Convicted of money-laundering in Paris, former Nigerian oil minister Dan Etete has paradoxically made a comeback in Abuja by managing to regain control of one of the country’s most promising petroleum concessions. In a striking manner his case illustrates the [.
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By the end of the year, Morocco's Office National des Hydrocarbures et des Mines (Onhym) is to choose a law [...]
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Algerian energy minister Chakib Khelil and Italy’s economic development minister, Pier Luigi Bersani, signed a major gas agreement in Sardinia [...]
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Ghanaian president John Kufuor met with a delegation of Norwegian oil experts in the presence of Norway's ambassador to Accra, [...]
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The vice president of South Sudan, Riek Machar, and other representatives of the Juba government met last week with officials [...]
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As Africa Energy Intelligence anticipated in its last issue (No. 451), some of the assets of the U.S. oil group [...]
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The Qatar-based company Sphere Petroleum has just acquired a second concession in Morocco.
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A company registered in Jersey and linked to the Irish group Island Oil is discreetly acquiring acreage in Western Sahara.
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State-owned Petronas has bought into Mauritania but it was beaten to the draw by two Malaysian juniors.
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A new firm is expected to make a last-minute bid for the Agadem concession.
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Officials from the American group Terralliance have paid a visit to Guinea and could acquire acreage in the country.
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After trying in vain to barge into a consortium mounting an LNG project in Nigeria, Britain’s Centrica has decided to put together its own program with Norway’s StatoilHydro.
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Hungary’s state-owned Mol has just acquired an interest in a block in Cameroon’s Rio del Rey.
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India’s ONGC Videsh is offering to buy into a concession owned by Petronas of Malaysia.
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After making three gas finds on its Etinde permit in [...]
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Following the withdrawal of Syntroleum and Lundin from the Aje [...]
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Buying into block 1 in the Joint Development Zone between [...]
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The British junior Aminex has taken delivery of a rig [...]
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Mozambique’s National Petroleum Institute will launch its third licensing round [...]
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A group made up of engineers from India’s Tata group and the Congo-K-registered firm Beltexco (its managing director is Mazhar [...]
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After several delays in the competition, the national utility Nampower has finally awarded part of the contract for the Caprivi interconnection project.
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The European Commission is financing the extension of the Ruzizi power plant which will supply Burundi, Rwanda and Congo-K and help stabilize the region.
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Ethiopia’s energy and water supply ministry has begun a feasibility [...]
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Once the Bujagali dam is completed, Uganda’s government plans to [...]
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Thanks to a USD 10 million loan from the World [...]
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The future cornerstone in South Africa’s bid to boost power [...]
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Looking for cash to finance its unsolicited takeover bid of its rival Rio Tinto, the Australian mining group BHP Billiton [...]
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After offering USD 3 billion for the British oil firm Burren last month, Italy's ENI upped the ante to USD [...]
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Founded in 2004 by Steve Mason, a former executive of First Calgary, Canada’s Artumas has just raised USD 170 million [...]
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According to our sources, HSBC is examining the idea of financing Total’s project to build an ethane steam cracking unit [...]
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According to our sources, the World Bank will present a project to lend USD 275 million to Ivory Coast when [...]
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A rumour sweeping the oil departments of leading Western investment banks that Tullow Oil was seeking finance to build a [...]
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The representative of the Nuer South Sudan Defence Forces (SSDF), general Paulino Matip, has just been named to the advisory [...]
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The U.S. oil company Hyperdynamics has appointed James Spear to the post of vice president and chief geophysicist of SCS [...]
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Based in Denver, Colorado, Forrest Oil has just appointed John Ridens to the post of executive vice president and chief [...]
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France's Areva has appointed Ghislain Lescuyer as the new executive vice president of its Transmission et Distribution (T&D) department which [...]
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Canada’s Artumas group has just appointed British national Duncan Nightingale as senior vice president in charge of exploration. Nightingale had [...]
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IBC Energy is organizing the East and Southern Africa Oil & Gas summit at the Kingsway Hall hotel in London [...]
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Global Pacific & Partners is staging a conference in London on April 10-11 on the latest oil developments in the [...]
The CWC Group is organizing a conference on the latest developments in Nigeria’s oil industry along with a related exhibition [...]
Chad’s government has just appointed members to the board of [...]
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For some weeks Madagascar’s capital, Antananarivo, is once again experiencing [...]
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The state-run oil company Sonatrach and Spain’s Gas Natural have [...]
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The Washington-based consultancy Core International Inc., a regular World Bank [...]
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France's Societe Generale bank last month created the post of [...]
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The French-British oil group Surestream run by the former prime [...]
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