While waiting for a cease fire with the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) to run out in mid-September, president Umaru Yar'Adua is getting ready to intervene militarily to restore order in the strife-torn region.
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Holding only 10% of carried interest on the Jubilee field, the Ghana National Petroleum Corp (GNPC) would like to become [...]
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With Conakry appearing anxious to break off the least tie with the group, Hyperdynamics’ new management has adopted what it thinks is a winning strategy.
The Nigerian group wants to take over fields that can’t be developed by the majors and is promoting its project for a giant refinery in Lagos.
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Unhappy with the conditions in which BG buys and sells output from the first train at EG LNG, the Equatorial [...]
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BG has just reduced its involvement in OK LNG, a project for a liquefaction plant in the home region of former president Olusegun Obasanjo. The plan could be dropped.
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The American concern Hyperdynamics appointed Robert Solberg as its new board chairman in September. Solberg is a former world director [...]
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Equatorial Guinea’s foreign minister, Micha Ondo Bille, has called on [...]
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Several months after delivering Israeli patrol boats to Nigeria (see [...]
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Development of the Aseng condensed gas and oil field on [...]
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ExxonMobil is seeking a second loan to finance development of [...]
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After working for five years with Cassidy & Associates, Equatorial [...]
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Jerry John Rawlings, president of Ghana between 1981-2001. was in [...]
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Lanre Babalola, Nigeria's energy minister, will take part in the [...]
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Already a director of Sabre Oil & Gas in Ghana, Scott MacDonald has just won control of GB Petroleum in Tunisia, which owns blocks in North Africa.
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The Canadian concern Gold Star Resources, which owns several oil blocks in West Africa, has just recruited one of the [...]
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Under investigation by the U.S. Justice Department since 2007 for [...]
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With Angola planning to set up a sovereign fund named [...]
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The small British explorer Sirius Petroleum has won a promise [...]
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The British boutique bank Anglo Suisse Capital, has advised Nimba [...]
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The forthcoming production of oil on the banks of Lake Albert has cast doubt over the viability of an import pipeline between Eldoret and Kampala.
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India’s Essar group has decided to invest extensively in Kenya and has sent one of its leading executives to the country to do just that.
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Hit by a new drop in the water level of its dams, Kenya recently resigned itself to increasing production with emergency power stations supplied by Aggreko.
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The chief executive of the Ethiopian Electric Power Corp., Milheret [...]
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The Malagasy government has just officially awarded a new exploration contract that had been signed by former president Ravalomanana just days before he was forced out of office.
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A 31.4% rise in electricity rates have given Eskom some breathing space but the economic recovery could weigh on supplies.
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The Canadian firm CIC Energy has called on a major figure of in South Africa’s African National Congress (ANC), Mendi [...]
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The general manager of Zambia Electricity Supply Corp (Zesco), Cyprian [...]
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The British trader Arcadia, which owns three blocks in Namibia [...]
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The Environmental Council of Zambia (ECZ) has just approved the [...]
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A shareholder in Cobalt International Energy which is active in [...]
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Jacob Zuma, the South African president, is to consult with [...]
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GD Suez will have estimated by 2011 whether Cameroon’s offshore has enough gas to warrant building an LNG plant.
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Sinohydro has finally signed a letter of intent for the construction of the 200 MW Memve’ele dam that the Chinese [...]
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South Korea’s government is sparing no effort to help the [...]
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Will the man who was in charge of Libya’s oil industry become a simple oil consultant, as he was in [...]
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The state-owned company sealed a new partnership this summer with [...]
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In yet another visit to Algeria between Sept. 3-5 - [...]
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Drilled in mid-August, the ALRO 2 well in the Alrar [...]
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