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IVORY COAST SPECIAL REPORT [31 articles]

Alassane Ouattara's energy strategy

Ivory Coast's energy sector suffered greatly from the country's political crisis. Oil production has dropped by 33% compared with 2009 while energy generation has been falling off steadily for several years. To give a push to production, president Alassane Ouattara has roped in specialists who are meeting regularly with private companies to prod them into boosting their operations in the country.

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A bumpy return to normal

(7 articles)

AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°660 - 05/10/2011
Abidjan seeks dam fixers

Ivory Coast’s energy and mines minister Adama Toungara must pull out all the stops to boost the country’s power production which has been declining for several years. (...) [219 words] [€5]

AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°658 - 07/09/2011
Steep dive in output

According to an in-house report at the oil ministry, the production of oil and petroleum products has fallen considerably over the past year. (...) [370 words] [€5]

AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°657 - 24/08/2011
Flurry of oil contracts

Ivory Coast president Alassane Ouattara’s trip to Abuja at the end of July led to the signing of several oil-related contracts. (...) [173 words] [€1,5]

AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°656 - 20/07/2011
Toungara turns up the heat

The staff of energy and mines minister Adama Toungara has sent a letter to oil companies insisting they comply with their commitments. (...) [242 words] FREE

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AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°655 - 06/07/2011
Abidjan’s supplies back on line

Ivory Coast’s supplies of electricity to neighboring Burkina Faso are back to normal, with current amounts now matching the 80 MW rate that prevailed before Abidjan’s post-election crisis. (...) [210 words] [€5]

AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°651 - 11/05/2011
Ouattara’s petroleum agenda

Now that four months of political upheaval and economic sanctions are behind him, Ivory Coast’s new president, Alassane Ouattara, is going to wield a broom in the boardrooms of public companies linked to the oil trade and give a push to exploration. (...) [676 words] [€8]

AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°650 - 20/04/2011
USD 170 million for Ouattara

The undisputed president of Ivory Coast since his rival, Laurent Gbagbo, was captured on April 11, Alassane Ouattara had the pleasant surprise of finding that government coffers were not empty. (...) [191 words] [€1,5]

Private companies under pressure

(11 articles)

AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°663 - 16/11/2011
U.S. firms on the offensive

French companies aren’t alone in trying to do business in the new Ivory Coast of president Alassane Ouattara. Several American groups are positioning themselves to land contracts in the power sector. (...) [286 words] [€5]

AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°659 - 21/09/2011
Russia’s PetroHolding in talks

According to Africa Energy Intelligence’s sources in Abidjan, a meeting between oil minister Adama Toungara and executives from the Russian firm PetroHolding Ltd was held on Sept. (...) [219 words] [€5]

AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°657 - 24/08/2011
Aggreko could face bumpy ride

The British group Aggreko inaugurated an affiliate named Aggreko Cote d’Ivoire recently in late June in the firm belief Abidjan would extend the lease of its emergency power plant that has been generating 70 MW in the capital since May, 2010. (...) [271 words] [€5]

AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°656 - 20/07/2011
Sahara corners butane market

The tight ties between the Cole business dynasty in Nigeria and the managing director of PetroCI, Daniel Gnangni, have once again enabled Sahara Energy to land a major contract with Ivory Coast’s national company. (...) [228 words] [€5]

AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°655 - 06/07/2011
SIR severs tie with Sonangol

Ivory Coast’s president has asked Sonangol to sell off its holding in Societe Ivoirienne de Raffinage (SIR). Now a new shareholder must be found. (...) [284 words] FREE

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AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°655 - 06/07/2011
Bouygues to drill this summer

. According to our sources, France’s Bouygues group, one of the leading investors in the Foxtrot offshore field with a 24% holding, will have to drill a new well in July in an attempt to boost production. (...) [135 words] [€1,5]

AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°653 - 08/06/2011
Aggreko has trouble being paid

Britain's Aggreko is turning up the heat on the new government to pay the arrears on Ivory Coast’s debts. (...) [83 words] [€1,5]

AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°652 - 25/05/2011
NNPC saves SIR again

