Long confined to trading in crude and in oil products in their country, Nigeria’s traders are flush in cash and intent on building up their business throughout the African continent and indeed in Europe. Some have reached the point of [.
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The Canadian oil company Niko Resources, which struck it rich off India and Bangladesh, has just acquired 75% of the [...]
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Already active in Libya, the United Arab Emirates concern Al Ghurair is positioning itself to acquire acreage in Mozambique.
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Petro Canada has just converted its reconnaissance license into an exploration permit. Its partner on the concession is Germany’s RWE.
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After recommending that several concessions be cancelled, the panel investigating licensing rounds during Olusegun Obasanjo’s presidency is now expected to turn its gun-sights on Mittal Investment.
The Mittal family’s holding company has submitted a bid for a block in Liberia.
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Tullow Oil has allowed its rights to run out on two licenses in Ivory Coast which it operated.
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While the development of the Kudu gas field has failed to get off the ground local groups are scrambling to acquire nearby acreage.
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In the wake of an initial agreement last November (AEI [...]
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Operator of the Cameroon blocks Iroko and Ngosso (see above), [...]
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In its Trading and Operational Update, Ireland’s Tullow Oil indicated [...]
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Less than four months after playing host to Vladimir Putin, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi received the visit of Gazprom chief [...]
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Awarded on July 12 to Petrofac, construction of a giant LNG train at Arzew is now expected to cost nearly USD 4 billion.
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Initially set for January of this year and then put back to May, the inauguration of the West African Gas Pipeline (WAGP) isn’t expected to take place until September.
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The Canadian firm Saber Energy that specializes in extracting coal bed methane (CBM) has just completed the first phase of an exploration program.
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The Japan Gas Corp. hadn’t won a contract in Algeria [...]
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A joint venture between Statkraft and the Norwegian government’s development fund, Norfund, the SN Power concern was established to invest [...]
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To meet ever-rising demand for power and specially by the mining industry the capacity of Congo-K’s Inga dam will start to be restored gradually in 2009.
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The Cameroons affiliate of Rio Tinto Alcan is going to take part in building the Lom Pangar dam.
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Power Solutions has been handed a USD 10 million contract [...]
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According to our sources, the Tanzania Portland Cement Co (TPCC) [...]
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Two days after Africa Energy Intelligence revealed that its chief operating officer had quit the company six months ago, Afren [...]
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Stephen Carroll has resigned from his job as chief financial officer and a director of the Irish firm Providence Resources [...]
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The board of Australia’s Woodside has lost two of its members in recent weeks. First to leave was Jillian Broadbent, [...]
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Holding a stake alongside Heritage on blocks 7 and 11 in the Graben de Gao in western Mali, Centric Energy [...]
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The state-run power company Sonelgaz and its Moroccan counterpart, Office [...]
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The international affiliate of Societe Tunisienne d’Electricite et de Gaz [...]
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Angola’s national oil company Sonangol has signed a contract to [...]
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Algeria’s Agence Nationale pour la Valorisation des Resources en Hydrocarbures [...]
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Some 30,000 people took to the streets in Niamey on [...]
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A few days before Luis Moreno Ocampo, prosecutor at the [...]
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When the G8 summit in Japan wound up on July [...]
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Algeria could use part of its foreign currency reserves, which [...]
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A decision by Abu Dhabi’s International Petroleum Investment Co to [...]
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Eurogas International, a Bermuda-based subsidiary of the Canadian concern Eurogas, [...]
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A builder of floating gas liquefaction units, Norway’s Flex LNG [...]
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Infraventures, a fund overseen by the International Finance Corp., private [...]
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The French engineering consultancy Sofreco and RTE-International, an affiliate of [...]
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Africa Energy Intelligence mistakenly reported in its last issue that [...]
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Ken Watts, CEO of the American firm Hyperdynamics, has received [...]
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Clive Tasker, the CEO of the South African bank Standard [...]
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Umaru Yar’Adua was due to pay his first official visit [...]
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