Former OPEC secretary-general and ex oil adviser to Nigerian presidents Ibrahim Babangida and Olesegun Obasanjo, Rilwanu Lukman will shortly take over as boss of a new private oil company named Afren. Modeled along the lines of Energy Africa, a South [.
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The legal action undertaken by Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo against the family of former president Sani Abacha appears to have [...]
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South Korea has just re-opened its embassy in Kinshasa which was closed following a bout of looting in 1991. Following [...]
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Pretoria's foreign policy continues to be dictated in part by the interests of local oil companies, whether they be private [...]
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Launched on Dec. 28 and due to end this spring, a licensing round by Congo's Direction des Hydrocarbures has been [...]
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Businessmen in the Persian Gulf have turned their sights to Africa in recent years. A recent example is Liwa from the United Arab Emirates which teamed up with Chevron early this month to win eight concessions in Libya.
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Set up less than three years ago China's BGP is already competing with the biggest seismic groups and winning work from Western juniors.
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If Occidental won the lion's share of contracts in NOC's bidding round the reason was not only its excellent connections in the country but also the extraordinary terms it was offering.
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Western security companies are arriving in Libya on the coat-tails of U.S. and European oil groups.
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Belkacem Boumediene's appointment as boss of Sonatrach's upstream operations would appear to fit into plans by energy minister Chakib Khelil to push through new oil legislation.
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After standing stubbornly in its way for three years, Algeria's leading union has accepted a new draft bill on oil industry deregulation. It will be tabled before Parliament this spring.
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The Sudan authorities are planning to award the last available oil concessions in the country this year.
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The latest group to announce its intention to seek a [...]
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Interviewed in the Italian magazine Panorama, Saif el Islam Kadhafi, [...]
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The Adrar field that China National Petroleum Corporation was awarded [...]
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Britain's Regal Petroleum has followed Woodside and Repsol in winning [...]
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Initially planned for 2003, production start up on the Bonga [...]
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Funsho Kupolokun, the chief executive of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation [...]
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The third well drilled by Canada's Heritage on block 3 [...]
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France's Total has signed production sharing licenses with the Mauritanian [...]
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Senegal's Commission de Regulation du Secteur de l'Electricte has just published a report on SENELEC's performance over the five past [...]
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The World Bank last month approved an emergency plan for Rwanda's power sector.
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Germany's Lahmeyer group took over the management of Madagascar's power utility on Feb. 1.
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The U.S. Treasury Department plans to finance a technical assistance program for the government to implement the 3,500 MW Grand Inga project.
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Eskom is preparing to set up regional distribution networks to make up for the shortcomings of municipal networks.
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To bankroll its acquisition of South Africa's Rockover early this year, Maurel et Prom is to issue bonds worth between [...]
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The Dutch bank ING won a tender by Sonatrach to lend it 75% of the cost of a second 75,500 [...]
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The British NGO Catholic Relief Services, which has already written several reports on the poor management of oil revenue in [...]
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Three banks have submitted bids to Nigeria's Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) to conduct the sale of the Eleme petrochemical [...]
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Since last December the Societe Nationale des Petroles du Congo has found itself once again in the gun-sights of an [...]
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A visit to Luanda by the International Monetary Fund that was to put the seal to reconciliation between Angola and [...]
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Previously vice president of Total Middle East, Jean-Francois Arrighi de Casanova has taken over from Jean-Philippe Magnan as head of [...]
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Former head of exploration in Africa for BHP Billiton, Richard Linnell has just been named chairman of MacEnergy, an affiliate [...]
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A Canadian national, Rodrigues Hache, took over as head of Jiro sy Rano Malagasy (Jirama) when Germany's Lahmeyer formally assumed [...]
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A former CEO of Shell Canada, Tim Faithfull has just joined the board of the AMEC oil services group. Faithfull, [...]
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Australia's Woodside has just named Ross Carroll as its financial director in succession to Doug Bailey who left in October. [...]
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Operating in South Africa since 1999, the Rothschild investment bank has just recruited Michael Spicer who was Anglo American's vice [...]
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Previously in charge of Occidental's international affairs department, Casey Olson has been appointed the American oil group's executive vice president. [...]
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The trade mission at the French embassy in Tripoli is [...]
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The leading subjects at talks organized in London on Feb. [...]
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Equatorial Guinea's state-controlled group GEPetrol is preparing a licensing round [...]
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Prime minister Ahmed Ouyahia has issued a directive making it [...]
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The British consultancy Stellar Energy Advisors is to manage the [...]
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Trans Africa Project, which is 49% owned by the U.S. [...]
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The Canadian geologist Paul MacKay drafted a long report on [...]
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The British firm Clearwater Research Service is organizing a conference [...]
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Global Pacific & Partners is organizing a conference in London [...]
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The CWC Group is organizing a conference in Kuala Lumpur [...]
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