After ten years of maneuvering and court cases, Shell ended up by offering to buy Malabu Oil & Gas’ offshore block OPL 245 (see our report in AEI 656). The stakes in the game were indeed high.
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A meeting to cool off tempers will be held at Ghana’s energy ministry on Aug. 26 between the department’s oil [...]
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Present only in Liberia up to now, Canada’s Simba Energy has planted its flag in both Kenya and Guinea and is working on other acquisitions.
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Held up because of a drop in American demand, a project for a gas liquefaction plant at Brass has been suddenly revived to meet Japan’s needs.
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Ghana’s government has founded a national gas company headed by persons close to the president’s party.
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The British group Aggreko inaugurated an affiliate named Aggreko Cote d’Ivoire recently in late June in the firm belief Abidjan [...]
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A promise by French president Nicolas Sarkozy in October, 2009 to prod AFD into offering strong assistance to Mauritania’s electricity sector has been fulfilled.
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Ivory Coast’s energy minister Adama Toungara changed his chief of staff in late July by hiring Noel N’Guetat to succeed [...]
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Named boss of Societe Mauritanienne des Hydrocarbures (SMH), Saad Ould Maaynye, a computer engineer who had worked for Societe Nationale [...]
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After his visit to Chad on Aug. 8, Niger president [...]
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Ivory Coast president Alassane Ouattara’s trip to Abuja at the [...]
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Britain’s Ophir, which operates block AGC Deep in the joint [...]
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Enugu state in south-east Nigeria is expected to become one [...]
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The lobbyist for Alassane Ouattara before he officially became president [...]
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Unlike Soco and Dominion which have been taken to task by ONGs for wanting to explore in the Vuringa national park, Total has adopted a cautious approach on block 3.
The Italian major hopes to acquire the last block in the Albertine Graben with an indirect leg-up from the Vatican.
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Katanga’s mining companies are hurting from a drop in output from the Inga 1 and Inga 2 dams.
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Africa Energy Intelligence understands that talks between executives from Brazil’s [...]
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Will Chad be able to pass on its experience in [...]
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Heading a 12-member delegation, Congolese president Joseph Kabila arrived in [...]
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Congo-K’s oil and finance ministers, respectively Celestin Mbuyu Kabango and [...]
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Giovanni Pedaci, one of the chiefs of the local affiliate [...]
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CNOOC could run into a lot of flak obtaining visas for its expatriate workers.
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Holding the E concession that stretches over four states in South Sudan, the firm Star Petroleum owned by the Spanish [...]
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After serving for over five years as president of Tullow Oil Uganda, Elly Karuhanga could shortly step down. According to [...]
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With negotiations on the share-out of oil revenue between north [...]
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Several majors and independents like Statoil, Ophir and Kosmos submitted [...]
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The World Bank ’s energy department is preparing a project [...]
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Saleh Kamba, who was named state secretary in charge of [...]
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Chevron and Sonangol, the driving forces behind the Soyo liquefied gas project (Angola LNG), announced separately in early August that [...]
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According to our sources, the marketing director of Chariot Oil, [...]
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After winning a one year renewal of an exploration license, [...]
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Anadarko has picked KBR to carry out pre-FEED studies on [...]
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Brazil’s Camargo Correa and the Mozambique group Energia Capital are [...]
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The new boss of Libya’s National Oil Corp (NOC), Omran [...]
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The case against former Sonatrach chief executive Mohamed Meziane was [...]
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In the end it was a South Korean consortium which [...]
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Already active in South Africa and Tanzania, the Norton Rose [...]
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Mounir Bouaziz, the vice president of Royal Dutch Shell in [...]
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