With the discovery of huge gas reserves in Mozambique (some estimates put them at 180 TCF), oil companies are now turning their attention to Madagascar. However, the political climate on the island just a month before the run-off in the [.
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The drop in Algeria’s oil output over the past five years appears to have prodded the authorities into taking action. [...]
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The Chinese major has won a green light from Niger’s authorities to develop numerous fields whose output will be earmarked for exportation.
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The Nigerian trader Benedict Peters is in the running to buy several of Shell’s licences.
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Flaunting his title as king of Nembe, a former oil adviser to Olusegun Obasanjo is trying to buy an oil field from Shell that lies on his community's territory.
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The Nigerian oil company has postponed a listing on the stock exchange in the hope of buying some of Chevon’s assets in the Niger Delta.
A conciliation proceeding launched by the Canadian firm augurs badly for exploration in the country with largely unknown geological characteristic. An amicable settlement could come.
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New players in the oil services industry are moving into ports in East Africa to handle gasoline supplies.
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Britain’s Heritage Oil has been choosing its partners for a [...]
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Ivory Coast’s energy and oil minister, Adama Toungara, met his Ghanaian counterpart Emmanuel Buah in Abidjan on Nov. 6 to [...]
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The British company has won the official support of Cameroon’s president and the regime’s dignitaries for its development work on the Logbaba field.
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Long deserted by the big oil companies, South Africa’s offshore is suddenly the centre of much attention.
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The meeting between French president François Hollande and his Mozambican counterpart Armando Guebuza on Sept. 27 seems to have borne [...]
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A guaranteed supply of gas for the Abatta power plant ought to enable the American firm to start construction work on it quickly.
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With studies on the huge Inga 3 dam project piling up, Congo-K needs to quickly find a consulting firm to pin down the technical and financial choices once and for all.
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Shell’s executives travel regularly to Maputo to try to root out market opportunities. According to our sources, Onno van Kassel, [...]
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According to our sources, Tullow Oil is to appoint a managing director of its affiliate Tullow Guinea in December. He [...]
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An adviser to the board of directors of Jacka Resources, Bob Cassie, will shortly take over as managing director of [...]
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The acting managing director of Petroleum Agency of South Africa, Lindiwe Mekwe, could well be the last to run the [...]
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A militia group in eastern Libya headed by warlord Ibrahim [...]
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During a trip to Venezuela on Nov. 11-12, Niger’s foreign [...]
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Britain's Aminex company is on the verge of signing an [...]
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For some weeks Sonatrach and ALNAFT have been receiving appeals [...]
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Nigeria’s South Atlantic Petroleum Co. (Sapetro) and the American firm [...]
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Nairobi has every reason to celebrate. Indeed, the country is [...]
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The governor of West Kasai province, Alex Kande, and the [...]
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With its remit now expanded to take in North Africa, [...]
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The latest auction of Shell’s stakes in the Niger Delta [...]
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Lying on the outskirts of Benin City, the capital of [...]
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Cameroon has chosen its judge in the arbitration proceedings pitting [...]
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Muhammadu Sambo Dasuki, national security adviser (NSA) to Nigerian president [...]
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France's BNP Paribas has lost its monopoly on the sale [...]
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The Africa department in the Paris office of Herbert Smith [...]
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Mahaman Laouan Gaya, secretary-general at Niger’s oil ministry, accompanied foreign [...]
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Emmanuel Buah, Ghana's energy and oil minister, managed to push [...]
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Etienne Ngoubou, Gabon’s oil minister, will explain the negotiating process [...]
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