Angola and its national oil company Sonangol are actively preparing for the future of their oil industry - and energy in general. Luanda is not only intent on profiting fully from the current spike in demand for oil and gas [.
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Companies seeking to buy RoyalDutch/Shell’s stakes on OML 30, 34, 40 and 42 remain on tenterhooks after submitting their bids [...]
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Mauritania’s new oil legislation ought to allow for new blocks to be awarded, but to also get rid of companies that haven’t fulfilled their obligations.
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Algeria’s Sonatrach has held up its own work while waiting for the results of a well that Total is drilling in the Taoudenni basin. But it may eventually have to act..
Noble Energy has broken off relatively recent talks on acquiring a stake in the offshore block operated by Hyperdynamics.
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The chief executive of Texas-based Hyperdynamics which is active in Guinea’s offshore, Ray Leonard, will shortly join American Friends of [...]
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Nigeria’s president has finally chosen Kingsley Kuku as his special adviser for the Niger Delta region in the place of [...]
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Two years behind the initial schedule, the state-owned China National [...]
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Three big European oil companies will soon find themselves being [...]
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Mart Resources and its Nigerian partner Midwestern haven’t been able [...]
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After a full year of bargaining (AEI 625/633). Japan's JGC [...]
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The British accountancy firm Hart Group, based in Aylesbury and [...]
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Diezani Alison-Madueke, Nigeria's oil resources minister, and her energy counterpart, [...]
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A walkout by the Franco-British firm’s workers brought a complete halt to Perenco’s operations for a few days in early February.
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The three governments that hold stakes in Sinelac, which operates Ruzizi, have vowed to regularly pay their bills. That promises to inject fresh money into the company.
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The final page of Total E&P Cameroon has officially turned with the recent appointment of its managing director, Pierre Bang, [...]
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China is no longer the only Asian country to curry [...]
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The British oil company Soco doesn't seem ready to take [...]
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Burundi’s supreme court won’t be examining a suit by the [...]
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The Malagasy government plans to shortly take a very close look at oil and mining contracts but the French major will be exempted from the exercise.
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Awarded a contract last year to explore for shale gas in the Karoo basin, RoyalDutch/Shell has come under fire from local residents, a few of them rich and well-known.
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South Korea’s Posco, the world’s third-ranking iron producer and a construction giant, is displaying a keen interest in a coal-fired [...]
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The state-owned Brazilian group Petrobras has withdrawn its bid to [...]
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South African mining resources minister Susan Shabangu issued a warning [...]
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The South African law firm Derek Light Attorneys advises the [...]
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A regular sub-contractor to the Angolan national oil company Sonangol, [...]
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Still on the drawing board just a month ago (AEI 642), Anadarko ’s project to build a gas liquefaction plant [...]
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Addis Ababa has finally made Petronas and SWE understand that they can’t exclude the government from their business dealings.
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Sudan’s national oil company Sudapet, which will start managing oil [...]
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Sudanese president Omar el Bechir finally decided against dismissing all [...]
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Fred Kabagambe Kaliisa, the secretary-general of Uganda's energy ministry, outlined [...]
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The European Union’s industry commissioner wants to increase EU funding of power projects in Africa and thus boost mining output earmarked for Europe.
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The British major BP has just appointed its first director from the African continent, 50-year-old Phuthuma Nhleko. Born in South [...]
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Reaping profits from a spurt in production on its assets [...]
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To reduce its net debt of USD 142 million, the [...]
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Alec Robinson, the chief executive of Centric Energy, will chair [...]
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The Bourahat block operated by Medex and Sonatrach in the [...]
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Sonatrach is to start work on a new oil hub [...]
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Six years after first investing in Libya, the Indian Oil [...]
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