With its American partners under fire in a Senate report that could well lead to legal action, the Equatorial Guinea government has turned to its African peers, particularly South Africa and Gabon, to seek shelter from the storm.
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Absent from Sudan for nearly 20 years, Total has discreetly made contact with Khartoum and is reportedly re-negotiating a production [...]
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Mali's government has just adopted oil legislation and formed a state-owned company as a prelude to awarding concessions. Australian companies are displaying an interest.
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After walking out of Algeria 20 years go because of a dispute over the Arzew ammonia complex, Technip has submitted a bid for rehabilitation work on refineries in Algiers and Skikda.
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Western advisers paid by the World Bank are seeing to the implementation of oil administration and an effective administrative system in Sao Tome.
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The financial system and agents used by Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) to hand out payments linked to the construction of the NLNG plant were established in the 1980s.
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Nigeria's next big oil industry project - construction of the Escravos Gas-to-Liquids (EGTL) plant - has stalled because of a budget squeeze by Chevron.
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Not content with examining links between American oil companies and the Equatorial Guinea government, the U.S. Senate is also asking questions about who really owns the state-owned oil company.
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After year-long talks, Congo-Brazzaville last week awarded two new licenses to Maurel & Prom and Perenco. It is now holding talks with Total on issuing a tender for Moho Bilondo.
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More than 25 companies have put in bids to operate the pipeline that will link Kampala to Eldoret.
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Spain's Iberdola group has become the first to sign a [...]
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A consortium headed by Woodside will begin a 21-well exploration [...]
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Africa Energy Intelligence understands that the International Finance Corp., private investment arm of the World Bank, is preparing to lend [...]
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Efforts by Burundi, Rwanda and Congo-K to re-float a regional community under Belgian auspices could revive a number of power projects.
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The World Bank has just awarded a $100 million loan to Benin's power sector.
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The World Bank had originally planned to lend $44 million [...]
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The Associazione Italiana per I Rapporti Italo-Libici (AIRIL), which speaks for a dozen Italian construction firms that had worked in [...]
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The Export-Import Bank of China has offered to put up 24 million euros towards construction of the Adjarala dam. The [...]
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With the International Finance Corp., private investment arm of the World Bank, poised to invest in the insurance business in [...]
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Since gasoline prices were deregulated (or relatively so) in Nigeria, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has gradually become the main [...]
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The Swiss-Swedish ABB consortium pleaded guilty last week to handing out $1.1 in ?commissions? and found itself paying $16.4 million [...]
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Under fire in a scathing report by the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations because of its relations with the ruling [...]
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In recent weeks the U.S. administration has launched a charm offensive towards the main producer countries in the Gulf of [...]
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With 70 mercenaries scheduled to appear in court in Zimbabwe this week on charges of trying to overthrow president Teodoro [...]
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Anxious to receive supplies of Nigerian oil as some African nations do, India has offered to swap part of the [...]
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The breakdown in talks this weekend between Khartoum and the two rebel groups operating in Darfour, the Justice & Equality [...]
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Despite overtures by Paris (AEI 372), relations between Angola and France remain extremely frosty. Angola president Jose Eduardo dos Santos [...]
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Up to now production manager for ExxonMobil in the Gulf of Mexico, John Chaplin was appointed head of operations for [...]
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Barely had the U.S.-Libya Trade and Economic Council chaired by Robert Armao been set up (AEI 373) than it found [...]
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A former executive of Marathon, Ali Memon has replaced Nigeria's Chude Mba as head of Chrome Energy, an oil company [...]
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The former chairman of Phillips, James Mulva has just replaced Archie Dunham as chairman of Conoco Phillips. Mulva had been [...]
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In the midst of an overhaul, the Societe Nationale d'Electricite et du Gaz (Sonelgaz) has just named four regional directors. [...]
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Global Pacific Partners is organizing the 11th Africa Upstream conference [...]
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The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has announced its intention to [...]
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Citigroup and NM Rothschild were picked by Royal Dutch/Shell to [...]
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The Canadian consultancy Acres International has hired a lobbying concern [...]
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The Israeli firm Gilat has signed an agreement with Mercury [...]
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