Two years after the legal case relating to dumping toxic waste in Ivory Coast was settled, Trafigura, the world's second biggest independent trader after Vitol (it's tied with Glencore for second place), has changed the way it operates in Africa.
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Chad’s government awarded ERHC, which is 42% owned by Nigerian tycoon Emeka Offor and listed on the OTC Bulletin Board [...]
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France’s Total is intent on quickly winning a green light to become operator on block 3 near Lake Albert alongside SACoil so that exploration can begin at long last.
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The Central African Republic is hoping to shortly drum up funds to restore and build up its power sector, one of the most ramshackle in Africa.
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Between June 17-25, various panels of the African Petroleum Producers’ [...]
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As Africa Energy Intelligence anticipated in early June (AEI 653), [...]
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. A draft bill on reforms in Congo-K's power sector [...]
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The American law firm Hunton & Williams has reportedly won [...]
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Ivory Coast’s president has asked Sonangol to sell off its holding in Societe Ivoirienne de Raffinage (SIR). Now a new shareholder must be found.
Africa Energy Intelligence has been told by sources at the oil ministry in Nouakchott that Britain’s Tullow Oil would like [...]
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Ivory Coast’s supplies of electricity to neighboring Burkina Faso are back to normal, with current amounts now matching the 80 [...]
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Oil resources minister Diezanie Alisson-Madueke, a former Shell executive, was confirmed in her post under president Goodluck Jonathan in early [...]
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Ministers attending the African Petroleum Producers’ Association meeting in Brazzaville on June 25 agreed to renew the term of the [...]
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Before taking off for the African Union summit in Malabo, [...]
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The Ghana National Petroleum Corp has at last outlined its [...]
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Kingsley Kuku, a special adviser to Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan [...]
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. In response to an article in our last issue, [...]
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. According to our sources, France’s Bouygues group, one of [...]
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Pierre Foumakoye Gado, Niger's mines and oil minister, was in [...]
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Mariam Kaida ba Cisse Sidibe, Mali's prime minister, talked of [...]
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Thousands of barrels of oil from test wells will be used by local companies that seem only too happy to get their hands on cheaper fuel.
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American oil companies keen on operating in South Sudan which becomes independent on July could find themselves treading on a legal minefield.
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In mid-June Tullow Oil Uganda appointed a new managing director. After working for more than three years in the job, [...]
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Barely four hours after he landed at Beijing airport, Sudanese [...]
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Shamsul Azhar Abbas, the chief executive of Malaysia’s Petronas, held [...]
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Pleased with the wells it has drilled, Hong Kong-based Sunpec company wants to put block 3113 into production. But for that it must settle a dispute with its top shareholder.
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A decision on whether to develop Kudu still hasn’t been taken by the Russians and Tullow because of the government’s veto on an economic stabilization clause.
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The Portuguese and French groups are thinking of investing in a huge, center-to-south transmission line.
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Eight months after trading in Madagascar Oil’s shares on the [...]
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. Afren ’s position in Madagascar was greatly strengthened during [...]
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Spain's Repsol is about to get the green light from the regulatory agency Alnaft to develop the Reggane gas field in the south-west.
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American lobbyists are falling over one another to represent Libyan [...]
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The South African firm SacOil will have a new operations director, Jan Maier, on July 11. Maier will work directly [...]
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A month after taking over as chairman of DNO's board, [...]
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After raising cash with an IPO early this year, Kosmos [...]
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The financial services affiliate of Sunwah Group in Hong Kong, [...]
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The small French investment bank AM Capital, which specializes in [...]
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The Canadian investment bank succeeded in raising only $40 million [...]
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