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	Africa Energy Intelligence /Latest Issue

N°623

Paris, 03/03/2010

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Philippe Vasset

ANGOLA

Editor in Chief

The World is Sonangol’s Oyster

On the strength of its robust cash position, Angola managed to briefly overtake Nigeria as Africa’s leading oil producer last year and is now thinking in global terms. To be sure, the national oil company Sonangol is acquiring stakes in oil and gas projects across the globe and re-investing its profits in up-market real estate projects via its subsidiary China Sonangol. (...) [631 words] [$9.5]

	NIGER
	Chinese In for a Rough Ride
	Africa Energy Intelligence understands that following the Feb. 18 coup d'etat that toppled president Mamadou Tandja most executives from the China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) took (...) [331 words] [$5.4]



GUINEA
Last Chance for Hyperdynamics
With an MOU signed in September between Guinea’s government and Hyperdynamics expiring on March 11 both sides are preparing their arguments to negotiate a new contract. (...) [274 words]


MOZAMBIQUE/SOUTH AFRICA
Pipeline Lifts Pressure on Pretoria
A project for an oil pipeline to supply South Africa with oil products will ease congestion in the oil terminal in Durban. (...) [242 words] [$5.4]


CONGO-K
A Kabila Stalwart as Oil Boss
With presidential and legislative elections looming large in 2011, president Kabila has proceeded with a cabinet reshuffle. The sensitive oil brief has gone to a loyal backer. (...) [283 words] [$5.4]


Nairobi Africa Oil Spreads its Wings
[75 words] [$1.8]


Kinshasa EnerGulf Puts Out Call to Israelis
[119 words] [$1.8]


SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE
Best Acreage for ERHC & Equator
Sao Tome is to kick off a licensing round for the exploration of its exclusive economic zone. But two companies which had rights on the area have already been given first choice. (...) [210 words] [$5.4]


ALGERIA
Gulf Keystone Heads for Exits
Having made an about-turn this summer to focus on Iraqi Kurdistan, Gulf Keystone has been trying for six months to pull out of Algeria. And it hasn’t been easy. (...) [231 words] [$5.4]


NIGERIA
A “Presidential” LNG Plant
The new acting president, Goodluck Jonathan, is a former governor of the state of Bayelsa. Oil companies are using that to re-float a project for an LNG plant in the area. (...) [199 words] [$5.4]


NIGERIA
Threat to Export Projects
Plagued by power shortages for want of gas, the Nigerian authorities could stand in the way of gas export projects. (...) [376 words] [$5.4]


Maputo What to Do With the Gas?
[80 words] [$1.8]


NAMIBIA
Gazprom In Play for Kudu
According to our sources, the state-owned Russian leviathan Gazprom is currently finalizing talks to acquire a stake in the Kudu gas field. (...) [311 words] [$5.4]


CENTRAL AFRICA
Westcor Stillborn?
Now a national - or even nationalist - program, the Inga 3 project will be developed exclusively for Congo-K, driving a final nail into the coffin of the regional Westcor project. (...) [266 words] [$5.4]


AFRICA
Symbion On The Offensive
After picking up contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan, Symbion Power has turned its attention to Africa. (...) [267 words] [$5.4]


Pretoria Rates to Rise by 25% for Three Years
[90 words] [$1.8]


MAURITANIA
New Plants by Year’s End
According to our sources, executives from Empower Ltd., an affiliate of Britain’s Globeleq, signed a contract with Mauritanian prime minister Moulaye Ould Mohamed Laghdhaf on Feb. (...) [293 words] [$5.4]


LIBYA
Ron Royal
After heading Esso Chad, a subsidiary of Exxon which works the Doba fields, for five years between 2002 and 2007, Ron Royal is about to take his place on the board of Valeura Energy. (...) [105 words] [$5.4]


NIGERIA
Nuhu Ribadu
The former head of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EECC) during the presidency of Olusegun Obasanjo, Nuhu Ribadu could shortly return to Nigeria. (...) [143 words] [$5.4]



CONGO-K
Gustave Beya Siku
In a cabinet re-shuffle on Feb. 19, the deputy oil minister, Gustave Beya Siku, was appointed to the key post of chief-of-staff to Congolese president Joseph Kabila. (...) [142 words] [$5.4]


CONGO-K
Gilbert Tshiongo Tshibunkubula
Congo-K’s new energy minister, 67-year-old Gilbert Tshiongo Tshibinkubula Wa Tumba, is a legislator from Western Kasai province, a constituency in which he briefly served as governor in 2006. (...) [181 words] [$5.4]


TUNISIA
STEG
[88 words] [$1.8]



ALGERIA
Sonatrach
[140 words] [$1.8]


SOUTH AFRICA
Eskom
[95 words] [$1.8]


	UGANDA/NIGERIA
	Nigerian Training Sessions?
	The special envoy of Uganda president Yoweri Museveni in Nigeria, deputy mining affairs minister Peter Lokeris, met on Feb. (...) [173 words] [$1.8]


	NIGERIA
	Poles Make Fresh Stab
	After failing to gain a foothold in Guinea (AEI 589), Poland’s Summa Energy and Bumar are now knocking on Nigeria’s door. (...) [107 words] [$1.8]



	NIGERIA
	Washington Backs IPPs
	The American ambassador to Nigeria, Robin Renee Sanders, signed a partnership pact on Feb. (...) [147 words] [$1.8]


	EQUATORIAL GUINEA
	Private Oil Security
	Ten years after the Democrat administration of Bill Clinton vetoed the idea, Equatorial Guinea has finally signed a contract with the private military concern MPRI, an affiliate of (...) [228 words] [$1.8]


NAMIBIA
Ambrian Partners
[82 words] [$1.8]



AFRICA
Gide Loyrette Nouel
[104 words] [$1.8]


AFRICA
Reed Smith
[138 words] [$1.8]


	UGANDA
	Platform Slams Tullow
	In a report issued in February, the British NGO Platform underscored the potential damage that pumping oil in Uganda could do to the environment. (...) [135 words] [$1.8]


	UGANDA/KENYA
	An Oil Railway
	On February 22, the Egyptian concern Citadel Capital acquired a 49% holding in the South African group Sheltam, the leading stakeholder in the Rift Valley Railways (RVR) which runs (...) [192 words] [$1.8]



	ETHIOPIA
	EIB Hesitates on Gibe 3
	According to our sources, the European Investment Bank (EIB) won’t make up its mind on whether to fund Ethiopia’s Gibe 3 dam until June. (...) [245 words] [$1.8]


	CAMEROON
	Lom Pangar Vote in Mid Year
	The World Bank’s board is expected this summer to endorse a major loan to finance construction of a dam on the spot where the Lom and Pangar rivers meet up in eastern Cameroon. (...) [136 words] [$1.8]


Abuja
Yves Louis Darricarrere
[87 words] [$1.8]



Beijing
Rupiah Banda
[61 words] [$1.8]


The Hague
Ledum Mitee
[77 words] [$1.8]

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