Displaying a keen interest for over a year in Africa's offshore (AEI 406), groups in the Gulf are snapping up independent oil groups which own acreage on the continent or are themselves putting together oil portfolios.
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The governor general of Canada, Michaelle Jean, will pay an official visit to Algeria between Nov. 19-22. She is the [...]
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Equatorial Guinea president Teodoro Obiang Nguema was received in Tokyo by the new Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe on Oct. [...]
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Equatorial Guinea president Teodoro Obiang Nguema didn’t return empty handed from the China-Africa summit that he attended two weeks ago. [...]
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Angolan president Jose Eduardo dos Santos’ visit to Moscow between Oct. 30-Nov. 1 resulted in the signing of several oil [...]
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The managing director of the Zambezi Drilling and Exploration Co., Nic Money, has sought to dampen down the optimism that [...]
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Operated by Sonatrach, the giant Hassi R’Mel gas field suffers water seepage into its reservoirs, according to our sources. Given [...]
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The Russian-Indian group Suntera has just penned a partnership pact with the private South African firm IDG that is chaired by the daughter of Nelson Mandela
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Algeria’s Sonatrach is advancing in its drive to expand abroad by acquiring stakes in five blocks in Mali.
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Some small Ghanaian companies have won stakes in the country’s offshore alongside Tullow Oil, Anadarko and Kosmos.
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Inexistent just a year ago, the Nigerian group INC Natural Resources has acquired a significant oil portfolio in less than six months.
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Initially planned for early this month, a licensing round in Nigeria’s offshore has been put back to the end of November.
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The last Western company to operate in Sudan, Sweden’s Lundin Petroleum is spreading its wings through the entire region.
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Even though France’s Total is working through the courts to prove its ownership of block B in Sudan, the British firm White Nile, which claims rights on the acreage, is busy working on it.
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InterOil, a firm headed by the former boss of the Angolan independent Force Petroleum, has just won two concessions in Angola.
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The Nigerian president has cancelled the award of Nigerian crude to South Africa.
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The opening of commercial bids for petroleum projects launched by [...]
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The firm Der Norske Veritas has just opened an office [...]
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Already active in Algeria, where the group holds a 10% [...]
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Mozambique has just awarded Sasol two new offshore licenses, the [...]
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Denmark’s Maersk Olie og Gas, an affiliate of AP Moller-Maersk [...]
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Following Samuel Sarr’s departure as boss of the power utility Senelec, the World Bank has made contact anew with the [...]
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The state-owned South Korean group Posco Engineering is to build a gas-fired power plant and a gas pipeline for Nigeria.
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The Gambian government has found a new firm to manage the National Water Electricity Co (Nawec).
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Morocco’s Office National de l’Electricite has just issued an invitation [...]
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The Nigerian oil company Allied Energy, the local affiliate of [...]
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Congo-K’s Societe National d’Electricite is seeking an international law firm [...]
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The Africa director of General Electric International, Eritrea’s Yibah Tesfazghi, [...]
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Eyebrows are being raised in the City over delays and twists and turns in the process of selling off the [...]
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A company set up by Angola’s Sonangol, the Portuguese businessman Americo Amorin and the Spanish bank Caixa Galicia, Amorim Energia, [...]
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In its bid to pick up acreage in Africa (See p. 1), the United Arab Emirates distribution group Dana Gas [...]
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In a "right of issue" submitted on Nov. 2 to the Australian Stock Exchange, the Australian firm ROC, partner of [...]
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Facing a wide range of security problems threatening its operations and supplies in Nigeria, RoyalDutch/Shell has hired a veteran Foreign [...]
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Former secretary-general of OPEC and ex oil minister of Nigeria, Rilwanu Lukman now finds himself the new chairman of Afren [...]
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Britain’s Paul Warwick, who had been head of ConocoPhillips’ exploration and production operations for the Middle East and North Africa, [...]
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The British oil firm Bowleven, which owns three gas concessions in Cameroon’s offshore, has announced a management shake-up. Based in [...]
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A geophysicist and director of Circle Oil, Christopher Green had been promoted to the post of chief operating officer of [...]
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Two directors of the Kenya Electricity Generating Co (KenGen), Augustine Cheruiyot and Faisal Abbas, are to quit the board in [...]
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The state-controlled Empresa National de Hidrocarbonetos de Mocambique (ENH) signed [...]
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Madagascar’s Office des Mines Nationales et des Industries Strategiques has [...]
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Sonatrach announced on Nov. 8 that it had reached a [...]
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The American group Syntroleum, which has invented a new gas [...]
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At the behest of the International Monetary Fund, the Paris [...]
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The firm Global Pacific Partners is organizing a conference on [...]
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Global Pacific & Partners is organizing a conference on the [...]
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CWC Associates is organizing a conference on Nigeria's oil industry [...]
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