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Oil minister Tchicaya may stymie Zenith Energy's hopes at Tilapia

The expiry of the Tilapia licence is likely to spell bad news for the businessman Andrea Cattaneo, who thought that he had this producing oil field in the bag. [...]

Published on 17/08/2020 at 06:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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