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Congo
Traders on Way Back

In addition to deals involving oil fields, a recent global agreement signed between Brazzaville and Total provides for a significant re-scheduling of Congo's debt. This should allow SNPC to sell free cargoes. [...]

Published on 17/09/2003 at 11:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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Congo
“Kiki” finds new oil traders

Having fallen out with the Russian-Swiss oil trader Gunvor, SNPC sales chief Denis Christel Sassou Nguesso has teamed with other trading companies in Congo-B.

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Congo-B: The Real Oil Bosses

With presidential elections scheduled for May 10, Congo-Brazzaville's SNPC, which has remained largely in the shadows since it was set up in 1998, has been asked by the World Bank to open its books.

Subscribers only Energy 12.03.2002

Congo
$5 Million to Audit SNPC

As Africa Energy Intelligence predicted last August (AEI 304), the [...]

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Congo
Creditors Bang on Elf’s Door

The agreement that TotalFinaElf boss Thierry Desmarest signed with a lot of fanfare last month to re-schedule Congo-B’s debt guaranteed [...]

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Congo
Inquiry in "Deep Offshore"

France's TotalFinaElf is negotiating with both Angola and Congo-B on actively participating in exploiting giant fields containing over 1 billion [...]

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Spotlight | Congo
SNPC Under IMF Supervision?

Congo-Brazzaville’s gradual return to the fold of international financial institutions has come with a price-tag: the overhaul of its oil industry. The country was granted two loans worth $5 million and $35 million by the World Bank in late July [.

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Congo
IMF Lists its Conditions

Experts from the International Monetary Fund who turned up for an evaluation visit in Brazzaville on June 15 have ruffled [...]

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Africa
SHELL QUITS THREE COUNTRIES

The sale of Royal Dutch-Shell's exploration and production assets in Namibia, Congo Brazzaville and Ivory Coast came as a bolt [...]

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Congo
DOWNSTREAM PACT SIGNED

Despite the ever-worsening crisis in Congo (see briefs), an agreement that had been expected on the privatization of the country's [...]

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Congo
PRIVATIZATION WITH CURBS

The timetable will be honored, as with electricity-generation, but the privatization of Congo's downstream oil sector will leave a government [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.05.1996

Congo
ELF AND AGIP PSAS SIGNED

Production sharing accords between Elf, Agip and the government for fields already in production were signed last week in Brazzaville, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.11.1995

Spotlight | Congo
THE 9,5 MILLION TON TARGET

According to forecasts circulating among international financial institutions, operated crude oil production in the Congo by Elf Congo and Agip Congo will have reached 8.656,000 tons in 1993, of which 6,118,000t (70.7%) was lifted by Elf and 2,538,000 (29.

Subscribers only Energy 03.01.1994

Spotlight | Congo
THE HEART OF THE MATTER

Despite the election of a new president and advent of three governments in the intervening 18 months, Congo remains gripped in the same political and economic quagmire that was already evident in early 1992 (AEM 80).

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“Kiki” finds new oil traders

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$5 Million to Audit SNPC

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IMF Lists its Conditions

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PRIVATIZATION WITH CURBS

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ELF AND AGIP PSAS SIGNED

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THE 9,5 MILLION TON TARGET

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Congo Creditors Bang on Elf’s Door

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Spotlight | Congo THE HEART OF THE MATTER

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Senegal
Guns and oil drive Russia's Dakar courtship

Botswana, South Africa
From Gaborone to Antwerp, is De Beers's empire on the rocks?

Congo
Traders on Way Back

Congo
“Kiki” finds new oil traders

Spotlight | Congo
Congo-B: The Real Oil Bosses

Congo
$5 Million to Audit SNPC

Congo
Creditors Bang on Elf’s Door

Congo
Inquiry in "Deep Offshore"

Spotlight | Congo
SNPC Under IMF Supervision?

Congo
IMF Lists its Conditions

Africa
SHELL QUITS THREE COUNTRIES

Congo
DOWNSTREAM PACT SIGNED

Congo
PRIVATIZATION WITH CURBS

Congo
ELF AND AGIP PSAS SIGNED

Spotlight | Congo
THE 9,5 MILLION TON TARGET

Spotlight | Congo
THE HEART OF THE MATTER