GOVERNMENT STRATEGIE

AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°675 - 16/05/2012
NIGER
A complete oil audit
According to our sources, Niger’s government is poised to kick off a complete audit of the country’s oil sector in June. (...)  [125 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°675 - 16/05/2012
CONGO-K
River in urgent need of dredging
Bids by companies seeking contracts to dredge water leading to the Inga dam have been piling up on the desk of Congo-K’s energy ministry. (...)  [215 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°674 - 02/05/2012
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 of April. (...)  [160 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°674 - 02/05/2012
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]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°673 - 11/04/2012
NIGER
Zinder: crucial accords in sight
According to our sources, the latest board meeting of Societe de Raffinerie de Zinder (SORAZ) between CNPC and ministers from Niger was held in Beijing last week. (...)  [155 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°673 - 11/04/2012
UGANDA
Tighter security on Lake Albert
Uganda’s top police officer, general Kale Kayihura, has been in talks over the past few weeks with officials from companies that began operating only recently in Uganda, namely France’s Total and China’s CNOOC. (...)  [191 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°672 - 28/03/2012
NIGERIA
NNPC comes under pressure
According to Nigerian lawmaker Farouk Lawan, a report he wrote on misuse of petroleum subsidies is to be made public this week. (...)  [159 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°672 - 28/03/2012
IVORY COAST
Hint of blackmail in oil issue
Horse-trading between Ghana and Ivory Coast over their maritime boundary is taking place against a backdrop of tension over Ivoirian militants and politicians who have taken refuge in Accra. (...)  [160 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°671 - 14/03/2012
MAURITANIA
Private security for oil firms
Oil companies operating in Mauritania are highly concerned about new security arrangements planned by the government. (...)  [169 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°671 - 14/03/2012
BURUNDI
Mai Mai scared off explorers
The vessel Tanganyika Explorer chartered by WGP Exploration will shortly start a 2D seismic survey on block D on Lake Tanganyika on behalf of Britain’s Surestream. (...)  [171 words]   [$2,1]
 
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°675 - 16/05/2012
SUDAN
War to cost Khartoum a mint
Khartoum’s armed conflict with forces from South Sudan in the Heglig area (blocks 2 and 4) is going to prove expensive. (...)  [155 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°675 - 16/05/2012
MADAGASCAR
Three vie to woo investors
Officials in charge of Madagascar’s oil policy are each making the most of their connections abroad to boost the island’s petroleum prospects. (...)  [192 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°674 - 02/05/2012
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]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°674 - 02/05/2012
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 of Madagascar. (...)  [119 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°673 - 11/04/2012
GABON
Mbanie, the unending talks
Deliberations on the fate of Mbanie islet that’s claimed by both Gabon and Equatorial Guinea have multiplied in recent months. (...)  [158 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°673 - 11/04/2012
SOUTH AFRICA/IRAN
Pretoria boxed in by Tehran
Despite unyielding pressure from the United States to stop importing Iran’s crude oil, South Africa hasn’t yet found an alternative. (...)  [208 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°672 - 28/03/2012
CONGO-K
Help for Virunga’s gorillas
Many in Belgium are still decrying the green light awarded to Soco to carry out airborne prospection in block 5 in Congo-K that encroaches on the Virunga national park. (...)  [206 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°672 - 28/03/2012
ANGOLA
Local firms sidestep bonus
As Africa Energy Intelligence anticipated in early February, (AEI 668), Angolan president Jose Eduardo Dos Santos signed a bill in mid-March to give local oil companies wider access to the oil industry. (...)  [168 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°671 - 14/03/2012
NIGERIA
More cash for Delta
Pressure by governors from northern Nigeria for a change in the distribution of oil revenue between regions has stepped up during talks on the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) by a panel headed by former senator Udoma Udo Udoma. (...)  [199 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°671 - 14/03/2012
MADAGASCAR
OMNIS gradually dumps Mamy
Madagascar’s former mines and oil minister Mamy Ratovomalala who pushed for the appointment of Bonaventure Rasoanaivo as boss of Office des Mines Nationales et des Industries Strategiques (OMNIS) is gradually losing influence over his protégé. (...)  [123 words]   [$2,1]

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