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Philippe Vasset
Editor in Chief
Sao Tome
An Exclusive Look at Licensing Round (...)   [662 words]   [$11,2]
NNDC's Chinese Partner
   Africa Energy Intelligence has learned that Sinopec, which presently draws most of its revenue from six oil fields in China and from refining and marketing oil products, will shortly sign a partnership accord with the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company. (...)  [190 words]   [$7]
OIL & GAS
ANGOLA
Asian Consortium on Plutonio
   Already partners in Sudan, Petronas and ONGC appear ready to team up in Angola to replace RoyalDutch/Shell on block 18.  (...)  [274 words]   [$7]
NIGERIA
A Long Wait for Acreage
   Petrobras and RoyalDutch/Shell have finally signed production sharing contracts for blocks which were respectively awarded to them in December, 2000 and May, 2002.  (...)  [378 words]   [$7]
NIGERIA
Market Turmoil & No Bidders
   Nigeria's decision to try to woo investors by lifting price controls on gasoline has backfired, bringing runaway prices and shortages but no high-profile bidders for its refineries.  (...)  [331 words]   [$7]
TUNISIA
Two Juniors Make Debut
   Juniors are increasingly making their first international debuts in Tunisia. This is the case of two newcomers, Ireland's Petroceltic and Canada's Storm.  (...)  [219 words]   [$7]

AT A GLANCE
ALGERIA    Sharp Rise for Corporate Profits
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ALGERIA    Ramboil Wins Medgaz Deal
 [59 words]   [$2,1]
MOROCCO    Two Vie to Renovate Mohammedia
 [87 words]   [$2,1]
GUINEA BISSAU    Premier Finds a Partner
 [99 words]   [$2,1]
NIGERIA    Ejulebe Slated for Closedown?
 [65 words]   [$2,1]
NIGERIA    Local Companies Finally Win Marginal Fields
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WHO'S WHO
ANGOLA
Aryeh Neier
   President of George Soros' Open Society Institute, Aryeh Neier flew to Angola in mid-December to continue talks that his organization began with the Angolan government in October.  (...)  [116 words]   [$7]
NIGERIA
Bronwen Manby
   Author of a report by Human Rights Watch that came out in mid-December and highlighted the relationship between violence and the siphoning off of oil in the Niger Delta (The Warri Crisis:  (...)  [193 words]   [$7]
AUSTRALIA
Keith Spence
   Acting CEO of the Australian oil company Woodside since John Akehurst was fired, Keith Spence has been taking a lot of major decisions crucial to the company's future of late, including the acquisition of ENI's stake in Mauritania's offshore (see P.  (...)  [136 words]   [$7]
UNITED KINGDOM
Finian O'Sullivan
   CEO of Burren Energy, the partner of France's Maurel et Prom oil company on the Congolese concessions of Kouilou and Kouakouala, Finanian O'Sullivan listed his company on the London Stock Exchange in late December.  (...)  [133 words]   [$7]
NIGERIA
Walter Carrington
   With a street already named after him in the embassy district of Lagos, Walter Carrington, former American ambassador to Nigeria, received the third highest decoration of Nigeria, the Order of the Federal Republic, in mid-December.  (...)  [74 words]   [FREE]

AGENDA
AFRICA    African Petroleum Forum
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AFRICA    New Discoveries in Sub-Saharan Africa
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ELECTRICITY
ETHIOPIA
Austrians Bidding for EEPCO
   After serving regularly as a consultant of EEPCO, the Austrian firm Verbundplan is now seeking the contract to manage the Ethiopian utility.  (...)  [239 words]   [$7]
CONGO-K
Japanese in Fraud Probe
   Police in Belgium are investigating allegations of fraud against a Japanese firm active in the Congo-K's power industry.  (...)  [312 words]   [$7]
ZAMBIA
Sinohydro Wins Kafue Gorge
   Already the winner of contracts to build the 300 MW Tekeze dam in Ethiopia and the giant, 1,250 MW Merowe dam in Sudan, the Chinese firm China Water Resources & Hydropower Construction  (...)  [178 words]   [$7]

AT A GLANCE
SIERRA LEONE    First Investments in Sight
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GOVERNMENT STRATEGIES
ANGOLA
Dos Santos Team for 2005
   The MPLA party congress held in Luanda in the second half of December re-elected Jose Eduardo dos Santos as its chairman, making the Angolan president the party's de facto candidate  (...)  [142 words]   [$7]
SUDAN
Maximum Pressure
   Negotiations between Sudan vice president Ali Osman Taha and the leader of the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA), John Garang, resumed in Kenya on Dec.  (...)  [198 words]   [$7]
GABON/EQUATORIAL GUINEA
Paris Mediates on Mbagnie
   The French government has stepped in after Spain (AEI 359) in an attempt to resolve a conflict that has pitted Gabon against Equatorial Guinea since the beginning of the year over  (...)  [207 words]   [$7]
LIBYA
Power Sharing at Top
   Libya's decision to renounce the use of weapons of mass destruction that led to last week's agreement between Tripoli, London and Washington, put the seal to a power-sharing arrangement  (...)  [196 words]   [$7]

STATE-OWNED COMPANIES
petrosen    Iranian Partnership
 [100 words]   [$2,1]
nnpc    Modifying PSCs
 [103 words]   [$2,1]
sonatrach    New LNG Partnerships
 [83 words]   [$2,1]
NEC    Chinese Newcomer at Merowe
 [94 words]   [$2,1]

FINANCIAL OPERATIONS
KENYA
   Fraud at KPLC
 [110 words]   [$7]
NIGERIA
   Alternative Funding
 [104 words]   [$7]
NIGERIA
   Okonjo-Iweala's Offensive
 [159 words]   [$7]
CONGO-B
   New Fallout from Rivunion
 [186 words]   [$7]

CONSULTANTS
net group solution (pty)    Second Contract for Net Group?
 [134 words]   [$2,1]
landmark graphics    Contract with NNPC
 [108 words]   [$2,1]
tusk llc    Contract with OPIC
 [160 words]   [$2,1]
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