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Philippe Vasset
Africa Editor in Chief
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 (...)   [630 words]   [$11,2]
First Wells by Year's End
   Kerr McGee and Hunt Oil are expected to start drilling in the Benin and Togo offshore in the next few weeks. (...)  [211 words]   [$7]
OIL & GAS
ANGOLA/CONGO - B
Operators Picked for K Structure
   The Congolese and Angolan governments have chosen the equity split in the consortium due to explore K Structure, an area straddling Angola's block 14 and Congo's Haute Mer license.  (...)  [333 words]   [$7]
NIGERIA
RoyalDutch/Shell's Dilemma
   As the leading oil producer in the country, RoyalDutch/Shell has fired away continuously at OPEC quotas.  (...)  [323 words]   [$7]
EQUATORIAL GUINEA
A Concession for Glencore
   Equatorial Guinea has awarded the Glencore trading company four licences in its shallow offshore.  (...)  [303 words]   [$7]
EQUATORIAL GUINEA
Dogfight for Petro Airlines
   Two Texas-based airlines are competing for rights to fly regularly to Malabo.  (...)  [175 words]   [$7]
ALGERIA
Kuwait Makes Debut in Onshore
   To raise funds to develop the 406b concession in the Berkine basin, the U.S. group Anadarko has teamed up with the Kuwait Foreign Exploration Petroleum Co.  (...)  [339 words]   [$7]

AT A GLANCE
ALGERIA    Semi-Public Company for 3rd Gas Pipeline
 [125 words]   [$2,1]
MAURITANIA    Russia's IPG Starts Drilling
 [93 words]   [$2,1]
SENEGAL    Roc to Wave Goodbye
 [72 words]   [$2,1]
CHAD    Oil to Start Flowing Next July
 [53 words]   [$2,1]
EQUATORIAL GUINEA    New Field for Amerada Hess?
 [73 words]   [$2,1]
EQUATORIAL GUINEA    Drilling Program for 2003
 [74 words]   [$2,1]
NAMIBIA    Chevron to Operate on Kudu
 [69 words]   [$2,1]
NIGERIA    South Koreans Win FPSO Sub-Contract
 [70 words]   [$2,1]

WHO'S WHO
AFRICA
Jean-Claude Gandur
   President of the Addax/Oryx trading and production company, the Swiss national Jean-Claude Gandur has just been named boss of Axmin, a mining company that operates in Central African Republic, Ghana, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Mali and Tanzania.  (...)  [117 words]   [$7]
MOROCCO
Mohamed Boutaleb
   Contrary to what we reported in our last issue, Morocco’s new energy minister is not Karim Ghellab - he was named transport minister - but rather Mohamed Boutaleb.  (...)  [77 words]   [FREE]
UNITED KINGDOM
Bryan Sanderson
   Highly active in funding oil projects, the U.K. bank Standard Chartered has just hired a president who spent his entire career with BP.  (...)  [93 words]   [$7]
NIGERIA
Olu Agunloye
   Named minister for electricity and steel last week, Olu Agunloye succeeded Segun Agagu who stepped down from the job to run for election as governor of Ondo state north of Lagos.  (...)  [155 words]   [$7]
SOUTH AFRICA
Tokyo Sexwale
   The former prime minister of South Africa’s Gauteng province, Tokyo Sexwale, is becoming the U.S. firm Forest Oil’s prime lobbyist in Africa.  (...)  [162 words]   [$7]

AGENDA
AFRICA    Financing Oil & Gas Projects in Africa
 [204 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA    Gas to Liquids 2003
 [65 words]   [$2,1]
ELECTRICITY
NIGERIA
New ?Chinese? Plants
   The Nigerian government has just awarded construction contracts for three new gas-fuelled power stations to supply Lagos and Abuja.  (...)  [237 words]   [$7]
ALGERIA/SPAIN
Interconnection Endorsed
   A study on a power interconnection between Madrid and Algiers has just been completed and the project deemed viable.  (...)  [207 words]   [$7]

GOVERNMENT STRATEGIES
SUDAN
Oil Seminar in U.S.
   The U.S. government has organized a seminar in Washington in mid-December between the Sudan government and rebels from the SPLA/LM movement as a prelude to the resumption of peace  (...)  [164 words]   [$7]
CAMEROON/NIGERIA
New Conclave on Bakassi
   High-level delegations from Cameroon and Nigeria met in Yaounde on Dec. 1 for three days of consultations on the Bakassi peninsula issue.  (...)  [82 words]   [$7]
SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE
Chill in U.S. Relations ?
   Although they were invited to take part in the West Africa Oil & Gas Forum organized two weeks ago in Houston by the Corporate Council on Africa, none of Sao Tome e Principe's leaders  (...)  [134 words]   [$7]
GOLFE DE GUINEE
U.S. Plays Down Interest
   During the West Africa Oil & Gas Forum organized two weeks ago in Houston by the Corporate Council on Africa, the under-secretary of state for African affairs, Walter Kansteiner, appeared  (...)  [231 words]   [$7]
MAURITANIA
Seeking Newcomers
   The Mauritanian government has launched a major lobbying campaign to diversify the nationality of oil companies working in its offshore, which has been pretty well the preserve of  (...)  [195 words]   [$7]

STATE-OWNED COMPANIES
ELCTRICITY GENERATION COMPANY    Agreement with Rwanda
 [96 words]   [$2,1]
NOCZIM    Tamoil Breaks Off Accord
 [107 words]   [$2,1]
CALUB GAS SHARE COMPANY    Russian Contacts
 [106 words]   [$2,1]
ONAREP    Talsinnt Concession Enlarged
 [50 words]   [$2,1]

FINANCIAL OPERATIONS
GHANA
   Kuwait Fund to Help VRA
 [61 words]   [FREE]
NIGERIA
   Win for Local Insurance Firm
 [119 words]   [$7]
NIGERIA
   $4 Billion Cash Call
 [115 words]   [$7]
SUDAN
   The Money Rolls In
 [75 words]   [FREE]
ANGOLA
   And Angola's, too
 [87 words]   [$7]
NIGERIA
   Obasanjo's Budget
 [92 words]   [$7]
MOROCCO
   $150 Million Fire Hits Refinery
 [70 words]   [FREE]

CONSULTANTS
MIZUHO FINANCIAL GROUP    Financial Consultant for Arzew
 [69 words]   [$2,1]
TRACER PETROLEUM    Marginal Fields Consultant
 [97 words]   [$2,1]
FIRST INTERSTATE BANK    Adviser to Nigerian Government
 [82 words]   [$2,1]
ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND    Sasol's Adviser
 [50 words]   [$2,1]
ABRAHAMS KIEWITZ    In Hot Water with Pretoria
 [75 words]   [$2,1]
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