None of the parties involved in last year's acquisition by Shell and ENI of OPL 245 previously controlled by Malabu Oil & Gas headed by Dan Etete has said the least word in public about the deal.
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Although an auction for marginal fields hasn’t yet begun, Nigerian companies are already jockeying to reserve the best blocks for [...]
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Five oil companies have put in firm offers for exploration rights and the government will shortly start weighing their bids. What blocks attract the most interest?
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The Gabon Oil Corp could take stakes in blocks owned by Addax Petroleum to put paid to a series of disputes between the Geneva-based firm and the government.
Talks in N'Djamena on sending Niger's crude by way of the Doba/Kriba pipeline resulted in an accord but Niamey is still waiting for Cameroon's green light.
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Oil exploration in the Virunga national park can finally start courtesy of a green light from the president. Belgium and UNESCO aren’t at all happy.
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The Brazilian company is going to shortly offer stakes on the 10 blocks it operates in Namibia’s offshore to other companies because of its tight financial situation.
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Eddy Ngarambe, chief of Comico’s bureau in Kinshasa, wrote to [...]
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At the end of this month the World Bank will increase from $400 million to $600 million its guarantee on [...]
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The French group plans to boost gas production and thus Ivory Coast’s power generation capacity thanks to two new gas fields.
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France’s Total won’t be flaring a cubic meter of gas on its new FPSO in Nigeria’s deep offshore. That’s far from being the case of other projects under development.
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According to our sources, the Hong Kong-based firm PetroTrans, which [...]
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Angola was to have joined the restricted club of LNG [...]
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A decision to construct the Soubre dam on the Sassandra river (it will generate between 270-300MW) is expected to be [...]
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China’s CNOOC would like to construct the Hoima refinery that Uganda’s president is intent on building. And the refinery could help the country overcome its power shortages.
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Work on the Katende dam by Indian companies has only now begun, four months after the project was officially launched by president Joseph Kabila when he was seeking re-election.
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The appointment of Etienne Ngoubou as Gabon’s oil, energy and hydraulic resources minister on Feb. 28 confirms the influence of [...]
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With only a few months to go before it starts a three-well drilling campaign in Ivory Coast, Australia's Rialto Energy [...]
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Vivo Energy, a joint venture between Helios Investment and Vitol which bought out part of Shell’s retail and storage activities [...]
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Iran is pushing all the buttons of its oil diplomacy to retain the traditional customers of its crude. Tehran lavished [...]
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The Algerian oil company is setting up a data base [...]
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A decree dated February 10 (see document) and signed by [...]
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The parliamentary panel that has been investigating oil product subsidies [...]
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Oil companies operating in Mauritania are highly concerned about new [...]
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Pressure by governors from northern Nigeria for a change in [...]
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The vessel Tanganyika Explorer chartered by WGP Exploration will shortly [...]
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Madagascar’s former mines and oil minister Mamy Ratovomalala who pushed [...]
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With two arbitration panels in Washington and Paris about to [...]
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The International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), [...]
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It took a full year for a syndicate headed by [...]
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Although they weren’t given the role of operators on OML [...]
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The longstanding lawyer of Cameroon’s Societe Nationale des Hydrocarbures, Gill [...]
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Emeka Obi, one of the two middle-men involved in the [...]
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A "business diplomacy" firm founded in 2009 by Nicolas Bourillon [...]
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Nhial Deng Nhial, the South Sudanese foreign minister, seized the [...]
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Timi Alaibe, former special adviser to Nigeria's president on the [...]
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Martin Kabwelulu, Congo-K's mines minister, will stand in as acting [...]
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