A strike that paralyzed RoyalDutch/Shell's operations in Nigeria was due to fear among Shell Nigeria's staff
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Africa Energy Intelligence's sources say the Australian firm Woodside is expected to sign an agreement in coming months with Libya's [...]
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After spending more than eight months banging on the door, Spain's Iberdola has been granted a stake in Medgaz, the company that is to build and operate a gas pipeline linking Algeria to Spain.
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Negotiations between the Brazilian and Algerian government have led to an agreement that provides for Petrobras to explore Algeria's offshore with state-owned Sonatrach.
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The last-minute agreement on Sept. 12 that allowed for a lifting of U.N. sanctions against Libya is largely based on [...]
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Located on Libya's C 137 offshore block, Al Jurf was [...]
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After a breakdown in talks due to the diplomatic chill [...]
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The U.S. authorities have authorized the construction of a new LNG terminal in Louisiana in a move that promises fresh outlets for African gas producers.
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The Romanian government has put a controlling stake in the state-owned oil company Petrom on the auction block. Among those interested in the group, which holds assets in Africa, is Russia's TNK-BP.
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The American authorities have accepted an application by the seismic [...]
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The CWC Group is organizing a top-level meeting in Cairo [...]
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The French oil services firm Technip has just landed a direct, $125 million contract to develop the Baobab field in Ivory Coast.
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The main leaders of an abortive putsch on June 8, Mohamed Ould Sheikhna and Saleh Ould Hanenna, announced in a [...]
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The putsch that took place in Guinea Bissau this weekend could jeopardize oil exploration in the country's and on the [...]
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Despite repeated requests by Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo during a visit to London in July, the United Kingdom has refused [...]
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The announcement by Australia's Fusion Oil & Gas that it had made money for the first time since it was [...]
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Saudi Arabia's Islamic Development Bank is to take part in funding a World Bank project to beef up Mauritania's capacity [...]
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Long unable to insure U.S. exports to Nigeria because of Abuja's debts to Washington, the U.S. Export-Import Bank now finds [...]
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The owners of tankers which lift crude cargoes in Nigeria have been forced since Sept. 1 to insure themselves against [...]
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The credit rating agency Standard & Poors gave Ghana a B+ rating last week when it assessed the country's economic [...]
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Former managing director of ChevronTexaco in Kazakhstan, Dennis Fahy has been running the American oil company's West African Gas Pipeline [...]
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Eldest son of Equatorial Guinea's president who serves as his father's forestry minister, Teodoro Obiang Nguema has been living overseas [...]
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Already contracted for maintenance of trains 1 and 2 at [...]
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After managing to sell part of its huge, 7.9 million [...]
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Not content with selling its first cargo of Topacio, the [...]
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Reported on several occasions to be on his way out [...]
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The Nigerian government has sold 51% of the state-owned oil [...]
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An affiliate of France's Schlumberger group, IndigoPool has landed a [...]
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IBC Energy is organizing a conference on Dec. 10-11 in [...]
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The CWC Group is organizing a conference in Houston on [...]
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The U.S. group Nuevo Energy is planning to sell its stake in Yombo and quit Congo-Brazzaville.
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In addition to deals involving oil fields, a recent global agreement signed between Brazzaville and Total provides for a significant re-scheduling of Congo's debt. This should allow SNPC to sell free cargoes.
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To make up for a 150 MW shortfall in its generation capacity, Cameroon launched construction of the Limbe power station in late August and began a study of the Lom-Pagar dam.
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The construction of a new dam on the Lefini river is due to begin this month.
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The Doba oil fields have been producing since June but still haven't been inaugurated, depriving Chad president Idriss Deby of [...]
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The call to bid for the second phase of development [...]
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France's Perenco has just drilled its first exploration well on [...]
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Didier Murcia, former chairman of the defunct firm Tanzoil, has acted as marriage-maker in bringing a new Australian company into the Nyuni concession operated by Aminex.
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A long-time adviser to the Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation (EEPCO), the German consultancy Lahmeyer International recently submitted a report to [...]
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The Trafigura trading company has been awarded a contract by [...]
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The management team at Hidroelectrica de Cahora Bassa was overhauled from top to bottom this summer as a prelude to new talks between shareholders.
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An investigation by the Security & Exchange Commission into a complaint filed by a former employee of the Baker Hughes [...]
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The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is in the process of becoming one of the most exclusive [...]
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The U.S. firm Pioneer Natural Resources has named Bill Hannes, vice president for engineering and development, as head of the [...]
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Former African specialist at the Standard Chartered Bank and the man who put together most of Angola's oil-backed loans in [...]
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Mayor of Houston since 1998, Lee Brown spent all of last week travelling in Angola, meeting with president Jose Eduardo [...]
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South African energy minister Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka has outlined the timetable [...]
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