Since the late 1990s a small number of Australian companies have been snapping up acreage in African nations deemed to have oil-producing potential.
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Africa Energy Intelligence understands that an operation called "Snow" is the code name for a deal by Tamoil, former affiliate [...]
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Italy's ENI has launched a takeover bid for Bouygues Offshore through its affiliate Saipem in what appears primarily an attempt to gain ground on the West African market.
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Taking its cue from its Malaysian rival Petronas, India's Oil and Natural Gas Corporation has begun seriously shopping for assets on the African continent.
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Just as presidential elections were winding up over the weekend Mali was preparing to put 15 oil blocks out to tender, as Africa Energy Intelligence reported that it would.
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On the heels of a finding by the Supreme Court last month, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation will find itself having to operate like a private company.
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France's TotalFinaElf will complete development of its Amenam field in a year's time but will set out this year to assess the potential of the Akpo and OPL 222 fields.
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The South African group Sasol's debut in Equatorial Guinea's offshore wasn't negotiated in Malabo but rather in London in a deal that was arranged by consultants to the Nigerian firm Atlas Petroleum.
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Although it appeared well placed to buy Congo B's distribution network, RoyalDutchShell was ousted from the running and replaced by the trader Tacoma Resources.
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After BP and ExxonMobil, Sonangol has drilled a dry well in the Angola's ultra-deep offshore in its turn. As a result, the majors are going to return to developing existing fields.
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Starting in September, the Australian firm Woodside will lead a [...]
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ExxonMobil is presently handing out contracts for the development of [...]
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The president of Sao Tome e Principe, Fradique de Menezes, [...]
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Under an option negotiated in March, Heritage Oil & Gas [...]
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The Irish oil company Bula Resources chaired by ex prime [...]
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The recent collapse of the Bouygues group's efforts to sell SAUR to E.O.N. - the German company was to have [...]
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Spearheaded by the World Bank, the Nile Basin Initiative could eventually becoming the driving force behind an interconnection between several nations in the Nile basin.
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The rehabilitation of the Zongo and Nsanga dams by South Africa's Eskom is the first step towards forming an international consortium to run the Inga dam.
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As a first consequence of the management of Tanzania Electricity [...]
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General manager of the Global Electricity Services Company (Gesco), which is a special consultant to the General Electricity Company (Gecol) [...]
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The foreign minister and crown prince of Qatar, Hamad Bin Jassim Bin Jabor Al Thani, is also a major shareholder [...]
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National director of the Bank of Central African States (BCAS) in Ndjamena, Michel Ben Barka also chairs the highly sensitive [...]
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A leading banker, John Cleghorn, has been named chairman of SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. Born in Ontario, Cleghorn had previously run [...]
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NNPC's legal and financial director, Ombu Harry, finds himself at the centre of budget problems currently gripping NNPC (see P.2 [...]
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The European Union's energy commissioner Loyala de Palacio was on hand when it was announced in Tunis that Tunisia and [...]
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Despite threats by the American group Skidmore, former majority shareholder in Lone Star, to disrupt Mohammed VI's visit to Washington [...]
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Last week's meeting of the joint Cameroon-Central African Republic committee was officially devoted to stabilizing the situation on the border [...]
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The Nigerian Supreme Court's verdict on the share-out of oil profits on April 5 has forced the company to change [...]
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Although Angola's oil reserves are becoming increasingly important to the United States, the Bush administration is continuing to put pressure [...]
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Although it has partially pulled out of Africa, CMS Energy still derives substantial revenue from the continent. Early this year [...]
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To finance its recent acquisitions in Africa and develop its existing assets on the continent, Malaysia's Petronas group plans to [...]
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After predicting the gradual decline in Gabon's oil production in a confidential memo revealed by Africa Energy Intelligence - output [...]
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Nigeria's Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) will shortly ask auditing companies to tender for an assessment of several oil assets [...]
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The Islamic Development Bank, the banking arm of the Islamic Conference Organization, is going to put up $30 million towards [...]
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Sonatrach raked in revenue of $18.5 billion in 2001 from [...]
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As Africa Energy Intelligence predicted in its last issue, the [...]
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Morocco's national oil company, ONAREP, is expected to shortly award [...]
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Bargaining Over Budget
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Although the Petroleum Exploration and Extraction law signed in 2001 [...]
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The Nigerian affiliate of KPMG headed by Bashorun J.K. Randle [...]
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ABN Amro advised the French oil services company Bouygues Offshore [...]
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A Nigerian law firm headed by Oghogho Akpata, Templars & [...]
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The Norwegian consultant Norconsult, which is currently studying an interconnection [...]
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In addition to organizing a call for bids in Mali's [...]
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A suit that the U.S. law firm Geoffrey Wayne Esq. [...]
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The CWC Group is organizing a conference in London on [...]
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Global Pacific Partners is organizing a conference in Paris on [...]
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