Last week's admission by Libyan foreign minister that Tripoli was "civilly responsible" for the acts of its agents in the Lockerbie bombing looks likely to eventually put an end to Libya's isolation
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The ex-Soviet Union's agency for oil cooperation with Moscow's allies, Zarubezhneft, will go partly onto the auction block in coming [...]
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After taking a position in Congo-Brazzaville last week by buying the Mer Tres Profonde Nord and Sud concessions, the U.S. group Murphy Oil is now seeking a foothold in East Africa.
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Hitches concerning the development of two fields, Dalia and Akpo, that had compromised TotalFinaElf's prospects for growth in the Gulf of Guinea look like being resolved.
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Converted into an oil trading company in less than a year ago by Canada's DiamondWorks, the South African firm Otterbea is picking up a flurry of contracts.
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In addition to Transmed, two other gas pipelines are to link Italy and North Africa in coming years. Africa Energy Intelligence outlines the timetable for the projects.
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In indicating they would be present for two decades to come on the Rabi-Kounga field Shell and Total marked their ?confidence? in Gabon's future, even though the actual field's output has dropped four-fold.
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Sweden's Lundin has sold its controlling interest on block 5A to Petronas. The transaction gives the Malaysian firm and China's CNPC an effective monopoly on Sudan's onshore.
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After selling several of its assets in the North Sea [...]
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A company jointly owned by Sonatrach and Libya's National Oil [...]
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Britain's AMEC group, operating through its affiliate French Spie, has [...]
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Already involved in supplying Ethiopia with oil products, the Kuwait [...]
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The Irish firm Aminex plans to start drilling on one [...]
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Syanga Abilio, head of Sonangol's oil division (Pesquisa e Producao), [...]
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The head of Nigeria's Department of Petroleum Resources, Macaulay Ofurhie, [...]
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The U.S. firm Vanco Energy plans to drill an exploration [...]
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The Australian firm Hardman Resources said a 3D seismic survey [...]
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Equatorial Guinea is seeking to buy two new turbines to beef up the capacity of the Malabo power station. Indeed, [...]
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Management of Benin's power utility will be turned over to the private sector following a bidding round scheduled for June.
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With new management at the helm, Kenya's national utility is doing its utmost to clean up its books before going onto the auction block.
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A Saudi delegation headed by prince Al Waleed Bin Talal, the billionaire chief of Kingdom Holdings and nephew of king [...]
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After a two month stand-off between Gabon and Equatorial Guinea over ownership of the islands of Mbagnie, Cocotier and Conga, [...]
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Oil companies operating in Nigeria's offshore encountered serious trouble in April after a long series of run-ins with communities in [...]
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Talks between Khartoum and the rebel movement in southern Sudan appear bogged down just as the government finds itself in [...]
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A key middleman between American corporations and the Obasanjo government, Andrew Young, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and [...]
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The U.S. oil firm Vanco has just appointed Steve Thornton, a former executive of United Meridian Corporation (now Ocean Energy), [...]
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Long-standing oil adviser to Gabon president Omar Bongo, Samuel Dossou-Aworet has just been accused by his former boss of involvement [...]
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CEO of the Australian oil company Woodside since 1996, John Akehurst has been fired by the company's board which says [...]
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Previously in charge of Asian operations for the American oil service company Ray McDermott, Kurt Nelson has been named senior [...]
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Algerian energy minister Chakib Khelil, who is also boss of [...]
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The Nigerian National Petroleum Company has wrestled down the debts [...]
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The Cameroon government seems intent on seizing the forthcoming inauguration [...]
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Highly committed in recent years to seeking greater transparency regarding [...]
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An arbitration procure that has pitted the U.S. firm Duke [...]
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Switzerland's highest legal body, the Federal Tribunal, ruled on May [...]
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Officials from the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) flew [...]
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The Mozambican government is being advised by the South African [...]
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African director for the United States Trade Representative (USTR) during [...]
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Partly funded by Australia's ROC Oil, the Canadian firm Tracer [...]
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IBC Energy is organizing a conference in London between June [...]
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Global Pacific Partners is organizing a conference in Marrakesh between [...]
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