An attempt to topple Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo in early August stemmed largely from oil disputes.
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According to statistics from China's customs service, Beijing imported 6.7 million tons of oil from Africa in the first half [...]
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U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell will shortly travel to the Gulf of Guinea on a tour that follows on [...]
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A delegation from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), an American research institute, arrived in Khartoum last week [...]
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Tension between the United States, the major oil companies and the Nigerian government on production quotas (the issue was described [...]
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Congo president Denis Sassou Nguesso will fly to Washington in early September for a series of meetings with oil companies, [...]
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A new chapter has opened in the inquiry into Enron's downfall: the Justice Department's Enron Task Force is looking into [...]
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An in-house report at the World Bank has criticized the planned share-out of revenue from the Doba oil fields but its misgivings won't jeopardize the project itself.
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Efforts by the Indian firm ONGC Videsh to gain a foothold in North Africa have started to pay off. The group is to explore in the Sirte basin.
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The timetable and corporate structure of the West African Gas Pipeline (WAGP) were fixed this summer. Nations on the pipeline's route won a few concessions.
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Weighed down by debt, Ghana's national oil company plans to gradually withdraw from the country's offshore, leaving the door open to private firms.
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Following a series of three dry wells in May, new wells have spurred fresh interest in Angola's deep offshore.
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With a new management team in the saddle and the company on the point of being partially privatized, the Belarus oil firm Slavneft is withdrawing from Sudan. The move is bound to whet the appetite of other operators.
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The World Bank is preparing a loan to the Niger Delta Development Commission just as attacks against oil rigs by local inhabitants in the Delta are rising.
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Spain's Repsol has received a go-ahead from the Libyan authorities [...]
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Italy's Snamprogetti, MAN of Germany and the Greek firm Joannou [...]
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TotalFinaElf, Tullow Oil, Perenco, Transworld, Euroil and PanAfrican Energy have [...]
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A new discovery on the Arapo field operated by ChevronTexaco [...]
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The French firm Perenco has just been awarded a new [...]
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Petrolin, a Monaco-based company owned by Samuel Dossou, adviser to [...]
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Cabinda Gulf Oil, an affiliate of ChevronTexaco, made a new [...]
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A subsidiary of NNPC, National Engineering and Technical Co. (NETCO), [...]
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Valco Energy and Pioneer Natural Resources both announced they had [...]
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The U.S. oil company Anadarko has disposed of assets in Texas and Louisiana in a drive to boost its investment [...]
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Tamoil, an affiliate of OilInvest, the Dutch-based holding company of Libyan Foreign Investment Company (Lafico) has angrily denied rumours that [...]
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Nigeria's national oil company NNPC still owes nearly $500 million to its partners in the five leading joint ventures it [...]
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Keeping a watchful eye on how Equatorial Guinea spends its oil revenue, the International Monetary Fund formally called on Malabo [...]
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The price of gasoline in Gabon is shortly to be pegged to international prices, a move certain to quickly increase [...]
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Advised by South Africa's Investec bank, Namibia's national power utility, Nampower, has borrowed nearly $52 million from the Development Bank [...]
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Close to president Olusegun Obasanjo for long years - he defended him when he was jailed in the 1990s - [...]
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Founder and chairman of the California-based financial consultancy Batchelder & Partners, David Batchelder has resigned from the board of Nuevo [...]
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A geography professor in the arts faculty at the Marien Ngouabi university in Brazzaville, Philippe Mvouo was named mines, energy [...]
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Nigeria lost one of its oldest oil experts when Arettenekhai Godwin Adams died in early August. He was chairman of [...]
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Former education minister Ali Temin Fartak, member of the ruling National Congress party who comes from southern Sudan, has been [...]
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An International Monetary Fund team that conducted a mission to Ivory Coast in August has filed a report to the [...]
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A major loan by Nigeria for Burundi's power sector has been frozen following the dismissal of the Burundi minister who [...]
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The South African utility Eskom is one of two candidates bidding to acquire a management contract for Rwanda's Electrogaz. Eskom is already active in Uganda.
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The Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation (EEPCO) has applied for a $130 million loan from the World Bank to finance its [...]
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A project to build a dam at Bui on the [...]
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The Paris office of the U.K. firm Watson, Farley & [...]
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The firm AT Kearney has been pre-selected along with two [...]
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The Irish power consultancy ESB International, in conjunction with SETE [...]
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Already present through partners in Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia, Denton [...]
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The Nigerian lawyer chief Afe Babolala, who represented RoyalDutch/Shell during [...]
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Libya's national oil company NOC is to supply 10,000 bpd [...]
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In late July, Shell Gas & Power signed a pact [...]
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British Gas, which already supplies 60% of Tunisia's gas needs, [...]
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Ivory Coast's national oil company Petroci is expected to quickly [...]
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Nigeria's NNPC has kicked off a feasibility study on building [...]
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Already a partner of Sonangol in Technip Angola, the French [...]
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IBC Energy is organizing a conference in Houston on Oct. [...]
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IBC Energy is organizing a conference in Madrid on Sept. [...]
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