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Spotlight | Africa
U.N. as Consultant to Oil Majors

In agreeing to manage the welfare projects of ChevronTexaco in Nigeria and Angola, the UNDP has enabled the U.S. majors to step back from the local competition for benefits generated by the oil industry [...]

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Energy

Spotlight | Nigeria
Oil Putsch Against Obasanjo

An attempt to topple Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo in early August stemmed largely from oil disputes.

Subscribers only Energy 27.08.2002

Africa
The Oil NGOs

A partnership accord between Norsk Hydro and Amnesty International is the latest example of a flurry of alliances between oil groups and NGOs.

Subscribers only Energy 26.03.2002

Spotlight | Africa
Oil Connections at the World Bank

A number of oil companies, banks and power utilities enjoy special access to the World Bank.

Subscribers only Energy 16.10.2001

Spotlight | Africa, World Bank
IFC: An African Oil Major

While the World Bank unceasingly urges African nations to diversify their economies, its private affiliate, the International Finance Corp., appears more realistic: it invests to the hilt in African oil. Since the beginning of the year the IFC has approved [.

Subscribers only Energy 03.07.2001

Spotlight | Africa
Key Upstream Area for TotalFinaElf

France’s TotalFinaElf has lifted its exploration budget this year to $750 million from $700 million in 2000 and Africa will get the lion’s share. The group’s exploration drive will focus on the major oil basins that the Gulf of Guinea, [.

Subscribers only Energy 20.03.2001

Spotlight | Angola
Oil and Transparency

By indicating in a letter to the British non governmental organization Global Witness that it would publish information on its operations in Angola every year, BP Amoco sent a shock wave through the oil industry that is likely to continue [.

Subscribers only Energy 20.02.2001

Cameroon, Chad
DOBA VICTIM OF GLOBALIZATION

The Chad government signed a preliminary accord with Vivendi to take over management of the Societe Tchadienne d'Electricitre et d'Eau [...]

Subscribers only Energy 24.11.1999

Africa, United States
DRAFTING AN OIL POLICY?

A closed-door meeting in Washington just before New Years gave rise to what could appear as an American effort to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.01.1999

Spotlight | West Africa
LAST OBSTACLES TO GAS PIPELINE

Of the three regional gas or gas-electricity projects that could be completed by the end of the decade in sub-Saharan Africa the West African Gas Pipeline (WAPG) based on reserves in Nigeria, where 2 billion cu.

Subscribers only Energy 16.12.1998

Nigeria
OSO II IN SERVICE

The second phase of the Oso development project centered on the production of NGL has been commissioned. Output began at [...]

Subscribers only Energy 26.08.1998

Cameroon, Chad
KICKOFF FOR PIPELINE

Work on the pipeline that is to link the Doba oil basin in southern Chad to the future terminal at [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.01.1998

Nigeria
PRIVATIZATION FOR OIL INDUSTRY?

Nigeria has managed to fend off the threat of oil or other sanctions with for a selective release of jailed [...]

Subscribers only Energy 09.10.1996

Nigeria
LNG PROJECT SHELVED AGAIN?

The execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other pro-Ogoni activists after they were sentenced to death on Nov. 6 on [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.11.1995

Spotlight | Cameroon
BOTTOM OF THE BARREL

"There is a lack of openness in the oil sector" and a drop in receipts appears inevitable, confirmed a report entitled "Macro-Economic Survey of Cameroon after the Devaluation" commissioned by the French cooperation ministry. The report resulted from a mission [.

Subscribers only Energy 10.05.1995

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Senegal
Guns and oil drive Russia's Dakar courtship

Botswana, South Africa
From Gaborone to Antwerp, is De Beers's empire on the rocks?

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Spotlight | Nigeria
Oil Putsch Against Obasanjo

Africa
The Oil NGOs

Spotlight | Africa
Oil Connections at the World Bank

Spotlight | Africa, World Bank
IFC: An African Oil Major

Spotlight | Africa
Key Upstream Area for TotalFinaElf

Spotlight | Angola
Oil and Transparency

Cameroon, Chad
DOBA VICTIM OF GLOBALIZATION

Africa, United States
DRAFTING AN OIL POLICY?

Spotlight | West Africa
LAST OBSTACLES TO GAS PIPELINE

Nigeria
OSO II IN SERVICE

Cameroon, Chad
KICKOFF FOR PIPELINE

Nigeria
PRIVATIZATION FOR OIL INDUSTRY?

Nigeria
LNG PROJECT SHELVED AGAIN?

Spotlight | Cameroon
BOTTOM OF THE BARREL

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Senegal Guns and oil drive Russia's Dakar courtship

Botswana, South Africa From Gaborone to Antwerp, is De Beers's empire on the rocks?

African Union: the battle of the giants

West African cocoa cartel battles with the traders

The generals waging war from Khartoum to Darfur

Spotlight | Africa U.N. as Consultant to Oil Majors

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Spotlight | Nigeria Oil Putsch Against Obasanjo

Africa The Oil NGOs

Spotlight | Africa Oil Connections at the World Bank

Spotlight | Africa, World Bank IFC: An African Oil Major

Spotlight | Africa Key Upstream Area for TotalFinaElf

Spotlight | Angola Oil and Transparency

Cameroon, Chad DOBA VICTIM OF GLOBALIZATION

Africa, United States DRAFTING AN OIL POLICY?

Spotlight | West Africa LAST OBSTACLES TO GAS PIPELINE

Nigeria OSO II IN SERVICE

Cameroon, Chad KICKOFF FOR PIPELINE

Nigeria PRIVATIZATION FOR OIL INDUSTRY?

Nigeria LNG PROJECT SHELVED AGAIN?

Spotlight | Cameroon BOTTOM OF THE BARREL

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Senegal
Guns and oil drive Russia's Dakar courtship

Botswana, South Africa
From Gaborone to Antwerp, is De Beers's empire on the rocks?

Spotlight | Africa
U.N. as Consultant to Oil Majors

Spotlight | Nigeria
Oil Putsch Against Obasanjo

Africa
The Oil NGOs

Spotlight | Africa
Oil Connections at the World Bank

Spotlight | Africa, World Bank
IFC: An African Oil Major

Spotlight | Africa
Key Upstream Area for TotalFinaElf

Spotlight | Angola
Oil and Transparency

Cameroon, Chad
DOBA VICTIM OF GLOBALIZATION

Africa, United States
DRAFTING AN OIL POLICY?

Spotlight | West Africa
LAST OBSTACLES TO GAS PIPELINE

Nigeria
OSO II IN SERVICE

Cameroon, Chad
KICKOFF FOR PIPELINE

Nigeria
PRIVATIZATION FOR OIL INDUSTRY?

Nigeria
LNG PROJECT SHELVED AGAIN?

Spotlight | Cameroon
BOTTOM OF THE BARREL