After calling for several investigations into one case or another, the Yar’Adua government has kicked off an inquiry into all petroleum permits awarded by the previous Obasanjo regime in licensing rounds in 2005, 2006 and 2007.
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Talks involving Afren’s acquisition of blocks CI-11 and CI-01 in Ivory Coast’s offshore from Devon - negotiations began in May [...]
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Anxious to build up his position in natural resources in Africa, steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal has forged an alliance with South Africa's Tokyo Sexwale.
Seeking a partner for some months, Ireland’s Petroceltic has ended by joining forces with the Spanish power group Iberdrola.
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Germany’s RWE group has just debuted on two licenses in Mauritania.
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Now controlled by Polish interests, Summa Energy is seeking to finalize a production sharing agreement in Guinea’s on-shore.
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After an attack on a rig on the Bonga field, a former adviser to Olusegun Obasanhjo has once again suggested hiring private security companies in the Niger Delta.
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South Africa’s state-owned oil company is seeking partners for its African licenses. On one block, PetroSA has already teamed up with an unknown junior, and it may do so elsewhere with others as well.
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In response to our article "The Shell Connection" (AEI 465), [...]
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A year after winning the contract to install a giant liquefaction train at Skikda, Kellogg Brown & Root International (KBR) [...]
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The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation is seeking to bring two states into BG’s project for a liquefaction plant at Okola, to the irritation of the operators.
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Malabo is struggling to find the gas needed to supply a second liquefaction train at EG LNG.
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Currently conducting a gas prospecting campaign off the southern coast [...]
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Sonatrach and its shipping affiliate Hyproc are to shortly issue [...]
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Canada's CIC Energy group could be forced to lower the bar on its project for a coal-fired power plant at [...]
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Empresa Nacional de Electricidade is weighing the pros and cons of gas or water in generating power.
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Namibia’s power utility wants to build a coal-fired power station to supply electricity to uranium mines.
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As Africa Energy Intelligence anticipated (AEI 435), the World Bank [...]
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The firm Transatlantic Investment and Development Company headed by Chima [...]
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The state-run utility Eskom has awarded a EUR 22 million [...]
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As Africa Energy Intelligence reported would shortly be the case (AEI 465), the Vaalco group has just appointed a new [...]
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The former chief executive of the Ghana National Petroleum Corp (GNPC) was sentenced to five years in jail on June [...]
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Headed by John Manzoni, a former executive of BP, the Canadian firm Talisman Energy has recruited a mergers and acquisitions [...]
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Following the sudden death of John Doran, chief executive and founder of ROC Oil, on June 27, Bruce Clement is [...]
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The Ethiopian Electric Power Corp has issued an invitation to [...]
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The state-owned Angolan oil company Sonangol is to issue a [...]
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Libya’s National Oil Corp has retained the services of investment [...]
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Nigerian president Umaru Yar’Adua is scheduled to soon meet with [...]
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Leaders from northern and southern Sudan have called on the [...]
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Gabon’s government will stage a licensing round in the country’s [...]
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A delegation from the Construction Association of Korea (CAK) led [...]
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France’s junior minister for foreign trade, Anne-Marie Idrac, and Angolan [...]
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A partner of trader Mocoh in a three-year-old joint venture [...]
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For the second time in a year, trading in Equator [...]
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On June 26, the World Bank’s board approved an additional [...]
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The Belgian bank Fortis recently opened a USD 500 million [...]
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Founded by engineers Kapo and Alan Simonian, the British consultancy [...]
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The British branch of the Lazard investment bank joined forces [...]
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While the Elliott Associates equity concern succeeded in resolving its [...]
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Odein Ajumogobia, Nigeria's oil minister, will take part in the [...]
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Erlichman Shlomo, director of the Luxembourg affiliate of Summa Group [...]
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Ali Al Nouaimi, Saudi Arabia's oil minister, paid a visit [...]
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