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DRC
Dig Oil scores a try in Cuvette basin two weeks before elections

Its forceful legal pressure looks set to pay off as the South African junior is tipped to take up permits in Joseph Kabila's last days in power. [...]

Published on 11/12/2018 at 04:30 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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DRC
Alexis Thambwe Mwamba
Andrea Brown
Caprikat
Dan Gertler
Dig Oil
Divine Inspiration Group
Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary
Foxwhelp
International Chamber of Commerce
Joseph Kabila
Total
Tullow Oil

DRC
$617m arbitration: Dig Oil uses upper edge to corner Tshisekedi

Threatened with a fine equal to 10% of the national budget, the Congolese president has little choice but to negotiate with Dig Oil even as Kinshasa looks for a last ditch attempt to annul the arbitral ruling in favour of the South African oil junior.

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President Felix Tshisekedi (left) has chosen his advisor Nicolas Kazadi to negotiate with South African junior Dig Oil.

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Congo's $619m hot potato: who's to deal with Dig Oil over crippling arbitration award?

The DRC is coming under increasing pressure to comply with a 2018 arbitration award of hundreds of millions of dollars in favour of South African junior Dig Oil over the delayed attribution of Cuvette Central blocks.

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DRC
Dig Oil steps up pressure on Tshisekedi to obtain $600m compensation for blocks 8, 23 and 24

The oil junior has opened up a new front against the Congolese state, which kept it waiting for a decade before greenlighting its production sharing contracts in Cuvette Centrale.

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DRC
Blocks 1 and 2: Petroleum ministry still in talks over deal with Total

Although it is still waiting on the appointment of a [...]

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Congo
Dig Oil rearing to go on Cuvette basin

South Africa's Dig Oil is still waiting for the validation [...]

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DRC
Dig Oil drags Tshisekedi into his first oil crisis

The South African junior is determined that the ruling of the arbitration it has won against Kinshasa will be upheld at Congo-K's end.

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DRC
How Dig Oil landed ticket for Cuvette Centrale in the final hour

According to our sources, Dig Oil is understood to have snapped up blocks 8, 23 and 24 of the Cuvette [...]

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DRC
Total/Dan Gertler - Dig Oil/Cuvette: the two files now on Tshisekedi's plate

The new president has been landed with the two oil cases Kabila's cabinet had been working to finalise - without luck - up to the last minute.

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DRC
Total pulls off stunt to take Dan Gertler's former prized assets

As the country gears towards its general elections, Total is set to pick up blocks 1 and 2 in the Albertine Graben. Africa Energy Intelligence examines the makings of this highly political deal.

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Kabila's chief of staff, Nehemie Mwilanya, puppet master of oil deals

President Joseph Kabila's chief of staff, Nehemie Mwilanya Wilondja, has been involved with all of the country's main oil files since first joining the president's office for another position 14 years ago. A behind-the-scenes look at the Comico, Caprikat and [.

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Joseph Kabila
Total
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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?

DRC
Dig Oil scores a try in Cuvette basin two weeks before elections

DRC
$617m arbitration: Dig Oil uses upper edge to corner Tshisekedi

Spotlight | DRC
Congo's $619m hot potato: who's to deal with Dig Oil over crippling arbitration award?

DRC
Dig Oil steps up pressure on Tshisekedi to obtain $600m compensation for blocks 8, 23 and 24

DRC
Blocks 1 and 2: Petroleum ministry still in talks over deal with Total

Congo
Dig Oil rearing to go on Cuvette basin

DRC
Dig Oil drags Tshisekedi into his first oil crisis

DRC
How Dig Oil landed ticket for Cuvette Centrale in the final hour

DRC
Total/Dan Gertler - Dig Oil/Cuvette: the two files now on Tshisekedi's plate

DRC
Total pulls off stunt to take Dan Gertler's former prized assets

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Kabila's chief of staff, Nehemie Mwilanya, puppet master of oil deals

Spotlight | DRC
Total and Kabila play the long game on eastern frontier

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