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Philippe Vasset
AFRICA Editor in Chief
Africa’s Oil Lawyers and Consultants
The big wave of mergers in the oil industry has somewhat reduced the workload of law firms specializing in Africa’s oil business since the majors, for their part, often use their own staff. (...)   [649 words]   [$11,2]
OIL & GAS
EQUATORIAL GUINEA
Growing Power for Malabo
   Relations between oil companies operating in Equatorial Guinea’s offshore and the government are subtly changing as the authorities slowly set up the national oil company Gepetrole (AEI 303 and 308).  (...)  [205 words]   [$7]
SENEGAL
Exploration Starts in Earnest
   A number of seismic campaigns are being planned in Senegal which remains largely unexplored even though four companies are active in the country’s on-shore and offshore:  (...)  [211 words]   [$7]
CONGO-B
Creditors Bang on Elf’s Door
   The agreement that TotalFinaElf boss Thierry Desmarest signed with a lot of fanfare last month to re-schedule Congo-B’s debt guaranteed against oil (AEI 308) contained a loophole that few noticed at first, except for some creditors.  (...)  [598 words]   [$7]
CHAD
Has Concorp Tossed in Towel?
   The Concorp group whose boss, Jar El Nabi, is introduced everywhere in Ndjamena as president Idriss Deby’s ?Sudanese cousin,? was to have presented the keys of the Sedigui project to the government on Nov.  (...)  [315 words]   [$7]
LIBYA/TUNISIA
Bin Mahfouz on "Nov 7" Block
   The Saudi Arabian firm Nimir Petroleum Company, controlled by the Bin Mahfouz family, is continuing to discreetly develop the ?November 7?  (...)  [337 words]   [$7]

AT A GLANCE
NIGERIA    Battle for Agip’s Assets
 [137 words]   [$2,1]
WEST AFRICA    Oil Output to Jump 60% by 2005
 [187 words]   [$2,1]

WHO'S WHO
SAUDI ARABIA
Abdullah Mohammed Basodan
   Founded by Abdel Rahman and Khalid Bin Mahfouz, Nimir Petroleum Company (Nimir stands for Tiger in Arabic) is headed by Abdullah Mohammed Basodan, former director of the strategy department of the Saudi national Company Saudi Aramco and ex-adviser to the Saudi oil minister.  (...)  [103 words]   [$7]
EQUATORIAL GUINEA
Domingo Esono
   After nearly a year of looking for the right man, the Equatorial Guinea government has named Domingo Esono, a former official on the staff of the state secretary for oil, as managing director of Gepetrole, the new national oil company.  (...)  [117 words]   [$7]
KENYA
Chrisanthus Okemo
   With the appointment of former finance minister Chrisanthus Okemo as energy minister in Kenya’s new government, the ministry finds itself with two ministers because the previous holder of the post, Raila Odinga, leader of the National Development Party (NDP) remains in the job.  (...)  [207 words]   [$7]
LIBYA
Mohamed Abdouljawad
   The appointment of Mohamed Abdouljawad as head of Odex Exploration (AEI 310), a new joint venture between Soco North Africa (43%) and Oilinvest (57%), looks like a game of musical chairs.  (...)  [185 words]   [$7]
FRANCE
Berhard Polge de Combret
   Vice-president of the executive committee of TotalFinaElf and managing director of the French group’s trading affiliate, Bernard Polge de Combret plans to leave the firm at the end of this year.  (...)  [209 words]   [$7]

