In displaying a recent interest in the independent Bowleven, Dragon Oil, which is 51% controlled by Dubai’s Emirates National Oil Co (ENOC), underscored the growing determination of some state-owned national companies to snap up juniors already established in Africa.
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Africa Energy Intelligence understands the American equity fund Emerging Capital Partners (ECP) has won the auction to buy the downstream [...]
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The Canadian company had to stand aside for the French major and the U.S. firm Anadarko, - both enjoy strong political backing - for the operatorship of three blocks. \
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The American company’s first well in Guinea’s offshore cost it so much that Hyperdynamics will have to raise fresh cash to drill a second.
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The Chinese company is going to try to persuade ministers from Chad and Cameroon to allow crude from Agadem to be carried on the pipeline built by Exxon.
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The president’s office ordered the biggest sedimentary basin in Congo-K to be pegged out. The new blocks are far smaller than previous concessions.
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The state-owned Chinese group has been working very discreetly on part of the block operated in the past in a high tension zone by the American Jack Grynberg.
The chief executive of ERHC Energy, Peter Ntephe, was in [...]
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The two companies awarded blocks 1 and 2 on Congo-K's [...]
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Submitted last July (AEI 659), the technical file for the development of the Ahnet gas field byTotal has yet to [...]
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Unlike the European Commission, which appears put off by the security risks (AEI 669). the European Investment Bank looks to be very much in favor of the trans-Saharan pipeline scheme.
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Russian investors keep putting back a decision on developing the Kudu gas field.
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In the space of a few days, Tanzania and Mozambique [...]
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Dim prospects for the aluminum market prompted BHP Billiton in early February to give up its plan to build a [...]
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The company to develop the future dam on the Ruzizi river will be chosen at the end of March. The funding package looks likely to be sewn up quickly as well.
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France’s Alstom lost the competition to provide turbines for the Messerghine power plant but remains in the running for that of Hassi Messaoud.
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Mozambique's government is reportedly studying a plan for a new [...]
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China has suddenly been drawn into the dispute between Juba and Khartom on the transportation of oil from South Sudan. [...]
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The Korea National Oil Corp (KNOC) has named a new vice president in charge of Europe and Africa, EuGene Synn. [...]
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The new managing director of Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG), Babs Omotowa, is a seasoned veteran of Shell. Up to [...]
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Several influential figures who handle oil issues in the president’s office in Congo-K lost their seats in legislative elections. One [...]
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According to our sources, certain Nigerian traders who own service [...]
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In the wake of the South African group Sasol’s recent [...]
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No trumpets were particularly blowing when Tullow Oil sold two [...]
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The state-run oil company Sonatrach is to soon launch a [...]
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Ugandan lawmakers currently examining a Petroleum Bill on exploration and [...]
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The governor of the Nigerian state of Niger in the [...]
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Deliveries by the West African Gas Pipeline (WAGP) that carries [...]
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The cash laid out by Shell and Agip to buy [...]
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Having finalized the acquisition of the stakes of Shell, Total [...]
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In its annual report issued on February 21, the American [...]
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The World Bank indicated on February 22 that it had [...]
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According to our sources, the American law firm Jones Day [...]
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The advisory branch of the Canadian financial group Canaccord is [...]
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The London outpost of the American law firm McGuire Woods [...]
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John Dramani Mahama, vice president of Ghana, will inaugurate the [...]
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Ian Craig,Shell’s vice president for Africa, has reported the full [...]
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Serge Matesco,Total E&P’s vice president for Africa, will attend the [...]
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