In the space of less than two years, the highly discreet oil firm Afex Global has picked up acreage in Angola, Mali, Cameroon and - last week - in Equatorial Guinea as well. Africa Energy Intelligence has taken a look [.
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Some headway has been made in organizing the Pentagon’s new African Command. It will apparently count five regional integration teams [...]
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A delegation consisting of nine Norwegian legislators visited Angola between Sept. 17-20. The group was led by the chairman of [...]
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Two state-run concerns, the China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) and the China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC), have pre-positioned themselves [...]
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Fighting for over a year with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corp for control of OML 11, 13 and 14, RoyalDutch/Shell [...]
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The last trader to lack an exploration license in Africa, Arcadia has crossed the Rubicon and acquired an 85% holding [...]
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Pakistan’s Zaver Petroleum is keenly interested in Libya and is deploying a tried and tested strategy to pursue that interest.
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Gaz de France will shortly announce that it is beginning to develop the Touat field. Elsewhere, the group could stand in for Repsol on Gassi Touil.
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Svenska, a firm controlled by the Saudi magnate Mohamed Al Amoudi, has just bought out Occidental’s stakes in several African countries.
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The upstream subsidiary of the Bluewater oil services company, Supernova, is on the move after picking up a second asset in West Africa.
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After a licensing round that dragged on for over a year, Equatorial Guinea has succeeded in selling only seven of the 37 licenses it had put on the auction block.
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Even though it drilled a well with biodegraded oil on the Ofa field, Afren is continuing to forge partnerships with Nigerian concerns.
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The south Sudanese government is organizing a bidding round for block E which is being sought by H Oil, a firm owned by the Hachuel family.
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The majors spent the end of the 1990s fighting for four ultra deep concessions. They are limbering up for what looks like a similar battle in coming years.
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Algeria’s national oil company Sonatrach has finally managed to reach [...]
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The push that the Obasanjo administration made in favour of [...]
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The result of a tender for crude term contracts weren’t [...]
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The state-owned Malaysian concern Petronas last month paid USD 80 [...]
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Addax Petroleum, a branch of the trading group, increased its [...]
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The Kudu 8 well drilled by Ireland’s Tullow Oil on [...]
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Petronet, the oil subsidiary of the state-run South African transportation [...]
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The China National Complete Plant Export & Import Company (COMPLANT) has penned a contract with the Public Utilities Corporation in [...]
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Britain’s Aggreko group has been contracted to install a 90 MW emergency power unit.
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Italy’s Ansaldo group is to supply two gas-fuelled turbines for a power station to be built by the American AES concern.
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Ghana president John Kufuor officially inaugurated work on the 400 [...]
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Ethiopia’s water resources ministry completed surveys on two hydro power [...]
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According to The Indian Ocean Newsletter (Indigo Publications group), sister [...]
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Hidroelectrica Cahora Bassa (HCB), the firm that manages the Cahora [...]
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The first hearing in a legal wrangle pitting Jean-Marie Messier against the French oil company Maurel & Prom took place [...]
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Britain’s Premier Oil has begun talks with an eventual buyer of its assets in Mauritania less than eight months after [...]
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After taking a close look at Funsho Kupolokun, former head of NNPC, the new government of Umaru Yar’Adua has turned [...]
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In difficult financial straits since last year, the Canadian concern Mart Resources has just raised USD 23 million through a [...]
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A lot of high-level changes have taken place at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, which is in the midst of [...]
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Australia’s BHP Billiton has just appointed Timothy Cutt to the newly-created post of president in charge of production for the [...]
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The chief executive of North Atlantic Resources, Jon North, has stepped down from his job. A geologist by training who [...]
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The Italian concern Mediterranean Oil & Gas (MOG) has named 52-year-old Sergio Morandi as chief executive officer in succession to [...]
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Following Femi Otedola’s acquisition of African Petroleum, the Nigerian businessman named himself chief executive of the company while its managing [...]
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Africa and Middle East Trade is organizing a first Oil, Gas and Mining Technology North-West Africa Exhibition in Marrakesh between [...]
Global Pacific & Partners and Africa Upstream 2007 are organizing a week-long conference on the African oil sector at the [...]
The Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) has issued an [...]
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Fifteen months ago the state-owned Kenyan utility Kenya Power & [...]
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Algeria’s national oil company Sonatrach and its Italian partner, ENI, [...]
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Howard Barrie, chairman of the Africa Group at the Denton [...]
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On Oct. 1, the corporate law firm LeBoeuf, Lamb, Green [...]
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