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N°463 Paris,  07/05/2008 Subscribe  | Country Channels Philippe Vasset AFRICA Editor in Chief Sell-Off for Al Thani Investments In the space of just a few weeks, the United Arab Emirates group Al Thani Investments has sold off almost all of its African assets, an oil portfolio that the firm essentially accumulated over the past three years. (...)   [638 words]  [$8,2]       AFRICA Mittal Sets Up Company    Steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal is preparing to set up a new company to look after his energy interests. (...)  [252 words]  [$4,7]     AFRICA French Fund in Upstream Play    Set up in 2002, the 4D Global Energy fund specialized initially in oil services firms before striking out on the exploration side in 2006.  (...)  [156 words]    TANZANIA Beach Carries Off the Prize    Australia’s Beach Petroleum has won the most coveted acreage on offer in a licensing round organized by Tanzania’s government.  (...)  [335 words]  [$4,7] IVORY COAST A Short Stay for Jarikuma    Buying into three licenses in Ivory Coast last year, the American concern Jarikuma is reportedly on the verge of losing its assets.  (...)  [196 words]  [$4,7] Banjul    GB Energy Throws in Towel  [56 words]  [$1,5] Brazzaville    Moho-Bilondo Produces  [86 words]  [$1,5] Dar es Salaam    Heritage Buys Into Two New Blocks  [80 words]  [$1,5] TUNISIA First License for Delta    The Dutch firm Delta Hydrocarbons has just made its debut on a concession in Tunisia’s offshore.  (...)  [283 words]  [$4,7] AFRICA Africa Oil’s Game Plan    After planting its flag in Somaliland, the company controlled by Lukas Lundin has just bought into a license in Madagascar.  (...)  [273 words]  [$4,7] CAMEROON Standstill at Ntem    Exploration on Sterling Energy’s Ntem gas license remains at a standstill because of a border dispute between Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea.  (...)  [210 words]  [$4,7] NORTH AFRICA Numhyd Fleshes Out Portfolio    After exploring in Africa, the joint Algerian-Tunisian firm Numhyd is focusing on North Africa itself and has been awarded two new gas concessions.  (...)  [188 words]  [$4,7] Algeria    First Calgary Needs Over USD 1 billion  [97 words]  [$1,5] Libya    Gazprom to Debut on Elephant  [76 words]  [$1,5] Kenya    Scramble for Licenses  [63 words]  [$1,5] NIGERIA Halliburton Inquiry Widens    A probe into bribes paid by Halliburtin in connection with the construction of NLNG ’s liquefaction plant has widened to include its work on Shell ’s EA field.  (...)  [251 words]  [$4,7] SOUTH AFRICA Seeking To Replace AES    Now that the U.S. group AES has pulled out from the project, a new call for bids for two power stations may have to be issued.  (...)  [270 words]  [$4,7] MOZAMBIQUE Huge Coal-Fired Power Project    An Australian mining group has plans to build a power station with a capacity of 2000 MW.  (...)  [213 words]  [$4,7] Accra    Work Starts on Chinese-Built Plant  [80 words]  [$1,5] Windhoek    Power Station for Mines  [43 words]  [FREE] Antanarivo    EIB Loan for Andekaleka  [39 words]  [FREE] TUNISIA Alstom Awarded Ghannouch    France’s Alstom group won the competition for the construction of a 400 MW combined cycle power station at Gannouch in Tunisia.  (...)  [241 words]  [$4,7] IRELAND Tom Hickley    Like numerous Irish oil executives before him, the financial director of Tullow Oil , Tom Hickley , announced last week that he would quit his job at the company because it compelled him to spend too much time in London.  (...)  [140 words]  [$4,7]   UNITED KINGDOM Keith Henry    Since Burren was bought out by ENI , Keith Henry , who had chaired the British firm’s board, has found himself much in demand.  (...)  [181 words]  [$4,7]   UNITED STATES Leonard Toboroff    Lawyer Leonard Toboroff is one of three candidates alongside Clarence Cottman and France’s Julien Balkany that the activist fund Nanes Delorme Partners has proposed to join the board of the American oil company Vaalco .  (...)  [159 words]  [$4,7] SIERRA LEONE Thomah Jabez-Nhabay    Thomah Jabez-Nhabay has just been appointed director of the Petroleum Resources Unit , the department in charge of awarding oil licenses at Sierra Leone’s energy ministry.  (...)  [166 words]  [$4,7] MOZAMBIQUE HCB  [104 words]  [$1,5]   ALGERIA Sonatrach  [121 words]  [$1,5]   MOROCCO ONHYM  [97 words]  [$1,5] UKRAINE/LIBYA Permit Handed Back    During a visit to Libya in early April, Ukrainian president Victor Yushchenko got Muammar Kadhafi to agree to hand back one of four licenses that had been withdrawn from the state-owned  (...)  [95 words]  [$1,5]   SOMALIA Green Light for Puntland    The president of Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government (TFG), Abdullahi Yusuf , seized the occasion of a visit to London to meet with the president of the breakaway province  (...)  [138 words]  [$1,5]   SUDAN Jarch Marks a Point    Phil Heilberg ’s Jarch Management Group has marked a point in its fight for recognition of its rights on a permit that covers a big part of South Sudan.  (...)  [128 words]  [$1,5] NIGERIA Inquiry into NNPC and DPR    Nigeria’s Parliament has decided to open an investigation into the operations of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR),  (...)  [182 words]  [$1,5] QATAR/ALGERIA Gas Cooperation    Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika carried out a tour of the Gulf region that included visits to Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates between April 22-30.  (...)  [111 words]  [$1,5] GUINEA SMH Capital  [105 words]  [$1,5]   UNITED STATES Bell Pottinger  [112 words]  [$1,5]   ALGERIA Credit Populaire d’Algerie  [98 words]  [$1,5] SOMALIA Range Plans Rights Issue    Having finally won confirmation of its rights in the breakaway province of Puntland in Somalia (see Page 2), the Australian junior Range Resources is planning a subdebt issue to  (...)  [199 words]  [$1,5] CONGO-K EIB Loan for Inga Dam    The European Investment Bank is considering lending EUR 110 million to co-finance the rehabilitation of the Inga 1 and Inga 2 dams (generating respectively 350 MW and 1,400 MW) in  (...)  [255 words]  [$1,5] UNITED KINGDOM Soco swaps in IFC for BNP    Soco International , a firm that was long headed by the late Patrick Maugein , has broken off its relationship with the International Finance Corp .  (...)  [133 words]  [$1,5] AUSTRALIA Baraka Goes Bust    For want of being able to raise the money needed to develop its licenses, particularly in West Africa, Australia’s Baraka Petroleum declared bankruptcy last month and went into voluntary  (...)  [111 words]  [$1,5] Cape Town Buyelwa Sonjica  [97 words]  [$1,5]   Tripoli Victor Lorents  [77 words]  [$1,5]   Dakar Reinaldo Bolivar  [43 words]  [FREE]

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