Spared for the moment from the insecurity spawned by Al Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in the west and north of the country, Niger’s petroleum sector is growing in leaps and bounds under the leadership of the new oil minister, [.
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The French major Total, which debuted on block CI 100 in Ivory Coast's offshore in October, wants to invoke force [...]
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Failing in its efforts to increase operations in Russia, where it finds itself competing against state-owned Gazprom, Lukoil is thinking of investing more in Africa.
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Just as the deadline for bids was closing, Total forced Shell to change the rules of the game with regards the disposal of its concessions in the Niger delta.
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Although a first ruling deprived him of rights on a concession in Central African Republic, Jack Grynberg is continuing his battle against Bangui before the ICSID.
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Ogun and Ondo states are to follow Bayelsa in becoming shareholders in a gas liquefaction plant. Nigeria’s president is seeking to drum up votes in the Delta region.
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Burdened by heavy debts for years, Cape Verde’s state-owned Electra company will shortly be put on sale.
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In the end, the prime minister’s adviser on mining and oil issues, Mohamed Lamine Fofana, was named mines and geology [...]
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Laurent Gbagbo, whose re-election as president is hotly contested by the international community, is appointing officials to key posts in [...]
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Kosmos Energy appointed Brian Maxted as its new managing director on Jan. 3 following the departure of the company’s chief [...]
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As other oil companies in Ivory Coast rush to take [...]
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Standard Chartered Bank is currently putting together a USD 2 [...]
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At the end of last year, the American lobbying concern [...]
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Aseng Production, a joint venture between the oil services company [...]
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Timi Alaibe, former adviser for the Niger Delta region to [...]
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Austen Oniwon, the chief executive of the Nigerian National Petroleum [...]
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With ENI hoping to get its hands on block 4 near Lake Edward, the Democratic Republic of Congo’s consul in Italy is also trying to break into Congo-K’s oil sector.
The latest draft of a new bill on oil and [...]
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The Sino-Angolan consortium is employing a former mines minister in Guinea to help it win exploration blocks in the country.
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The government is reducing royalties even before shareholders decide on whether to develop the Kudu field.
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Already the second biggest producer of oil in Africa, Angola is using its hard currency reserves to invest in the power sector and become an exporter.
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After winning oil exploration blocks in Iraq, Iran and Venezuela, [...]
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The U.S. overseas development agency Millennium Challenge Corp (MCC) has [...]
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In the works for almost a year but not yet formally announced to the market, a move by BHP Billiton [...]
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Maurel & Prom has just named Jean Bie as the new head of its exploration division. A former executive of [...]
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A former partner in the Paris office of the Dechert [...]
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A case pitting the Gulf-financed power generation company Dowans Holding SA against the Texas-based concern Richmond Development Co (RDEVCO) headed [...]
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Khartoum, which is gradually preparing itself for the secession of [...]
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With the referendum on South Sudan’s independence scheduled to be [...]
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The campaign for legislative and presidential elections in February has [...]
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The Indian concern Essar, which bought a 50% holding in [...]
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The Libyan firm Tamoil is waiting for the Ugandan authorities [...]
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The World Bank is poised to offer partial guarantees worth [...]
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Lual Deng, Sudan's oil minister, promised in early January to [...]
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While Algerian energy minister Youcef Yousfi publicly voiced his satisfaction [...]
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. The Austrian group OMV is expected in coming weeks [...]
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A year after Sonatrach’s chief executive, Mohamed Meziane, and three [...]
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After 18 months of arbitration on Algeria’s windfall tax on [...]
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