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TotalEnergies

France’s TotalEnergies is one of the world’s top oil and oil products companies and is involved in every aspect of the oil chain from extraction to sales.

Libya
Belgian royal family wins €38m from LIA in Luxembourg

The Luxembourg appeal court has ordered HSBC to transfer the Libyan assets it is holding to the non-profit trust owned by Prince Laurent of Belgium. Other Luxembourg banks could also be targeted.

Subscribers only Finance 13.07.2023

Spotlight | Uganda
Uganda struggles to launch $4bn oil refinery

Uganda's aim of building its own crude refinery seems further than ever from fulfilment. Tired of delays by the Western companies tasked with the project, President Museveni is considering turning to Chinese partners to get it off the ground.

Subscribers only Energy, Politics 11.07.2023

Burkina Faso
The real reasons why Endeavour is selling its Boungou and Wahgnion gold mines

The sale of the two sites for $300m to Simon Tiemtoré can be largely explained by attacks from jihadist groups and disputes with local communities that interrupted operations. The Canadian company is now focusing on Abidjan instead.

Subscribers only Mining 11.07.2023

Mozambique
Mozambique LNG: TotalEnergies turns pressure up on Saipem

One of TotalEnergies' purchasing managers in Maputo, Lei von Habsburg-Lothringen, has just been sent to Milan for at least a year to work with the Italian services giant Saipem.

Subscribers only Energy 10.07.2023

Inner circles | South Africa
Ramaphosa struggles with shortage of top advisers

South Africa's leader is short of economic and international affairs advisers at a time when he badly needs help with domestic emergencies such as power cuts and external crises like the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. He is also having to deal with personality clashes within his office.

Subscribers only Politics 07.07.2023

South African president Cyril Ramaphosa in Cape Town on 7 February 2023.

Africa
TotalEnergies set to replace Africa director

The French oil major has several senior managerial changes in the pipeline, which would spell a new chapter for its Africa division.

Free access Energy 07.07.2023

Henri-Max Ndong Nzue, head of the sub-Saharan Africa exploration and production branch of TotalEnergies in Cape Town on 4 October 2022

Libya
Franco-Libyan energy forum falls short of expectations

An event organised by France's Medef business organisation and the Franco-Libyan Chamber of Commerce in Paris was cut short and had to make do without the presence of the head of Libya's National Oil Corporation, which was a partner in the forum.

Subscribers only Energy, Business 07.07.2023

Africa
French operators bag €100m in EU security contracts in Africa

Expertise France, l'Economat des Armées and DCI are the main beneficiaries of the EU's European Peace Facility for missions in Africa.

Subscribers only Defence 07.07.2023

Uganda
Kampala relies on new loan to build rail line to Malaba

Uganda is preparing to borrow $2.6bn from UK Export Finance to start laying track between Malaba and Kampala. Construction is due to start in September.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Finance 05.07.2023

Senegal
Political tensions in Dakar put off miners

Senegal had hoped to attract mining and oil investors to the latest EITI Global Conference. But the event was overshadowed by the arrest of opposition politician Ousmane Sonko and ensuing unrest, which appears to have jeopardised the launch of new extractive projects in the short term.

Subscribers only Mining 03.07.2023

Kenya
EU banks on Kenya to reach other east African markets

Brussels is counting on the pro-business stance of William Ruto, with whom a free trade agreement has been concluded, to convince other countries in the region to step up their trade.

Subscribers only Business, Diplomacy 30.06.2023

Kenya's president William Ruto in Brussels on 29 March 2023.

Spotlight | Africa
Industry leaders support Berlin's hydrogen diplomacy

Eager to diversify its energy supply, Germany is looking into various green hydrogen projects in Africa. Siemens, Enertrag and Bosch are in the vanguard, and Egypt and Namibia are competing to secure investment pledges.

Subscribers only Energy 29.06.2023

Robert Habeck (3rd from left), Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection, and Hage Gottfried Geingob (4th from right), president of Namibia, focusing on closer cooperation on hydrogen on 5 December 2022 in Windhoek.

Mozambique
Kenmare courts Sunshine Nuts for job creation

Previously solicited by TotalEnergies to provide jobs for families displaced by its Mozambique gas project, the US food-processing business Sunshine Nuts is now in talks with Irish mining company Kenmare with a view to mounting a similar project.

Subscribers only Energy 29.06.2023

Algeria
Cevital to resume sugar exports to Europe

Following a year-long export ban, sugar refined by the Algerian company can start crossing the Mediterranean again.

Subscribers only Commodity traders 29.06.2023

Mozambique
WBHO steams ahead on Mozambique LNG as TotalEnergies plays it safe

WBHO is pulling out all the stops at Afungi, which will soon become the largest liquefied gas processing zone in Africa. But the French major TotalEnergies, which is in charge of the development of the site, is playing it safe.

Subscribers only Energy 27.06.2023

Nigeria
With Tinubu in office, billionaire Tony Elumelu prevails in power industry

Nigerian businessman Tony Elumelu is investing left and right in the power sector and is now looking into renewables. Newly-elected President Bola Tinubu's reforms could make the sector even more profitable.

Subscribers only Energy 26.06.2023

Nigerian businessman Tony Elumelu in Lagos in July 2018.

South Africa
Africa Oil Week loses its captain

Paul Sinclair, who had been at the helm of Africa Oil Week for the past seven years, stepped down in mid-June. His departure is bad news for the event's organiser, the Hyve Group, which is also battling to keep its sponsors from defecting to the rival Africa Energy Week.

