An agreement penned last week between ENI and Congo amounted to Africa's first big oil sands project. The ever-climbing price of oil has finally made such projects commercially viable despite the vast amounts of energy they require and their potential [.
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The Spanish energy group Iberdrola has signed a joint investment agreement concerning the upstream with the United Arab Emirates equity [...]
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After two months of open warfare, the activist fund Nanes Delorme has come to terms with its target, Vaalco, which produces in Gabon.
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Former executives of Shell are developing a field discovered by their ex employer and operated by one of their previous colleagues.
With financial backing from a British equity fund, the Congolese firm Cominco has acquired a license in the Congolese “cuvette.”
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Fighting with its partners in Kenya, Woodside has seen its withdrawal from Africa turn into a rout.
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Companies gravitating around gems producer Petra Diamonds have put together an oil portfolio in Namibia.
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In addition to Cominco (see above), three other companies are [...]
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India’s National Thermal Power Corp (NTPC) is seeking at any cost to lock in oil and gas supplies, notably in [...]
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Spain’s Gas Natural and Repsol have sharply increased the amount of compensation they are demanding for cancellation of the Gassi Touil contract.
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Already operator on the Nyuni field near the Songo Songo gas field, Aminex has taken a position on another concession in the area named Songo Songo West.
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Speaking on television on June 1, Nigerian president Umaru Yar’Adua [...]
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Conducting an extensive prospecting campaign to find gas reserves that [...]
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A Canadian company run by Brian Menell and Tony Teixeira, Energem, has acquired a 40% holding in a project for [...]
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The World Bank is expected this month to approve its first major loan to the West Africa Power Pool project.
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Under the terms of a global pact it signed with Congo-B last week, Italy's ENI has agreed to increase the capacity of the Djeno power station to 450 MW.
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The World Bank is scheduled in coming months to approve [...]
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The new prime minister of Guinea is Ahmed Tidjane Souare who has replaced Lansana Kouyate who was fired on May [...]
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The chief executive officer of the United Arab Emirates company Aabar has just resigned to join the Abu Dhabi equity [...]
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The president of BG Egypt, Ian Hewitt has been promoted to the post of group vice president for North Africa. [...]
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The London investment bank Parkmead Group has just appointed an advisory board whose first members are two former BP executives, [...]
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The state-owned utility Sonelgaz proceeded on June 1 with a [...]
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Libya's National Oil Corp is going to recover block NC [...]
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The state-owned Senegalese oil company Petrosen is to increase its [...]
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The Libyan Investment Agency has signed an agreement with the [...]
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On May 15, the Democrat representative from Massachusetts, Barney Frank, [...]
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On a visit to Abuja, the Lord Mayor of the [...]
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The Japanese government seized the occasion of the Tokyo International [...]
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The Uganda Army is thinking of forming a naval unit [...]
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The central government in Khartoum has suggested to the authorities [...]
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After a probe that lasted two years, Australia’s federal police [...]
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In what seems a sign of disagreement within the Nigerian [...]
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During its general assembly on May 27, the oil production [...]
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The government sold a total of 593,412 shares in Companhia [...]
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In partnership with Sofremines and the Burundi law firm Mkono [...]
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A private bank present throughout all of West Africa, where [...]
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The Islamic Corp for Insurance of Investment and Export Credit [...]
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Jean-Louis Borloo, French ecology and energy minister, was in Algiers [...]
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Omar el Bechir, the president of Sudan, took part on [...]
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Salomon Banamuhere, the energy minister of Democratic Republic of Congo, [...]
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