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Philippe Vasset
NIGERIA Editor in Chief
Private Security for Pipelines?
Clashes between ethnic communities and vandalism of oil pipelines in the Niger Delta region are weighing ever-more heavily on the operations of majors operating in the country, and particularly on RoyalDutch/Shell, Chevron and Agip. Viewing that as an opportunity, Kroll and MPRI have each submitted projects to the government on securing oil facilities in the region. (...)   [660 words]   [$11,2]
India and China in Fresh Push
   In the past two weeks, India and China have each set up a company specifically designed to manage their offshore oil projects abroad, particularly in Africa. (...)  [229 words]   [$7]
OIL & GAS
NAMIBIA
Circle Oil Seeks a Partner
   Ireland's Circle Oil is keen on attracting majors to a huge onshore zone it acquired in northern Namibia last year.  (...)  [200 words]   [$7]
EAST AFRICA
PanContinental Buys Afrex
   Plagued by problems on its Kenyan and Eritrean concessions, Afrex has been bought out by PanContinental, which already owned 40% of its business.  (...)  [172 words]   [$7]
CONGO-B
The $10 Million Bonus
   When MPs gathered in parliament last week to consider the production sharing agreement with Total on Haute Mer C they were informed Congo had pocketed a $10 million bonus from the group.  (...)  [207 words]   [$7]
GABON
Total in Gas Hunt
   France's Total group signed up last week for a first onshore gas concession in Gabon.  (...)  [213 words]   [$7]
CONGO - B/GABON
Double Whammy for GGPC
   Formed only a year ago, the Gulf of Guinea Petroleum Corporation is poised to sign up for two concessions in Gabon and in Congo-B.  (...)  [336 words]   [$7]
NIGERIA
Seeking Stand-in for Chagoury
   With Nigeria's government breathing down their neck, the shareholders in OPL 246 are seeking to find a stand-in for Gilbert Chagoury to prevent state-owned NNPC from grabbing the acreage.  (...)  [255 words]   [$7]
NIGERIA
Study on PanAfrican Pipeline
   Around a dozen oil services firms have put in bids to conduct a feasibility study on a pipeline running between Nigeria and Algeria.  (...)  [154 words]   [$7]
LIBYA
Abbot Plants its Flag
   With Libya about to open its onshore to foreign operators, the British oil services company has snapped up one of the leading drilling concerns in the country.  (...)  [150 words]   [$7]
ALGERIA
Secret Bargaining on Ahnet
   Sonatrach, Petronas and GDF are negotiating the development of the Ahnet field which could cost $2 billion.  (...)  [178 words]   [$7]

AT A GLANCE
ALGERIA    Correction
 [97 words]   [$2,1]
NIGERIA    Schlumberger Moves into Marginal Fields
 [103 words]   [$2,1]
NIGERIA    Bechtel for Brass LNG
 [101 words]   [$2,1]

WHO'S WHO
NIGERIA
Chris Haynes
   Currently production manager of RoyalDutch/Shell's operations in the Middle East, Chris Haynes is to replace Andrew Jamieson as boss of Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG), the joint venture which operates the gas liquefaction plant at Bonny island.  (...)  [162 words]   [$7]
TANZANIA
Peter Clutterbuck
   The Canadian firm PanOcean Energy, which operates the Songo Songo gas production project in Tanzania, has brought all of its sales operations in the country under the roof of an independent firm named EastCoast Energy Corporation registered in the British Virgin Islands (PanOcean itself is registered in Jersey).  (...)  [197 words]   [$7]
ANGOLA/FRANCE
Olivier d'Auriol
   Working alongside Jean Caillet at the Swiss concern Telliac which Total and several other groups used to pay commissions abroad (AEI 377), Olivier d'Auriol has also been manager of several Panama-based firms in which the controversial French businessman Pierrre Falcone placed funds, according to La Lettre du Continent, sister newsletter of Africa Energy Intelligence.  (...)  [120 words]   [$7]
AFRICA/IRELAND
David Hough
   CEO of Circle Oil, a company active in Namibia (see P. 3), David Hough is the former boss of the Ivernia West mining company that discovered and developed the Lisheen zinc mine at Tipperary in Ireland, with help from Chevron.  (...)  [106 words]   [$7]

AGENDA
LIBYA    The Inaugural US-Libyan Economic Summit
 [150 words]   [$2,1]
EQUATORIAL GUINEA    Oil & Gas in Equatorial Guinea
 [100 words]   [$2,1]
ELECTRICITY
NIGERIA
Traders to Build Power Station
   Backed by the U.S. group Black & Veatch, Nigerian oil traders plan to build a private power station at Illorin in Kwara state.  (...)  [241 words]   [$7]
CONGO-K
Lusaka to Buy Inga's Power
   Long a mere transit zone for Congo-K's electricity, Zambia plans to start buying part of the Inga dam's output for itself.  (...)  [256 words]   [$7]

AT A GLANCE
CONGO-K    Tender in Lower Congo
 [91 words]   [$2,1]

GOVERNMENT STRATEGIES
ANGOLA
Chinese Funding
   Opened in March (AEI 366), a $2 billion credit line awarded by the China Ex-Im Bank to Angola has already bankrolled a big number of projects in the country.  (...)  [147 words]   [$7]
NIGERIA
Unions Call Strike
   The Nigerian Labour Congress has issued a strike call for Nov. 16 to protest against a recent increase of 10 nairas in the price of oil products.  (...)  [164 words]   [$7]
EQUATORIAL GUINEA
Allies Rewarded
   South Africa and Zimbabwe, which each played an important part in heading off an attempted coup d'etat in Malabo in March, have been largely rewarded for their efforts.  (...)  [146 words]   [$7]
gulf of guinea
U.S. Military Mission
   A Republican senator from Oklahoma, James Inhofe, last week began a trip to the leading oil producer countries in the Gulf of Guinea.  (...)  [192 words]   [$7]
ALGERIA
Japanese Partnership
   Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika will pay the first official visit of an Algerian head-of-state to Japan in early December. Over the past few years relations between Algiers  (...)  [146 words]   [$7]

STATE-OWNED COMPANIES
Gecol    Contract with Hyundai
 [156 words]   [$2,1]
Ene    Work Starting on Chicapa
 [68 words]   [$2,1]
Sonatrach    Financial Strategy
 [84 words]   [$2,1]
One    Power Station at Laayoune
 [105 words]   [$2,1]

FINANCIAL OPERATIONS
NIGERIA
   Halliburton Owns Up
 [119 words]   [$7]
MAURITANIA
   Sterling Raises Funds
 [128 words]   [$7]
ALGERIA
   Sonatrach Lines up Banks
 [94 words]   [$7]
ANGOLA
   IMF on Mission
 [309 words]   [$7]

CONSULTANTS
Engineers India Ltd    Seeking Foothold in Algeria
 [156 words]   [$2,1]
ANZ    Acquired by Standard Chartered
 [101 words]   [$2,1]
ING    A Life Buoy to Stolt
 [151 words]   [$2,1]
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