Already reeling from the collapse in the oil price, Chad is now dealing with disaster of another sort: the need to repay a debt to Glencore. In 2014, the trading group lent $1.45 billion to Chad to buy out Chevron's [.
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A joint commission between Nigeria and Sao Tome y Principe and chaired by the two countries’ heads of state is [...]
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The storage tank containing part of the Obangue field’s crude that blew up on March 12 had been watched for years by Addax’s workers who called in vain for it to be replaced.
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The Congo-K oil minister’s cancellation of the joint interest zone (JIZ) with Angola has put the American major in an awkward position.
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In receivership since last July, Afren isn't about to quickly find ways to settle its debts.
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Put together in January, Senegal’s opposition coalition Jubanti Senegal, which includes members of civil society, is particularly up in arms [...]
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The Ivoirian authorities would like to see ExxonMobil buy the offshore blocks CI-401, CI-205 and CI-504 that had previously been [...]
Tanzania has been shifting into higher gear since an agreement in principle was reached in early March on building an [...]
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Although Cameroon’s Societe Nationale des Hydrocarbures (SNH) expected drilling on the country’s Bakassi West offshore block to begin in April, [...]
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Already committed to major changes at Sonangol, the Angolan government wants to draft fresh legislation for the entire oil and gas sector.
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Fired at the end of last year for "data theft" [...]
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A decision by the Brazilian explorer Petrorio (formerly HRT Oil [...]
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According to our sources, all the shareholders in the Chinguetti [...]
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Petroci’s deputy finance director, Brakissa Bamba, had a few tense [...]
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Applications are piling up for job of becoming the first [...]
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In early March, Angolan oil minister Jose Maria Botelho de [...]
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The French explorer Maurel & Prom plans to increase output and lower production costs to restore its profitability.
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A Kenyan conglomerate active in logistics and transportation, Alpha Group, is actively wooing oil companies operating in East Africa. Alpha [...]
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The South African national oil company PetroSA, which is keen [...]
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The Congolese authorities, in partnership with the International Finance Corp., are determined to revive a project for a huge dam.
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In his sudden switch to a cordial attitude towards gas operators in Tanzania (AEI 765), energy and natural resources minister [...]
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There are now no more than two consortia in the race to build the Inga 3 dam. They are the [...]
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The Indian group Jindal Steel & Power is about to [...]
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Senegal’s government has renewed its agreement with Africa Energy which [...]
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For some weeks now British national Alan Levison has been [...]
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Michael McAteer, a partner in the Dublin office of the [...]
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