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Philippe Vasset
AFRICA Editor in Chief
New clothing for old petroleum nationalism
A pioneer in oil nationalism, Algeria is now thinking of easing the government’s grip on the industry in order to encourage investors to return but new producers like Ghana have shifted the focus to the question of employing local workers. (...)   [648 words]   [$11,2]
   
 
IVORY COAST/GHANA
Accord on maritime boundary
   Africa Energy Intelligence has learned that Ghana and Ivory Coast secretly managed last week to agree on putting an end to their dispute on the maritime boundary. (...)
 [336 words]   [$7]
 
 
IVORY COAST
Fakhoury factor hits Total
   Five years after the CI100 block was awarded to Yam’s Petroleum, a personal relationship between Pierre Fakhoury and ex president Laurent Gbagbo has hit at Total’s interests.  (...)  [266 words]   FREE
 
MADAGASCAR
Mamy sees bigger role for Total
   The president of Madagascar’s transition government could appoint the former mines minister as a special adviser. The latter would like to see Total adopt a bigger footprint on the island.  (...)  [329 words]   [$7]
CONGO-K
Mart’s mind set on Tanganyika
   Efforts by Canada’s Mart Resources to explore blocks in Congo-K could take a knock because of the probable departure of the current oil minister from the government.  (...)  [233 words]   [$7]

Kinshasa    BJP about to sign for gravimetric survey
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IVORY COAST
End game for OPL 245
   Shell has announced its acquisition of the huge oil field owned by Malabu Oil & Gas run by Dan Etete. But the operation has yet to be finalized.  (...)  [323 words]   [$7]
NIGERIA
NPDC lays down the line
   Kulczyk and Afren have finally been allowed to buy Shell’s stakes on OML 26 and 42. But state-run NPDC has reserved the role of operator for itself.  (...)  [163 words]   [$7]

ANGOLA
Angola LNG to lose single status
   With Angola LNG set to come on stream, one of the company’s stakeholders, ENI, is working on plans for a second liquefaction plant in Angola.  (...)  [158 words]   [$7]
IVORY COAST
CNR invests in Lion
   The Canadian group CNR has teamed up with Cipem to buy the Lion gas processing plant.  (...)  [183 words]   [$7]

Accra    Sinopec rides to the rescue
 [177 words]   [$2,1]
Pretoria    Shell finally buys into Orange Basin
 [103 words]   [$2,1]
TANZANIA
Parliament slams Orca deal
   A contract between Tanzania’s government and an affiliate of Orca Exploration, PanAfrican Energy Tanzania Ltd (PAT) which operates the Songo Songo gas field seems likely to come under intense fire in a session of Parliament scheduled for February.  (...)  [290 words]   [$7]

CONGO-K
Inga in production surge
   Several factors have come together to produce a very sharp rise in power generation on the Inga dams on the Congo river.  (...)  [225 words]   [$7]
IVORY COAST
Jacobsen tests the waters
   Norway’s Jacobsen has met with the energy minister with an offer to invest in the power sector.  (...)  [171 words]   [$7]

Maputo    New dams on the Zambezi river
 [232 words]   [$2,1]
KENYA/UGANDA
Army hogs power supplies
   Africa Energy Intelligence understands the current power supply emergency in Uganda is partly due to the requisitioning of large amounts of gasoline by the Kenyan army for its deployment in Somalia.  (...)  [257 words]   [$7]

IVORY COAST
Roger Abinader
   The Franco-Ivoirian businessman Roger Abinader, who represents Alstom in Ivory Coast, did the rounds of Ivorian officials in early December to persuade them to let the French group build the new Azito combined cycle power plant.  (...)  [150 words]   [$7]
 
SUDAN
Liu Guijin
   One of China’s most seasoned diplomats, Liu Guijin, travelled to Juba on Dec. 7 and to Khartoum on Dec. 8 to try to get South Sudan and the north to resume talking on oil issues.  (...)  [155 words]   [$7]
 
LIBYA
Bernard Avignon
   France’s Total named Bernard Avignon as the new managing director of its Libyan operations in November. The 57-year-old Avignon has worked for long years for the French major.  (...)  [144 words]   [$7]
UGANDA
Aidan Heavey
   Africa Energy Intelligence has learned from members of the Uganda parliament that Tullow Oil’s chief executive, Aidan Heavey, will be heard before its ad hoc committee probing allegations that Ugandan ministers were bribed by the oil company.  (...)  [139 words]   [$7]

LIBYA
NOC
 [129 words]   [$2,1]
 
GHANA
CNPC
 [102 words]   [$2,1]
 
ANGOLA
ENE
 [93 words]   [$2,1]

CONGO-K/UGANDA
Kinshasa seeks transit rights
   In late November, Congo-K’s embassy in Kampala asked permission from Uganda’s energy ministry to send exploration gear across Uganda for its own territory.  (...)  [150 words]   [$2,1]
UGANDA
Oslo reviews its assistance
   Norway’s ambassador to Kampala received a visit in late November from an independent auditor who had been asked to appraise the results of Oslo’s assistance in the oil sector.  (...)  [172 words]   [$2,1]
 
SUDAN
Al Jaz again in charge of oil
   Awad Al Jaz has back in business as Sudan’s oil minister.  (...)  [221 words]   [$2,1]
 
ALGERIA
Auction in sight
   Algeria’s Agence Nationale de Valorisation des Hydrocarbures (ALNAFT) is to put new oil licenses on the auction block in 2012.  (...)  [170 words]   [$2,1]

NIGERIA
Herbert Smith
 [105 words]   [$2,1]
 
SUDAN
Bart S. Fisher
 [140 words]   [$2,1]
 
NIGERIA
Templars
 [60 words]   [$2,1]

NIGERIA
The OML 26 deal’s funders
   Nigerian banks were the prime funders of First Hydrocarbon Nigeria’s acquisition of the stakes of Shell, Agip and Total on OML 26.  (...)  [184 words]   [$2,1]
 
SENEGAL
Major cash boost for Senelec
   The World Bank’s board of directors is due to vote in mid December in favor of a $88 million loan to Senegal’s power utility Societe Nationale d’Electricite du Senegal .  (...)  [181 words]   [$2,1]
 
SWITZERLAND
Stakeholder shift in Progisys
   According to our sources, the shareholder structure of the Swiss firm Progisys that specializes in appointing oil engineers to national petroleum companies, particularly in Africa,  (...)  [149 words]   [$2,1]
KUWAIT/AFRICA
IFC backs Kharafi
   In January, the board of the International Finance Corp, private investment arm of the World Bank, will examine a project to invest $100 million in the Kuwaiti group Kharafi Natio  (...)  [171 words]   [$2,1]

New Delhi
Irene Muloni
 [76 words]   [$2,1]
 
Doha
Diezani Allison Madueke
 [64 words]   [$2,1]
 
Vienna
Abed Elrhaman Ben Yaza
 [59 words]   [$2,1]
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