Congo-B's Societe Nationale des Petroles du Congo is in the process of converting itself into a self-governing company
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The U.S. administration's decision last week to carry over sanctions against Libya - but without saying for how long - [...]
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Preparations for the construction of a gas pipeline between Algeria and Spain will step up this summer following the signing of delivery contracts.
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The American Export-Import Bank has just approved $192 million in cover for Shariket Kahraba Skikda, a special purpose vehicle set [...]
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Immediately after Tripoli, London and Washington announced that Libya had forsaken its program for weapons of mass destruction (see P. [...]
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The Tunisian government announced over the weekend it planned to invest 822 million dinars ($687 million) in the country's oil [...]
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The chairman of Sonelgaz, Abdelkrim Boughanem, has been fired for failing to foresee a severe power shortage that hit the [...]
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France's Suez group has been sending out discreet signals in [...]
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Although South Africa and its state-owned power utility Eskom view rehabilitation of the Inga dam in Congo-K as their exclusive [...]
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South African president Thabo Mbeki will pay an official visit to Democratic Republic of Congo next week to throw Pretoria's [...]
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Already deeply involved in oil questions regarding Sao Tome, the World Bank is preparing a three-year technical assistance package for the country.
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Set up two years ago, the British-Libyan Odex company is making its debut in the West Africa offshore by grabbing acreage in Congo-B.
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The U.K. firm Premier Oil is negotiating the acquisition of a stake in Congo-B's offshore.
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The records of Elf's Swiss bank Rivunion are continuing to make waves. After prompting magistrates to inquire into commissions paid [...]
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The South African oil company Energy Africa has acquired an [...]
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The American company Vaalco has made a new discovery, Ebouri, [...]
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In the wake of the World Bank's decision to invest [...]
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Founded by former Alaska governor Steve Cowper and Joe Perkins, [...]
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The agreement on the share-out of oil revenue between north and south Sudan that was finally signed last week between [...]
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Australia's Afrex plans to explore the offshore around Dahlak islands in Eritrea, an area that Anadarko already looked at before Eritrea's war with Ethiopia.
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The second call to tender for the construction of the Bujagali dam on the Nile
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Hardly had Harbin Power finished building a first power station in Sudan than the Chinese group landed a fresh contract with Khartoum.
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A long-serving Ethiopian mines and energy minister - he held the job for nearly 20 years—Ezedin Ali died last month. [...]
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Angola's decision to back the Bush administration in the Iraq issue is still paying off for the country. Since early [...]
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In the works for long months, a tie-up between the state-owned Angolan and Portuguese companies, Sonangol and Galp, is to be finalized.
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A lot of secrecy surrounds the sale of Engen's share in Energy Africa but it's understood a number of firms have put in bids.
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A World Bank mission to Zambia last month enabled the authorities to set a timetable for putting Zambia Electricity Supply Corporation (ZESCO) on a commercial footing.
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Human Rights Watch is due to publish a report entitled ?Some Transparency, No accountability: the Use of Oil Revenue in [...]
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Following the successive withdrawals of RoyalDutch/Shell and ChevronTexaco, the National [...]
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Like other refiners in the country - ChevronTexaco, Total, Sasol, [...]
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The state-owned South African oil company Petro SA has picked [...]
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Africa Energy Intelligence understands that the Swiss trading firm Glencore, which long dominated the market for oil-backed loans in Africa, [...]
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The Australian firm Woodside, which hasn't yet produced any oil in Africa, has unveiled new projects for the continent.
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Hit by competition from new airlines serving Africa's oil capitals, Air France - which long enjoyed a monopoly on the routes - is fighting back with services designed specifically for the oil industry.
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The co-founder of Tacoma Resources along with Pierre Elasri, Andy Donssenbach died last month of a heart attack. Both former [...]
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Following the resignation of its chairman, James Hackett, the board of the U.S. oil company Devon has named John Richels [...]
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Hear to the family that founded the Anglo Vaal group, South Africa's Brian Menell has just been named chairman of [...]
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The Indian government is due to sell a 10% stake [...]
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Scheduled to be completed in March, the sale of 51% [...]
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Rumours are rife that France's Total could be interested in [...]
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The British firm IPA Energy, already highly active in Nigeria, [...]
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Global Pacific & Partners is organizing a forum at the [...]
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The CWC Group is organizing a conference in London on [...]
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Money for three BOT projects that Nigeria signed a year ago with Siemens and two Chinese groups has been cobbled together.
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The Debt Management Office in Nigeria's finance ministry has been asked to manage the debts of all state-owned Nigerian firms, [...]
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Contrary to what we indicated in our last issue, Mathieu Kadio Morokro, chairman of Petro-Ivoire, the country's leading private oil [...]
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