Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan promised to do it and he kept the pledge. On January 1, the government did away with subsidies on oil products sold in Nigeria, which amount to between 300,000-400,000 BOE. In response to demonstrations and strikes, [.
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A week after his inauguration, Congo-K president Joseph Kabila honored his word by signing a decree allowing Total to operate [...]
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Two bids have finally been submitted for Addax/Oryx's trading and distribution business in Africa. But the offers fall short of the price the seller wants.
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CNPC has relinquished 50% of its Tenere block to the government, setting the stage for a scramble for the acreage.
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Nigeria’s Department of Petroleum Resources is getting ready to sell off 22 fields abandoned by majors operating in the country.
The Great Sahara consortium is about to drill the first well in the Sudanese part of the Kufra basin. Oil companies in neighboring Chad are interested in the outcome.
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Discoveries by Anadarko and ENI in Mozambique’s offshore make blocks north of Madagascar look increasingly important.
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Executives from Argentina's Pluspetrol appear virtually certain to buy out [...]
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The Ghana National Gas Co (GNGC) has changed the location of the future processing plant for gas from the Jubilee [...]
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France’s Bouygues group and the government in Abidjan are engaged in tense talks on the price of gas. The authorities appears intent on diversifying suppliers as quickly as possible.
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Attracted by finds in Mozambique’s offshore by Anadarko (between 15-30 TCF) and ENI (22.5 TCF) Russia’s Gazprom is thinking of planting its flag there, too.
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In a sign that progress is being made on building [...]
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Will a meeting of Western donors in Conakry on Jan. 16-17 on electricity questions in Guinea result in any changes? [...]
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Managed for over a year by Manitoba Hydro, the Liberian Electricity Corporation is going to gain from new funding from the World Bank and Japan.
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Funding is still lacking for the Cahora Bassa Norte dam but there’s a long list of potential customers for its power in Mozambique and neighboring nations.
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Alstom’s sub-Saharan Africa director Pascal Drouhaud and the group’s transportation [...]
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Africa Energy Intelligence understands that the managing director of Societe Ivoirienne de Raffinage (SIR), Joel Dervain, was discreetly replaced in [...]
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The managing director of the national oil company PetroCI, Daniel Gnangni, is making slight changes in his executive line-up to [...]
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The South African firm SacOil seems to have a penchant for hiring former executives from the national oil company PetroSA. [...]
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Morocco’s brand new energy and mines minister, Fouad Douiri, is one of the rare survivors of the Istiqlal party in [...]
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A project to build the Galsi gas pipeline between Algeria [...]
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Freetown has just quietly issued a new call for bids [...]
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Equatorial Guinea’s national oil company is gradually setting oil diplomacy [...]
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The question of if and when former Sonatrach chief executive [...]
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Will oil companies in Nigeria soon be able to cut [...]
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Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan spent months in softening Nigeria’s governors [...]
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The question of whether the mines or hydrocarbons ministry will [...]
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Despite announcements in December (AEI 665), the acquisition of Malabu [...]
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Tullow Oil is expected to announce in its interim statement [...]
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On May 24, the World Bank’s directors are going to [...]
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The World Bank is poised to offer not only financial [...]
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According to the annual report of Guinea's Bureau de Recherche [...]
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A former adviser to France's Cour de Cassation, legal expert [...]
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An arbitration procedure between Denmark's Maersk and Sonatrach over a [...]
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Tewodros Ashenafi, the managing director of South West Energy (SWE) [...]
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Aidan Heavey, the chief executive of Tullow Oil, arrived in [...]
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Abed Elrhaman Ben Yaza, Libya's oil minister, ought to be [...]
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