The recent arrival of a new boss - Notsizwe Nocawe Nokwe - at South Africa's National Oil Co (PetroSA) raised the curtain on sweeping changes in the group's strategy in exploration which has proved lacking in recent years.
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The arbitration court that is to rule on a suit by Russian lawyer Ednan Agaev against his one-time customer, former [...]
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A new organization that regulates Ghana’s oil sector is putting operators under dire financial pressure.
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The Pilatus company hasn't been able to pay for preliminary work for a well scheduled to be drilled at the end of the year and a company that was to find partners for it has backed out.
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Completely unknown, the firms Tridax and Mezcor were awarded several cargoes of crude last month.
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The South African firm Ophir has got what it has been seeking since last year: disposal of its share in block 5 in the East African rift as quickly as possible.
A dispute between Lilongwe and Dodoma over the ownership of Lake Malawi won’t hold back exploration for the time being. But no new permits will be awarded.
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The operator of the Nugaal and Dharoor license, Horn Petroleum [...]
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With its inauguration being put back constantly, the Angola LNG project at Soyo is looking increasingly like a train wreck. [...]
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After setting up a company to buy gas from the Banda field from Tullow Oil for a power plant, mining companies in Mauritania have been joined by would-be customers in the sub-region like Senegal.
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With a contractual dispute between the government and Orca blocking all movement in the sector, the World Bank intends to invest $35 million in shaking up gas legislature.
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Having won the contract for the GR5 pipeline linking the [...]
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The Societe Nationale d’Electricite (SNEL) is priding itself on coping better than it did in 2011 with drought that has [...]
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Long-term lenders are investing in Uganda’s power sector that’s expected to grow swiftly in certain areas after the country begins producing oil.
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The British firm Ncondezi Coal wants to move quickly on building its coal plant in northern Mozambique but there’s no lack of competitors.
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The executive in charge of Total’s operations in Congo-K and based at the group’s headquarters in Paris, Thierry Monmont, was [...]
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Former executives of PetroCI are landing top jobs in Ivory Coast’s business world. Claude Adou, former secretary-general of the national [...]
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The South African concern Sacoil has appointed a new vice president in charge of finances, with effect from Sept. 1. [...]
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A number of executives have left the board of South Africa’s Ophir since the beginning of this year. The resignation [...]
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Abdelhamid Zerguine, the chief executive of Sonatrach, is putting the [...]
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Politicians in northern Nigeria are banding together to weigh on [...]
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The president of the Movement for the Survival of the [...]
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The small, gas-rich Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago has [...]
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Africa Energy Intelligence understands Uganda’s government has been crafting a [...]
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Congo-K’s 2012 budget promulgated by the president on July 20 [...]
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According to our sources, Italy’s ENI recently sent a letter [...]
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The directors of International Finance Corp., the World Bank affiliate [...]
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After investing in Kurdistan, Genel Energy, a fund set up [...]
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The Ivory Coast helicopter operator IAS lost out on a [...]
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After a few fruitless efforts, Eland Oil & Gas has [...]
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Head of the Republican Party in Iowa until last year, [...]
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Equatorial Guinea has picked the Greenberg Traurig law firm to [...]
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Headed by former staffers of Bill Clinton, among them the [...]
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Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, South Africa’s minister of cooperation, will send officials [...]
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Nick Walter, former vice president of the Canadian firm Talisman [...]
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Emmanuel Buah, Ghana's state secretary for energy, is expected to [...]
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