Weighed down by Greek debt, European banks are increasingly reluctant to finance oil operations in Africa. Awash in dollars, traders are now often standing in for them, a new trend that could have a major impact on the industry in [.
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The 18th Africa Oil Week conference in Cape Town between Nov. 2-4 provided an occasion for Ivory Coast’s oil chief, [...]
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Advised by the former managing director of Petrosen, African Petroleum has been awarded two blocks in the deep offshore.
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The Anglo-Irish company is pursuing its offensive in the Sahara, one of the rare areas it has yet to penetrate in Africa.
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A Sino-British joint venture unknown up to now has acquired two blocks previously operated by the Sonatrach/ENI consortium.
The federal government’s determination to do away with subsidies in refined productions is being fought tooth and nail by several powerful local players.
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Tullow Oil says it will wait for 18 months to decide whether to develop fields discovered in Mauritania’s offshore by Woodside 10 years ago.
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French companies aren’t alone in trying to do business in the new Ivory Coast of president Alassane Ouattara. Several American [...]
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It would be an understatement to claim that few hardly noticed it when Djibril Amadou Kanoute was replaced as boss [...]
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The brand-new Zinder refinery is due to be formally inaugurated [...]
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Owner of the only gas reserves that can supply a [...]
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In a prospectus prior to its flotation on NYSE Euronext, [...]
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Having bought the former oil services company NigerDock in 2003, [...]
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Bruno Clement-Bollee, a French general who heads his country's security [...]
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Although South West Energy failed to acquire Petronas’ assets in the Ogaden basin it has nonetheless landed a block.
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Uganda's Petroleum Exploration and Production Department (PEPD) is expected to [...]
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A delegation consisting of several officials from Kenya’s mines ministry [...]
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The younger brother of Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni, general Salim [...]
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According to our sources, the chief executive of France's Total, [...]
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The directors of the World Bank are to vote on [...]
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Swiss Oil, a firm owned by geologist Bill Brumbaugh, has [...]
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Sonangol has disposed of its 20% stake in the Gulf LNG re-gasification terminal in the port of Pascagoula, Mississippi in [...]
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Major Norwegian firms are intent on getting some of the action from the large sums Luanda is laying out for power schemes.
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Angola’s Parliament adopted a bill on Nov. 10 that forces [...]
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Ireland’s Tullow Oil handed out a prospectus to investors interested [...]
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ENI has stepped on the accelerator to resume production and is already sending gas through the Greenstream pipeline, benefiting from favorable financial terms.
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The chief executive of the national oil company, Nordine Cherouati, [...]
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The announcement that two new dams are to be built in North Kivu can only provide a boost to outgoing president Joseph Kabila's election campaign.
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With only two weeks to go before crucial elections, prime minister Adolphe Muzito has once again found himself under fire [...]
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Africa Energy Intelligence has learned that Chad president Idriss Deby [...]
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Elizabeth Dipuo Peters, South Africa's energy minister, initialed a letter [...]
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Alain Champeaux, who is about to leave as boss of Total’s service station network in Africa (AEI 662), is to [...]
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Tullow Oil will have a new non-executive chairman of its board starting from January 1. Simon Thomson is due to [...]
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Given a mandate by Jean-Claude Gandur to sell the trading [...]
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A former partner of the Montreal-based firm Heenan Blaikie, where [...]
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Alastair Milne, vice president of exploration for Shell in sub-Saharan [...]
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