Now that four months of political upheaval and economic sanctions are behind him, Ivory Coast’s new president, Alassane Ouattara, is going to wield a broom in the boardrooms of public companies linked to the oil trade and give a push [.
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The Neconde consortium sealed its acquisition of the 45% of OML 42 owned by Shell (30%), Total (10%) and ENI [...]
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Accusing Anadarko and Repsol of maneuvering to increase the size of their blocks at its expense, Oranto has filed suit in the United States and London.
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The NNPC is threatening to exercise its right of first refusal on the blocks that Royal Dutch/Shell recently sold, and it is mulling the sale of licenses that it confiscated from Shell in 2008.
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Rather than reducing the quantity of gas that it flares in Nigeria, to comply with stricter environmental rules, Shell would prefer to give up some of its gas fields.
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Minister for mines between 1993 and 1994, Foumakoye Gado was picked again to hold that portfolio in the first government [...]
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Shell has lost an important legal battle concerning property rights [...]
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Shell, Total and ENI were notable by their absence from [...]
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The vice-president of the China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) Huang [...]
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The Tema Oil Refinery (TOP), Ghana’s only oil refinery, in [...]
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The very long prospectus that Glencore AG submitted to the [...]
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The International Center for Settlement of Investment DIsputes (ICSID) isn’t [...]
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American oil company Anadarko’s traditional law firm, Vinson & Elkins [...]
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Namadi Sambo, Nigeria’s new vice president, has been busy promoting [...]
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Abdelaziz Bouteflika has cancelled several oil contracts that were awarded by the former CEO of Sonatrach, who was recently sent down for a year for corruption.
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The Canadian firm Cygam Energy, which is active in Tunisia, has hired a new chief executive, Gary Hyde, in the [...]
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The small companies that won the blocks in Sao Tome’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) are discussing the terms of their work programme and signature bonuses.
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The French oil services company Technip has been asked to take part in the industrial phase of the methane pilot [...]
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After three months of waiting, the British company Victoria has obtained a presidential decree to begin production at the Logbaba gas field.
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The European Investment Bank is due to shortly approve a loan for the highly strategic Lom Pangar dam.
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The new energy minister of Central African Republic, Leopold Mboli Fatrane, is a close associate of prime minister Faustin Archange [...]
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The Scottish company Bowleven, which is active in Cameroon and Gabon, has a new director since May 3, in the [...]
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A Nigerian and a Cameroonian delegation completed a joint mission [...]
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Some 1,300 illegal workers in the oil sector are to [...]
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Upcoming exploration in Congo-K’s Cuvette Centrale oil basin is pushing [...]
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Concerned that the state might take its permits away, Madagascar Oil has taken its case to the arbitration courts.
While the Angolan national oil company has not taken oil [...]
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The president of the High Authority of Transition (HAT) in [...]
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The South African minister for natural resources Susan Shabangu decided [...]
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According to Zambia’s energy ministry, the construction of the 120 [...]
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Lionel Levha, the managing director of Total in Madagascar, travelled [...]
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The identity of companies pre-qualified to build a new dam on the Ruzizi river ought to be announced shortly by [...]
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With anti-government demonstrations in Uganda’s biggest cities on the rise, President Yoweri Museveni is promising to bring electricity to new parts of the country.
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As part of its strategy to establish itself in Africa [...]
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A decision by the World Bank ’s Multilateral Investment Guarantee [...]
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Former National Security Advisor to Ronald Reagan, Robert McFarlane is [...]
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Galib Virani, a member of the board of directors of [...]
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After trying in vain to find buyers for its exploration [...]
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A former under secretary of state for African affairs in [...]
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