Although it has just authorized several major developments, Sonangol is putting the squeeze on oil companies concerning several issues
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Africa Energy Intelligence has learned that Total has put off its plans for the moment for the disputed area of [...]
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The independent oil company PanOcean has bought back the stakes that AIG Infrastructure Fund and RMB held in its business but will continue to benefit from World Bank loans.
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The Norwegian firm Det Norske Oljeselskap (DNO) has made its debut in Africa with two contracts.
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Tymen Oil (TNK), a Russian oil giant linked to British Petroleum, has found itself embroiled in a legal battle with [...]
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The Nigerian economist Dave Akanni Lafiaji, who successively worked for the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and Nigeria's Continental Bank, was [...]
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Despite prime minister Tony Blair's efforts, the second Extractive Industries [...]
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One of the world's leading law firms specializing in energy [...]
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Global Pacific Partners is organizing the annual Africa Upstream conference [...]
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The CWC Group is organizing a top-level meeting at the [...]
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Expected for some months, BP has pulled out of Algeria in a move that suits Statoil. The latter has been seeking to diversify its assets.
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Libya's National Oil Company has denied that the Intisar field has been in decline since Occidental pulled out.
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Canada's Eurogas, which is active on several concessions in the [...]
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Libya's National Oil Company signed a partnership accord with Ukrainian [...]
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Tunisia's state-owned oil company ETAP signed an agreement in late [...]
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The French oil group Total signed up for two block in the Taoudeni basin less than two weeks after the abortive coup d'etat in Nouakchott.
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At least two American groups have put out feelers to Ivory Coast which is working flat out to promote its oil potential.
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Amerada Hess is encountering a lot of trouble in beginning to develop the northern part of block G.
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Spain and Equatorial Guinea signed an agreement in Madrid to convert Malabo's debt into investment. The deal, which concerned nearly [...]
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Director of the Bureau of Public Enterprises, an organization that sells off state-owned Nigerian companies, Nasir el Rufai is expected [...]
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The Nigerian National Petroleum Company's group managing director since 1999, Jackson Gaius Obaseki, could be replaced at the top of [...]
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France's Total, in partnership with ExxonMobil, ChevronTexaco and Nexen, submitted [...]
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Nigeria LNG, in which NNPC holds 49% alongside RoyalDutch/Shell (25.6%), [...]
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The Volta River Authority and the U.S. Valco group met [...]
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Equatorial Guinea's government-controlled radio declared on June 23 that the [...]
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Despite strong pressure from legislators and governors in the Niger [...]
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The CWC Group is organizing a conference at the Intercontinental [...]
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Lacula Oil, an affiliate of Baker Hughes active in the Cabinda's onshore, has been sold to Australia's ROC.
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After protracted talks with the IMF and World Bank, Zambia's has finally accepted the ?commercialization? of the country's power utility rather than its privatization.
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In advance of a visit to Africa in August, Brazil's new president, Luiz Igacio Lula da Silva, has endorsed a [...]
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The Zambian government has been taken to court in Lusaka by Trans Sahara Trading (TST), a South African affiliate of [...]
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Chairman of Sonangol's board for the past three years, Manuel Vicente could lose his job in a government reshuffle in [...]
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South Africa's state-owned PetroSA oil company is poised to sell [...]
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People participating in the Angola Oil & Gas Summit organized [...]
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On the heels of Canada's Acres International - which has [...]
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Kenya is turning to its neighbors for help in reducing its electricity bill that has already shrunk following the re-negotiation [...]
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The consortium initially selected to build the Bujagali dam in Uganda won't be there at the finish line.
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The geological consultancy Scott Pickford recently carried out an assessment [...]
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A meeting between Congo-B's finance minister, Roger-Rigobert Andely, and a Coordination Committee of Congo's Private Creditors, a panel set up [...]
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Named oil minister in a government reshuffle in N'Djamena last week, Youssouf Abassalah, who had previously been budget minister, is [...]
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Shell Gabon, which is 75% owned by RoyalDutch/Shell and 25% [...]
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Africa Energy Intelligence understands that Kinshasa made a concrete proposal [...]
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Specializing in the management of private debt, the Boston-based law [...]
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