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Philippe Vasset
EQUATORIAL GUINEA Editor in Chief
Building Up Steam
Five years after the first major discoveries in the country, Equatorial Guinea is seeking to increase its share of revenue from its offshore (...)   [669 words]   [$11,2]
Secret Bargaining with Nigeria
   Talks got underway early this month between Sao Tome and Nigeria on resolving the share-out of oil resources between the two countries. But Sao Tome is constantly upping the ante. (...)  [395 words]   [$7]
OIL & GAS
ANGOLA
Misgivings over Local Ties
   While oil services companies can gain favor with Luanda by forging joint ventures with Sonangol, the ties scare off the majors, which harbour misgivings about them.  (...)  [248 words]   [$7]
ANGOLA
Movement on Marginal Fields
   Sonangol appears set to put some marginal fields in its offshore on the auction block. It has been talking with a number of juniors since early this year.  (...)  [197 words]   [$7]
CONGO-B
What the IMF Wants
   Following an IMF mission to Brazzaville SNPC's operations are to come under tighter control.  (...)  [276 words]   [$7]
NIGERIA
Ocean Back in Business
   After knocking unsuccessfully on the door of Nigeria's offshore, Ocean Energy has finally been awarded OPL 256.  (...)  [179 words]   [$7]
AFRICA
Petroleum Airlines
   Increasing interest in West Africa's oil reserves has prompted a number of airlines to open direct services to capitals of the petroleum-producing nations.  (...)  [253 words]   [$7]

AT A GLANCE
SUDAN    Indian Oil Grabs a Stake
 [61 words]   [$2,1]
NIGERIA    RoyalDutch/Shell Starting Up EA
 [83 words]   [$2,1]
NIGERIA    Figures for Flared Gas
 [93 words]   [$2,1]
LIBYA    ENI's Contracts for Pipeline Scheme
 [139 words]   [$2,1]

WHO'S WHO
NORTH AFRICA
Mohamed Saleh Kamel
   Son of Saleh Kamel, head of the Saudi banking group Dallah Al Baraka, Mohamed Saleh Kamel is the main shareholder in the Moroccan oil company Maghreb Petroleum, previously Lone Star.  (...)  [157 words]   [$7]
CHAD
Mahamat Mamadou Ali
   Chad's fourth oil minister in less than a year, Mahamat Mamadou Ali, last week replaced Laoual Adji Gremma. The latter succeeded Alahou Taher in June, after Taher had held the job for 10 months.  (...)  [125 words]   [$7]
MOROCCO
Karim Ghellab
   Fired 18 months ago as chief of the Moroccan railway system, Office National des Chemins de Fer, by energy and transport minister Bouamor Taghouan, Karim Ghellab got his own back earlier this month when Moroccan prime minister Driss Jetou appointed him to Taghouan's job in the country's new government.  (...)  [145 words]   [$7]
EQUATORIAL GUINEA
Domingo Mba Esono
   Head of Equatorial Guinea's state-owned oil company GEPetrol since it was established, Domingo Mba Esono has, in the space of a year, become the man that oil companies talk to when they want to set up shop in the country.  (...)  [147 words]   [$7]
AFRICA
Jean-Paul Driot
   A former ChevronTexaco executive, France's Jean-Paul Driot set up a trading company named Stag earlier this year that has since been landing a lot of contracts in Africa.  (...)  [100 words]   [$7]

AGENDA
ANGOLA    Angola Oil & Gas Conference
 [144 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA    Working with Sanctions
 [107 words]   [$2,1]
ELECTRICITY
CONGO
New Regional Agreements
   SNEL in Democratic Republic of Congo is hard at work negotiating new contracts with Congo-Brazzaville, Zambia and Zimbabwe.  (...)  [252 words]   [$7]
MOROCCO
CMS to Sell Jorf Lasfar
   Despite selling its oil assets to Perenco, the U.S. firm CMS hasn't managed to wrestle down its debt and now plans to sell its stake in Morocco's Jorf Lasfar power station.  (...)  [158 words]   [$7]
AFRICA
A Discreet Saudi Arabian Fund
   Since it was established in 1975, the Saudi Fund for Development has pumped the equivalent of $215 million into power projects in sub-Saharan Africa.  (...)  [237 words]   [$7]
MOZAMBIQUE
HCB and Eskom Find Accord
   Last month's move by Hidroelectrica de Cahora Bassa (HCB), the company that operates the Cahora Bassa dam, to halt supplies to Eskom in South Africa finally bore fruit.  (...)  [252 words]   [$7]

GOVERNMENT STRATEGIES
SOUTH AFRICA
Majors in the Dock
   Two South African NGO's, Jubilee South Africa and a group representing victims from Khulumani, have filed suit before a federal court in the eastern district of New York against a  (...)  [150 words]   [$7]
NIGERIA
Chevron Teams Up with UN
   The ChevronTexaco oil group has joined ranks with an international agency, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) to set up development programs in the Niger Delta.  (...)  [123 words]   [$7]
CAMEROON/NIGERIA
Still No Deal on Bakassi
   A meeting between Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo and his counterpart from Cameroon, Paul Biya, failed to resolve a dispute between the two sides over the Bakassi peninsula.  (...)  [99 words]   [$7]
SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE
Parliament Snubs President
   By a vote of 55 to 51, Sao Tome's parliament last week approved a plan to revise the constitution to prevent the country's president from unilaterally negotiating agreements on the  (...)  [110 words]   [$7]
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
Libyan Troops Wave Goodbye
   A contingent of Libyan troops stationed in Bangui will shortly pull out after defending president Ange-Felix Patasse against an attempted putsch by general Francois Bozize but also  (...)  [108 words]   [$7]
AFRICA
Japanese Strategy
   Japan's decision to close down 10% of its nuclear power stations for security reasons has compelled the government to re-open several thermic power stations and to supply them with  (...)  [171 words]   [$7]

STATE-OWNED COMPANIES
SONATRACH    Partnership with BP
 [107 words]   [$2,1]
NOC    Libyans Team up With Ukraine
 [101 words]   [$2,1]
PETROSA    Debut on Ibhubesi
 [126 words]   [$2,1]
SONANGOL    Correction
 [84 words]   [$2,1]

FINANCIAL OPERATIONS
SUDAN
   Ban on Barter
 [120 words]   [$7]
GABON
   Drop in Oil Revenue
 [115 words]   [$7]
NIGERIA
   NNPC Could Pay Old Cash Call
 [100 words]   [$7]
SENEGAL
   Pinpointing Senelec's Needs
 [144 words]   [$7]
MOROCCO
   Cash Injection for Tahaddart
 [153 words]   [$7]

CONSULTANTS
PB POWER    Study in Zambia
 [71 words]   [$2,1]
MIRANDA, CORREIA, MENDOEIRA    Setting Up Shop in Sao Tome
 [55 words]   [$2,1]
ABRAHAMS KIEWITZ    Suit Against Majors
 [88 words]   [$2,1]
SWECO    A Merger with Carl Bro
 [96 words]   [$2,1]
KPMG    Angolan Oil Audit To Be Published
 [74 words]   [$2,1]
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