GAS

AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE  n°623 - 03/03/2010 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] AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE  n°623 - 03/03/2010 NIGERIA Threat to Export Projects The keynote speech at the 10th Nigeria Oil & Gas Conference in Abuja on Feb. 22 provided an occasion for acting president Goodluck Jonathan to remind oil companies that they are also to blame for gas shortages in the country. (...)  [376 words]  [$5.4] AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE  n°623 - 03/03/2010 NIGERIA A “Presidential” LNG Plant For years, the leading champion of a project to build a gas liquefaction plant at Brass in Bayelsa state was Edmund Daukoru, oil minister under Olusegun Obasanjo. (...)  [199 words]  [$5.4] AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE  n°622 - 17/02/2010 ALGERIA/FRANCE Galsi Pipeline for Corsica French president Nicolas Sarkozy’s latest trip to Corsica on Feb. 2 gave him an occasion to announce that the future Galsi gas pipelines between Algeria and Italy is to pass by way of the island. (...)  [287 words]  [$5.4] AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE  n°622 - 17/02/2010 ALGERIA Saipem in the Cross-Hairs Rival factions within Algeria’s government inevitably try to paint their adversaries as being in the pocket of foreign companies. In 2007, a first investigation targeting energy minister Chakib Khelil uncovered the fact he was close to the local head of the American group Halliburton (AEI 440). (...)  [287 words]  [$5.4] AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE  n°622 - 17/02/2010 WEST AFRICA How to Pay for WAGP Overruns As Africa Energy Intelligence revealed last October (AEI 606), the West African Gas Pipeline that is to run from Nigeria to Ghana by way of Benin and Togo will cost roughly USD 1 billion instead of the initial estimate of USD 600 million. (...)  [280 words]  [$5.4] AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE  n°621 - 03/02/2010 MALI/ALGERIA Four In TransSahara Pipeline? According to our sources, Algeria’s energy minister, Chakib Khelil, has agreed to meet with the authorities in Mali to discuss their proposal to take part in the future Trans Saharan Gas Pipeline (TSGP: (...)  [290 words]  [$5.4] AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE  n°621 - 03/02/2010 ALGERIA Gas Output Starts to Taper Off According to our sources, the gas field of Hassi R’Mel has begun to taper off. At present, it supplies the bulk of gas that Algeria exports. (...)  [211 words]  [$5.4] AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE  n°621 - 03/02/2010 RWANDA Call for Bids for Kivu’s Methane According to our sources, Rwanda’s energy ministry will launch a procedure this month to peg out blocks on Lake Kivu for the awarding of licenses. (...)  [362 words]  [$5.4] AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE  n°620 - 20/01/2010 ALGERIA Major Investment for Ahnet After losing out in its bid for the huge Majnoun and West Qurma fields in Iraq, France’s Total had only one thing to celebrate at this start of the new year: (...)  [164 words]  [$5.4] AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE  n°620 - 20/01/2010 ALGERIA Iberdrola Disposes of Gas Stake Hit by the financial crisis - it announced an 18% drop in profits in October - Spain’s Iberdrola group sold off its entire 15. (...)  [289 words]  [$5.4] AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE  n°620 - 20/01/2010 NIGERIA Flared Gas for Local Market Nigeria’s oil minister, Rilwanu Lukman, penned a memorandum of understanding with 13 local companies last week. Each of them was awarded a contract to use gas currently flared off by Western operators. (...)  [241 words]  [$5.4] AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE  n°619 - 06/01/2010 SOUTH AFRICA Shell Calls Shots on Shale Gas A technical cooperation agreement awarded in mid-December to the Anglo-Dutch major RoyalDutch/Shell by Petroleum Agency Sa involving the Karoo basin will put an effective freeze on other bids to explore in the area. (...)  [311 words]  [$5.4] AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE  n°619 - 06/01/2010 ALGERIA Total’s Growing Gas Portfolio After an auction lasting for over a year, Total and the family-owned Partex group were awarded the Ahnet gas concession in south-west Algeria on December 22. (...)  [230 words]  [$5.4] AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE  n°619 - 06/01/2010 SOUTH AFRICA Sunset Bets on Shale Gas, Too The South African junior Bundu Gas & Oil, which has been locked in battle for the past year against farmers and safari operators at Graaf Reinet in Eastern Cape Province (AEI 600/605) where its Cranmere concession is located, could well be bought out by Sunset Energy Limited. (...)  [213 words]  [$5.4]   AEI  n°623 - 03/03/2010 MOZAMBIQUE What to Do With the Gas? Anadarko announced on Feb. 18 that it had hit more than 480 net feet of gas pay (...)  [80 words]  [$1.8] AEI  n°622 - 17/02/2010 ALGERIA Belkacem Boumediene’s Abortive Projects Before he was clapped behind bars at the Serkadji jail last month on allegations (...)  [105 words]  [$1.8] AEI  n°621 - 03/02/2010 CAMEROON Victoria Seeks Funding The British junior Victoria Oil & Gas wants France’s BNP Paribas and Societe Generale (...)  [32 words]  [FREE] AEI  n°620 - 20/01/2010 NIGERIA/TOGO Talks with Nigerian Gas Co According to our sources, the marketing department of Nigerian Gas Co (NGC), which (...)  [123 words]  [$1.8] AEI  n°620 - 20/01/2010 RWANDA Last Minute Postponement in Contour Deal The U.S. ContourGlobal group was to have signed an agreement with Rwanda to utilize (...)  [102 words]  [$1.8]