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Philippe Vasset
GHANA Editor in Chief
Question Marks on Dealing with Oil Riches
With Ghanaian president John Atta Mills scheduled on December 15 to formally open the pumps on the Jubilee field, which will initially produce 55,000 bpd and then 120,000 by the end of 2011, Ghana’s lawmakers have yet to reach agreement on two bills that are to regulate the sector. (...)   [672 words]   [$11,2]
   
 
SUDAN
Qatar to Hook Up with Total
   A delegation from South Sudan is due to shortly visit Doha for talks with Qatar Petroleum on the oil company forming a partnership with France’s Total on block B. (...)
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ANGOLA
Sonangol Spins Roulette Wheel
   The Angolan national oil company Sonangol has formed a joint venture with a gambling tycoon in Macao to invest in oil ventures.  (...)  [216 words]   [$7]
CONGO-K
Divine Seeks Compensation
   Divine Inspiration Group paid a USD 4 million bonus to Kinshasa for block 1, only to see Kinshasa hand the acreage to Caprikat and Foxwhelp. Divine wants its money back.  (...)  [294 words]   [$7]
NIGERIA
Why Petrofac Teamed with Seven
   Petrofac has bought into the local company Seven Energy in order to break into the highly competitive oil engineering market in Nigeria.  (...)  [277 words]   [$7]

Nairobi    Africa Oil Buys Out Centric
 [121 words]   [$2,1]
Abidjan    Total Increases Expenditure on Exploration
 [97 words]   [$2,1]
Sao Tome    Majors Shun Offshore
 [129 words]   [$2,1]
NIGERIA
A Little Murder Among Friends
   With the deadline for bids set for Dec. 16, alliances are forming and crumbling consortiums jockeying for position to buy Shell’s marginal fields.  (...)  [413 words]   [$7]

NIGERIA
Brass LNG a Campaign Gift
   With presidential elections looming ever larger, Goodluck Jonathan would like to see Bayelsa state - of which he was also governor - buy a stake in the Brass LNG plant.  (...)  [277 words]   [$7]
ALGERIA/SPAIN
A Belated EIB Loan for Medgaz
   The gas pipeline between Algeria and Spain has already been virtually completed for months but the European investment bank has only now announced a EUR 500 million loan to its partners.  (...)  [265 words]   [$7]

Nouakchott    Gas Finds for Total?
 [82 words]   [$2,1]
Algiers    Two Billion for Exploration
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ALGERIA
Why Sonatrach is Thwarting BP
   As Africa Energy Intelligence anticipated would be the case (AEI 639 ), Sonatrach is doing its utmost to slow down the sale of BP ’s interests in the onshore In Salah and In Amenas gas licenses to Russia’s TNK-BP.  (...)  [210 words]   [$7]

SUDAN
How Juba Will See to Power Supply
   With Sudan likely to split in two following January’s referendum, what opportunities will arise for investment in the power sector in the South? And will Khartoum interfere?  (...)  [275 words]   [$7]
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
Bozize’s Track Record in Electricity
   Standing for re-election in January, Central African Republic president Francois Bozize is laying on the promises regarding electricity to hide his government’s poor record.  (...)  [226 words]   [$7]

Pretoria    Eskom Calls on Government to Fix Domestic Coal Prices
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ZAMBIA
Alstom Under EIB Scrutiny
   The Agence Francaise de Developpement (AFD) has just cancelled a trip by officials to Lusaka concerning funding for the 120 MW Itezhy Tezhy dam on the Kafue river in Zambia.  (...)  [362 words]   [$7]

WEST AFRICA
Frank Timis
   The Australian Securities Exchange (ASE), which conducted an inquiry into Frank Timis, chairman of the board of African Petroleum Corporation Limited, agreed in late November that he could retain his post under certain conditions.  (...)  [142 words]   [$7]
 
IVORY COAST
William Foley
   The Australian firm Rialto Energy that operates in Ivory Coast’s offshore is pursuing its policy of hiring former executives of Addax Petroleum.  (...)  [148 words]   [$7]
 
UNITED KINGDOM
Kieran Looney
   An Irish management consultant, Kieran Looney, appeared before the High Court of London to present his case in a dispute pitting him against Trafigura.  (...)  [135 words]   [$7]
IVORY COAST
Adama Toungara
   The run-off in the presidential ballot on Nov. 28 in Ivory Coast left two candidates claiming victory. One of them, Alassane Ouattara, has been recognized by the international community while the second, out-going president Laurent Gbagbo, is backed by the army and the country’s constitutional council.  (...)  [138 words]   [$7]

NIGERIA
PHCN
 [109 words]   [$2,1]
 
CHAD
SHT
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SUDAN
Sudapet
 [78 words]   [$2,1]

CONGO-K
Gorillas or Oil: a Choice
   Soco International and Dominion Petroleum may be forced to postpone their seismic campaign on block 5 in the Albertine Graben.  (...)  [186 words]   [$2,1]
 
UGANDA
ENI Keeps Eye on Graben
   The chief executive of ENI, Paolo Scaroni, is due to meet at some point in the coming two weeks with Uganda president Yoweri Museveni to discuss investing in oil exploration in the  (...)  [147 words]   [$2,1]
 
SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE
Nigerian Oil Scandal Spreads
   A scandal over the disappearance of receipts from the sale of 30,000 bpd of Nigerian crude by Sao Tome in 2009 could now spread to the country’s president, Fradique de Menezes.  (...)  [171 words]   [$2,1]
NIGERIA
Blanket Amnesty in Delta?
   Several rebel movements in the Delta which have spurned the least compromise with the federal government are currently negotiating their surrender- but at high cost if they don’t get  (...)  [198 words]   [$2,1]

CONGO-K
Harneys
 [140 words]   [$2,1]
 
AFRICA
Martin Lovegrove
 [93 words]   [$2,1]
 
AFRICA
Credit Suisse
 [77 words]   [$2,1]

NIGERIA
KBR Put Through Wringer
   Eighteen months after being forced to pay a USD 579 million fine in the United States for greasing palms in Nigeria, KBR is now being targeted locally on the same corruption charg  (...)  [190 words]   [$2,1]
NIGERIA
Presidential Deal on OPL 245
   Secret talks between RoyalDutch/Shell and Nigeria concerning OPL 245, which were revealed by Africa Energy Intelligence (No.  (...)  [170 words]   [$2,1]
 
GHANA
Rialto’s Man Wants Payoff
   The Australian firm Rialto Energy, whose management team is almost entirely made up of former Addax executives (see P.  (...)  [157 words]   [$2,1]
 
GUINEA
Poles Apart
   A squabble between countrymen Summa Energy and Kito Energy, both registered in Luxembourg but controlled by Polish stakeholders (AEI 639 ), has escalated.  (...)  [166 words]   [$2,1]

Paris
Regis Immongault
 [76 words]   [$2,1]
 
Doha
Leonid Bokhanovsky
 [74 words]   [$2,1]
 
Kampala
Hassan Younes
 [49 words]   [$2,1]
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