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Philippe Vasset
ANGOLA Editor in Chief
Independents on March With Local Partners
Long reserved for the majors, Angola’s oil market is opening up gradually to independent groups. To set up shop in the country the newcomers are forging partnerships with private Angolan interests or with state-controlled Sonagol. Terra Energy Invests on Private Side. (...)   [751 words]   [$11,2]
New African Independent
   Based in London and listed early this month on the Toronto Venture Exchange, the Canadian independent Exile Resources has been formed to quickly build up a portfolio in Africa. (...)  [155 words]   [$7]
OIL & GAS
SOUTH AFRICA
Global Resources Eyes Block 1
   The U.S. oil firm Global Resources is seeking to obtain acreage along South Africa’s border with Namibia.  (...)  [186 words]   [$7]
SOUTH AFRICA
Energetic Out to Conquer
   The South African trading company Energetic is building up an oil portfolio in Africa. In doing so, it is following in the footsteps of Mvelaphanda Holdings.  (...)  [217 words]   [$7]
NAMIBIA
South African Partnerships
   The state-controlled South African group PetroSA is about to acquire a huge license in Namibia’s offshore.  (...)  [271 words]   [$7]
SEYCHELLES
Acreage for Maurel & Prom?
   The Seychelles Petroleum Company is about to award several concessions.  (...)  [188 words]   [$7]
MADAGASCAR
Sunpec Plants its Flag
   The Chinese oil distribution group Sunpec has acquired two concessions on Madagascar’s west coast.  (...)  [152 words]   [$7]
NIGERIA
First Russian License
   Russia’s Zarubezhneft is understood to have won two gas concessions in Nigeria’s offshore.  (...)  [194 words]   [$7]
NIGERIA
Oxy Makes its Way Back
   Occidental Petroleum, which pulled out of Nigeria in the 1970s, is seeking to buy into Exxon’s OPL 214.  (...)  [188 words]   [$7]
CAMEROON
Kosmos in Offshore
   Pipped at the post by Ophir in Equatorial Guinea, the U.S. firm Kosmos is seeking to debut in Cameroon.  (...)  [153 words]   [$7]
NIGER
New Licenses for Sonatrach
   Niamey is going to award two new exploration concessions to Algeria’s state-owned Sonatrach.  (...)  [115 words]   [$7]
MALI
Last Call for Concessions
   Bamako is about to award some of the last available acreage in the country.  (...)  [193 words]   [$7]
MAURITANIA
GDF In and Belhasa Out
   Gaz de France is about to make its debut in Mauritania while Kuwait’s Belhasa will lose its acreage.  (...)  [231 words]   [$7]
SENEGAL
Indian Firm in Offshore Bid
   The Gas Authority of India (GAIL) is seeking to acquire licenses in Senegal’s offshore.  (...)  [199 words]   [$7]

AT A GLANCE
ALGERIA    LNG Pact with Oxy
 [105 words]   [$2,1]
GABON    Afren Seeks Fresh Acreage
 [69 words]   [$2,1]
GABON    New License for Vaalco
 [76 words]   [$2,1]
NIGERIA    Partners Line up for OK LNG
 [57 words]   [$2,1]

WHO'S WHO
SUDAN
Philip Ward
   The British firm White Nile which is disputing ownership of block B in southern Sudan with France’s Total, has just hired the former financial director of Lundin Sudan, Philip Ward, as its chief operating officer.  (...)  [141 words]   [$7]
ALGERIA
Bill Guest
   Listed on London’s AIM and highly active in Algeria, the British firm Gulf Keystone has just named Bill Guest as boss of the group.  (...)  [124 words]   [$7]
NIGERIA
Macauley Ofurhie
   Director of the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), the oil industry’s regulatory body between 2002 and May, 2005, Macauley Ofurhie has just been appointed to the board of Afren Energy Resources.  (...)  [180 words]   [$7]
FRANCE
Gerard Andreck
   The managing director of France’s MACIF insurance company, Gerard Andreck, has been named chairman of the supervisory board at Maurel & Prom following the resignation of Pierre Jacquard, ex president of the Institut Francais du Petrole, for health reasons.  (...)  [96 words]   [$7]
CONGO-K
Salomon B.Baliene
   Former farming, fishery and cattle raising minister and co-founder of president Joseph Kabila’s Parti du Peuple pour la Reconstruction et le Developpement, Salomon Banamuhere Baliene was named energy minister in a government reshuffle on Nov.  (...)  [120 words]   [$7]
AFRICA
Evert Jan Sibinga Mulder
   Chief operating officer of Addax Petroleum since the beginning of the decade, Evert Jan Sibinga Mulder is to leave the group in coming weeks.  (...)  [81 words]   [$7]

