CONSULTANTS

AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°623 - 03/03/2010 CONSULTANTS Ambrian Partners The investment bank of the London-based Ambrian group was officially chosen on Feb. (...)  [82 words]  [$1.8] AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°623 - 03/03/2010 CONSULTANTS Reed Smith The U.K. law firm Reed Smith last month defended Trafigura before the arbitration court of the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris. (...)  [138 words]  [$1.8] AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°622 - 17/02/2010 CONSULTANTS Mott MacDonald The British engineering consultancy is working to build up its profile in Africa by buying out the South African concern Merz and McLellan. (...)  [110 words]  [$1.8] AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°621 - 03/02/2010 CONSULTANTS Patton Boggs The American lobbying firm is now representing Africa's two biggest oil producers. (...)  [88 words]  [$1.8] AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°621 - 03/02/2010 CONSULTANTS JP Morgan Cazenove Britain's Soco raised nearly GBP 102 million (USD 163 million) last week by issuing 7. (...)  [108 words]  [$1.8] AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°620 - 20/01/2010 CONSULTANTS Standard Chartered The British bank is one of the establishments which lent nearly USD 1. (...)  [95 words]  [$1.8] AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°619 - 06/01/2010 CONSULTANTS Foster Wheeler The British branch of the oil services firm has been awarded a feasibility study on a project for a refinery supplied by oil from fields owned by Tullow Oil and Heritage. (...)  [130 words]  [$1.8] AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°619 - 06/01/2010 CONSULTANTS BFKW The Amsterdam firm specializing in defending human rights Bohler Franken Koppe Wijngaarden (BFKW) is representing four inhabitants of the Niger Delta who filed a suit in the against Shell in the Netherlands for polluting their land. (...)  [129 words]  [$1.8] AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°618 - 16/12/2009 CONSULTANTS Rodman & Renshaw Capital Group The investment bank Rodman & Renshaw Capital Group has been retained by the Texas-based Hyperdynamics oil group to find investors interested in its plans for a rights issue (see opposite). (...)  [79 words]  [$1.8] AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°617 - 02/12/2009 CONSULTANTS Platform The British NGO Platform published a brief report entitled “Uganda’s Contracts. (...)  [133 words]  [$1.8]   AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°623 - 03/03/2010 CONSULTANTS Gide Loyrette Nouel The French law firm Gide Loyrette Nouel and Canada’s Macleod Dixon were retained by the African Petroleum Producers Association (APPA) to carry out an overall review of oil contracts in the member countries. (...)  [104 words]  [$1.8] AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°622 - 17/02/2010 CONSULTANTS Webber Wentzel The South African law firm Webber Wentzel recently responded to a call for bids from the South African utility Eskom to advise it on the sale of 49% of the Kusile power plant (see opposite). (...)  [100 words]  [$1.8] AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°622 - 17/02/2010 CONSULTANTS Ogec Krakow Already present in Pakistan, the Polish oil services concern Oil and Gas Exploration Company Krakow Ltd (Ogec Krakov) is about to drill a series of six wells on the 3A concession in Uganda. (...)  [112 words]  [$1.8] AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°621 - 03/02/2010 CONSULTANTS BNP Paribas The French bank was the prime deal-maker behind Maurel & Prom’s debut in Nigeria (see P. (...)  [116 words]  [$1.8] AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°620 - 20/01/2010 CONSULTANTS Capital Law & Policy The law and lobbying concern run by the former representative of the U. (...)  [96 words]  [$1.8] AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°620 - 20/01/2010 CONSULTANTS Norplan The Norwegian consultancy Norplan has won a contract to design the future power stations of Kara Dubi (1,600 MW), Mendia (2,000 MW) and Bako Ambo (2,100) situated in the Ethiopian regional states of Benishangukl-Gumuz, Amhara and Oromia. (...)  [122 words]  [$1.8] AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°619 - 06/01/2010 CONSULTANTS Puma Energy According to our sources, the storage and distribution affiliate of Trafigura is about to open nearly 200 service stations in Angola in partnership with state-owned Sonangol. (...)  [65 words]  [$1.8] AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°618 - 16/12/2009 CONSULTANTS Ernst & Young Officials in charge of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) in Mauritania are going to choose a consultant on Dec. (...)  [112 words]  [$1.8] AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°618 - 16/12/2009 CONSULTANTS Propadev The consultancy headed by Paul Frix, former chief of Belgium’s Agence Generale de Cooperation au Developpement, Propadev, is currently advising Congo-K's government on the Inga 3 project (4320 MW). (...)  [131 words]  [$1.8] AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°617 - 02/12/2009 CONSULTANTS Freshfields Ghana’s government has retained the British law concern Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer to advise it on its difference with the American concern Kosmos on the Jubilee field (see Page 4). (...)  [112 words]  [$1.8]