The Angolagate case concerning the sale of weapons to Angola in the 1990s is due to be aired in a French courtroom in September. The French businessman Pierre Falcone, one of two businessmen mandated by Angola to act on its [.
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After ten months of horse trading and sudden ups-and-downs (AEI 449/457/460, 458), China National Petroleum Corporation finally signed up on [...]
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Britain’s Tower group has just bought out the junior Comet Petroleum which owns stakes on two concessions in Western Sahara.
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A new Canadian company hopes to win its first concessions in Mauritania.
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Stalled because of a dispute between Central African Republican’s government and Grynberg Petroleum, exploration in the north of the country could begin shortly. An arbitration panel is to hand down a verdict in the case.
The Swedish company has just bought into a new concession that lies alongside its block 10 a.
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A recently-formed Norwegian company is said to have won an exploration license in the break-away province of Somaliland.
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Fired by Bowleven in 2006, South Africa’s Philip Rhind has set up a junior with a former Angolan security minister.
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Britain’s Sterling has sold 18% of its 50% holding in [...]
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Lukoil Overseas, a subsidiary that Lukoil set up in 2006 [...]
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In conjunction with Norway’s StatoilHydro and the Greek concern Consolidated Contractors International Co (CCC), the British gas group Centrica signed [...]
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The Russian gas behemoth opened an office in Algiers on June 12 with the aim of tightening its ties with Sonatrach.
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Peak Petroleum has teamed up with Mitsubishi after trying to develop its Bilabri gas field with Equator.
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A relatively unknown firm registered in Mauritius has won a small gas exploration block in Tanzania’s offshore.
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Hidroelectrica Cahora Bassa (HCB), the company that operates the Mozambique dam of the same name, is to invest USD 80 [...]
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Uganda’s government has just disbursed USD 130 million to start building a hydro power station at Karuma.
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The Zambia Electricity Supply Corp lacks money to finance two hydro power station projects.
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Shell has just issued an invitation to tender for a [...]
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Congo-K's Societe National d’Electricite (SNEL) is seeking a consultant to [...]
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The Namibian utility Nampower has just cancelled a USD 16 [...]
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The Tanzanian president‘s office has asked the Rufiji Basin Development [...]
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Peter Truscott (Baron Truscott of St. James since 2004), former under secretary of state at the department of trade and [...]
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A Canadian junior based in Houston, Energulf, has just hired Campbell Cassidy, as exploration manager for its Lotshi block in [...]
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The Australian concern Global Petroleum has appointed Shane Cranswick to its board of directors. Cranswick is an accountant by training. [...]
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A former vice president in charge of marketing at Sonatrach, Ali Hached has just been named adviser to energy and [...]
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The Tunisian government has issued a call for bids concerning [...]
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The state-run Algerian oil company Sonatrach has tightened its ties [...]
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The Ghana National Petroleum Corp has upwardly revised the amount [...]
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The director of the Nigeria's Department of Petroleum Resources, Tony [...]
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The United States and Libya began talks in London in [...]
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The Sudanese government and former rebel forces in the south [...]
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The U.N. secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon, opened a mediation session between [...]
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Africa Energy Intelligence understands that president Joseph Kabila’s office has [...]
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According to our sources, the venture capital fund Elliott Associates, [...]
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Australia’s Beach Petroleum has just raised AUD 191 million by [...]
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Following our brief on the Ivory Coast’s acquisition of a [...]
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According to our sources, the state-run Equatorial Guinea oil company [...]
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The Africa department of the Eversheds firm set up last [...]
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Angola has just signed a one year contract worth USD [...]
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Marco Mozetic, the exploration director for the Spanish oil firm [...]
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Umaru Yar’Adua, Nigeria's president, met with French corporate bosses on [...]
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Ken Watts, president of the American oil company Hyperdynamics which [...]
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