In the space of a few months and with a leg-up from China's leadership, the refining company Sinopec has made its mark in the Gulf of Guinea...
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AEI sources say the U.S. independent Grynberg Petroleum, which has held a gigantic, 13.7 million acre concession along the border [...]
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A partner of DiamondWorks, the small Canadian firm Gulf of Guinea Petroleum is staffed by men long versed in exploring for oil in Africa.
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South Africa's state-owned utility Eskom has just sealed a strategic alliance with MagEnergy, an affiliate of the MagAlloys mining company, to supply its operations in Congo-B with power from the Inga dam in Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Highly reticent about the idea at first, the governments of Gabon and Equatorial Guinea now seem resigned to submitting their [...]
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A trading contract awarded in January to DiamondWorks was cancelled by Sao Tome's government at a cabinet meeting last week. [...]
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Congo-B's debt to Societe Nationale d'Electricite (SNEL) in neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo amounts to nearly $35 million and largely [...]
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A move by Total last year to transfer the Likoula field to Congo-B reportedly enabled Brazzaville to mount a loan [...]
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The African Development Bank will shortly issue an invitation to tender for a feasibility study next year on an interconnection [...]
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Cameroon's government has retained a consultancy to suggest scenarios for [...]
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Revelations by the Baghdad daily Al Mada on traders who gained from contracts with Iraq are continuing to make waves in Africa.
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Following the flap over RoyalDutch/Shell's over-estimate of oil reserves, the group's chairman, Philip Watts, and its exploration and production boss, [...]
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Canada's DiamondWorks which is pulling out all the stops to bolster its position in Africa's oil industry, has just hired [...]
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General Charles Wald, deputy commander of U.S. forces in Europe, carried out a tour of the Gulf of Guinea in [...]
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A company specializing in developing stranded gas reserves, Syntroleum, has [...]
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In the process of becoming a specialist in oil investigations, [...]
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Canada's CHC Helicopter Corporation that specializes in serving the oil [...]
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Set up in 2001, a joint venture between Soco International and Oilinvest will shortly start negotiating its debut in Libya's offshore.
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Without waiting for U.S. companies to return to their old stamping grounds, the European firms Repsol and OMV are negotiating for new licenses in conjunction with Wintershall.
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NOC would like to take advantage of the expected return of U.S. oil companies to make up for lost time in gas projects.
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Following the Lone Star debacle, Morocco finds itself once again playing host to Texan independents.
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Prime minister Shukri Ghanem's bid to gain ascendancy over Libya's oil industry, initiated last year, gathered steam last week with [...]
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Taking advantage of the gradual restoration of diplomatic relations between Libya and the United States, several Congressmen are positioning themselves [...]
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Sonatrach and Sonelgaz used a special purpose vehicle dubbed Shariket Kahraba Skikda to put together funding for the 823 MW [...]
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Algerian energy minister Chakib Khelil made a special effort during [...]
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One of Sonatrach's favorite law firms, the Paris branch of [...]
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An unknown financial firm based in Las Vegas, 8 Investments, acquired an oil concession in Sierra Leone's offshore last summer. Here are some details about the company.
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As the Senegalese government's unofficial adviser in the power sector, the World Bank is discreetly preparing two loans to enable [...]
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The International Finance Corp., private investment arm of the World Bank, is going to invest nearly $60 million in converting the Takoradi power station.
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ExxonMobil Nigeria, headed by Mike Fry, has just promoted a number of Nigerian executives, among them Wilfred Belonwu who was [...]
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Director of GEPetrol since it was formed in 2001, Domingo Mba Esono lost his job following the dust-up between Equatorial [...]
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The investigation that French authorities launched into commissions paid in the NLNG contract depends on the outcome of a request [...]
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RoyalDutch/Shell has just increased production at its Forcados complex from [...]
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While waiting for the West African Gas Pipeline to materialize, [...]
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Officially to improve its productivity, the National Electric Power Authority [...]
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After splitting the former Societe de l'Eau et de l'Electricite [...]
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The Kaduna refinery began operating again in early April after [...]
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According to our sources, the freeze on a $400 million [...]
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The CWC Group is organizing a conference at the Nicon [...]
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To help it raise funds for its Songo Songo project, Pan Ocean plans to unbundle its Tanzanian operations which are to be managed by a separate firm.
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After making several efforts over the past four years to break into Sudan's offshore, the Romanian authorities received Sudanese energy [...]
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The Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) has finally agreed [...]
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French groups are signing contracts here and there in Sudan's [...]
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Underway since late last year, the sale of Engen's stake in Energy Africa has entered a critical phase.
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With Angola already looking around for banks to put together its next oil-backed loan (see P. 1 in our last [...]
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ExxonMobil has made a 17th find on block 15, named [...]
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The leading producer in Angola, ChevronTexaco, is planning a major [...]
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