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Nigeria
Crestar launches frontal assault on NNPC and ministry

Under pressure from the oil ministry, Shell has rejected a move by Crestar to acquire its shares on OML 25. The Nigerian firm hasn’t taken that lying down and is mounting a counter-attack.

Subscribers only Energy 03.02.2015

Nigeria
First E&P closes in on prize

Five years after it was founded, First E&P seems poised to acquire the 40% of OML 83 and OML 85 [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.02.2015

Ethiopia
$1.2 million memorial for Meles Zenawi

After a mausoleum and a foundation, the late Ethiopian Prime [...]

Subscribers only Business 30.01.2015

Algeria
NABC wants in on Ploumen visit

The Netherlands-African Business Council (NABC) is working to broaden its [...]

Subscribers only Business 29.01.2015

Nigeria
Shell chooses safe pair of hands to run its Nigerian business

Shell has appointed a new chief for its businesses in [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.01.2015

Nigeria
Local banks fret over drop in oil price

The continuing fall in the price of oil is complicating [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.01.2015

Nigeria
Surge in Port Harcourt Refining Company’s output

With its upgrading program firmly underway, the Port Harcourt Refining [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.01.2015

Djibouti
Prime Value Catalyst takes over Total

Following the legal liquidation of two subsidiaries of Total on [...]

Subscribers only Business 16.01.2015

Spotlight | Gabon
ONEP could face a slow death

Launched on Dec. 1, a strike headed by the union Organisation Nationale des Employes du Petrole (ONEP) in Gabon’s oil and gas sector has entered its second month. Although the walkout is running out of steam at oil companies, the [.

Subscribers only Energy 06.01.2015

Nigeria
Azudialu-Obiejesi makes name for himself among independents

A Nigerian businessman who amassed a fortune in oil services with Nestoil, Ernest Azudialu-Obiejesi has turned his hand to production. [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.01.2015

Morocco
Shell wants to be first in LNG line

Energy minister Abdelkader Amara’s announcement in late December that Morocco was launching an ambitious development plan for LNG – the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.01.2015

Kenya
Essar sells Mombasa refinery for a song

Now that India’s Essar has pulled out, the chances of upgrading Mombasa’s refinery look dimmer than ever.

Subscribers only Energy 06.01.2015

Africa
Mutiu Sunmonu, a prime asset for Julius Berger

The current managing director of Shell Petroleum Development Co (SPDC) and chairman of Shell Companies in Nigeria, Mutiu Sunmonu, was [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.01.2015

Morocco
Mission sets out to find Gulf investors for LNG projects

The Moroccan government is organizing a road show in the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.01.2015

Nigeria
Outsized aims for Elumelu & Heirs Holdings

The firm Heirs Holdings is to shortly get into the oil exploration business or even into supplying gasoline to the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.12.2014

Algeria
Sonatrach still hot on shale gas

Despite the sharp slowdown in the world gas market and the failure of its most recent licensing round in late [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.12.2014

South Africa
Nonhlanhla Jiyane, safe pair of hands at PetroSA

In appointing Nonhlanha Jiyane as acting head of PetroSA, the South African government was taking no chances. Indeed, Pretoria was [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.12.2014

Gabon
Simeon Edzo Mezui, whiff of nepotism at Addax

The maintenance and production manager for Addax Petroleum, Simeon Edzo Mezui, has come under fire for hiring members of his [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.12.2014

Nigeria
Musical chairs game at Crestar

There’s been a change at the top at James Bay [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.12.2014

Mozambique
Exxon & Shell: ear to the ground

The big Western majors sent senior officials to speak at [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.12.2014

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