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Spotlight | Africa
Oil Deal-Makers Shift Focus to China

Financial legislation in force in the OECD countries has complicated the work of intermediaries. Rather than continuing to work for Western oil company many have chosen to offer their services to Chinese which aren’t under the same constraints as their [...]

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Friedhelm Eronat
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Jean-Claude Gandur
Marathon
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Nichem
Organization of Petroleum Producing Countries
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Beijing's dynamism leaves the Quai d'Orsay floundering

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Banco Espirito do Santo

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From the very outset, Luanda preferred to pick the companies it would allow to participate in the first call for bids in the pre-salt zone.

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Mauritania
MinMetals Challenging Iron Ore Majors

China MinMetals Corp., propelled by its president, Zhou Zhongshu, wants to make its presence felt in the very select club [...]

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Guinea
China Sonangol in Offshore Grab

After four months of talks, China Sonangol has reached an agreement that gives it most of the acreage relinquished by the U.S. group Hyperdynamics.

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ROC Puts Store Up for Sale

Handicapped by the sluggish performance of its shares on the stock exchange, Australia’s ROC Oil is putting all of its African assets on the auction block.

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Cameroon, Chad
Biya Demands Higher Royalties

As Africa Energy Intelligence reported (No 605), Cameroon president Paul Biya is determined to negotiate an increase in fees paid [...]

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Museveni, Oil & Kings

As Africa Energy Intelligence anticipated in September, 2008 (AEI 587), [...]

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Spotlight | Algeria
Fresh Assault on Oil Profits Tax

A tax on exceptional oil profits has poisoned Sonatrach’s relations with its Western partners since it was introduced in 2006. This summer, a call for arbitrage was discreetly submitted in Washington to force cancellation of the new tax, which applies [.

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Angola
Goldman Sachs

A shareholder in Cobalt International Energy which is active in [...]

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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?

Spotlight | Africa
Oil Deal-Makers Shift Focus to China

In Focus | Africa, France
Beijing's dynamism leaves the Quai d'Orsay floundering

Gabon, Nigeria
Who did BNP Paribas counter to pick up Addax mandate?

Chad
Fodeibou Orozi

Angola
Banco Espirito do Santo

Angola
A little auction between friends

Mauritania
MinMetals Challenging Iron Ore Majors

Guinea
China Sonangol in Offshore Grab

Africa
ROC Puts Store Up for Sale

Cameroon, Chad
Biya Demands Higher Royalties

Uganda
Museveni, Oil & Kings

Spotlight | Algeria
Fresh Assault on Oil Profits Tax

Angola
Goldman Sachs