Sudanese president Omar El Bechir is continuing to tighten his grip on all economic sectors in his country, and oil is certainly no exception. He is appointing his favourites to top jobs and handing out gifts to long-standing allies like [.
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A little known firm, Tempo Energy Nigeria, has just made its first acquisition in the upstream by joining Nigerian traders [...]
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Liberia has pulled out all the stops to make its licensing round a success. But Monrovia is touting new blocks in a highly complicated health and legal context.
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The company founded by Frank Timis views Cairn Energy’s find near its own offshore licence as a boon.
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Ivory Coast’s pitch in Houston for new offshore blocks paid dividends. Exxon will shortly debut in the country.
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The boss of the New York-based equity fund Nanes Balkany Partners I has taken over as chairman of a prominent Scandinavian explorer.
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Recent interest in Senegal’s offshore (see P. 2) has had an impact on Agence de Gestion et Cooperation (AGC), a [...]
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Scheduled to start this year, production on the Seme shallow water field on block 1 in Benin owned by South [...]
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The Tanzania Petroleum Development Corp (TPDC) is currently negotiating the fine details of a contract for the supply of oil [...]
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The flourishing fortunes of Australia’s biggest independent oil company are [...]
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The giant Glencore, which is now highly active in E&P, [...]
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The South African explorer SacOil Holdings headed by the former [...]
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A subsidiary of CNPC, Greatwall Drilling Co, has been retained [...]
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Now operating the Gazelle gas field, the trading group remains at odds with Abidjan over the block’s life span.
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The strategic partnership that the Swiss firms Geogas and Oryx Gas thought of sealing in 2012 to put a lock [...]
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A lot of oil companies will be on hand when Mozambique showcases new acreage about to be put on auction [...]
The Korea Gas Corp (KOGAS) is keen on forging partnerships [...]
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Projects financed by $670 million in aid that Japanese prime [...]
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A quick fall in South Africa’s gas output has prompted [...]
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The Congolese authorities could find it hard to finance the dam after a Chinese firm was ditched.
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Cameroon’s state-run Electricity Development Corp (EDC) could be forced to cut back on its objective to double the country’s hydro [...]
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Rwandan president Paul Kagame, who could stand for re-election in 2017, is working overtime to increase the electrification rate in [...]
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Up to its ears in debt (nearly 400 billion shillings, [...]
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The Inga 2 dam appears to be jinxed. Two of [...]
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A Danish consulting concern, Niras, won a contract put out [...]
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A private security firm founded by Tony Sudgen and Ashton [...]
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