AGENDA
UNITED KINGDOM    Offshore Wind Energy
 [126 words]   [$2,1]
ELECTRICITY
SENEGAL
Last-Minute Win for Vivendi
   France’s Vivendi finally won a 25-year concession to run Senelec on Nov. 20, putting an end to a privatization process full of twists and turns.  (...)  [499 words]   [$7]
NIGERIA
Inquiry into NEPA Sell-Off
   In announcing on Nov. 20 that the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) would sell off the National Electric Power Authority (NEPA) next year, BPE chairman Nasir Ahmed al Rufai was merely  (...)  [420 words]   [$7]
CONGO - K/CONGO - B
Customer Becomes Rival
   Chronically in debt to Congo-Kinshasa’s Societe Nationale d’Electricite (SNEL) which supplies it power from the Inga dam, Congo-Brazzaville is trying to pull the rug from under its  (...)  [267 words]   [$7]
UGANDA
Clouds Gather Over Bujagali
   Uncertainty and delays are piling up for the Bujagali dam project headed by AES and partially bankrolled by the World Bank.  (...)  [234 words]   [$7]
AFRICA
The Power Specialists
   A small number of law firms specialize in power projects in Africa, as others do in the continent’s oil industry (see Spotlight).  (...)  [361 words]   [$7]

AT A GLANCE
ZIMBABWE    Eskom to Manage Hwange
 [105 words]   [$2,1]

STRATEGIES
SNPC
Delicate Balancing Act
   Founded in 1998 to market Congo-Brazzaville’s oil production -- it currently sells 30,000 bpd worth $200 million, or a third of the government’s production share –the Societe Nationale  (...)  [310 words]   [$7]
CONOCO/PHILLIPS
A Nigerian Merger
   If the merger between Conoco and Phillips Petroleum that was announced on Nov. 18 is confirmed it will considerably beef up the portfolio of the two companies in Africa, and particularly  (...)  [349 words]   [$7]

AT A GLANCE
REPSOL    Well Placed in Libya
 [98 words]   [$2,1]
OMV    Bid for Talisman
 [70 words]   [$2,1]
eni    Discovery in Congo-B
 [88 words]   [$2,1]
TOTALFINAELF    Luanda Refinery Build-Up
 [68 words]   [$2,1]
BHP PETROLEUM    Partnership Off
 [62 words]   [$2,1]

LEGAL ISSUES & FUNDING
ALGERIA
Study for Algeria-Spain Power Link
   Algeria’s plan to export power directly to Spain has been given an important shove.  (...)  [174 words]   [$2,1]
ALGERIA
Risks in New Fiscal Legislation
   The shake-up in Algeria’s oil industry that looks like giving Sonatrach a wider degree of independence also contains a fiscal part that worries a number of foreign companies operating  (...)  [119 words]   [$2,1]
SOUTH AFRICA
End To Featherbedding for Sasol and Mossgas?
   At the behest of the South African government, the Austrian consultancy, PVM Oil Associates, is working on a report concerning subsidies to South African oil companies.  (...)  [106 words]   [$2,1]
SOUTH AFRICA
BHP Billiton Interested in Eskom
   The Anglo-Australian group BHP Billiton is displaying an interest in the partial privatization of the Eskom’s future ?  (...)  [107 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA
A Market in Pollution Licenses?
   Increasing numbers of companies are eyeing the market for pollution licenses that the Kyoto Protocol recommended as a way of cutting greenhouse gases.  (...)  [200 words]   [$2,1]
NIGERIA
$90 Million for Niger Delta
   The European Union is poised to bankroll a series of micro-projects worth a total of $90 million in the Niger delta.  (...)  [93 words]   [$2,1]
NIGERIA
Decision on Oil Share-Out Next Year
   A trial that has pitted Nigeria’s southern states against the federal government concerning the exact limits of the states’ maritime borders – and thus how big a chunk of Nigeria’s  (...)  [106 words]   [$2,1]
NIGERIA
Oil Security Committee to be Formed
   In the wake of the Sept. 11 terror attacks in the United States but also after many cases of sabotage in the Niger delta, the Nigerian government set up a committee in charge of supervising  (...)  [124 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA/UNITED STATES
Oil Pacts
   According to information gleaned by Africa Energy Intelligence in Washington, a number of agreements providing for oil cooperation between the U.  (...)  [69 words]   [$2,1]
LIBYA
Passport Ban Extended
   The U.S. state department has just renewed a ban on travel to Libya by U.  (...)  [83 words]   [$2,1]
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