Angola is to shortly stop raising commercial loans guaranteed against its oil after using the system as its chief source of funding for over a decade. Gaining from the continuing rise in the oil price, Angola has also won government [.
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Planned under new oil legislation, Algeria's Agence Nationale pour la Valorisation des Ressources en Hydrocarbures (ALNAFT), is taking a lot [...]
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For the second time since January, an American vessel has been on tour in the Gulf of Guinea. The US [...]
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A favorite holiday destination of Equatorial Guinea president Teodoro Obiang Nguema, Morocco has returned the compliment by involving itself in [...]
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With the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) gaining an ever-stronger foothold in Mauritania's offshore, Beijing has added Nouackchott's name to [...]
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Charged before the U.S. district court of New York with "complicity" in an attack by the Sudanese army against villagers [...]
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Despite pressure from the Angolan government, which sent letters to French defense minister Michele Alliot-Marie and finance minister Thierry Breton, [...]
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On the heels of the Al Thani group from the United Arab Emirates, another private company from the Gulf region, [...]
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The case of the Bulgarian nurses made it impossible for BOCO to sell its Libyan concessions, which have been recovered by NOC.
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Like Occidental, Shell has joined forces with a Gulf concern in the hope of breaking into Libya. Up to now it has found the going tough.
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Algeria's state-owned oil company Sonatrach is going to supply gas to Portugal but wants a stake in Portugal's distribution market in return.
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The U.S. firm Hunt Oil pulled out of Togo's offshore last month and Lome is preparing to award the acreage to others.
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Several former Shell executives have set up a new company to serve as marriage-makers between Western groups and local Nigerian firms.
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Beijing has just finalized a trading agreement with Nigeria but relations between the two remain chilly.
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The Kensington concern has taken the lead in pressing the SNPC oil group for payment of Congo-B's debts. Behind it stands Elliott Associates LP, one of the biggest U.S. investment funds.
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Locked in a dispute with Total in southern Sudan, Britain's White Nile has just signed an agreement with Ethiopia to explore a concession in the eastern part of that country.
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Britain's Sound Oil group is the latest oil company specializing [...]
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The China National Petroleum Company has just acquired 65% of [...]
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The consortium that operates OML 113 is preparing to award [...]
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The American independent Devon announced last week it would give [...]
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We understand Odex is leading in the race for Marine [...]
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Most of the Angolan staff of Cabinda Gulf Oil Company, [...]
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The Nigerian oil services company Mabon has just penned a Build Operate Transfer (BOT) contract with the Nigerian government to [...]
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Four groups have put in bids with EEPCO to build a dam on the Neshi river.
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Russia's Technopromexport group has been contracted to build the second unit of the Capanda dam to double its capacity.
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A group owned by former South African union leader Cyril Ramaphosa has taken a position in the NetGroup consultancy that's highly active in Africa.
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On July 1 the World Bank's board approved a $172 [...]
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The World Bank has just approved a first loan to [...]
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In conjunction with the South African management consultancy Grofin Capital, the Shell Foundation has just launched a second fund to [...]
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Formed by the ex secretary-general of OPEC, Nigeria's Rilwanu Lukman, the Afren company has just raised GBP 7.5 million ($13 [...]
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The British junior White Nile has raised GBP 7 million ($12.5 million) through a rights issue in order to finance [...]
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Over the past three years, state-controlled Sonatrach has paid off nearly $500 million to its creditors ahead of schedule, wrestling [...]
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Africa Energy Intelligence understands the British trading company Mocoh Energy has found itself seriously at odds with one of its [...]
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The International Finance Corp., private investment wing of the World Bank, is to shortly invest in a fund headed by [...]
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Adviser to Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo for oil affairs since November, 2003, Edmund Daukoru could shortly join the government. He [...]
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Former vice president for operations at the North American independents Vanco and Ranger Oil, Philip Dimmock has just been named [...]
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Long in charge of international affairs at Transworld, the company of Dutch trader John Deuss, Gerry Gilbert has left the [...]
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The long-serving number two man at the state-controlled oil distribution firm Kenya Pipeline Company, George Okungu has just been named [...]
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Previously an executive at ExxonMobil and BP, Robert Kirchner has been appointed CEO of First Africa Oil, a company that [...]
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Named managing director of the Congolaise des Hydrocarbures (COHYDRO) in March, Hilaire Bomesi wa Bomesi was stripped of his functions [...]
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Cameroon's Societe Nationale des Hydrocarbures began early this month to [...]
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Kicked off in March, a licensing round organized by Nigeria's [...]
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Hyproc Shipping, the shipping affiliate of Sonatrach, is poised to [...]
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Equatorial Guinea's oil company GEPetrol has contacted Africa Energy Intelligence [...]
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A lobbyist for General Electric in Congress for nearly 18 [...]
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In addition to its usual law firm Dechert (see P. [...]
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Several law firms and consultancies are advising South Africa's Department [...]
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Global Pacific & Partners is organizing three distinct conferences in [...]
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