Long reserved for the majors, Angola’s oil market is opening up gradually to independent groups. To set up shop in the country the newcomers are forging partnerships with private Angolan interests or with state-controlled Sonagol.
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Taking their cue from their Chinese rivals, Indian groups are offering low-cost credit lines to their African partners to finance [...]
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The Senegalese government officially recognized mainland China as the only legitimate Chinese government during a trip to Beijing by Senegalese [...]
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After a long wrangle with Exxon and the World Bank (see P. 1, AEI 403), Chad’s government moved on Nov. [...]
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Acting on a complaint filed by the Iwerekan ethnic community, a court in Benin state declared last week that the [...]
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Like virtually all of his African counterparts, Namibian president Hifikepune Pohamba will travel next month to China. Early this month, [...]
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Based in London and listed early this month on the Toronto Venture Exchange, the Canadian independent Exile Resources has been [...]
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The Gas Authority of India (GAIL) is seeking to acquire licenses in Senegal’s offshore.
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Gaz de France is about to make its debut in Mauritania while Kuwait’s Belhasa will lose its acreage.
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Bamako is about to award some of the last available acreage in the country.
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Niamey is going to award two new exploration concessions to Algeria’s state-owned Sonatrach.
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Pipped at the post by Ophir in Equatorial Guinea, the U.S. firm Kosmos is seeking to debut in Cameroon.
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Occidental Petroleum, which pulled out of Nigeria in the 1970s, is seeking to buy into Exxon’s OPL 214.
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Russia’s Zarubezhneft is understood to have won two gas concessions in Nigeria’s offshore.
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The Chinese oil distribution group Sunpec has acquired two concessions on Madagascar’s west coast.
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The Seychelles Petroleum Company is about to award several concessions.
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The state-controlled South African group PetroSA is about to acquire a huge license in Namibia’s offshore.
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The South African trading company Energetic is building up an oil portfolio in Africa. In doing so, it is following in the footsteps of Mvelaphanda Holdings.
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The U.S. oil firm Global Resources is seeking to obtain acreage along South Africa’s border with Namibia.
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Sonatrach has signed a letter of intent with Occidental Petroleum [...]
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After debuting in Gabon in July by acquiring the stake [...]
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Already operating on Etame, Avouma and Ebouri, the U.S. firm [...]
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We understand the planned LNG plant at Olokola on the [...]
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Projects for underwater power inter-connections between Algeria and Spain and Algeria and Italy are to be carried out by semi-public [...]
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Haggling for long months with the Bamako authorities concerning electricity rates, France’s Bouygues group has ended up by quitting the country.
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The private investment arm of the World Bank is going to lend EUR 25 million to France’s Veolia group and guarantee loans of its affiliate, Societe d’Eau et d’Electricite du Gabon.
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Mozambique president Armando Guebuza’s official visit to Lisbon resulted in an initial agreement to turn the Cahora Bassa dam over to Mozambique.
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Bharat Heavy Electrics Ltd. (BHEL) has penned an agreement with [...]
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Africa Energy Intelligence has learned that Addax, a firm run by Jean-Claude Gandur that acts as both a trader and [...]
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After preparing lengthily for a flotation on London’s Alternative Investment Market, the U.S. group Vanco chaired by Gene Van Dyke [...]
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On the eve of its flotation on London's Alternative Investment Market, Al Thani Investments, a Qatari firm owned by Abdullah [...]
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According to our sources, several Netherlands-based equity funds that own oil assets in the North Sea are currently seeking to [...]
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The American firm Grynberg Petroleum has filed a request for arbitration by the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes [...]
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Thanks to a EUR 35 million loan from the European Investment Bank, Companhia Mocambicana de Gasodudo (CMG), which is 80% [...]
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Chief operating officer of Addax Petroleum since the beginning of the decade, Evert Jan Sibinga Mulder is to leave the [...]
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Former farming, fishery and cattle raising minister and co-founder of president Joseph Kabila’s Parti du Peuple pour la Reconstruction et [...]
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The managing director of France’s MACIF insurance company, Gerard Andreck, has been named chairman of the supervisory board at Maurel [...]
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Director of the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), the oil industry’s regulatory body between 2002 and May, 2005, Macauley Ofurhie [...]
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Listed on London’s AIM and highly active in Algeria, the British firm Gulf Keystone has just named Bill Guest as [...]
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The British firm White Nile which is disputing ownership of block B in southern Sudan with France’s Total, has just [...]
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Africa Energy Intelligence understands the state-owned oil company Sudapet has [...]
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We understand the Petroleum Resources Unit in Sierra Leone’s energy [...]
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Cameroon’s Societe Nationale des Hydrocarbures (SNH) is counting on a [...]
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Founded in March of this year, the Equatorial Guinea gas [...]
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The Belgian branch of the international law firm Coudert Brothers, [...]
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ERHC/Chrome Energy, a company owned by Nigeria’s Emeka Offor that [...]
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The U.S. branch of Taylor-DeJongh which specializes in syndicating loans [...]
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The CWC Group is organizing a conference at the International [...]
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