A pirate attack on the tanker Gascogne in Ivory Coast waters on Feb. 2 clearly signalled that gangs from the Niger Delta are now able to operate pretty well everywhere in the Gulf of Guinea.
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Operator of the blocks 4, 38 and 41 in the Niger Delta, the Seplat group is thinking of floating shares [...]
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A number of Nigerian companies are losing their oil concessions because of their inability to pay signing bonuses to the authorities in Niger.
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Ugandan prime minister Amama Mbabazi is continuing to discreetly support the Italian major's efforts to pick up acreage.
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Oilmen and traders are courting a raft of businessmen gravitating around the Atlantic Energy firm reputed to be close to oil minister Diezani Alison-Madueke.
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After much procrastination, an Australian company which remains virtually unknown is finally going to explore block 14 that had previously been owned by PetroSA.
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The secretary-general at Congo-K’s hydrocarbons ministry seems intent on bringing down his boss, including by having him sign agreements banned by the president.
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Shareholder since 2003 in the small Stubb Creek gas field in the Niger Delta, the Chinese oil company Sinopec is [...]
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A company owned by Benin-born businessman Edgar-Yves Monnou would like to invest in liquefied gas to make up for current and future shortcomings of the West African Gas Pipeline.
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The French major is anxious to pick up acreage in South Africa’s deep offshore following Shell and, more recently, Exxon.
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The inhabitants of Benin had begun to suspect the Mari Gleta 1 power station that was to be constructed by [...]
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Like his predecessor, Congo-K prime minister Augustin Matata Ponyo is pushing for heavy power investment in his home region.
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Disagreement on a number of points has prompted Malawi and Mozambique to put back an agreement on interconnecting their power grids.
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Alstom Hydro has just completed restoration of the fourth turbine [...]
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The important oil and mines ministry was cut in two in Central African Republic’s government of national union formed in [...]
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The former chief of the Ivory Coast branch of Havas Media (Bolloré group), Fanta Diena Kaba, has been hired by [...]
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An evangelist pastor and professor Chinedu Nebo has been named energy minister, a job that had remained vacant for over [...]
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The governor of the oil state of Bayelsa, Seriake Dickson, seems to have found jobs for a large number of [...]
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At last there’s a bit of good news for Algeria’s [...]
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China seems ready to pull out all the stops to [...]
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Sierra Leone's president, Ernest Bai Koroma, has re-asserted his trust [...]
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According to our sources, the managing director of the French [...]
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Kenya’s energy minister under Kiraitu Murungi will be far more [...]
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Croatian businessman Danko Koncar has every reason to celebrate because [...]
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According to our sources, the oil and gas director of [...]
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Initially fined CAD 10.3 million ($US 10.33 million) on Jan. [...]
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No less than three small heavy-fuelled power plants generating 10 [...]
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The prosecution had demanded a fine of €100,000 (AEI 689) [...]
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On Feb. 11, the British bank Standard Chartered Bank asked [...]
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A partner in the firm Keijman & Marembert founded by [...]
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Folded into the huge British law firm Norton Rose early [...]
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The French bank BNP Paribas is expected to take part [...]
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Nii Adzei-Akpor, the new acting president of the Ghana Petroleum [...]
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Tim O’Hanlon, vice president of Tullow Oil in charge of [...]
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Idriss Deby, the president of Chad, has won an agreement [...]
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