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A hardy first venture for L1

Founded less than a year ago, the L1 Energy fund of Russian oligarch Mikhail Fridman looks set to undertake its first African operation - in the Niger Delta.

Subscribers only Energy 25.02.2014

Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency

Facing a political crisis, Nigeria’s government is naming new bosses [...]

Subscribers only Energy 25.02.2014

Kuku finds jobs for the boys

The Nigerian president’s adviser for the Niger Delta, Kingsley Kuku, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 25.02.2014

Kumba Iron to try again

Barely had Kumba Iron Ore recovered from its setback on the Faleme iron project in Senegal than the South African [...]

Subscribers only Mining 18.02.2014

Mohamed VI packs his suitcase for Africa again

Less than a month after his last tour of African capitals, Mohammed VI is mounting a new charm offensive on [...]

Subscribers only 11.02.2014

First E&P lusts after OML 83 & 85

A company headed by former vice oil minister Henry Odein Ajumogobia finds itself in the strongest position to buy Chevron’s OML 83 and 85 after a lengthy disposal process.

Free access Energy 11.02.2014

Majors cooling heels for renewals

Two years after negotiating with the oil ministry, Shell still hasn’t won a renewal of its shallow water permits. Chevron has run into the same problem.

Subscribers only Energy 11.02.2014

Gasol in major pitch for LNG

The British firm chaired by Rilwanu Lukman is seeking to offer solutions involving imports of LNG to several countries on West Africa’s coast. But the results have been mixed.

Subscribers only Energy 11.02.2014

Stuart Lake

The managing director of African Petroleum, Karl Thomson, was the loser in the crisis at his company that followed the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 11.02.2014

Fassine Fofana

The British firm Gasol (read here) chaired by Nigeria’s former oil minister, Rilwanu Lukman, has just appointed Guinea’s former energy [...]

Subscribers only Energy 11.02.2014

PPPRA

The Petroleum Products Pricing Agency has published official figures for [...]

Subscribers only Energy 11.02.2014

$2.5 billion for NGC

A subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corp, the Nigerian [...]

Subscribers only Energy 11.02.2014

Three winners in Chevron sell-off

Still stalled by an injunction by Brittania U, the sale of Chevron's stakes has been completed with three companies rather than just one.

Subscribers only Energy 28.01.2014

Seplat soon to be listed in the City

A year behind the original scheme, Nigeria's Seplat group is expected to seek a listing on AIM in London in the first half of 2014.

Subscribers only Energy 28.01.2014

Conoco winds up sale

As Africa Energy Intelligence anticipated in its last issue (AEI [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.01.2014

SSF

Headed by retired general Pierre-Jacques Costedoat, who was successively in [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.01.2014

Ex-Tullow men pool their talents

A number of former Tullow executives have formed a brand new company to explore for oil in Africa. Here’s a rundown of the “all star group.”