Like all state-owned companies which have grown all-powerful with the increase in the oil price and dwindling opportunities, Sonatrach has emerged as a particularly tough negotiator, prepared to cancel contracts if its objectives aren’t met and drag its partners before [.
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Four companies - Summa Energy, Roxwell, Terralliance and RusAl - are all fighting for ownership of the island of Kito [...]
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Among companies pre-qualified for a new licensing round in Algeria figures a private Algerian group with no oil industry experience.
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The Australian concerns Audax, Kairiki and Nexus are on a buying spree in Tunisia.
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A London arbitration panel has awarded an additional 7.2% to Addax on block 4 in the Joint Development Zone (JDZ) between Nigeria and Sao Tome.
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Matters are straightening out between Shell and Nigeria. The first sign: the NNPC has apparently dropped its idea of auditing the development costs of the Bonga field.
In a bid to reduce some of the international pressure on it, China’s national oil company is going to park its most controversial assets in an independent entity.
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The French company Maurel & Prom struck oil on its [...]
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The U.S. company Noble Energy identified a number of reservoirs [...]
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The Canadian junior Universal Power has exercised its option to [...]
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Australia's Elixir Petroleum, which took over as operator on block [...]
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The Indian-Russian group Suntera, a joint venture between India’s Sun Group and the Russian gas trader Itera, is continuing to [...]
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Debuting in the Logbaba area by buying out the stakes of the Grynberg family, Britain’s Bramlin is now working to develop the block’s gas potential.
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Artumas, which has just published the first results of a study on the gas potential of its Rovuma block, is seeking to rope in a partner to finance a number of wells.
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A currency problem is holding up negotiations on developing the Kudu gas field.
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The American engineering firm MWH has just won two major contracts in a row for hydro power projects in Africa. [...]
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Liberia is counting on rehabilitating its main dam to put paid to a severe shortfall in power capacity.
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The Overseas Private Investment Corporation has given a go-ahead for a power plant to be built by the U.S. firm Contour Global in Lome.
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Contrary to what Africa Energy Intelligencereported in its last issue, [...]
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After negotiations with the other members of the Southern Africa [...]
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The key portfolio for mines, industry and energy in the new Equatorial government formed by Ignacio Milam Tang, the country’s [...]
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Ghanaian president John Kufuor has proceeded with a limited cabinet re-shuffle. Energy minister Joseph Kafi Adda stepped aside in favor [...]
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A former minister of ex-Mauritanian president Maaouiya Ould Taya, who is a close relative, Baba Ahmed Ould Sidi Mohamed was [...]
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Nephew of the president of Puntland, Mohamud Muse Hersi "Adde", Liban Muse Bogor has resigned from the board of directors [...]
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Libya’s National Oil Corp has renewed production sharing contracts on [...]
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The Societe Beninoise de Electricite et de l’Eau has been [...]
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The state-run Mozambique monopoly Petroleos de Mocambique is to invest [...]
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Tunisia’s Entreprise Publique des Activities Petrolieres (ETAP) and its Austrian [...]
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A number of North African unions working in the energy [...]
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German chancellor Angela Merkel paid an official visit to Algeria [...]
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Officials from Gabon and Equatorial Guinea said after two days [...]
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Although Tanzania’s central government and the authorities on the island [...]
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Africa Energy Intelligence understands that Sonangol Finance, an affiliate of [...]
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The European Investment Bank is putting together the paperwork for [...]
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In paying a premium, Afren persuaded all holders of debt [...]
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To finance an investment plan whose cost has shot from [...]
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The Bahrain-based First Energy Bank has set up a drilling [...]
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The American oil juniors Vangold and Energulf are both employing [...]
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Acquired in April by the Fugro geophysics group, the small [...]
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Mahmud Ali Salah, the oil minister of Somalia's transitional federal [...]
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Chakib Khelil, Algerian energy minister, who is the current president [...]
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