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Ghana Energy Resources, a firm that dreams of being Oando

Some Ghanaian businessman are doing a lot to attract attention in order to benefit from the local content law adopted [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.06.2015

Abidjan beefs up legal team for border standoff

Ivory Coast has retained the services of Gide as a decisive phase of its maritime boundary dispute with Ghana looms before an arbitration panel.

Subscribers only Energy 02.06.2015

Cap Energy lured to the Gulf of Guinea

The junior Cap Energy, which is based in London and [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.06.2015

Amandi Energy seeking funds for its power plant

Based in Accra, the firm Amandi Energy headed by Israeli [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.06.2015

Asanko seeking cash for second phase

Asanko Gold Inc has succeeded in trimming the estimated cost [...]

Subscribers only Mining 26.05.2015

Mike Anderson, a former spy at Kosmos

Kosmos Energy’s big discovery of gas on block C8 off Mauritania in April (AEI 745) looks likely to alter the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.05.2015

Erin (formerly Camac) hires ex-Shell executive Oriaifo

In changing its name from Camac Energy to Erin Energy (see here), the group also appointed a country manager in [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.05.2015

Kofi Annan fails in oil mediation bid

An effort by former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.05.2015

Atuabo Freeports seeks to emerge as big oil services base

Accra is hoping to develop a big regional services and logistics port for oil companies to boost earnings for local industry.

Subscribers only Energy 05.05.2015

McDermott International joins forces with local firm

A relative newcomer to Africa, the American oil engineering firm McDermott International has made its debut in Ghana by signing [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.05.2015

Oryx now run by an old Nigerian veteran

Former managing director of Addax Petroleum in Nigeria, Vance Querio, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.05.2015

Tempers continue to rise in boundary dispute

Ivory Coast president Alassane Ouattara isn’t about to ease pressure [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.05.2015

Abidjan finds Accra knocking on its door

Their dispute over maritime boundaries (AEI 734) hasn’t stopped Accra and Abidjan from doing business with one another. Ghana’s energy [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.04.2015

Squabble over boundary continues, to dismay of oil companies

The first round of arbitration on the maritime boundary between [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.04.2015

African Development Fund backs ECG

Ghana’s government is to lend $42.9 million to Electricity Company [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.04.2015

Goldplat seeks to shine despite Rand Refinery woes

South Africa’s Rand Refinery has clearly hit an unlucky streak. After an accounting mistake involving 87,000 ounces of gold (worth [...]

Subscribers only Mining 07.04.2015

Kelvin Abdallah, the key man at Fugro

The Dutch geological survey company Fugro is fast building up its profile in Africa (AEI 726). It has just teamed [...]

Subscribers only Energy 31.03.2015

General Electric equips Offshore Cape Three Points

The U.S. group Oceaneering International that supplies oil equipment and [...]

Subscribers only Energy 31.03.2015

MIGA Guarantee for Sankofa

Vitol is covering its risk on a project to put [...]

Subscribers only Energy 31.03.2015

Manganese: Consmin seeks to reap multiple China contracts

Its fingers burned by an abortive sales contract with Tianyuan Manganese Industry Co (TMI) - the case is now before [...]

Subscribers only Mining 24.03.2015

Tempers flare in offshore boundary dispute

Already increasingly cool, relations between Ivory Coast and Ghana are beginning to pose serious problems to oil companies working near a disputed zone.