Since the failure of its takeover bid for Energy Africa last year, Malaysia's national oil company has considerably bolstered its African operations
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Founded two years ago, the Anglo-Libyan holding company Odex has sold a stake in its business to Gazprombank, a banking [...]
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South Korea's state-owned oil company is planning to put in a bid for block 8 which also interests Romania's Petrom.
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The U.S. firm Ocean Energy is trying to close a deal with the Nigerian authorities for a second block.
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The state-owned Malaysian company Petronas and its South African affiliate Energy Africa are seeking - separately - to debut in Senegal's offshore.
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A key project for both Marathon and Equatorial Guinea's government, the Alba LNG plant is taking form and could well attract new investors.
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Now that negotiations for various rights, both private and public, in the Joint Development Zone have wound up Nigeria and Sao Tome are to put 22 blocks in the area out to bids.
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After a two-year-long standoff, financial institutions have backed away from insisting on oil transparency from Luanda and are poised to return to the country.
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The development of the Dalia field, TotalFinaElf's leading project in Angola since it launched production on Girassol, could be held back until next year.
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Awarded to PetroVietnam last July, the 433a and 416b licenses [...]
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Active in the country since the end of the 1990s, [...]
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An affiliate of Gentry Resources, Stratic, is pulling out of [...]
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The Ethiopian government could issue a call for bids to [...]
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With TotalFinaElf holding back from awarding development contracts for Dalia [...]
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TotalFinaElf may be having trouble its developing its discoveries on [...]
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According to our sources, the huge Lower Kafue Gorge power project looks set to win support from the World Bank [...]
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An alliance between the Bureau of Privatisation and unions active at NEPA has led to the adoption of the Electricity Reform Act, which opens the way to the national utility's privatization.
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Khartoum has called for assistance from Ethiopia and Tunisia to carry through an electrification program centered on the construction of the Merowe dam.
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Various efforts by the government of president Mwai Kibaki to [...]
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Four international banks active to one degree or another in oil operations in Africa are preparing to adopt social and [...]
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The Agence Francaise de Developpement (AFD) is poised to approve a EUR 49.9 million loan to finance an interconnection between [...]
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The decline in Gabon's oil production is beginning to affect not only Elf Gabon but also its parent company, the [...]
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With Nigeria and Sao Tome ready to put oil concessions in their Joint Development Zone out to bid (see P. [...]
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Congo-Brazzaville is expected to once again be able to sell non-pledged cargoes under a General Agreement Program it is currently [...]
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The Angolan government is trying to negotiate an arrangement to roll over its debts to Spain and Brazil after reaching [...]
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A lieutenant in the Central African Republic's armed forces and nephew of the new president, general Francois Bozize, Sylvain N'doutingai [...]
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Currently head of the petrochemicals division of China Petroleum & Chemicals (Sinopec), Chen Tongai is expected to shortly become boss [...]
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The man who spearheaded Exxon's debut in Chad when he headed Exxon International, Australia's Stuart McGill is expected to take [...]
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Executive director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company's oil trading division, E.M. Anajaku is expected to leave his job at [...]
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Brother of the president, general Armengol Ondo Nguema is in charge of the government's security but also director of Sonavi, [...]
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President Olusegun Obasanjo's party appears to have won the first round of a series of elections - legislative, presidential and [...]
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A number of assaults by the Nigerian Army and Navy and last week's talks between president Olusegun Obasanjo and legislators [...]
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The Angolan government is reaping the rewards of its support for U.S. and British military intervention in Iraq. Not only [...]
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The French government is seeking observer status at the Sudan peace talks between the Khartoum government and the SPLA in [...]
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Indigo Publications, the company that puts out Africa Energy Intelligence, has just published Gulf of Guinea Oil: the Top 100 [...]
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An oil institute set up by the Norwegian government and [...]
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In conjunction with TotalFinaElf, an affiliate of the Institut Francais [...]
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Carey D'Avino and Stephen Whinston, who work for the Philadelphia [...]
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The CWC Group is organizing a conference at the Meridien [...]
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IBC Energy is organizing a conference in Houston between June [...]
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During a visit by its chairman, Manuel Vincente, to Equatorial [...]
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Angola's state-owned Sonangol played host last week to a huge [...]
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Without offering an explanation, Zambia's national oil company ZNOC has [...]
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The Zimbabwe Electrical Supply Authority (ZESA) owes a total of [...]
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