The three production sharing agreements signed by ChevronTexaco in Nigeria's offshore last week sounded the death knell of the era of sleeping local partners who gained choice blocks in Nigeria's offshore in the late 1990s...
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Africa Energy Intelligence understands, that Maurel & Prom, the French company owned by Jean-Francois Henin, has begun talks with Total [...]
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The majors are casting covetous eyes on the offshore of both Algeria and Libya, which remains largely under-explored.
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All of Asia's majors are displaying a keen interest in Algeria's fifth licensing round.
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The last Chinese major to lack a holding in Africa, PetroChina has just joined forces with Canada's DiamondWorks.
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Investigations in both France and Nigeria into commissions surrounding the construction of the NLNG plant are advancing at a quick pace.
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Lengthy talks between NNPC and Sinopec finally resulted last week in the Chinese group setting up a partnership with the E&P affiliate of the state-owned Nigerian oil company.
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After publishing all the audits related to its oil industry, Brazzaville is trying to avoid unveiling the contents of an agreement settling its disputes with Total.
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After acquiring Marine IV last year, Perenco has bought Nuevo's stake on the Yombo concession.
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Delays in the licensing round for the Joint Development Zone have been due essentially to the misgivings of majors concerning the agreements that will tie them to their future Nigerian partners.
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After developing the first phase of the Amenam field, which [...]
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Already working with Marathon on its LPG project on Bioko, [...]
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After talks lasting several months (AEI 355), RoyalDutch/Shell sold its [...]
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Sasol and South Africa's state-owned Petro SA signed a joint [...]
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A visit by Portuguese prime minister Durao Barroso to Mozambique in late March kicked off talks on transferring the majority [...]
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The World Bank is examining a novel way to finance completion of the Bumbuna dam on which work began two decades ago.
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After getting SNE in Congo-B to pay off its debt, SNEL in Democratic Republic of Congo has re-negotiated its agreement with ZESA in Zimbabwe, to its advantage.
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Several technical incidents and the appointment of a new managing director have thrown a chill into relations between Gabon's government and Vivendi, which runs the power utility.
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Nigeria's former defense minister, Lieut.-gen. Theophilus Danjuma was last week named chairman of PanOcean, the only Nigerian firm to work [...]
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A former executive at Exxon, Murphy Oil and Chieftain International, Stephen Hurley was appointed president of Hunt Oil last week. [...]
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The Nigerian national Olumide Onakoya has been named director of Mobil Oil Nigeria, the downstream affiliate of ExxonMobil in Nigeria [...]
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Previously in charge of RoyalDutch/Shell's external relations - he had held the post since 2001 - Simon Henry was last [...]
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Adviser to Marathon and GEPetrol on their project to build an LNG plant, Xiaochao Wang has just been named vice [...]
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The director of the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), an affiliate of RoyalDutch/Shell in Nigeria, Chris Finlayson is presently overseeing [...]
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Barely had Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika won re-election last week than his government made moves to re-launch a draft bill [...]
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Although it has made no official comment on the subject, Total was upset by the latest report by Global Witness [...]
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Business delegations are banging ever more insistently on Libya's doors. Last week, Peter Goepfrich, executive director of the German-Arab Chamber [...]
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As soon as it swept to power, the Socialist government of Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero indicated its willingness to improve [...]
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A new conference devoted in large part to African oil and entitled ?U.S. National Security Interest in Africa,? was held [...]
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After talks lasting over a year, Gabon could finally land an agreement with the International Monetary Fund concerning a re-scheduling [...]
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The diamond company Miniere de Bakwanga (MIBA) will put out a tender for a bank to mount a $5 million [...]
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The 400 private Ethiopian investors who hold 5% of equity in the Calub Gas Share Company have been given a [...]
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Led by finance minister Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, a high-profile Nigerian delegation talked at length with officials from the Paris Club [...]
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A private Tanzanian company, Kitonga Electric Power Company, is engaged in talks with the World Bank on constructing an 18 [...]
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Africa Energy Intelligence understands that the amount of an oil-backed loan that Standard Chartered Bank is poised to syndicate on [...]
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With American companies poised to return to Libya, IBC Energy [...]
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The CWC Group is organizing a conference at the Nicon [...]
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AEI sources say Sonatrach is thinking of asking majors like [...]
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Nigeria's National Electrical Power Authority (NEPA) is presently talking with [...]
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The Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation has come under pressure from [...]
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Early this month Senegal's Societe Nationale d'Electricite (SENELEC) inaugurated the [...]
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Found guilty last year by Lesotho's Higher Court of paying [...]
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Advised by Paul Caldwell, former boss of Mobil Nigeria, the [...]
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We understand that consultants from both McKinsey and Accenture have [...]
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