Faced with the pro-active stance of their Chinese, Malaysian and Indian competitors, Japan's oil companies are finding it hard to make their mark on the continent and have to fall back on round about ways to win concessions in Africa's [.
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Anxious to catch up with its Chinese rivals, India has been conducting a major diplomatic offensive with Africa's oil-producing nations [...]
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Equatorial Guinea's foreign minister, Micha Ondo Bile, traveled to China last week for consultations with China's vice president, Zeng Qinghong. [...]
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Sao Tome prime minister Damiao Vaz d'Almeida has presented his resignation to president Fradrique de Menezes, following oil minister Arlindo [...]
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Norway's deputy oil minister, Oluf Olseth, traveled to Luanda last week to take part in a seminar entitled "Angola-Norway, a [...]
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New disclosures have been made in the scandal concerning payments by the Imvume Resources company to the ruling African National [...]
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Africa Energy Intelligence understands Libya's National Oil Corp has given the Bulgarian Oil Co (BOCO) a three month extension of [...]
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Israeli oil groups are picking up a lot of contracts in the Gulf of Guinea, which has long been the preserve of American security firms.
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Sonatrach has issued eight invitations to tender for petrochemical projects and is also ready to take on major LPG and LNG projects.
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An Australian group has acquired a concession in northern Mali where the former French group Elf already explored in the past.
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Already active in northern Niger, Algeria's Sonatrach is now about to explore the area around Agadez.
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American independents were the big winners in the licensing round in the Joint Development Zone between Nigeria and Sao Tome. But a host of small Nigerian firms also won stakes in the zone.
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The French oil company has acquired a block explored lengthily by Exxon in the past and now operated by a political foe of Nigerian Olusegun Obasanjo.
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The Danish oil company is going to take over from Canada's CNR on block 16 in Angola.
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The production branch of state-owned Sonangol is playing an ever-greater part in Angola's offshore.
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Founded by David Thomas, former head of Occidental Petroleum's operations [...]
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The Canadian firms Stratic and Transatlantic Petroleum have just won [...]
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Already active on the Pande and Temane fields which will [...]
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Sudan is expected in August to sell its first cargo [...]
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Total has just announced a third discovery on block 32 [...]
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American power companies are worried about new rules governing tenders for World Bank projects. Eleven organizations representing U.S. industry, among [...]
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Renovation of a second turbine at the Tshopo dam that supplies power to the city of Kisangani will boost the facility's capacity to 10 MW.
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The European Investment Bank is poised to grant several loans to Kenya's power industry, notably for the extension of the [...]
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Thanks to emergency funding by the World Bank, Congo-K's Societe [...]
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Operational since last August but producing just 115 MW, the [...]
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The Agence Francaise de Developpement will contract two consultants at [...]
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Electricidade de Mocambique is seeking funding to rehabilitate the Chicamba [...]
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The European Investment Bank (EIB) is lending 50 million euros [...]
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The United Arab Emirates group Al Thani Investment announced it would float on London's Alternative Investment Market in coming months. [...]
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A number of companies that were thinking of floating on London's Alternative Investment Market (AIM) have been turned off by [...]
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Norway's Government Oil Fund, which manages the country's oil revenue to safeguard it for future generations, has sold all of [...]
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Speaking in Lagos last weekend during a conference organized by the Center for Petroleum Information, Edmund Daukoru, oil adviser to [...]
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Ocean & Oil (Oando), a trading and oil distribution company headed by Wale Tinubu, will float on the Johannesburg Stock [...]
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The former Libyan envoy to OPEC and ex-CEO of Libya's National Oil Corporation, Hamouda al Aswad, has just been named [...]
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The Canadian mining company United Reef, which owns a 25% stake in Grynberg Petroleum's concession in the northern part of [...]
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Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo has named reverend Matthew Hassan Kakah to act as mediator between the Ogoni community and RoyalDutch/Shell. [...]
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After buying out the oil assets of Nimir Petroleum, a group owned by Saudi Arabia's bin Mahfouz family, Tucker Link [...]
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Former mayor of Porto and ex Socialist legislator Fernando Gomes has been appointed head of the E&P department of Galp [...]
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IBC Energy is organizing a conference at the Houstonian Hotel [...]
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Global Pacific & Partners is organizing a conference in Dakar [...]
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The CWC Group is organizing a conference on the Gulf [...]
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The London law firm Norton Rose advised the Al Thani [...]
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The management concern Emerging Market Partnership has been entrusted with [...]
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The seismic and oil consultancy firm TGS-Nopec is working with [...]
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Headed by Wilfred Nguesso, son of Congo-B president Denis Sassou [...]
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Indonesia's state-owned oil company Pertamina has begun talks with Libya's [...]
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Lacking cash and encountering a lot of problems in paying [...]
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Joint ventures between Chevron and Nigeria's NNPC are attempting to [...]
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Morocco's Office National de l'Electricite has pre-qualified Siemens, Alstom, General [...]
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