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Clotilde Ravel

An Africa Intelligence journalist since 2019, Clotilde Ravel heads the Southern Africa section and also covers Energy matters.

In Focus | Congo
From Milan to Pointe-Noire, the secrets of the powerful 'ENI family'

Nicknamed "the most African of majors", the Italian energy company ENI has made the Congo a central hub where big contracts and family affairs flourish, fortified by close ties to President Denis Sassou-Nguesso. The group is set to invest several billions of dollars in a liquefied natural gas export project, with the blessings of the Congolese and Italian governments, brought closer by the gas giant.

LogoSubscribers only Energy 17.07.2023
ENI, the most Congolese of majors.

In Focus | South Africa
State-owned PetroSA in death throes as national energy crisis persists

PetroSA has been fighting for survival since its Mossel Bay refinery shut in 2020. Its crisis has deepened in recent months, with a lack of funds preventing urgent maintenance work on high-risk infrastructure. Company documents seen by Africa Intelligence paint a grim picture of an almost bankrupt firm hobbled by inept management and an allegedly cavalier chairman, Nkululeko Poya.

LogoSubscribers only Energy, Politics 12.06.2023
PetroSA interim chairman Nkululeko Poya, Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe and President Cyril Ramaphosa.

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