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Nigeria

Shell’s short list for fields

After a tender processing lasting a full year, Shell has chosen a number of consortiums to submit final bids for its stake on four licenses in the Niger Delta.

Subscribers only Energy 22.02.2011

Creative move for OML 42

NNPC wants to pre-empt Shell's stake on gas-rich OML 42 but doesn't have the money. Several oil companies are ready to finance it and recover the loan from output.

Subscribers only Energy 22.02.2011

Amnesty looking shaky

The amnesty process that the Nigerian government launched in 2009 [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.02.2011

KBR just keeps on paying

Two years after negotiating a settlement with the U.S. Treasury, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.02.2011

African Capital Alliance

The Nigerian equity fund African Capital Alliance that was founded [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.02.2011

Spotlight
Cleaning up African politics

Is the African Union just a tad out of touch? While young people, who make up the vast majority of the population in Africa, have been demonstrating in the streets of Tunis, Algiers and Cairo, on January 28 Obiang Nguema [...]

Subscribers only Politics 09.02.2011

Uncertainty over Shell’s blocks

Companies seeking to buy RoyalDutch/Shell’s stakes on OML 30, 34, 40 and 42 remain on tenterhooks after submitting their bids [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.02.2011

Kingsley Kuku

Nigeria’s president has finally chosen Kingsley Kuku as his special adviser for the Niger Delta region in the place of [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.02.2011

Shell, Total & ENI in dock

Three big European oil companies will soon find themselves being [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.02.2011

Pipeline Hitches

Mart Resources and its Nigerian partner Midwestern haven’t been able [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.02.2011

JGC to Pay USD 218 million

After a full year of bargaining (AEI 625/633). Japan's JGC [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.02.2011

Hart Group

The British accountancy firm Hart Group, based in Aylesbury and [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.02.2011

Diezani Alison-Madueke

Diezani Alison-Madueke, Nigeria's oil resources minister, and her energy counterpart, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.02.2011

Eighteen suitors for Shell's OMLs

Following Total's refusal to dispose of it minority stakes in OML 30 and 34, the block drawing the most attention in Shell's disinvestment program has been OML 42.

Subscribers only Energy 25.01.2011

NNPC could grab OML 42

Shell is selling its stakes on OML 42 but the Nigerian National Petroleum Corp is thinking of exercising its preemption [...]

Subscribers only Energy 25.01.2011

Tim Okon

Tim Okon, who is in charge of the Nigerian National [...]

Subscribers only Energy 25.01.2011

Australian offensive on unexplored north

Australian Mines has confirmed its interest in exploring for gold and base metals in North Nigeria. The country’s mineral potential [...]

Subscribers only Mining 18.01.2011

SEMS Exploration Services in Mauritania and Liberia

SEMS Exploration Services, a geological and mining consultancy for the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 18.01.2011

Petroci boss turns to Mariya Dantata

As part of ongoing efforts to find alterative sources of [...]

Subscribers only Business 12.01.2011

Total throws spanner into sale

Just as the deadline for bids was closing, Total forced Shell to change the rules of the game with regards the disposal of its concessions in the Niger delta.

Subscribers only Energy 11.01.2011

Grynberg keeps plugging away

Although a first ruling deprived him of rights on a concession in Central African Republic, Jack Grynberg is continuing his battle against Bangui before the ICSID.

Subscribers only Energy 11.01.2011

LNG in return for votes

Ogun and Ondo states are to follow Bayelsa in becoming shareholders in a gas liquefaction plant. Nigeria’s president is seeking to drum up votes in the Delta region.

Subscribers only Energy 11.01.2011

NLNG seeking USD 2 bn

Standard Chartered Bank is currently putting together a USD 2 [...]

Subscribers only Energy 11.01.2011

Timi Alaibe

Timi Alaibe, former adviser for the Niger Delta region to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 11.01.2011

Austen Oniwon

Austen Oniwon, the chief executive of the Nigerian National Petroleum [...]

Subscribers only Energy 11.01.2011

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