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Philippe Vasset
LIBYA Editor in Chief
End of Golden Age for Oil Services Firms?
Libyan leader Muammer Kadhafi caught everyone by surprise last month when he announced he would like to nationalize Libya’s oil industry. His bombastic statement - it probably won’t lead to anything - camouflaged another issue that is very real: (...)   [587 words]   [$11,2]
   
 
INDIAN OCEAN
Bertagne Back in Harness
   The executive in charge of Conoco’s operations in Madagascar in the 1990s, Robert Bertagne has just been awarded a license in the exclusive economic zone of the French island of Juan (...)
 [273 words]   [$7]
 
 
ETHIOPIA/KENYA
Lundin Brothers Trade Acreage
   Members of the Lundin family are dealing with one another in a region where numerous finds are being made.  (...)  [284 words]   FREE
 
CONGO-K
Top-Line Recruit for Energulf
   Jean Muganza, former adviser to Congo-K’s hydrocarbons minister, has taken a job with the Energulf oil company that has a holding in the coastal basin.  (...)  [233 words]   [$7]
EAST AFRICA
Gasoline Shortage in the Offing
   The refinery at Mombasa that supplies oil products to Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda is to close for a month, forcing the three countries to find short-term alternatives.  (...)  [217 words]   [$7]

Abuja    Year Starts Out Well for Addax
 [61 words]   [$2,1]
Abuja    Petrobras Says Akpo Start-Up is Weeks Away
 [68 words]   [$2,1]
Porto Novo    New Start for Seme Field?
 [71 words]   [$2,1]
Kampala    New Delay for Eldoret-Kampala Pipeline
 [111 words]   [$2,1]
 
GHANA
Secret Talks on Jubilee
   With estimates of Jubilee’s reserves rising by leaps and bounds the fact that two blocks are present on the field complicates the process of developing the acreage.  (...)  [204 words]   [$7]
 
MAURITANIA
Vietri Stokes Mauritania Hopes
   In the run-up to presidential elections in June, Max de Vietri is trying to persuade the government to set up a network of gas pipelines.  (...)  [279 words]   [$7]

NIGERIA
A Taste of Revenge for ONGC
   Kicked out of two gas blocks in 2005 to make way for Korea National Oil Corp., India’s ONGC has just had its rights on the acreage confirmed after all.  (...)  [372 words]   [$7]
GUINEA
Madison on Lookout for Projects
   A partner of the Al Guhair conglomerate in the United Arab Emirates, the Canadian junior Madison Petrogas is seeking to sign a partnership pact with Guinea’s government..  (...)  [238 words]   [$7]

London    Gasol Seeks to Raise Cash
 [85 words]   [$2,1]
ALGERIA
Making the Most out of its LNG
   Although it continues to negotiate small bilateral supply agreements (Page 2), Sonatrach is counting on henceforth selling its LNG chiefly on the spot market.  (...)  [187 words]   [$7]

Power a Way to Promote Peace
   A report by the British overseas development agency DFID took a look at power projects that could help to foster peace in the Great Lakes area.  (...)  [280 words]   [$7]
CENTRAL AFRICA
Everybody Plugs Into Inga
   Mining groups are all pushing projects to increase the capacity of dams at Inga but want some of the extra power for themselves.  (...)  [324 words]   [$7]

Kinshasa    SNEL’s Financial Woes Worsen
 [52 words]   [$2,1]
Harare    Zimbabwe to Buy its Power in USD
 [45 words]   [FREE]
ETHIOPIA
EEPco Asks Aggreko for Help
   Aggreko, the British emergency power supplier, completed shipping 46 diesel-powered generators to Ethiopia at the end of January.  (...)  [234 words]   [$7]

SOUTH AFRICA
Johnson Njeke
   The South African group Sasol, which was hit with a fine of nearly USD 450 million by the European Commission last October for exercising a dominating market position in paraffin-wax, has just bolstered its executive team by appointing Johnson Njeke as vice president, a member of the board and of the group’s audits committee.  (...)  [121 words]   [$7]
 
NORTH AFRICA
Paul Smith
   Present in Algeria and Tunisia, Canada’s Talisman Energy has just hired two executives who left the Russian-British TNK-BP oil company that was long stalled in its tracks because of a dispute between its shareholders.  (...)  [119 words]   [$7]
 
PUNTLAND
Isse Mohamed “Dholowa”
   The new director of Puntland’s Minerals and Petroleum Agency is Isse Mohamed “Dholowa,” who is a close associate of Abdirahman Mohamed “Farole.  (...)  [154 words]   [$7]
GHANA
Joseph Oteng Adjei
   Senior civil servant Joseph Oteng Adjei has finally been picked for the crucial post of energy minister in the new government of John Atta-Mills.  (...)  [179 words]   [$7]

ALGERIA
Sonatrach
 [90 words]   [$2,1]
 
MADAGASCAR
Madagascar Oil & Gas Co.
 [140 words]   [$2,1]
 
ANGOLA
Sonangol
 [90 words]   [$2,1]

 
ALGERIA
Politics Dictate the Price
   With presidential elections looming ever larger - they are to be held in April - the Algerian authorities have decided to indefinitely postpone applying a decree issued last September  (...)  [125 words]   [$2,1]
 
CUBA/AFRICA
Castro Calls on Africa
   After a visit to Russia, Cuban president Raoul Castro has just wound up a trip to Africa which was largely devoted to energy issues.  (...)  [154 words]   [$2,1]
CONGO-K
New Faces at Oil Ministry
   Africa Energy Intelligence understands that Congo-K oil minister Rene Isekemanga Nkeka has made a string of appointments at his government department.  (...)  [198 words]   [$2,1]
ALGERIA
Zagreb in Maghreb
   Croatia is currently finalizing a long-term gas delivery pact with Algeria’s energy ministry and the state-run oil company Sonatrach.  (...)  [182 words]   [$2,1]

NIGERIA
Mercuria
 [102 words]   [$2,1]
 
AFRICA
Norton Rose
 [109 words]   [$2,1]
 
UGANDA
Schlumberger
 [92 words]   [$2,1]

GABON
Investment Frozen
   The continuing drop in the oil price has forced the Canadian junior Strategic Oil & Gas to cancel its debut on Tullow Oil’s Kiarsseny Marin permit.  (...)  [192 words]   [$2,1]
NIGERIA
Three Judges for Shell Case
   His appeal in Paris against his conviction for money-laundering started last month and former Nigerian oil minister Dan Etete finds himself at the center of judicial proceedings in  (...)  [173 words]   [$2,1]
 
NIGERIA
KBR Pleads Guilty
   In the wake of an arrangement with the Justice Department, the KBR oil services group (formerly Kellogg, Brown & Root) has been charged with five counts, including conspiracy to violate  (...)  [178 words]   [$2,1]
 
UNITED KINGDOM
Long Live the Crisis!
   The small Texas-based junior Frontier Resources International has been listed on London’s alternative Plus market on Jan.  (...)  [158 words]   [$2,1]

Khartoum
Mikhail Margelov
 [81 words]   [$2,1]
 
Lima
Chakib Khelil
 [53 words]   [$2,1]
 
Mombasa
Brian Westwood
 [82 words]   [$2,1]
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