The new boss of the American oil group Kosmos Energy, Andrew Inglis, a former E&P chief at BP, has adopted an aggressive acquisition strategy aimed at picking up fresh permits in the Gulf of Guinea as well as in Europe [.
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Closed on May 15, Tanzania’s fourth licencing round that featured eight new blocks doesn’t seem to have met with much [...]
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The lack of interest displayed by American firms in Ivory Coast’s offshore is increasingly upsetting oil and energy minister Adama Toungara.
Active for long years in Gabon and Angola, Mitsubishi Corp has now moved northwards. This time it has chosen to settle in Ivory Coast.
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Silver Wave Energy, an explorer headed by a Burmese businessman with ties to the former military regime, is seeking to build up its business in South Africa.
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Simba Energy is continuing to work on blocks 1 and 2 that are claimed by Summa Energy.
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Although it is squabbling with Papillon Resources – it claims to partly own it – Sanke is determined to honour its contract to supply fuel to the mining company.
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The national power utility Electricite de Guinee has a new [...]
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To counter a tide of resignations, particularly in its technical [...]
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After buying into Mozambique's block 1 in 2012 alongside Anadarko, [...]
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After acquiring the R1 and R2 permits in Niger (relinquished [...]
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A project to develop the Banda gas field (1.2 TCF) operated by Tullow Oil has hit a snag. The British [...]
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Five years after acquiring Artumas and its gas assets in Tanzania and Mozambique, France's Maurel & Prom has penned a gas sales accord with Tanzania.
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A joint venture between Mozambique’s government and private companies that manages the port of Palma has issued a new call for expressions of interest for a study whose aims remain mysterious.
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Construction of Mozambique’s first coal-fired power station has fallen shortly behind the initial timeline. According to our sources, the financial [...]
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A project to build a hydro power dam at Kandadji on the Niger River is back in play after three years were lost due to the cancellation of a first contract with Russians.
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Under discussion for several years, a scheme to interconnect Cameroon and Chad is beginning to interest donors, a pre-requisite for it to become a reality.
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The American firm Madagascar Oil is currently thinking about selling [...]
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A lawyer who headed the energy team of the Norton [...]
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The Tanzanian lawyers of Moto Mabanga, Mabere Marando and Jethro [...]
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The law firm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe has beefed up [...]
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