Heartened by the rise in crude prices and Washington's growing interest in Africa's oil, nearly six African countries are planning to issue invitations to tender for acreage in their deep offshore. The calls to bid are still in the planning [.
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Africa Energy Intelligence understands the government of Central African Republic will hold talks before the end of the month with [...]
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In a report, the Agence Francaise de Developpement states that some of Chad's profits from the Doba oil fields may sidestep the control system set up by the World Bank.
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While the International Court of Justice handed ownership of the Bakassi peninsula to Cameroon, Nigeria retains control of oil resources.
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An oil trader in Cameroon has managed to enforce a lien against RoyalDutch/Shall to recover a debt owed by Sonara.
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Sao Tome's new government wants to cancel a bidding round in the Joint Development Zone with Nigeria in the hope of obtaining better terms.
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RoyalDutch/Shell has just been awarded four blocks off Pemba and Zamzibar and may have to deal with local governments, Pemba and Zanzibar.
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South Africa's new oil company, PetroSA, will work in close conjunction with the U.S. trader Transword and the South African firm Imvume Resources linked to Glencore.
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Present on Tunisia's Sidi Kilani field that produces nearly 700,000 [...]
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The Sudanese government has just issued an invitation to tender [...]
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ExxonMobil last week awarded contracts for the development of the [...]
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The Canadian firm Heritage Oil & Gas is about to [...]
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The Indian firm Larsen & Toubro has won contracts to [...]
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The French group TotalFinaElf that operates on block 17 is [...]
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The Russian-African Business Council that was set up in June, as Africa Energy Intelligence reported, met last week in Moscow [...]
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The U.S. Congress last week finally approved the Sudan Peace Act, a bill already adopted by the House of Representatives [...]
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A joint Franco-Libyan committee meeting in Paris on Oct. 21 discussed establishing a formal and legal framework for French businesses [...]
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India's oil ministry has initiated a series of talks with several African countries in a bid to diversify its sources [...]
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Congo's oil minister, Jean-Baptiste Tati Loutard, travelled to Luanda late last week to negotiate with his Angolan counter-part, Jose Maria [...]
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Chris Ogiemwonyi, head of NAPIMS, an affiliate of NNPC that handles relations with oil companies involved in joint ventures with [...]
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Russia's Alpha group which controls and Tuymen and Alpha Eko oil companies, has teamed up with Vostok Nafta Investment in [...]
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Transparency International joined Britain's Global Witness and Belgium's International Peace Information Service in specializing in inquiries into the use and [...]
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The breakdown of a proposed merger between Veritas and Norway's Petroleum Geo Services has prompted a number of oil services [...]
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Petronas, the main shareholder in Energy Africa, last week confirmed what Africa Energy Intelligence reported in July (AEI 316), namely [...]
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Congo-K's Societe Nationale d'Electricite (SNEL) has just been awarded a $35 million loan from the Development Bank of Southern Africa [...]
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In partnership with the African Export-Import Bank, Nigeria's Gulf Bank will put up $80 million towards construction of a 142 [...]
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The BBC has cited an internal report by the International Monetary Fund indicating that nearly $900 million disappeared from Angola's [...]
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Since Petronas set out on its unsuccessful effort to buy up 100% of its affiliate Energy Africa (EA) a mysterious [...]
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The number 2 man at the World Bank until only last year, Sweden's Sven Sandstrom has joined the board of [...]
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Chairman of the new South African oil company Petro SA - it was officially inaugurated last week by president Thabo [...]
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The Australian oil company Woodside has just named Pierre Jungels, a veteran oil explorer in Africa, to its board to [...]
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Former right-hand man of late Nigerian president Sani Abacha, Gilbert Chagoury, won't have to lose any sleep over an investigation [...]
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Pierre Ndonda has just replaced Nestor Mawandza as head of the refining company Congolaise de Raffinage (CORAF). According to the [...]
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Before his company Transworld became a partner of Petro SA, the new South African oil company, Dutch trader John Deuss [...]
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The World Bank's adoption of the $39 million Critical Electricity and Water Services Rehabilitation project for Chad last week followed [...]
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With its own generation capacity and imports from Uganda falling short of domestic needs, Kenya is seeking to tap into the Southern Africa Power Pool (SAAP).
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After several attempts to win heftier payments for the power it supplies to Eskom, Mozambique's Hidroelectrica de Cahora Bassa is threatening to cut off deliveries.
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Uganda's Electricity Regulatory Authority has slashed power rates for all [...]
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West African Oil, a company founded by Aboulaye Diagne, former [...]
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The investment banking arm of the Dresdner Bank, Dresdner Kleinwort, [...]
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Specializing in class action cases, the Philadelphia law firm Berger [...]
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The Paris-based law firm Jeantet Associes represented Africa Petroleum Consultants [...]
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Following an abortive attempt by Petronas to buy it out [...]
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CWC is organizing a conference in London on Nov. 12-13 [...]
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IBC Energy is organizing a conference in London on Oct. [...]
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In conjunction with BP, Algeria's state-owned oil company Sonatrach has [...]
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The Tanzanian Petroleum Development Corporation is thinking of selling its [...]
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Despite its promises to the International Monetary Fund and World [...]
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Under pressure from Hidroelectrica de Cahora Bassa to pay more [...]
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France's Compagnie Generale de Geophysique has just completed a major [...]
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