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corp (NNPC) itself rather than the trader Sahara Energy has delivered crude to Societe Ivoirienne de Raffinage (SIR) to help counter a shortage of gasoline in Ivory Coast as quickly as possible. (...) [193 words] [€1,5]

AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°652 - 25/05/2011
Glencore will need to switch sides

The favorite trader of Petroci during the presidency of Laurent Gbagbo, Glencore is going to have to work with the new government of Alassane Ouattara. (...) [214 words] [€5]

AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°652 - 25/05/2011
New field right on time

The commissioning of a new gas field on block CI-27 looks set to revive Ivory Coast’s flagging gas production. (...) [305 words] [€5]

AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°652 - 25/05/2011
Alstom favored for Soubre

French prime minister Francois Fillon could harvest new contracts for French companies when he pays a visit to Abidjan in July. (...) [261 words] [€5]

The men around Ouattara

(6 articles)

WEST AFRICA NEWSLETTER n°620 - 06/10/2011
Ouattara cleans up oil business

President Alassane Ouattara has brought together a team of personal allies to help him reform the oil sector. (...) [300 words] [€5]

AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°658 - 07/09/2011
Ibrahima Diaby

The leading adviser to energy minister Adama Toungara, Ibrahima Diaby, was appointed director of the ministry’s oil and gas department in late August. (...) [144 words] [€5]

AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°657 - 24/08/2011
Noel N’Guetat

Ivory Coast’s energy minister Adama Toungara changed his chief of staff in late July by hiring Noel N’Guetat to succeed Alexandre N’Guettia Kouassi, a holdover from the Gbagbo regime. (...) [131 words] [€5]

AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°653 - 08/06/2011
Toungara eyes 300,000 bpd

Ivory Coast’s oil minister, Adama Toungara, who was confirmed in his post on June 1, wants to kick-start exploration in the country’s oil basin which hasn’t been fully explored up to now. (...) [142 words] [€1,5]

AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°650 - 20/04/2011
Daniel Gnangni

Alassane Ouattara’s assumption of power in Ivory Coast ought to speed up a change at the top of the state-owned oil company Petroci. (...) [51 words] [FREE]

AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°650 - 20/04/2011
Adema Toungara

Adema Toungara, the Ivory Coast energy minister appointed by Alassane Ouattara in December, has been living in Paris since early this month. (...) [84 words] [€1,5]

Mulling boundaries with Ghana

(7 articles)

AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°663 - 16/11/2011
Game heats up for offshore

The 18th Africa Oil Week conference in Cape Town between Nov. 2-4 provided an occasion for Ivory Coast’s oil chief, Ibrahim Diaby, and Petroci’s managing director, Daniel Gnangni to present a new map of their country’s petroleum blocks. (...) [248 words] [€5]

AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°661 - 19/10/2011
Top level deliberations

During his first trip to Accra on Oct. 6, Ivory Coast’s new president, Alassane Ouattara, officially raised the question of sharing trans-border oil fields when he talked with Ghana president John Atta Mills. (...) [116 words] [€1,5]

AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°660 - 05/10/2011
Accra finds downside to an oil miracle

Ten months after the huge Jubilee field went into production, winning Ghana membership in the exclusive club of petroleum-producing countries, actual production is marking time: Tullow Oil hasn’t succeeded in reaching a peak phase on Jubilee and is currently pumping 80,000 bpd instead of the scheduled 120,000. (...) [735 words] [€8]

AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°659 - 21/09/2011
A JDZ on the cards?

Ivory Coast’s energy minister, Adama Toungara, received Ghana’s ambassador to Abidjan, colonel Enoch K. (...) [178 words] [€1,5]

AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°656 - 20/07/2011
Atta Mills & Ouattara’s JDZ

Ghana and Ivory Coast are going to jointly administer trans-border oil resources in order to share them amicably. (...) [344 words] [€5]

AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°641 - 08/12/2010
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] [€8]

AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°617 - 02/12/2009
Accra Wants Bigger Offshore

Ivory Coast and Ghana are to negotiate the delineation of their maritime boundaries on Feb. (...) [222 words] [€1,5]

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