With three months to go before presidential and legislative elections, the ruling National Democrat Congress (NDC) party is working overtime to see that the country’s oil and gas sector truly takes off. But problems are fast accumulating.
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Although north and south Sudan managed to reach a precarious compromise on oil this summer, Sudapet, the national company in [...]
Only a few weeks ago China’s CNPC looked set to win a fresh two year extension on the Agadem field and could hope to land the Dibella 2 permit. Now everything seems to have changed.
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The Swiss have launched an official inquiry on a ex-Gunvor employee.
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Ken Etete, nephew of former oil minister Dan Etete, who is a close friend of president Goodluck Jonathan, seems well positioned to win a coveted oil licence.
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The head of PetroCI, Daniel Gnangni, wants to dispose of the company’s share in the Corley joint venture it formed with MRS in 2009 to manage Chevron’s service stations in West Africa. But he wants to retain stations in Ivory Coast.
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The Stewart international consulting firm is rushing to finalize audits of Total and Shell before its contract with Gabon runs out next March.
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The period of exclusive negotiations between PetroChina, an affiliate of [...]
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The West African Gas Pipeline that carries gas from the Niger Delta to Ghana, Togo and Benin stopped functioning completely [...]
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The British junior is to shortly form a joint venture with a local company that has very good political contacts.
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An American firm has finished a report on the prospects for Mozambique’s gas - and concluded that Maputo has no time to lose.
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Methodic and planned, a purge of all senior officials in charge of the power sector during the rule of former [...]
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A meeting organized by the African Development Bank for Congo-K’s energy minister could inject fresh impetus into the Inga dam saga.
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The European Investment Bank is weighing the prospects of selling electricity from future hydro-power dams in Guinea to other countries in the sub-region.
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Uganda's Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Assets Authority (PPDA) [...]
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The Africa chief of France's Total, Jacques Marraud des Grottes, won't stand down until next June but his successor will [...]
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Speculation is rife within the Ghana Petroleum Commission (GPC) in the run-up to legislative elections in December. The GPC’s current [...]
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Chad's oil ministry has had a new secretary general, Abakar Galma, since last week. According to our sources, the former [...]
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One of the leading middle-men between China’s Sinopec and Ghana National Gas Corp (CNGC) for the gas project in Ghana, [...]
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The South African government has decided to put an end [...]
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Although the state-owned Sudanese firm Petrolines, which specializes in oil [...]
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Although the government of Congo-K prime minister Augustin Matata Ponyo [...]
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The Niger government’s July 6 announcement of the winners of [...]
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The funding arrangement for the Zinder refinery is changing shape. [...]
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The U.S. State Department held a working session on trans-border [...]
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According to our sources at Malawi’s foreign ministry, a difference [...]
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If Ednan Agaev and Emeka Obi, the two middle men [...]
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After finalizing its acquisition of 45% of OML 40% in [...]
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The Glencore group has raised $390 million from the French [...]
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A whole raft of oil companies - France's Total, the [...]
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Issued on Aug. 31 at the London Stock Exchange, an [...]
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The Canadian financial consulting concern has been retained to sell [...]
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Along with Dewey & Leboeuf, Shearman & Sterling was one [...]
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Sinknesh Ejigu, Ethiopia’s mines minister, and his Tanzanian counterpart, Muhongo [...]
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Atama Crispin, Congo-K's oil and gas minister, has just returned [...]
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Tarek Hassan-Beck, former Libyan governor of OPEC, is gradually making [...]
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