Named as a possible oil minister since a government re-shuffle on Oct. 29, Rilwanu Lukman has stepped forward in the past 18 months as the leading architect of Nigeria’s petroleum policy even though he lives outside of the country, in [.
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Africa Energy Intelligence understands that Ireland’s Tullow Oil is going to put the 50% it owns on block 1/06 in [...]
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President Tandja is handling the oil issue to electoral ends without concerning himself with the economic viability of certain projects like the Zinder refinery.
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The sale of Baraka Petroleum’s licenses in Mali have saved the Australian junior from going to the wall. It still retains its blocks in Mauritania.
Despite the financial crisis, Nigeria’s Oando is continuing its development in the upstream thanks to its trading operations.
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Highly appreciated in Abuja, France’s Total oil group has managed to win green lights to develop its fields.
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Threatened with the withdrawal of its concessions, Mittal has teamed up with Total in view of its good relations with the Yar’Adua government.
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With a guarantee concerning its contracts from Somalia’s president in its pocket since July, Range Resources has beefed up its operations in Puntland by exploring the province’s offshore.
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Put back for a year, the beginning of construction of [...]
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Africa Energy Intelligence understands that Philippe Olivier, president and executive director of France’s GDF-Suez Global LNG firm, and Adolph Moudiki, [...]
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Nigeria has put out an international call for expressions of interest in a major project for processing associated gas in the Niger Delta.
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A British court has frozen all the revenue that Consolidated Contractor Co has made in its capacity as contractor of the EGLNG plant.
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The Irish junior Circle Oil discovered major quantities of gas [...]
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State-owned Sonatrach said in early November it had made three [...]
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The private European Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund (EAIF), set up by Britain, Sweden, Switzerland and the Netherlands in 2002, plans [...]
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Rather than waiting around for coal-fired power stations to call for coal deliveries, China Railways has decided to invest directly in power projects.
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France's GDF-Suez group has put in two bids to build new power plants in South Africa
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Uganda president Yoweri Museveni was in the suburbs of Kampala [...]
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The procedure involving expression of interests launched by the Ethiopian [...]
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Supervising the operations of Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company (SNEPCo) in Nigeria’s onshore and shallow offshore since 2005, Nigeria’s [...]
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Tanzanian president Jakaya Kikwete has just named Peter Joram Ngumbullu as the new chairman of the board at the national [...]
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The Australian junior Range Resources has hired three new consultants to help step up its exploration in the onshore and [...]
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The prime minister of Sao Tome y Principe, Joaquim Rafael Branco, will stand in as acting energy minister following the [...]
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The government-run oil company Sonangol signed an agreement in early [...]
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The state-run groups Sonatrach and Angola’s Sonangol have joined the [...]
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The state-owned Mozambique distribution company has teamed up with the [...]
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During a trip to East Europe between Oct. 21-Nov. 5, [...]
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The smuggling of refined oil products between Nigeria and Cameroon [...]
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Oil companies have been left largely in the dark ever [...]
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Officials from the Ugandan counties of Terego and Madi are [...]
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On Oct. 29 Ireland’s Tullow Oil issued 6.3 million shares [...]
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On Oct. 29, the board of the African Development Bank [...]
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The World Bank last month organized a discreet seminar on [...]
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Sonangol is acting increasingly like a sovereign fund as it [...]
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An affiliate of Tamoil Africa Holdings, Zwara Oil Refinery Company [...]
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The American law firm Thomson & Knight advised Sonangol in [...]
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In the works for long months, a USD 2.5 billion [...]
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Eugene Shannon, Liberia's minister for energy, will take part in [...]
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Jing Wen, assistant managing director of the Chinese Petroleum Company [...]
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Jean-Marie Dauger, managing director of France's GDF-Suez group, will take [...]
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