AGENDA
WEST AFRICA    Nigeria Oil & Gas 2006
 [270 words]   [$2,1]
ELECTRICITY
MOZAMBIQUE
Breakthrough on Cahora Bassa
   Mozambique president Armando Guebuza’s official visit to Lisbon resulted in an initial agreement to turn the Cahora Bassa dam over to Mozambique.  (...)  [239 words]   [$7]
GABON
IFC to Bankroll Veolia
   The private investment arm of the World Bank is going to lend EUR 25 million to France’s Veolia group and guarantee loans of its affiliate, Societe d’Eau et d’Electricite du Gabon.  (...)  [174 words]   [$7]
MALI
Bouygues Calls it a Day
   Haggling for long months with the Bamako authorities concerning electricity rates, France’s Bouygues group has ended up by quitting the country.  (...)  [227 words]   [$7]
ALGERIA
Semi-Public Firms for Power Links
   Projects for underwater power inter-connections between Algeria and Spain and Algeria and Italy are to be carried out by semi-public firms made up of state-controlled groups on one  (...)  [134 words]   [$7]

AT A GLANCE
SUDAN    An Indian Power Plant
 [117 words]   [$2,1]

GOVERNMENT STRATEGIES
NAMIBIA
On the Beaten Path
   Like virtually all of his African counterparts, Namibian president Hifikepune Pohamba will travel next month to China. Early this month, Pohamba received a large Chinese delegation  (...)  [159 words]   [$7]
NIGERIA
End to Flaring?
   Acting on a complaint filed by the Iwerekan ethnic community, a court in Benin state declared last week that the flaring of gas was illegal in Nigeria and that it flouted the rights  (...)  [117 words]   [$7]
CHAD
New Oil Legislation
   After a long wrangle with Exxon and the World Bank (see P. 1, AEI 403), Chad’s government moved on Nov.  (...)  [156 words]   [$7]
AFRICA/CHINA
Beijing Vs Taipei
   The Senegalese government officially recognized mainland China as the only legitimate Chinese government during a trip to Beijing by Senegalese foreign affairs minister Cheikh Tidiane  (...)  [127 words]   [$7]
AFRICA/INDIA
Loans in Return for Acreage
   Taking their cue from their Chinese rivals, Indian groups are offering low-cost credit lines to their African partners to finance projects in the oil downstream, electricity sector  (...)  [217 words]   [$7]

STATE-OWNED COMPANIES
sudapet    New Exploration License
 [82 words]   [$2,1]
petroleum resources unit    Licenses Withdrawn
 [124 words]   [$2,1]
snh    Surge in Output Expected
 [69 words]   [$2,1]
sonagas    Building a Gas Pipeline
 [91 words]   [$2,1]

FINANCIAL OPERATIONS
ENH Invests in Gas
   Thanks to a EUR 35 million loan from the European Investment Bank, Companhia Mocambicana de Gasodudo (CMG), which is 80% owned by state-controlled ENH and 20% by the Mozambique government,  (...)  [87 words]   [$7]
Grynberg Files Suit
   The American firm Grynberg Petroleum has filed a request for arbitration by the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), a panel linked to the World Bank,  (...)  [194 words]   [$7]
Funds Seek to Invest
   According to our sources, several Netherlands-based equity funds that own oil assets in the North Sea are currently seeking to diversify into Africa.  (...)  [96 words]   [$7]
Al Thani Sees Big
   On the eve of its flotation on London’s Alternative Investment Market, Al Thani Investments, a Qatari firm owned by Abdullah Bin Saeed al Thani, has changed its name and is now known  (...)  [92 words]   [$7]
Vanco Looks for a Partner
   After preparing lengthily for a flotation on London’s Alternative Investment Market, the U.S. group Vanco chaired by Gene Van Dyke has dropped the idea of an IPO and is instead seeking  (...)  [166 words]   [$7]
Addax Seeks Toronto Listing
   Africa Energy Intelligence has learned that Addax, a firm run by Jean-Claude Gandur that acts as both a trader and a oil and mining operator, will seek a listing on the Toronto Stock  (...)  [126 words]   [$7]

CONSULTANTS
DNA piper rudnick    Buying Out Coudert Belgium
 [166 words]   [$2,1]
malone & Bailey    New Auditors for Chrome
 [79 words]   [$2,1]
taylor-dejongh    Hiring World Bank Man
 [151 words]   [$2,1]
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