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The mysterious figures in NIPCO’s move on Exxon’s downstream business

Announced with considerable fanfare in mid-October, the acquisition of a 60% holding in MobilOil Nigeria (MON) by the Nigerian firm [...]

Free access Energy 01.11.2016

Billionaire Mutallab bidding for Petrobras assets

The French investment bank Natixis has set a deadline of Oct. 30 for companies interested in buying assets of the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.11.2016

Endeavour wants to grow as big as Randgold

The group is to summon its shareholders next month to unveil its new strategy that's both ambitious and costly. Here's a preview.

Subscribers only Mining 25.10.2016

miner in Burkina Faso looks for fresh vistas

In disgrace in Ouagadougou since the fall of president Blaise [...]

Subscribers only Mining 25.10.2016

ECOWAS’ stock market takes form

In recent weeks a project by Togo’s Edoh Kossi Amenounve, [...]

Subscribers only Mining 25.10.2016

Aiteo's empire dismantled piece by piece

In a precarious position both financially and with regards the law, Nigerian businessman Benedict Peters is seeking to sell off some of his assets.

Subscribers only Energy 18.10.2016

Double or nothing for Lekoil on its Otakikpo concession

Lekoil can count only on revenue from Otakikpo to explore its other blocks.

Free access Energy 18.10.2016

Sahara Energy vaunts electricity expertise to get back into government’s favour

Excluded from a contract to supply fuel by Dar es-Salaam, the Nigerian group is seeking to keep foot in the door by proposing power project.

Subscribers only Energy 18.10.2016

Taleveras empire challenged in New York courtroom

A case concerning unpaid bills by the Taleveras group led to a sharp assault on its boss, Nigeria’s Igho Sanomi.

Subscribers only Energy 18.10.2016

Simbi Kesiye Wabote, a potential bugbear of ENI on OPL 245

The appointment of Simbi Kesiye Wabote as the new executive secretary of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.10.2016

Ontario Oils' boss, Walter Wagbatsoma, dodges Nigerian courts

Accused of wrongly pocketing millions of the Nigerian government’s money in 2010 as subsidies on gasoline, directors of Ontario Oil [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.10.2016

Nigdel agrees at last to SacOil's withdrawal from OPL 233

In the end it all worked out for South Africa’s [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.10.2016

Sherpa of ex French president Sarkozy takes job at Endeavour

Developing six mining projects in West Africa, the firm Endeavour Mining run by Sébastien de Montessus, has hired an impressive [...]

Subscribers only Mining 11.10.2016

Nicolas Heurzeau intent on helping mining juniors

A senior lawyer in the Paris office of Herbert Smith [...]

Subscribers only Mining 11.10.2016

After hitting turbulence, Securiport seeks smooth ride in Mali

Having lost contracts in Ivory Coast and Benin, airport security firm Securiport hopes to bounce back in Mali.

Subscribers only Business 05.10.2016

Orange takes the plunge in Nigeria

Orange’s deputy CEO in charge of Africa and the Middle [...]

Subscribers only Business 05.10.2016

Spotlight
Others race to take Atlantic Energy’s place with NPDC

Yusuf Matashi, chief of NPDC, the production arm of NNPC, is being swamped with proposals to revive the "strategic alliance agreements" system. The accords in question, particularly opaque, enabled the national oil company to award acreage relinquished by majors to [.

Subscribers only Energy 04.10.2016

NPDC has big things in mind for its new headquarter

The production arm of NNPC, NPDC, has just started building a new headquarters in Benin City, capital of the oil [...]

Subscribers only Energy 04.10.2016

Series of setbacks for Endeavor Energy

The American company Endeavor Energy has failed to make its mark in Africa.

Subscribers only Energy 04.10.2016

BTG asks too much for Petrobras assets

A move by the Brazilian bank Grupo BTG Pactual to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 04.10.2016

Exxon and Shell resume squabble with NNPC in New York

The Nigerian subsidiaries of ExxonMobil and Shell, which called in [...]

Subscribers only Energy 04.10.2016

Helios bets the farm on Oando

A few months after partly acquiring the downstream operations of [...]

Subscribers only Energy 04.10.2016

Edwin Clark plays an uncertain card for Buhari in Niger Delta

After launching a military operation dubbed "Crocodile Smile" in the Niger Delta to put a halt to attacks on oil [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.09.2016

First Bank of Nigeria offers Lekoil what it needs to start Otakikpo

The Nigerian junior Lekoil, which has just finished drilling its [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.09.2016

Total and ENI more than ever in Abuja’s cross-hairs

Lawyer Fabian Ajogwu, who is a partner in the Lagos [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.09.2016

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