Your account has been succesfully created.

00 days

00 hours

00 mins

00 secs

Special offer: -20%20% OFF your subscription

Consult our offers

EN FR

Scroll through edition

Madagascar
Exxon quietly back in business

Officially inactive since the putsch in 2009, Exxon has resumed exploration work by contracting TGS to shoot seismic. [...]

Published on 01/10/2013 at 22:05 GMT

This article may be accessed by subscribers

In order to ensure high-quality and independent journalism, Africa Intelligence relies solely on subscriptions from its readers, with no advertising, no events and no consulting work.

Several offers are available depending on your particular reading needs

Consult our offers

Do you want a free trial before subscribing?

Create your free account

Discover our work by making use of the following possibilities: daily newsletters, a selection of free articles, keyword alerts.

Do you want a free trial before subscribing?

create a free account

20% OFF your subscription

Special offer: Only 0d and 9h to take advantage of it

Consult our offers

This offer is open to all new subscribers and runs until 09/04/2026

Related topics to this article

Read also

Madagascar
Exxon keeps government on string

A steering committee set up by the American major Exxon [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.02.2015

Madagascar
Exxon plays for time and irritates government

The American major is thinking of trying to once again re-negotiate the terms of its working program in Madagascar’s offshore. But that could go down badly with the new government.

Free access Energy 06.01.2015

Madagascar
Exxon outlines its strategy

Exxon’s country manager in Madagascar, Peter Claypool, met once again [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.06.2014

Madagascar
Peter Claypool

Peter Claypool,Exxon’s director in Madagascar, lost no time in meeting [...]

Subscribers only Energy 13.05.2014

Madagascar
Exxon prepares the ground

Now that it has completed a seismic survey on its offshore blocks, Exxon is deploying a public relations campaign.

Subscribers only Energy 08.04.2014

Madagascar
Tullow Oil faces an impasse

Extensions of exploration rights awarded in late 2013 by Andry Rajolina’s government still haven’t been confirmed, and that’s a big problem for some companies.

Subscribers only Energy 25.02.2014

Spotlight | Madagascar
Oil and Politics still bed fellows

With the discovery of huge gas reserves in Mozambique (some estimates put them at 180 TCF), oil companies are now turning their attention to Madagascar. However, the political climate on the island just a month before the run-off in the [.

Subscribers only Energy 26.11.2013

Madagascar
Quiet headway for Madagascar Oil

The new bosses of Madagascar Oil are quietly developing their heavy oil project at Tsimiroro without drawing attention to themselves.

Subscribers only Energy 16.07.2013

Madagascar
Total waves goodbye

Africa Energy Intelligence understands that Total recently decided to withdraw from the Bemolanga permit on Madagascar’s block 3102 which it [...]

Subscribers only Energy 21.05.2013

Spotlight | Africa
No-holds-barred fight over capital gains

Oil companies are increasingly confronting the determination of certain African nations to tax capital gains when assets are sold. The problem is by no means new but the way rates for capital gains are calculated remains difficult to pin down [.

Subscribers only Energy 09.10.2012

Spotlight | East Africa
U.S. in rush to lock in oil supplies

The American administration is doing its best to place a lock on an ever bigger share of Africa’s oil. To do that, several government departments are working in concert to head off conflicts linked to oil on the continent while [.

Subscribers only Energy 25.09.2012

Madagascar
Exxon to come back next year?

About the only thing the American major has been saying to the Malagasy authorities since 2009 is that it won’t work in the country because of the political crisis. That could soon change.

Subscribers only Energy 24.07.2012

Madagascar
Exxon keeps eye on offshore

Discoveries by Anadarko and ENI in Mozambique’s offshore make blocks north of Madagascar look increasingly important.

Subscribers only Energy 17.01.2012

Madagascar
Crucial Well for Exxon

Oil circles are keeping a close eye on exploration on [...]

Subscribers only Energy 09.10.2007

20% OFF your subscription

Special offer: Only 0d and 9h to take advantage of it

Consult our offers

This offer is open to all new subscribers and runs until 09/04/2026

Related topics to this article

Sign up for real-time alerts and be notified of new editions!

Once registered, you will be notified by a short message on your computer or mobile phone as soon as a new edition of our publication or an alert is published. Stay informed anytime, anywhere!