The last lake in the East African rift to present available blocks, Lake Tanganyika is being explored only by juniors at the moment. However, the majors have fixed their eyes on it, warmed by the thought of the 2.
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In a meeting in Antananarivo on May 20 with officials from the mines ministry and the Office des Mines Nationales [...]
India will import over 1.6 million barrels of oil from [...]
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The Russian major Gazprom is expected to shortly win a [...]
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The favorite trader of Petroci during the presidency of Laurent Gbagbo, Glencore is going to have to work with the new government of Alassane Ouattara.
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The commissioning of a new gas field on block CI-27 looks set to revive Ivory Coast’s flagging gas production.
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French prime minister Francois Fillon could harvest new contracts for French companies when he pays a visit to Abidjan in [...]
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Mines minister during the political transition in Niger, Djibo Salamatou Gourouza officially took up his new post as special adviser [...]
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Former production and transmission boss of Burkina Faso’s Societe Nationale d’Electricite (SONABEL), Siengui Apollinaire Ki, was named managing director of [...]
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With the Joint Task Force, which holds authority in the [...]
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The Nigerian National Petroleum Corp (NNPC) itself rather than the [...]
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The U.S. company Hyperdynamics, which operates Guinea’s only offshore block, [...]
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The Australian company Tap Oil has been in talks for [...]
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Working on tripling the output of its Takoradi power station [...]
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Finalized early this month, the sale of RoyalDutch/Shell ’s stakes [...]
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The World Bank’s board will vote on December 1 on [...]
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The British financial concern Matrix Corporate Finance, a subsidiary of [...]
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After working for a time for Heritage Oil, the heir to the Gulbenkian oil dynasty has struck out on his own.
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The acknowledged expert on mergers and acquisitions in the African oil sector, Andrew Bartlett has just quit Standard Chartered Bank [...]
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A major figure in oil project financing in Africa, Guillaume Leenhardt, who had headed BNP Paribas' Energy Commodities Export Project [...]
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Salvador Namburete, Mozambique’s energy minister, will be among guests of [...]
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The Canadian company has struck agreements with mysterious Arab investors in order to explore blocks in Puntland.
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Sanctions against Libyan interests in East Africa are beginning to affect oil companies operating in the region.
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With some swift financial footwork, executives of the oil firm Centric, which was bought out early this year by Africa Oil, are set to explore again in East Africa.
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Three companies were shortlisted in mid-May to buy some of the eight gas blocks that Malaysia’s Petronas is putting up [...]
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Sudan’s state secretary for oil, Ali Ahmed Osman, believes that [...]
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A delegation from Uganda’s energy ministry travelled to Juba last [...]
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Already talking with investors in the Middle East on buying [...]
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The British oil company Aminex has been given free rein [...]
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Egypt’s new prime minister, Essam Sharaf, made a point of [...]
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Dato’ Shamsul Azhar Abbas, the chief executive of Malaysia’s Petronas, [...]
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Amelia Kyambadde, ex personal secretary of president Yoweri Museveni, is [...]
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A company working in Congo-K’s construction industry is keen on extracting methane gas from Lake Kivu.
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Douala’s future power plant combined with the commissioning of the gas field at Logbaba could shortly reduce power cuts in Cameroon’s economic capital.
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Because a contract with Interpetrol is far too costly, Bujumbura has signed with another firm to supply 25 MW.
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The boss of East Timor’s Autoridade National do Petroleo, Galdino [...]
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Lundin Petroleum has retained the British branch of the Calgary-based [...]
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Libya’s oil minister and chief executive of the National Oil Corp (NOC), Shokri Ghanem, has become the latest member of [...]
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With arbitration proceedings between Anadarko and Algeria about to begin [...]
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A law firm representing Maersk in its dispute with Sonatrach [...]
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