Ten years after awarding its last exploration licenses, Uganda’s energy ministry and its Petroleum Exploration and Production Department are going to pick the companies which will operate six concessions around Lake Albert currently on the auction block.
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The plan to put the Aje field off Lagos (OML 113) into production next year has attracted a number of [...]
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In acquiring the downstream business of Nigeria’s Oando, Helios Investment Partners is pursuing its integration strategy in the oil sector.
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Relations between the Chinese group and Libreville could worsen once again with a new scandal. And this time Addax’s supporter in presidential circles could allow the matter to run its course.
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A current licensing round in Equatorial Guinea is turning into a merry-go-round as various middle-men try to lure Nigerian juniors into the whirl.
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The Chinese major won’t confirm development of Kingfisher as long as its partners fail to get a green light from ministry.
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Sonatrach’s new development plan for 2016-2020 - and the first of new chief executive Amine Mazouzi - calls for a [...]
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Ivory Coast president Alassane Ouattara still hasn’t penned a presidential decree naming Ibrahima Diaby, director-general of the oil and gas [...]
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The American explorer ERHC Energy headed by Peter Ntephe (and partly controlled by the Chrome Group owned by Nigerian millionaire [...]
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There are no longer any oil companies operating in the [...]
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The WorleyParsons concern is in the starting blocks to bid [...]
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The London-based explorer Azonto Petroleum no longer had the means [...]
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According to company sources, the 300-strong staff at the headquarters [...]
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The British firm Golar run by the former chairman of BG, Frank Chapman, can be pretty pleased with itself: its [...]
The South African mining firm White Rivers Exploration (WRE) has found an experienced partner to help it work on the [...]
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The sluggish pace of talks on new prices for long-term gas contracts between ENEL and ENI on one side and Sonatrach on the other is making itself felt.
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With their consultants looking over their shoulder, majors and state-owned [...]
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Having just signed a contract with France’s Entrepose Drilling to [...]
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A French services firm that caters to the oil and [...]
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A company headed by Florentino Perez is well placed to land a contract for the Inga 3 dam.
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The American group ContourGlobal is going to relocate a power plant that was to be built at Abatta to the [...]
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Angolan president Jose Eduardo dos Santos’ visit to China in June, when he appealed for Beijing to invest more in [...]
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The World Bank is poised to lend $350 million to [...]
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The boss of the Virgin group, Richard Branson, has been [...]
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The American junior ERHC Energy is continuing to put its [...]
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A former executive of BNP Paribas where he was in [...]
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