Over the past six years, the heirs to the founder of Perenco, one of the leading unlisted oil producers active in Africa, have been squabbling among themselves over the size of their shares in the group.
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Sidelined in his own country since president Mohamed Morsi and the Moslem Brotherhood came to power, the Egyptian media and [...]
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Crude from the 17A block near the Abyei region will shortly help Khartoum boost its output.
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Talks on acquiring the Bakassi concession are expected to shortly wind up with an accord in favour of Addax.
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The Gabon Oil Co. has been boasting about its performance ever since it took over Addax’s Obangue field but oil companies rather doubt its figures.
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After fighting over the issue for two years, Setanta and Petroplus reached an agreement to unitise the Roussette field and are about to begin developing it.
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The French major Total has worked out the cost of developing reserves in and around Lake Albert to the three companies involved in the project, Total, CNOOC and Tullow Oil.
Heritage and Tullow clashed in court in London between March 12-28 about who should pay the $400 million in capital gains tax that the Uganda government is demanding.
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The sale of the German electricity producer RWE’s assets offers are rare opportunity for gas companies to break into the [...]
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With Rwanda already well on the way towards extracting gas from Lake Kivu, neighbouring Congo-K is still at the stage of wanting to peg out concessions.
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The international arm of Socar, the national oil company in Azerbaijan, has lent cash to Britain’s Gasoil to finance its gas projects.
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For want of local companies to do the work, Angola’s [...]
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After working steadily for 30 months, the Italian firm Franco Tosi Meccanica has finally completed the restoration of turbine G12 [...]
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The British concern is continuing to pursue its strategy of securing long-term contracts with national countries which it deems more solid and profitable.
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The need to diversify its sources of supply and reduce greenhouse gas emissions is prompting Eskom to commit itself fully to the Congolese Inga dam project.
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The African Development Bank (ADB) has awarded a $3 million [...]
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A specialist in Algeria’s oil industry, Sadek Boussena is presently being courted by the armed forces in his country to [...]
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Ghana president John Mahama Dramani has finally published a list of junior ministers. The man put in charge of oil, [...]
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In a sign that relations between mainland China and Taiwan are normalizing, the president of CNPC, Zhu Jiping, signed an [...]
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Congo-B oil minister Raphael Loeme is currently pushing for cooperation between his country and Congo-K on developing the area known [...]
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State-owned Sonatrach is going to stage scientific and technical seminars [...]
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The Brazilian firm is going to withdraw considerably from Africa [...]
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Several licenses on the offshore and deep offshore will be [...]
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The United States is freely offering its advice to recent [...]
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The fall of Central African Republic president Francois Bozize a [...]
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A new tax applied by the government has only worsened [...]
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Two juniors based in the British Virgin Islands, Caprikat and [...]
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France recently executed a request for judicial assistance from the [...]
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With Tullow and Heritage clashing in London on the same [...]
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Sudan and South Sudan have quietly decided on a two-month [...]
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In addition to its case concerning Tullow Oil, Heritage is [...]
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The London branch of the Canadian law concern McCarthy Tetrault [...]
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The chairman of the Curtis Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle law [...]
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Already acting as lobbyist for Ivory Coast (AEI 657) and [...]
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Faisal Hamad Abdullah, Sudan's deputy oil minister, held talks in [...]
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Henry Okah, the alleged leader of the Movement for the [...]
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Saeed Saad Al Menhali has been named manager of new [...]
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