Launched by Gabonese president Ali Bongo exactly a year ago, an audit of the oil industry currently being conducted by the Alex Stewart International firm is expected to give rise to a major overhaul of the sector.
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Will Algeria shortly be obliged to let foreign oil companies buy into the giant Hassi Messaoud field? Abdelmajid Attar, who [...]
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Heritage Oil is taking advantage of its new-found financial firepower to make a bid for Shell’s stake on OML 30. But some details of the transaction have yet to be settled.
The Congolese and Angolan oil ministers have at last reached an agreement on putting a zone they jointly own north of block 14 into production.
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After buying into block 3 in Congo-K, South Africa’s Dig Oil is expected to shortly pick up a permit some 100 km south west of Bangui. In near-secret conditions.
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The French major has just acquired a holding in the Semliki consortium that holds the stakes of Sacoil and Dig Oil on block 3.
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After buying into Nigeria last year, Maurel & Prom is showing a keen interest in Sudan.
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Several small companies headed by former executives of BP are working to persuade the British giant to buy into their holdings in Namibia.
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Angola LNG will finally come on line at Soyo in April, four months behind schedule. The plant, which ought to [...]
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PetroCi has kicked off talks in the hope of seeing the West African pipeline that carries gas from the Niger Delta extended to Ivory Coast. But that’s a long-term calculation given the pipeline’s poor performance at present.
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Competing against one another to build LNG plants in Africa for over 10 years, the American group KBR and France’s Technip are vying to construct Anadarko’s future plant in Mozambique.
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Libya’s gas production hasn’t risen completely to the pre-war level [...]
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Three months after China Three Gorges Corp (CTGP) bought a 21.35% holding in Energias de Portugal (EDP), the Portuguese group’s [...]
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The Katanga mining giant is seeking - even by way of a court case - to take over the management of virtually all of the dams in the province currently operated by the national utility.
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A delegation from Congo-K was in Johannesburg last week to discuss how much power the future Inga 3 dam would supply South Africa - and at what price.
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As soon as he was appointed in mid-March, the new acting oil and gas minister in Congo-K, Martin Kabwelulu, proceeded [...]
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Minister for employment and social welfare since the end of January and a former head of the energy and mines [...]
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The state-run Gabon Oil Co (GOC) looks set to gradually resemble an affiliate of Shell. In addition to its president, [...]
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The new managing director of South Africa’s national oil company PetroSA, will have a lot of work on her plate. [...]
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The chief executive of ENI, Paolo Scaroni, has denied his [...]
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The former managing director of Societe des Hydrocarbures du Tchad [...]
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Oil output is continuing to fall in Cameroon and reportedly [...]
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According to Nigerian lawmaker Farouk Lawan, a report he wrote [...]
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Many in Belgium are still decrying the green light awarded [...]
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Horse-trading between Ghana and Ivory Coast over their maritime boundary [...]
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As Africa Energy Intelligence anticipated in early February, (AEI 668), [...]
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Since last month Gazprombank has been the lone owner of [...]
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Four years after acquiring Occidental’s portfolio in Africa, the Saudi [...]
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The Standard Chartered Bank bank last week began holding a [...]
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The Gunvor trading company penned a memorandum of understanding with [...]
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The American investment bank has been retained to arrange the [...]
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Three of the best-connected former oil ministers in Africa have [...]
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Alexander W. Sierk, a former official of the antitrust division [...]
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Georges Rebelo Pinto Chikoti, Angola's foreign minister, met with his [...]
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Boubacar Nalado, the managing director for oil and gas in [...]
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Raji Fashola, governor of the state of Lagos, will play [...]
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