The foundation of former Democrat president Bill Clinton thrived in part from donations from persons who have made a mint out of oil in Africa. Secret up to now, the contributions enabled a handful of businessmen to take part in [.
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After pinching each other’s licenses in Chad, China and Taiwan have signed a non-aggression pact of sorts in Africa. In [...]
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Venezuela president Hugo Chavez’s flurry of announcements concerning oil cooperation with African countries has so far resulted in no concrete project.
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The Dubai-based airline is continuing to open new lines to [...]
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Struggling for the past six months to complete its accounts [...]
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Present in Sierra Leone’s offshore since 2003, the Las Vegas company 8 Investments has seen its stakes pre-empted by its partner, Elixir Petroleum.
The bloodless putsch at Christmas could spell changes in the oil sector.
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An announcement by Kosmos and Tullow Oil that gas will start flowing from the Jubilee field in 2011 has fuelled plans for the construction of power plants and a petrochemical complex.
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Officials in Nigeria’s power sector are putting their money on diversifying sources at a time when several stations suffer from a shortage of fuel.
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In early January, Ghana’s new president, John Atta-Mills, named Richard Kwame Peprah as chairman of the energy sub-committee that will [...]
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Nigerian president Umaru Yar’Adua seized the occasion of a major government reshuffle at the end of last year to create [...]
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The gigantic project to build a Trans-Saharan Gas Pipeline between [...]
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Ghana’s energy ministry announced in late December that it wished [...]
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The U.S. group Chevron announced on Jan. 1 that it [...]
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Although it was approved by the Nigerian authorities in November, [...]
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Seizing the occasion of a change in Ghana’s government, leading [...]
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The Justice Department’s Criminal Division has wound up an investigation [...]
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The Italian major ENI has regained a foothold in Gabon after a four-year-long absence. It has signed six E&P contracts in the country’s onshore and offshore.
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The Indian firm Angelique International has picked up contracts for numerous power projects in Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo and in the Central African Republic.
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The World Bank is expected at the end of January to approve an emergency loan of USD 8 million to the cash-strapped CAR.
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Nigeria’s Constantine Ogunbiyi has just been named executive director and member of the board of Afren. He had previously served [...]
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Congo-K’s deputy prime minister, Emile Bongeli, found himself being grilled [...]
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The U.S. firm Vaalco announced at the end of December [...]
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The firm Africa Oil which explored the only two licenses in Puntland has had to wind down its operations because of heavy losses in 2008.
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In late December the British group Aggreko won an extension of its contract for the 50 MW emergency power plant [...]
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After suspending George Okungu as boss of the Kenya Pipeline Co (KPC), Kenyan president Mwai Kibaki named Selest Kilinda on [...]
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The Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) announced in early January [...]
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The next six months will be decisive with regards the [...]
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The small refinery that Ireland's Tullow Oil was to have [...]
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The Canadian engineering group figures among consultancies which replied to [...]
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Parviz Fattah, Iranian energy and mines minister, recently travelled to [...]
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Will Algeria's Sonatrach make the sort of breakthrough in the Netherlands that has always eluded it in France? While Gaz [...]
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The company that supplies Algeria with electricity and gas is [...]
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The state-run oil and gas company is to shortly open [...]
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The installation of the underwater section of the Medgaz gas [...]
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In its investment plans for the coming eight years, the [...]
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The South African utility Eskom is seeing the cost of [...]
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The European Investment Bank is putting up EUR 35 million [...]
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The financial director of South Africa’s power utility Eskom, Bongani [...]
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Paulinus Shilamba, the managing director of Namibia's electricity utility NamPower [...]
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