As an emerging power, Turkey is gradually activating its local connections to become a major player in African oil. In addition to ever-greater efforts by the state-owned Turkiye Petrolleri Anonim Ortakligi (TPAO) to land oil licenses (it spent over $1.
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Buoyed by his victory over Addax, Gabon’s oil minister Etienne Ngoubou flew to the United States at the end of [...]
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Tullow Oil isn't easily put off, and its increasing luck in Africa has only encouraged it to keep trying to acquire acreage in countries in the Sahel region.
The British company has been trying for several months to acquire relinquished acreage in Niger's basin, but success has so far eluded it.
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Permission by the energy ministry to develop the Sankofa oil and gas field is going to take longer than expected.
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Two companies have put in bids for exploration permits in Malawi but the political situation could delay any decision for weeks.
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Former energy adviser to Olusegun Obasanjo, Anthony Adegbulugbe is selling off part of licenses he was awarded without competitive bidding in 2011, to Abuja’s displeasure.
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BNP Paribas chose the two best bids for three of the five fields Chevron has put up for sale in the Niger Delta.
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. Although it was awarded sixty percent holding on Guinea's [...]
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Anticipated this summer by Africa Energy Intelligence (AEI 693), the flotation of the Nigerian oil group Seplat on the London [...]
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The successive withdrawals of Chevron and Shell have doomed a project already on the ropes.
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Using the West African Gas Pipeline to supply Togo and Benin with liquefied gas is going to take time, even if businessmen behind the venture are well-connected.
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The Angola LNG liquefaction plant has exported four cargoes since [...]
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With the government’s campaign to promote the second phase in the privatization of power plants and transmission lines in full [...]
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The numerous mining projects in Orientale call for major supplies of power. Brussels wants to build up its special position in the sphere.
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. The ethanol-fired thermal station at Makeni owned by Addax [...]
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. Talks are underway on a second contract for the [...]
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Officials from 35 Spanish companies operating in the energy and [...]
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Total E&P’s former secretary-general for Africa, Antonin Fotso, will shortly take over the French major’s business in South Sudan. Of [...]
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The exclusion of the MODEM FA Lumana party headed by the speaker of Niger’s parliament, Hama Amadou, from the ruling [...]
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Relatively discreet since he left the post of Nigeria’s oil minister in 2010, Rilwanu Lukman has put his head over [...]
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Head of Gabonese oil minister Etienne Ngoubou’s forecasting service since 2012, Etienne Lepoukou has taken the job of Total Gabon’s [...]
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Mauritania’s former equipment, town planning and housing minister Mohamed Ould [...]
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South Africa's natural resources minister, Susan Shabangu, is trying to [...]
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The Belgian company Dredging International is vying with an American [...]
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Libya’s National Oil Corp (NOC) can no longer honour its [...]
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While the state-owned China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC), was bang [...]
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A team of negotiators from Addax (Sinopec group) turned up [...]
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A low-key battle with potentially big consequences is unfolding before [...]
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The International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) [...]
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In the cross-hairs of the Department of Justice since last [...]
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The World Bank will put a projected $35 million loan [...]
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After seeking a compromise for over a year in a [...]
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Workers for BP who survived a deadly attack by Islamic [...]
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The assistant attorney general at the Justice Department's criminal division [...]
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The small engineering consultancy Simco Petroleum, which is run by [...]
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Ahmed Mecheraoui, an adviser to Algerian energy minister Youcef Yousfi, [...]
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Etienne Ngoubou, Gabon's oil minister, seems joined at the hip [...]
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Jacob Zuma, South Africa’s president, is due to visit Kinshasa [...]
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