Like Cobalt International Energy, under attack for its ties with companies close to government in Luanda, all of the majors operating in Angola are obliged to make concessions. If they want to be sure of landing the best blocks they [.
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Although a report by Nigerian lawmaker Farouk Lawan appeared to strike out at every agency and organization involved in importing [...]
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The election of Macky Sall as Senegal’s new president is expected to bring a number of majors, which were disinclined to deal with Aboulaye and Karim Wade, back to the country.
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Liberia seems likely to award block 13 to Exxon, which is favored by the country’s leaders in preference to Gazprom. The Russians were backed in the past by some legislators.
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A trip by Niger's president to Sudan and Chad resulted in several oil agreements being signed to the delight of Omar El Bachir.
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The oil and gas minister in Congo-K’s transition government confirmed the renewal of an exploration contract to a company with friends in the president’s circle.
The Zinder refinery in Niger, which was inaugurated last December, [...]
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The Société nationale des pétroles du Congo (SNPC) and its [...]
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While waiting for a final investment decision on Brass LNG, the biggest operation in Nigeria's gas sector this year will [...]
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Already producing gas on the In Salah and In Amenas concessions, BP has plans to launch work on a new gas field, Bourahat South, at the end of the year.
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The South African group Forest Oil has sold off its shares on the South African gas field Ibhubesi to a company that remains largely unknown for the moment: African Energy International.
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The CKG Energy company headed by Ivory Coast’s Charles Kader Goore is expected to soon start building a 450 MW [...]
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The increasingly irregular supply of power from Nigeria could be gradually offset by new thermal stations.
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Certain donors are no longer looking at the project for a 3000/4000 Inga 3 dam, deemed too short on capacity, and are thinking instead in terms of a 40,000 MW unit.
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Congo-K president Joseph Kabila made an unusual choice in picking the country’s new oil and gas minister. Krispin Atama Tabe, [...]
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A report by a Parliamentary panel headed by Farouk Lawan into irregularities involving subsidies on oil products (see P. 2) [...]
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In a limited government re-shuffle in mid-April, Benin’s president, Thomas Boni Yayi, named a new energy, mining research and oil [...]
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Joining the board of Empresa Nacional de Electricidade (ENE) in November, 2009, Jose Carlos Santos Neves was named chairman on [...]
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The new chairman of the board of Empresa Nacional de [...]
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The chief of Societe des Hydrocarbures du Tchad (SHT), Mahamat [...]
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South Africa has found a prime supplier to help it [...]
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According to our sources, the CEO of Hyperdynamics, Ray Leonard, [...]
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The board of Societe de Raffinage de Zinder (SORAZ) which [...]
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A report by legislator Farouk Lawan on oil subsidies (see [...]
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The Chinese seismic concern BGP will conduct 2D and 3D [...]
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With France's big banks all cutting back drastically on trade [...]
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Andy Bartlett hasn’t been exactly idle since he left Standard [...]
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The lawyers for U.S. national Jack Grynberg’s RSM Production Corp [...]
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A whole era has ended at the London outpost of [...]
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Hampered by the departure of its star banker Ian Hannam [...]
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The American bank is advising the American explorer Hyperdynamics on [...]
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Capitalizing on an inquiry by the U.S. Department of Justice [...]
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Elizabeth Dipuo Peters, South Africa’s energy minister, and the new [...]
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Yousef Yousfi, Algeria’s energy minister, will be one of the [...]
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Bonaventure Rosoanaivo, director of Madagascar's Office Strategique des Mines Nationales [...]
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