Just as Poland’s Summa Energy group won two blocks in north west Guinea, the state-owned Polish arms firm Bumar has stepped forward to negotiate arms deliveries to the country. An exclusive report. The Many Faces of Summa Energy.
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Fighting since the early 2000s with former Nigerian oil minister Dan Etete for control of OPL 245 (AEI 320/452), Shell [...]
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After a first setback in Nigeria, the Sandesara conglomerate is seeking acreage elsewhere in Africa.
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In joining forces with a Nigerian firm to buy out Chevron’s retail network in West Africa, Petroci has greatly increased its footprint in the sub-region.
The Rocksource company plans to test its cutting-edge technology in the Joint Development Zone between Guinea Bissau and Senegal.
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The discovery of the Jubilee field in 2007 continues to attract new investors to Ghana’s offshore blocks.
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After two years of hard bargaining, Total has finally won the right to work oil sands on the island.
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The Tunisian government has just agreed to the extension of [...]
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Geoff Barlow, chief financial officer of Storm Ventures International, contacted [...]
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State-owned Electricite de France has emerged as a competitor to countryman GDFSuez in the African gas sector. A major purchaser [...]
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Already an importer of Libyan gas, the French giant Gaz de FranceSuez has bought its first stake in an exploration permit.
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After thinking for years about investing in a gas liquefaction scheme in Nigeria, the European Union is now interested in the project for a Trans Saharan gas pipeline.
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Nyata Resources has found gas reserves in a region that had never previously been explored for gas.
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In late September, AES Corp set up Africa Power Co (AES APCO) to house all its assets in Africa, where [...]
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Zambia’s Eastern province is in talks to import 40 MW from Mozambique.
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After taking private power operators to task, state-owned Tanesco finds itself in the position of having to call on the private sector once again.
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The state owned utility Eskom penned an agreement with the [...]
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The sovereign fund Libya Oil Holdings (LOHL, formerly Tamoil Africa) [...]
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The Russian aluminum giant RusAl has signed a memorandum of [...]
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The end to Societe Nationale d’Electricte’s quasi monopoly has been [...]
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The new Niger Delta Technical Committee set up in early September by Nigerian president Umaru Yar’Adua to try to resolve [...]
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The Irish firm Island Oil & Gas has just named a South Africa, Adrian Doull, to its board. Aged 64, [...]
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Currently the chief operating officer of the British-United Arab Emirates firm Gulf Keystone, Ibrahim Al Khaldi has been appointed vice [...]
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Nearly half of South Africa’s government ministers resigned last week after president Thabo Mbeki was replaced by the vice president [...]
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A joint venture named Societe de Recherches et d’Exploitation des [...]
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On Sept. 22, the state-owned Angolan oil company Sonangol indicated [...]
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The consortium Xtract Energy (Oil Shale) Morocco consortium made up [...]
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Locked in a long legal battle with Algeria’s Sonatrach before [...]
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On Sept. 17 a Swiss national, Nicolas Michel, was named [...]
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A spokesman for Congo-K’s foreign ministry, Claude Kamanga Mutond, has [...]
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The National Corporation of Kenya (NOCK) is currently hammering out [...]
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Six months after agreeing to buy the U.S. firm Devon's [...]
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The near-bankruptcy of the American insurance giant AIG had the [...]
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Australia’s Roc Oil announced on Sept. 24 that the seventh [...]
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With its credit rating downgraded by the major rating agencies [...]
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Regularly under threat whenever a new government comes to power, [...]
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Organizer of the first two licensing rounds in Liberia's offshore [...]
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The accountancy PricewaterhouseCoopers has been contracted by OilMoz-Investimentos e Participacoes [...]
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Amine Benkhadra, Morocco's energy minister, will attend the 7th energy [...]
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Christophe Gerard, deputy director for international development at Gazprom, will [...]
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