A state within a state, Angola's Sonangol remains an impenetrable company – no Internet site, no press releases or annual reports – that appears obsessed with secrecy. Africa Energy Intelligence has taken a close look at the way the national [.
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In picking through the accounts of Sonangol and its oil services and financial offshoots (see Spotlight), the International Monetary Fund's [...]
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Algeria's energy minister recently led a high-level delegation to Niger. The aim was to sign an agreement between Algeria's Sonatrach and the Niger government on oil exploration in Niger, across which the future pipeline will run.
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A mysterious company has just made its debut in oil exploration in Mauritania. According to our sources it is controlled by ussian interests.
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According to the French trade mission in Abidjan, two blocks in Ivory Coast's off-shore are likely to offer the country 10 years of energy self-sufficiency.
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A handful of well-connected Nigerian law firms are dominating the consultancy business for majors and local companies.
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Although NNPC has agreed to increased gasoline prices and privatize its refineries it has turned down a World Bank recommendation to sells its shares in the offshore.
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A company that will control future receipts from Sao Tome e Principe's offshore belongs to businessmen close to Nigeria's president.
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Baghdad's announcement that "Tunisian companies" may develop the Al Kafl oil field in the country forms part of Iraq's round-about offensive to get an embargo decreed by the Security Council in 1990 lifted.
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Africa stands in third position among regions with the biggest [...]
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Before his departure (see P. 8), Ray Wilcox, president of [...]
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Africa Energy Intelligence has learned that Hyson Nigeria, one of [...]
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South Africa's Petroleum Agency signed an agreement with two seismic [...]
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The World Bank has called for an inquiry into an agreement between IECI and Chad concerning the construction of a [...]
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After a lot of ups and downs, France's Vivendi group has completed the acquisition of Senelec and is due to sign this week.
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A consortium made up of Agip, Chevron and the U.S. group General Electric has reportedly taken in hand a project that ABB/Spie initiated for a 50 MW gas-fuelled power station.
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Meetings of a Russian-Libyan government panel chaired by Libyan foreign [...]
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In its heyday, the bankrupt U.S. group Enron put down roots in several African countries but used the continent primarily as an offshore financial center to invest in Asia and in the United States.
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In response to Nigerian government demands that oil companies stop burning off associated gas by 2008, RoyalDutch/Shell is mounting a number of projects requiring heavy use of gas.
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Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company has made a discovery [...]
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Sonatrach has just awarded a contract to a consortium composed [...]
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Century International Oil & Gas, an affiliate of Canada's Archean [...]
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Despite a recent cease-fire between the Sudanese government and the [...]
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Former manager of Total Birmanie, Herve Madeo is to replace Pierre Guyonnet as head of TotalFinaElf's security division. Guyonnet was [...]
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For nearly 10 years Ted Giletti worked with Sonangol to mount loans guaranteed against Angola's future oil production. Initially, he [...]
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Former director of the U.S. Export-Import Bank that provides loans for overseas ventures, James Harmon will succeed Maurice Templesman as [...]
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Holding a degree in administration and currently head of Elf Serepca, an affiliate of TotalFinaElf in Cameroon, Hubert Loiseleur des [...]
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An expert on African oil issues at the U.S. energy department during Bill Clinton's presidency, Calvin Humphrey has founded an [...]
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Gabon's new mines and oil minister, Richard-Auguste Onouviet, is a protégé of Georges Rawiri, speaker of Gabon's Senate and long-time [...]
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In early February Jay Prior will take over as boss of Chevron Nigeria in succession to Ray Wilcox. The latter [...]
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CORRECTION
The drop in oil prices during the third quarter of [...]
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An affiliate of the Saudi-Swedish group Corral Petroleum owned by [...]
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Signed in November, the build, operate, transfer contract between the [...]
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While waiting to dispose of its 25% stake in the [...]
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The utility Electricite du Mali has just been awarded a [...]
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Ghana's deputy finance minister, Gyeysiko Adombire, announced in parliament last [...]
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Switzerland's justice minister said on Jan. 25 that he would [...]
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Suspended because of the change of government in Portugal, negotiations [...]
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Launched last July, talks between the Libyan and U.S. government [...]
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During a meeting of the Economic and Monetary Community of [...]
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Fresh legislation in the energy sector is expected to be [...]
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British Petroleum and RoyalDutch/Shell have established a partnership with the [...]
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