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Philippe Vasset
AFRICA Editor in Chief
The Highly Selective Marginal Fields Market
With the majors tied up in negotiating the development rate of their ultra-deep blocks and in the quest for new acquisitions, the market for marginal fields that offer true opportunities for local companies as well as for Western juniors has taken off. (...)   [646 words]   [$11,2]
OIL & GAS
ETHIOPIA
Russian Moves on Calub
   State-owned Russian firms have been meeting a lot with senior aides from the Calub Gas Share Co. in recent weeks in the hope of setting up a JV.  (...)  [153 words]   [$7]
GABON
IMF Points to Bleak Oil Future
   Experts from the International Monetary Fund have assessed Gabon's oil prospects right up to 2006 and predict a dire slide if no new finds are made.  (...)  [473 words]   [$7]
LIBYA
Soco and Kadhafi's African Venture
   Odex Exploration, a joint venture between Soco and OilInvest, seems determined to profit from Libya's pro-active policy regarding Africa to build up its business on the continent.  (...)  [268 words]   [$7]
LIBYA
Petro-Canada on the Move
   After a number of setbacks in North Africa in recent years, Petro-Canada has fleshed out its portfolio in Libya by buying the German oil firm Veba  (...)  [289 words]   [$7]
NIGERIA
Law Suit Filed for OPL 245
   The OPL 245 block was awarded in 1998 and withdrawn in 2001. AEI understands the acreage could become the object of a law suit in the United States.  (...)  [405 words]   [$7]
AFRICA
Petrobras Makes its Move
   The Brazilian group Petrobras has been on the acquisition path in Africa, which now accounts for a full 32.2% of its total reserves.  (...)  [150 words]   [$7]
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.  (...)  [362 words]   [$7]
ANGOLA
The Oil Security Masters
   Even though talks have begun between the Angolan government and senior aides of the late UNITA chief Jonas Savimbi on reaching a genuine truce in Angola, oil companies are continuing to pay out heavily for security in the country.  (...)  [176 words]   [$7]

AT A GLANCE
NIGERIA    Majors Protest Over Quotas
 [168 words]   [$2,1]
NIGERIA    TotalFinaElf Given an Additional Year to Fix Kaduna
 [147 words]   [$2,1]
TANZANIA    Paladin Gets Negotiating Mandate
 [119 words]   [$2,1]

WHO'S WHO
UNITED NATIONS
Claudine Sigam
   Claudine Sigam, who runs a discreet African oil, trade and finance department at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has just signed an agreement with Cameroon's Societe Nationale des Hydrocarbures to organize a gathering of heads of African national oil companies in September.  (...)  [82 words]   [$7]
FRANCE
Jean Privey
   Replaced less than three weeks ago as head of TotalFinaElf E&P Angola by Hubert Loiseleur de Longchamp (AEI 315), Jean Privey has just taken over the gas and electricity division at the French group's headquarters in Paris.  (...)  [103 words]   [$7]
UNITED STATES
James Painter
   Former head of Ocean Energy's operations in the Gulf of Mexico, James Painter, who worked in the past for Forest Oil and Superior Oil, has just been named exploration director for all of the U.  (...)  [97 words]   [$7]
CONGO-K
Ahmadou Sadio Diallo
   Former owner of the Congolese freight and storage firms Africom-Zaire and Africacontainers-Zaire, the Guinea-born businessman Ahmadou Sadio Diallo has filed suit at the International Court of Justice in The Hague against the Democratic Republic of Congo and the oil companies RoyalDutch/Shell, ExxonMobil and TotalFinaElf.  (...)  [125 words]   [$7]
SOUTH AFRICA
Peter Bird
   Director of the investment banking department at NM Rothschild Corporate Finance Ltd., a London-based affiliate of NM Rothschild, Peter Bird is expected to advise the South African government on the partial privatization of the power utility Eskom.  (...)  [156 words]   [$7]
UNITED KINGDOM
Friedhelm Eronat
   Chairman of Cliveden Petroleum, Friedhelm Eronat is a London-based trader who was highly active in the Caspian sea countries in the 1990s.  (...)  [121 words]   [$7]
NIGERIA
Paul Wilson
   Director of ArmorGroup Nigeria, an affiliate of the U.S. security company Armor Holding, Paul Wilson is endeavoring to beef up his firm's security operations in Nigeria's oil industry.  (...)  [118 words]   [$7]