Subscribers only Energy 26.06.2023

Nigeria
Tinubu reforms imperil Ebury and Wema Bank's forex business model

For the last year, the British and Nigerian partners have been helping foreign companies, among them France's TotalEnergies, to repatriate their profits in naira to Europe. But the liberalising of Nigeria's foreign exchange market could harm this lucrative line of business.

Subscribers only Finance, Energy 22.06.2023

Senegal
TotalEnergies, Eramet and ICS brace for further supply disruptions

Calm may have returned to the Senegalese capital, but businesses disrupted by the unrest are staying on high alert and are ready to suspend operations again if necessary.

Subscribers only Energy, Mining, Business 22.06.2023

Libya
LIA seeks to recover rent from frozen Parisian assets

As part of a drive to raise funds, Libya's sovereign fund has filed another request to recover the rent from its properties in France - assets which are currently frozen.

Subscribers only Finance 22.06.2023

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TotalEnergies

Libya
Belgian royal family wins €38m from LIA in Luxembourg

Spotlight | Uganda
Uganda struggles to launch $4bn oil refinery

Burkina Faso
The real reasons why Endeavour is selling its Boungou and Wahgnion gold mines

Mozambique
Mozambique LNG: TotalEnergies turns pressure up on Saipem

Inner circles | South Africa
Ramaphosa struggles with shortage of top advisers

Africa
TotalEnergies set to replace Africa director

Libya
Franco-Libyan energy forum falls short of expectations

Africa
French operators bag €100m in EU security contracts in Africa

Uganda
Kampala relies on new loan to build rail line to Malaba

Senegal
Political tensions in Dakar put off miners

Kenya
EU banks on Kenya to reach other east African markets

Spotlight | Africa
Industry leaders support Berlin's hydrogen diplomacy

Mozambique
Kenmare courts Sunshine Nuts for job creation

Algeria
Cevital to resume sugar exports to Europe

Mozambique
WBHO steams ahead on Mozambique LNG as TotalEnergies plays it safe

Nigeria
With Tinubu in office, billionaire Tony Elumelu prevails in power industry

South Africa
Africa Oil Week loses its captain

Nigeria
Tinubu reforms imperil Ebury and Wema Bank's forex business model

Senegal
TotalEnergies, Eramet and ICS brace for further supply disruptions

Libya
LIA seeks to recover rent from frozen Parisian assets

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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?

West African cocoa cartel battles with the traders

Africa in the Russia-Ukraine war

East Africa's hotly contested coffee sector

TotalEnergies

Libya Belgian royal family wins €38m from LIA in Luxembourg

Spotlight | Uganda Uganda struggles to launch $4bn oil refinery

Burkina Faso The real reasons why Endeavour is selling its Boungou and Wahgnion gold mines

Mozambique Mozambique LNG: TotalEnergies turns pressure up on Saipem

Inner circles | South Africa Ramaphosa struggles with shortage of top advisers

Africa TotalEnergies set to replace Africa director

Libya Franco-Libyan energy forum falls short of expectations

Africa French operators bag €100m in EU security contracts in Africa

Uganda Kampala relies on new loan to build rail line to Malaba

Senegal Political tensions in Dakar put off miners

Kenya EU banks on Kenya to reach other east African markets

Spotlight | Africa Industry leaders support Berlin's hydrogen diplomacy

Mozambique Kenmare courts Sunshine Nuts for job creation

Algeria Cevital to resume sugar exports to Europe

Mozambique WBHO steams ahead on Mozambique LNG as TotalEnergies plays it safe

Nigeria With Tinubu in office, billionaire Tony Elumelu prevails in power industry

South Africa Africa Oil Week loses its captain

Nigeria Tinubu reforms imperil Ebury and Wema Bank's forex business model

Senegal TotalEnergies, Eramet and ICS brace for further supply disruptions

Libya LIA seeks to recover rent from frozen Parisian assets

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About Africa Intelligence

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Africa Intelligence on social media

Indigo Publications' websites

Senegal
Guns and oil drive Russia's Dakar courtship

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

Libya
Belgian royal family wins €38m from LIA in Luxembourg

Spotlight | Uganda
Uganda struggles to launch $4bn oil refinery

Burkina Faso
The real reasons why Endeavour is selling its Boungou and Wahgnion gold mines

Mozambique
Mozambique LNG: TotalEnergies turns pressure up on Saipem

Inner circles | South Africa
Ramaphosa struggles with shortage of top advisers

Africa
TotalEnergies set to replace Africa director

Libya
Franco-Libyan energy forum falls short of expectations

Africa
French operators bag €100m in EU security contracts in Africa

Uganda
Kampala relies on new loan to build rail line to Malaba

Senegal
Political tensions in Dakar put off miners

Kenya
EU banks on Kenya to reach other east African markets

Spotlight | Africa
Industry leaders support Berlin's hydrogen diplomacy

Mozambique
Kenmare courts Sunshine Nuts for job creation

Algeria
Cevital to resume sugar exports to Europe

Mozambique
WBHO steams ahead on Mozambique LNG as TotalEnergies plays it safe

Nigeria
With Tinubu in office, billionaire Tony Elumelu prevails in power industry

South Africa
Africa Oil Week loses its captain

Nigeria
Tinubu reforms imperil Ebury and Wema Bank's forex business model

Senegal
TotalEnergies, Eramet and ICS brace for further supply disruptions

Libya
LIA seeks to recover rent from frozen Parisian assets