A meeting of the World Bank's board in late April will decide on the wisdom of lending USD 3.75 billion to the South African power utility Eskom, notably for the const ruction of a coal-fired electricity plant.
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The private investment arm of the World Bank is pretty well everywhere when it comes to financing the huge Jubilee [...]
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Backed by former executives of France’s Elf, RAK Petroleum has made its debut on the Hammamet block.
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A South Korean businessman recently made an offer to the mines minis try to explore four oil blocks.
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A discovery by Anadarko in neighboring Sierra Leone has ignited something of an oil rush in Liberia. Eight companies are fighting over the last five available blocks in the country’s offshore.
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The managing director of France's Maurel & Prom, Jean-Francois Henin, hastened to Nigeria to negotiate rights on the company's fields with NNPC.
Congo-K’s president is expected to announce several key decisions at a Cape IV summit meeting in Kinshasa between March 24-27.
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Toyota Tsusho Corp (TTC), the trading and investment arm of the Japanese conglomerate, is offering to build an oil pipeline from South Sudan to Kenya.
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The leading private producer in Algeria with 280,000 bpd, Anadarko [...]
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South Africa's state-owned PetroSA and the French group GDF Suez broke off secret negotiations on supplying the Mossel Bay refinery [...]
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Known up to now for its oil riches, the Berkine region could find itself picking up the slack from Algeria’s big gas basins that are in decline.
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A month following the appointment of Goodluck Jonathan as Nigeria’s acting president, LNG Japan has unveiled plans to invest in his native region.
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Speaking last week at the Ceraweek conference organized by IHS [...]
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In its annual report for 2009 that was issued on [...]
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In constantly putting back renovation of the Inga dam, the World Bank has finally stirred the ire of the Congolese [...]
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The government has once again found itself obliged to extend contracts for Aggreko’s emergency plants.
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Maputo is slowly increasing its stake in the Cahora Bassa dam by gradually buying up shares held by Portugal.
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Congo-K's Societe Nationale d’Electricite (SNEL) has just laid out USD [...]
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Appointed Niger’s new energy and mines minister on March 1, Souley Mamadou Abba is a close associate of prime minister [...]
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Chad’s oil minister, Mahamat Nasser Hassane, was replaced by the president’s adviser on oil issues, Eugene Tabe, in a government [...]
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A prominent Italian oil industry figure has been named to the top executive post on the board of the British [...]
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Nigeria’s acting president, Goodluck Jonathan, is moving with increasing ease into his new function. One of the latest signs was [...]
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Algerian energy minister Chakib Khelil has said he favors continue [...]
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The chairman of Sonangol’s board, Manuel Vicente, has announced the [...]
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Nigeria's energy minister, Lanre Babalola, has promised to set aside [...]
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Ivory Coast’s newly-appointed mines and energy minister, Augustin Komoe, found [...]
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Basil Omiyi, a former managing director of RoyalDutch/Shell in Nigeria, [...]
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The chief executive of the Texas-based oil company Hyperdynamics, Ray [...]
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During a trip to Kampala on March 5, Iranian foreign [...]
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Specializing in financing marginal field development, the Swiss firm Alphin [...]
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After six years of legal wrangling, a decision on a [...]
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The Banco Luso-Mocambicano de Investimento (BLMI) that was founded in [...]
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According to our sources, the Swiss trader Glencore is expected [...]
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The trading group Trafigura is thinking of proceeding with a [...]
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Before negotiating the acquisition of a stake by the French [...]
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The Swedish consultancy Sweco was retained by the Uganda Electricity [...]
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Jose Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission, unveiled a [...]
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Micha Ondo Bile, the foreign minister of Equatorial Guinea, led [...]
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Rilwanu Lukman, the Nigerian oil minister, will moderate a workshop [...]
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