AGENDA
UNITED KINGDOM    Nigeria Oil & Gas 2002
 [128 words]   [$2,1]
UNITED KINGDOM    Oil and Gas in the Gulf of Guinea
 [100 words]   [$2,1]
ELECTRICITY
ANGOLA
Sizing Up The Damage
   Angola's national power utility ENE has openly stated the country has no operating dams at present. And the construction of new ones has been hit by delays.  (...)  [291 words]   [$7]
TUNISIA
Saudi Power Play
   Centurion Energy, a Canadian firm partly controlled by Saudi Arabian interests already active in Tunisia's oil industry, is expected to start up a power station at Zarzis in three months' time.  (...)  [300 words]   [$7]
CONGO-K
Eskom Lies in Wait
   Africa Energy Intelligence has learned that South Africa's Eskom is in talks with Societe Nationale d'Electricite on providing $20 million for the rehabilitation of the hydro-electric  (...)  [194 words]   [$7]

AT A GLANCE
ALGERIA    ABB to Improve Sonelgaz's Power Network
 [61 words]   [$2,1]

STRATEGIES
OCEAN ENERGY
A Favorite of Ex American Ambassadors
   In working to build up its operations in the Gulf of Guinea, the U.S. firm Ocean Energy can count on network of former U.S. ambassadors in Africa to defend its interests.  (...)  [221 words]   [$7]
CLIVEDEN PETROLEUM
Sticking its Head over the Parapet
   Active in the Salamat basin that straddles the border between Chad and Central African Republic, the British firm Cliveden has a lot to lose from recent clashes between the two countries.  (...)  [349 words]   [$7]

AT A GLANCE
HARDMAN RESOURCES    Listing in London
 [47 words]   [$2,1]
ENI    Contract with NLNG
 [69 words]   [$2,1]
ONE    Move on Somelec
 [78 words]   [$2,1]
AES    Bargaining on Senelec Begins
 [39 words]   [FREE]
HERITAGE OIL & GAS    Investment in Congo-B
 [46 words]   [$2,1]
FIRST CALGARY    Drilling in the Berkine Basin
 [53 words]   [$2,1]

LEGAL ISSUES & FUNDING
ALGERIA
Sonatrach Picks Trust Algeria as Insurer
   The private Algerian insurance company Trust Algeria has won a contract to insure oil wells operated by Sonatrach even though its bid of 238.  (...)  [149 words]   [$2,1]
MOROCCO
New Turn in Skidmore/Albaraka Saga
   A new complication has sprung up in the legal battle between the American oil group Skidmore, once the leading shareholder in the Lone Star company, and the Saudi Arabian firm Dallah  (...)  [184 words]   [$2,1]
LIBYA
Alstom Secures the Deal
   The French electricity group Alstom is doing its utmost to lock in some 1.  (...)  [89 words]   [$2,1]
NIGERIA
The World Bank and Trading Options
   The World Bank appears highly suspicious of the option system that traders use to buy futures contracts from NNPC and thus avoid paying the "prompt price" (AEI 306).  (...)  [97 words]   [$2,1]
NIGERIA
When Bouygues Farms Out Work to Bouygues
   Being part of a construction group can facilitate the choice of sub-contractors but cause book-keeping headaches.  (...)  [85 words]   [$2,1]
CAMEROON
Row Between AES and Pechiney
   An agreement for the supply of electricity at a guaranteed rate to Alucam and Socatral, two affiliates of Pechiney in Cameroon, by the national utility Sonel is in trouble.  (...)  [67 words]   [$2,1]
ANGOLA
Endgame with IMF?
   AEI has learned that an audit of Angola's oil resources carried out by KPMG and Ernst & Young has been completed and handed over to the International Monetary Fund.  (...)  [109 words]   [$2,1]
SUDAN
Embarrassing Disclosure for Talisman
   A document that could cause a lot of trouble for Canada's Talisman has been submitted to the District Court of New York by a group of four Sudanese anti-slavery activists led by reverend  (...)  [188 words]   [$2,1]
CAMEROON/NIGERIA
Cameroon Independence Movement and the Bakassi Peninsula
   African Energy Intelligence understands that the English-speaking Cameroon independence movement SCNC wants to testify in the case involving the Bakassi peninsula that is presently  (...)  [186 words]   [$2,1]
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