Just as Angola prepares to top the production mark of 1 million bpd with the forthcoming commissioning of the Kizomba A field, the country's state-owned oil company Sonangal is laying plans for the future. These include raising a new oil-backed [.
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With production about to start on a number of oil-rich fields such as RoyalDutch/Shell's Bonga acreage, Nigeria finds the OPEC [...]
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After a setback in Congo-B, DiamondWorks has won a concession in Gabon and is seeking to consolidate its rather tenuous position in Sao Tome.
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To stick to its target of producing 60 billion cu.m. of gas despite the blast at Skikda, Sonatrach has found itself juggling with its different units.
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Despite Algeria's urgent need to produce fresh gas (see above) a new delay has occurred in awarding contracts for the Gassi Touil field.
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Owing to the arrival of British Gas and the possibility of fresh financial backing, the Australian consortium that operates the Chinguetti field should be able to meet its target of starting production in 2005.
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Owing to strong pressure from the government, the E&P branch of Nigeria's state-owned NNPC has grabbed stakes in two new blocks in Nigeria's offshore.
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In conjunction with the U.S. firm Ventech, Nigeria's Amakpe International is poised to start building the first private refinery in the country.
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Five months after it officially closed, the bidding for licenses in the Joint Development Zone between Nigeria and Sao Tome still hasn't resulted in any awards.
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Under-explored as it is, Eritrea offers a convenient gateway to companies that want to start operating in Africa. The latest to bang on the door is South Korea's KNOC.
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Active on the Cap Draa Haute Mer license, Kerr McGee [...]
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AEI understands that Sonatrach is seeking to set up partnerships [...]
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Italy's ENI, which operates the NC-174 concession, has begun producing [...]
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Closed since last March, ChevronTexaco's pumping stations in the Niger [...]
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Subsea 7, a joint venture between Halliburton and DNSD, an [...]
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Ireland's Aminex said it had found traces of oil during [...]
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The Angola LNG consortium will shortly issue a call to [...]
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Supplied for a number of years by two emergency power producers (EEP), Abuja will theoretically be linked up to the [...]
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The Dutch overseas development agency FMO has joined CDC in the project to generate power from Tanzania's gas.
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Mwai Kibaki's government plans to reduce its holdings in the two state-owned power companies.
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The Cape Town municipal council has just issued a call for bids for the privatization of the aging Athlone power station.
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With Portugal accepting the principle of transferring its shares in [...]
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The International Finance Corp., private investment arm of the World Bank, is striking a deal with the Fortis subsidiary Belgolaise [...]
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As Africa Energy Intelligence anticipated it would last autumn (AEI 358), ChevronTexaco has joined forces with International Finance Corp. in [...]
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With Angola champing at the bit to mount a new oil-backed loan, banking circles in Europe are concerned over the [...]
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Two private investment funds, Warburg Pincus and Blackstone Group, have put together an initial $300 million loan for Kosmos Energy, [...]
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Congo-Brazzaville agreed during a two week mission of the International Monetary Fund to the country to submit to a new [...]
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Head of the Energy Department's international affairs department since George W. Bush came to office, Vicky Bailey is going to [...]
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Eskom has named Dominic Sewela as new boss of Eskom Enterprises, the international arm of the state-owned South African utility, [...]
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The board of the Australian oil company Woodside has picked Don Voelte to serve as the company's new CEO following [...]
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Private secretary to the British ambassador to France in the early 1980s, Howard Davies, who now heads the prestigious London [...]
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Up to now in charge of economic affairs at the State Department's African affairs bureau, Marc Wall has just been [...]
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The U.S. oil company ConocoPhillips has elected Jim Copeland, a retired, 59-year-old former CEO of Deloitte & Touche in the [...]
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The procession of government and oil delegations banging on Libya's door began last month and gives no sign of letting [...]
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With Marathon feuding with the Equatorial Guinea authorities over its project for a LNG plant on Bioko island, Washington's need [...]
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High level American and French delegations have turned up one after the other in Khartoum over the past two weeks [...]
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East Africa is living under the threat of a major dispute over the waters of the Nile river which could [...]
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The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has formed a panel to take a fresh look at the state-owned firm's joint [...]
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With relations between Washington and Tripoli fast on the mend, [...]
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As part of a sweeping overhaul of various Nigerian oil [...]
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Nudging its way slowly towards privatization, the Central Electric Board [...]
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The state-owned utility Senelec is mulling a number of new [...]
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Nigeria's Senate has given a green light to Nigerian National [...]
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Fieldstone Africa, which has already assisted the city of Johannesburg [...]
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The U.S. oil services giant Halliburton has hired Baker Botts, [...]
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Following a sudden stop to flights operated between Nigeria and [...]
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Global Pacific & Partners is organizing a forum at the [...]
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The CWC Group is organizing a conference at the Nicon [...]
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