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Philippe Vasset
NNPC Editor in Chief
Kupolokun Lines Up His Team
A month after his appointment as boss of Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC), Funsho Kupolokun has started eliminating 1,400 jobs. (...)   [652 words]   [$11,2]
Australians Finally Make It
   After more than a year of cultivating Tripoli, Australia's Woodside has won concessions in Libya and teamed up with former partners of its fellow company Oil Search. (...)  [341 words]   [$7]
OIL & GAS
IVORY COAST
Surprise Assault on IFC
   The International Finance Corp., private investment arm of the World Bank, has been ordered by a court in Ivory Coast to pay Petro-Ivoire damages, a highly unusual situation for a company widely courted on the continent.  (...)  [267 words]   [$7]
GABON
Has the Slide Been Stopped?
   Gabon appears to have offset the decline of its oil output in 2003 by enhanced recovery on its old fields.  (...)  [213 words]   [$7]
ALGERIA
Total Takes on Risky Venture
   France's Total Group has just been awarded a license in a totally unexplored region in Algeria's on-shore.  (...)  [333 words]   [$7]
ALGERIA
Squeezing Hassi Messaoud Lemon
   Discovered in 1956 by the French firm SN REPAL, Hassi Messaoud still remains Algeria's leading oil field nearly half a century later, turning out 360,000 bpd.  (...)  [174 words]   [$7]

AT A GLANCE
ALGERIA    Stroitransgaz Pipeline Finished
 [86 words]   [$2,1]
ALGERIA    Galso Puts Out Call to Tender
 [58 words]   [$2,1]
TUNISIA    Find for ENI
 [68 words]   [$2,1]
NIGERIA    Second Shell Contract with NLNG
 [148 words]   [$2,1]
SUDAN    Production Start-Up for Block 6
 [50 words]   [$2,1]
ZAMBIA    Iranians to Build Pipeline
 [2 words]   [FREE]

WHO'S WHO
NAMIBIA
Kenneth Yellowe
   Co-founder of the Global Energy firm, Kenneth Yellowe has just been awarded a license to build and operate a refinery at Walvis Bay in Namibia.  (...)  [164 words]   [$7]
AFRICA
Janet Clark
   Chief financial officer of the American independent Nuevo Energy, Janet Clark is to leave the company to become senior vice president and chief financial officer at Marathon.  (...)  [106 words]   [$7]
NIGERIA
Edmund Daukoru
   Appointed oil adviser to president Olusegun Obasanjo last month, Edmund Daukoru has resigned from the board of Platform Petroleum, a company that he founded with the prince of Kano, Nasiru Ado Bayero.  (...)  [70 words]   [FREE]
TUNISIA
Rachid Bouchamaoui
   Boss of Tunisia's powerful Bouchra Holding SA, Rachid Bouchamaoui controls the MP Zarat oil company which has been mobilizing the FPSO Atwood Hunter on its offshore Didon concession since mid-November to drill a new well.  (...)  [156 words]   [$7]
AFRICA/MALAYSIA
Mahathir Bin Mohamad
   After spending 22 years as Malaysia's leader until his resignation in October, ex-prime minister Mahathir Bin Mohamad has been named adviser to the state-owned oil company Petronas.  (...)  [88 words]   [$7]

AGENDA
NIGERIA    Nigeria Oil & Gas
 [99 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA    World LNG Summit
 [144 words]   [$2,1]
ELECTRICITY
MOZAMBIQUE
Lisbon Ready to Pull Out?
   The Portuguese government has ordered a bank audit of the Cahora Bassa dam as a prelude to eventually pulling out of the venture.  (...)  [238 words]   [$7]
CONGO-K
Kinshasa Mulls New Rates
   A bone of contention with Congo-K businessmen for years, the rates practiced by SNEL are being modified under pressure from the World Bank.  (...)  [273 words]   [$7]
ALGERIA
Hadjeret Ennouss Back on Track
   According to AEI sources, Algeria's energy ministry will issue an invitation to tender in coming weeks for construction of the Hadjeret Ennouss power station near Cherchell in the  (...)  [254 words]   [$7]

AT A GLANCE
CONGO-K    AFD Finances Electrification Scheme
 [59 words]   [$2,1]
KENYA    Appeal to World Bank
 [46 words]   [$2,1]

GOVERNMENT STRATEGIES
ANGOLA
Anti-FLEC Regional Coalition
   Military chiefs from Congo-B and Democratic Republic of Congo - both of which have border agreements with Angola - visited Luanda in late November to dovetail operations of their owned  (...)  [103 words]   [$7]
SUDAN
The Countdown Begins
   The latest round in negotiations that began in Naivasha, Kenya, on Dec. 6 between Sudanese vice president Ali Osman Taha and the head of the Sudan Peoples Liberation Party leader John  (...)  [230 words]   [$7]
GABON/EQUATORIAL GUINEA
Foreign Dimension to Mbagnie Conflict?
   The squabble that began early this year between Gabon and Equatorial Guinea over ownership of Mbagnie, Cocotier and Conga islands in the middle of Corisco Bay seems to be taking on  (...)  [247 words]   [$7]
NORTH AFRICA
Brazilian Offensive
   After touring southern Africa last month, Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is presently visiting the Middle East and will end the journey with a stopover in Tripoli and  (...)  [227 words]   [$7]

STATE-OWNED COMPANIES
NOC    Negotiating with Oasis Group
 [109 words]   [$2,1]
SNPC    An Export Subsidiary?
 [62 words]   [$2,1]
NER    Single Regulator for South Africa
 [71 words]   [$2,1]
sonatrach    Strong Earnings from Foreign Holdings
 [115 words]   [$2,1]

FINANCIAL OPERATIONS
NAMIBIA
   Kudu Price Tag a Worry
 [123 words]   [$7]
GABON
   IMF On Way Back
 [185 words]   [$7]
CONGO-B
   Natexis Loan to Maurel & Prom
 [172 words]   [$7]
NIGERIA
   Cost Over-Run for Bonga
 [73 words]   [FREE]
ALGERIA
   Fortis to Fund Gas Pipelines
 [87 words]   [$7]

CONSULTANTS
CHC HELICOPTERS    Acquires Schreiner Aviation
 [107 words]   [$2,1]
ROTSHILD ITALIA    Advising ENI on Galp Energia
 [153 words]   [$2,1]
GLOBAL PACIFIC PARTNERS    A Conference for Petroci
 [165 words]   [$2,1]
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