The sudden fall in oil prices, which plunged from USD 147 to under USD 40 per barrel in just six months, has panicked members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) who are to meet in emergency session in [.
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According to our sources, the boss and founder of the private security firm Aegis Defence Services, Tim Spicer, was in [...]
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The oil sector has enabled a lot of local companies to diversify. But exploration has been held back by operators who don’t meet their contractual obligations.
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Lakes Tanganyika and Upemba are to shortly be divided into several blocks that the government will put up for sale.
The Israeli diamond operator Dan Gertler has finally brought two long-standing partners, the Gertner brothers, into his oil block in the maritime corridor between Congo-K and Angola.
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The forthcoming creation of a national oil company in Madagascar is stirring a lot of debate about the share-out of power between the company and government.
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Now owner of his own company, the founder of Madagascar Oil, Sam Malin, has just acquired a license in Seychelles’ offshore.
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. The French major Total announced that its Moho Nord [...]
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. The Canadian firm Africa Oil Corp which owns 80% [...]
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. The publication of a final report by a parliamentary [...]
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Closed down on Nov. 27 by Shell Nigeria for emergency repairs on gas pipelines damaged by attacks by local groups, [...]
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Equipment for the extraction of methane from Lake Kivu was sent to the bottom of the lake in early November. The incident has soured the atmosphere in Kigali.
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Contracts for gathering infrastructure for gas that will be liquefied at the Angola LNG plant are to be awarded early in the new year.
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As Nigerian oil minister Odein Ajumogobia prepares to reveal which [...]
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Despite the insecurity prevailing in the Niger Delta, no less [...]
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Already operating in the oil sector (AEI 471), the sovereign fund Libyan Africa Investment Portfolio (LAP) is now also investing [...]
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After landing up a number of contracts over the past five years, China’s CGC is moving into Nigeria in a big way by building dams and a power plant.
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The man in charge of Congo-K’s national power company is being grilled by senators and magistrates about what happened to money from a loan.
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Early this month Ghanaian president John Kufuor inaugurated work on [...]
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France's Alstom group has just penned a USD 317 million [...]
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Morocco's Office National d’Electricite (ONE) was granted a EUR 170 [...]
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Once again Manuel Vicente has been handed a three year mandate to serve as managing director of the state-owned oil [...]
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The appointment of Peter Landau as successor to Susan Hunter as secretary-general and member of the board of the Australian [...]
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Appointed non-executive director of the Australian concern ROC Oil on Dec. 3, a French national, Robert Leon, will not have [...]
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The leading adviser to Barack Obama on African questions during his electoral campaign, Witney Schneidman has positioned himself to be [...]
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In order to streamline the country’s bid for growth in [...]
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Specialized in investing in the energy field, the state-run Libyan [...]
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The Office National des Hydrocarbures et des Mines du Maroc [...]
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Unlike Sudanese citizens who tried in vain to take Canada’s [...]
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The new Ghanaian president who comes to office following elections [...]
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The two Indian Ocean islands of Seychelles and Mauritius submitted [...]
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In a shake-up of the Uganda military in early December, [...]
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A syndicate of state-owned banks led by Credit Populaire d’Algerie [...]
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The Emerging Africa Fund 2 managed by Emerging Capital Partners [...]
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Work on restoring the Inga 1 and Inga 2 dams [...]
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Eighteen months after Sudan’s National Petroleum Commission cancelled its rights [...]
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South Africa’s national utility Eskom is currently in talks with [...]
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Consultants have come and gone on the huge project for [...]
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Controlled by Cameroon-born businessman Paul Kammongne Fokam, Afriland First Bank [...]
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The French firm Sogreah and Britain’s Mott MacDonald have been [...]
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Jacques Marraud Des Grottes, exploration and production director for Total [...]
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, is due to visit the [...]
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Mamadou Simpara, president of the Autorite pour la Promotion de [...]
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