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Gabon

Exxon in soft approach

Africa Energy Intelligence understands that executives from Exxon met in Washington in mid-February with Gabon’s oil minister, Etienne Ngoubou, as [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.03.2013

Addax takes Libreville to court

After launching arbitration proceedings against the auditing concern Alex Stewart International, Addax is taking direct action against Gabon to win compensation for the Obangue field.

Subscribers only Energy 19.03.2013

Olam hit by delays

A project for a huge fertilizer plant supplied with gas at Port Gentil is having trouble getting off the ground. That can be blamed on delays in talks with gas suppliers.

Subscribers only Energy 19.03.2013

Serge Renamy

According to our sources, the managing director of Gabon Oil Co., Serge Toulekima, has named an official to take charge [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.03.2013

Government caves in to ONEP

According to several oil companies, a strike called by the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.03.2013

Lawyer Paulette Oyane-Ondo upsets leadership

Invited to visit the United States for three weeks in March by the State Department, Gabonese lawyer Paulette Oyane-Ondo learned [...]

Subscribers only 06.03.2013

Bongo wields a new broom at the top

Gabon’s president seized the occasion of a brief holiday in Italy to plot a shakeup of his staff and name new officials to key government departments.

Subscribers only Politics 06.03.2013

Bongo set to visit Moscow

After Denis Sassou-Nguesso's trip to Moscow last November (WAN 653), [...]

Subscribers only Politics 06.03.2013

New chief for the Meridien in Libreville

Appointed to a post in South Africa, the managing director [...]

Subscribers only Business 06.03.2013

ONEP wars with Schlumberger

The powerful union Organisation Nationale des Employes du Petrole (ONEP) seems particularly angry with Schlumberger these days. In a letter [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.03.2013

Addax takes on Alex Stewart

Because the Chinese firm has failed to reach a compromise with Gabon concerning Obangue field it is taking out its frustration on Libreville’s favourite oil auditing concern.

Subscribers only Energy 05.03.2013

Iota's high connections in Paris

A financial consulting concern named Iota and headed by the son-in-law of a powerful French rightwing politician is working for oil companies.

Subscribers only Energy 05.03.2013

Arnauld Engandji-Aklandji

The former spokesman for the union Organisation Nationale des Employes du Petrole (ONEP), Arnauld Engandji-Alandji, has crossed the picket lines [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.03.2013

Top recruit for Gabon Oil Co

Faced with the problem of hiring experienced Gabonese oil executives, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.03.2013

"Ill-Gotten" roads lead to Paris, Nice

Investigators searched Congolese and Gabonese-owned properties in Paris and Nice earlier this month as part of the ongoing "Ill-Gotten Gains" probe.

Subscribers only Politics 20.02.2013

Libreville still pins hopes on Belinga iron

Although iron prices plunged by over half between the end of 2011 and December, 2012 - from $180 per ton [...]

Free access Mining 12.02.2013

Gabon's embassy on the move

After moving to 41 rue de la Bienfaisance in the [...]

Subscribers only Politics 06.02.2013

Messodie International readies Gabon's Bikele project

The Monaco finance firm Messodie International has prepared and finalised [...]

Subscribers only Business 06.02.2013

MICHEL MBOUSSOU (CNAMGS)

Michel Mboussou, the managing director of Gabon's Caisse Nationale d'Assurance [...]

Subscribers only Business 06.02.2013

Why IOG invited Ali Bongo

President Ismael Omar Guelleh (IOG) rolled out the red carpet to welcome his opposite number from Gabon, Ali Bongo, who [...]

Subscribers only Politics 01.02.2013

Libreville woos Hollande's heartland

In a crafty bid to curry favour with François Hollande, Libreville has been taking a close interest in the president's political heartland of Correze in the south west of France.

Subscribers only Politics 23.01.2013

Ali Bongo to visit Djibouti

Gabon’s President Ali Bongo is due to make an official [...]

Subscribers only Politics 23.01.2013

Bongo’s new nest

Ali Bongo has bought a villa in Libreville’s upmarket La [...]

Subscribers only Politics 23.01.2013

Semlex hires ex-French interior minister Gueant

Lawyer Claude Guéant, who served as France's interior minister under [...]

Subscribers only Business 23.01.2013

Gabon Oil builds its portfolio

The arrival of Pura Vida Energy on the Nkembe block has enabled the national oil company to acquire a new asset in Gabon’s offshore.

Subscribers only Energy 22.01.2013

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