national oil institute. In late April, a [...]
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With ChevronTexaco poised to celebrate the renewal of its Block 0 in Cabinda until 2030 this week - Angolan president [...]
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Victim of numerous setbacks since it decided two years ago to start working as an oil trader, DiamondWorks has just [...]
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Africa Energy Intelligence has learned that France's Total group will be forced to pay $88 million in damages to the [...]
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Algeria's state-owned Sonatrach took a big step forward in financing its 2004-2008 development plan - which calls for investments of [...]
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According to our sources, talks between Total and Maurel & Prom on the French giant taking a stake in the [...]
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Africa Energy Intelligence has learned that Sonatrach recently sold a [...]
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The Pipeline Product Marketing Company (PPMC) which holds a monopoly [...]
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Holding a license in the Namibe basin in Namibia since [...]
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Continuing its efforts with regard transparency, SNPC revealed last week [...]
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Forced to resign early this year as boss of RoyalDutch/Shell [...]
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The public relations firm Butera Andrews founded in 1990 by [...]
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As consultant for Nigeria's Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), the [...]
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IBC Energy is organizing a conference on the latest oil [...]
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The CWC Group is organizing its annual conference on the [...]
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