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Philippe Vasset
ANGOLA Editor in Chief
Ghost local partners for majors
Like Cobalt International Energy, under attack for its ties with companies close to government in Luanda, all of the majors operating in Angola are obliged to make concessions. If they want to be sure of landing the best blocks they need to team up with companies linked to Angolan decision-makers. (...)   [607 words]   [$11,2]
   
 
NIGERIA
Taleveras escapes unscathed
   Although a report by Nigerian lawmaker Farouk Lawan appeared to strike out at every agency and organization involved in importing oil products, some companies seem to have escaped (...)
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CONGO-K
Nessergy wins OK in disputed area
   The oil and gas minister in Congo-K’s transition government confirmed the renewal of an exploration contract to a company with friends in the president’s circle.  (...)  [303 words]   FREE
 
NIGER/CHAD/SUDAN
Khartoum looks westwards
   A trip by Niger’s president to Sudan and Chad resulted in several oil agreements being signed to the delight of Omar El Bachir.  (...)  [368 words]   [$7]
LIBERIA
Exxon seems favored for block 13
   Liberia seems likely to award block 13 to Exxon, which is favored by the country’s leaders in preference to Gazprom. The Russians were backed in the past by some legislators.  (...)  [360 words]   [$7]

Abuja    Gado peddles Niger’s gasoline
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Congo-B    SNPC keen on developing Mayombe and Kundji blocks
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SENEGAL
Statoil could return to the charge
   The election of Macky Sall as Senegal’s new president is expected to bring a number of majors, which were disinclined to deal with Aboulaye and Karim Wade, back to the country.  (...)  [289 words]   [$7]

SOUTH AFRICA
Who’s going to develop Ibhubesi?
   The South African group Forest Oil has sold off its shares on the South African gas field Ibhubesi to a company that remains largely unknown for the moment: African Energy International.  (...)  [307 words]   [$7]
ALGERIA
BP to start work on Bourahat
   Already producing gas on the In Salah and In Amenas concessions, BP has plans to launch work on a new gas field, Bourahat South, at the end of the year.  (...)  [258 words]   [$7]


CONGO-K
Goodbye Inga 3, hello Grand Inga
   Certain donors are no longer looking at the project for a 3000/4000 Inga 3 dam, deemed too short on capacity, and are thinking instead in terms of a 40,000 MW unit.  (...)  [301 words]   [$7]
NIGER
Power from Agadem’s crude
   The increasingly irregular supply of power from Nigeria could be gradually offset by new thermal stations.  (...)  [270 words]   [$7]


ANGOLA
Jose Carlos Santos Neves
   Joining the board of Empresa Nacional de Electricidade (ENE) in November, 2009, Jose Carlos Santos Neves was named chairman on April 25.  (...)  [172 words]   [$7]
 
BENIN
Sofiatou Baba-Moussa
   In a limited government re-shuffle in mid-April, Benin’s president, Thomas Boni Yayi, named a new energy, mining research and oil minister.  (...)  [131 words]   [$7]
 
NIGERIA
Ahmadu Ali
   A report by a Parliamentary panel headed by Farouk Lawan into irregularities involving subsidies on oil products (see P. 2) particularly targeted board members of the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA).  (...)  [148 words]   [$7]
CONGO-K
Krispin Atama Tabe
   Congo-K president Joseph Kabila made an unusual choice in picking the country’s new oil and gas minister. Krispin Atama Tabe, the man chosen for the job on April 28, has spent almost his entire career in Congo’s intelligence service, the Agence National de Renseignement (ANR), according to our sources.  (...)  [129 words]   [$7]

ANGOLA
ENE
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CHAD
SHT
 [124 words]   [$2,1]
 
SOUTH AFRICA
PetroSA
 [95 words]   [$2,1]

MADAGASCAR
Offshore now seen as crucial
   The Chinese seismic concern BGP will conduct 2D and 3D seismic campaigns starting in September in the Morondava offshore basin that lies in the Mozambique channel on the western side  (...)  [119 words]   [$2,1]
NIGERIA
Lawan strikes out at profiteers
   A report by legislator Farouk Lawan on oil subsidies (see document) hit out at everybody.  (...)  [210 words]   [$2,1]
 
NIGER/CHAD
Decisions on Zinder put back
   The board of Societe de Raffinerie de Zinder (SORAZ) which met in Beijing in early April decided, in fact, to make no decisions.  (...)  [235 words]   [$2,1]
 
GUINEA
Heat on Hyperdynamics
   According to our sources, the CEO of Hyperdynamics, Ray Leonard, and Guinea’s mines and geology minister, Mohamed Lamine Fofana, took the same flight to the United States at the end  (...)  [160 words]   [$2,1]

TANZANIA
JP Morgan Cazenove
 [121 words]   [$2,1]
 
GUINEA
Bank of America Merrill Lynch
 [87 words]   [$2,1]
 
AFRICA
Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman
 [112 words]   [$2,1]

ANGOLA/UNITED KINGDOM
Julio takes over from Paiva
   A whole era has ended at Sonangol Ltd., the London outpost of Angola’s state-owned oil company Sonangol.  (...)  [154 words]   [$2,1]
CAMEROON
Crossing swords on Logbaba
   The lawyers for U.S. national Jack Grynberg’s RSM Production Corp faced off against those of Cameroon’s Societe Nationale des Hydrocarbures (SNH) at the World Bank’s offices in Paris  (...)  [196 words]   [$2,1]
 
NIGERIA
Experienced counsel for Helios
   Andy Bartlett hasn’t been exactly idle since he left Standard Chartered bank in 2011 after running its oil department for six years.  (...)  [189 words]   [$2,1]
 
AFRICA/FRANCE
Jumping ship at Credit Agricole
   With France’s big banks all cutting back drastically on trade financing in Africa’s the oil sector (AEI 663), experts in the field are bailing out one after the other.  (...)  [148 words]   [$2,1]

Accra
Elizabeth Dipuo Peters
 [105 words]   [$2,1]
 
Paris
Yousef Yousfi
 [61 words]   [$2,1]
 
Houston
Bonnaventure Rosoanaivo
 [70 words]   [$2,1]
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