GOVERNMENT STRATEGIES

AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°668 - 01/02/2012
NIGERIA
Cut in amnesty budget
The amount of money set aside for the amnesty of militants in the Niger Delta in Nigeria’s 2012 budget has been reduced to 74 billion nairas, or $458 million. (...)  [212 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°668 - 01/02/2012
SOUTH SUDAN
Juba turns off the tap
The €700 million in assistance the European Union has offered to Juba could hardly have come at a better moment. (...)  [180 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°667 - 18/01/2012
ALGERIA
Meziane never to stand trial?
The question of if and when former Sonatrach chief executive Mohamed Meziane, who was stripped of his post and charged with corruption two years ago, will appear in court seems to be hanging on an assessment of how much damage he did to the national oil company. (...)  [132 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°667 - 18/01/2012
NIGERIA
How Abuja wooed governors
Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan spent months in softening Nigeria’s governors up to the idea of gradually weaning the country off gasoline subsidies. (...)  [186 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°666 - 04/01/2012
AFRICA/UNITED STATES
Oil Diplomacy
The U.S. State Department has opened an Office of the Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy and the Environment headed by diplomat Robert Hormats. (...)  [115 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°666 - 04/01/2012
CONGO-K/EUROPEAN UNION
Generating Discord
The contract was modest enough but it could well spark controversy: (...)  [195 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°665 - 14/12/2011
ALGERIA
Auction in sight
Algeria’s Agence Nationale de Valorisation des Hydrocarbures (ALNAFT) is to put new oil licenses on the auction block in 2012. (...)  [170 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°665 - 14/12/2011
UGANDA
Oslo reviews its assistance
Norway’s ambassador to Kampala received a visit in late November from an independent auditor who had been asked to appraise the results of Oslo’s assistance in the oil sector. (...)  [172 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°664 - 30/11/2011
LIBYA
ENI ally lands oil portfolio
Libya’s National Transition Council (NTC) has picked Abed Elrhaman Ben Yaza as the country’s new oil minister. (...)  [144 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°664 - 30/11/2011
NIGERIA
Amnesty Widens
Nearly 250 former rebels from the Niger Delta (247, to be specific) who accepted the presidential amnesty in 2009/2010 left in mid-November to swell the ranks of militants sent abroad for training. (...)  [164 words]   [$2,1]
 
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°668 - 01/02/2012
NIGERIA
Traders under the gun
Following a cut in gasoline subsidies on January 1 (a measure partly reversed on January 16), Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan has decided to take on the people who benefit most from the subsidies, namely traders. (...)  [164 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°668 - 01/02/2012
SOUTH AFRICA/IRAN
Embargo to slam Pretoria
Out of the 420,000 bpd that South Africa’s economy needs each day for its refineries nearly 25% originates at present from Iran. (...)  [172 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°667 - 18/01/2012
NIGERIA
Nigerian pirates in Benin
Will oil companies in Nigeria soon be able to cut back on their security bills? (...)  [204 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°667 - 18/01/2012
MADAGASCAR
E&P leadership undecided
The question of whether the mines or hydrocarbons ministry will oversee exploration and production in Madagascar still hasn’t been decided. (...)  [156 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°666 - 04/01/2012
SUDAN
U.S. sanctions eased
For want of finding a clever way to do business with South Sudan without indirectly helping its northern neighbor (AEI 660), the U. (...)  [169 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°666 - 04/01/2012
CHAD
Hard sale for Erdis
Africa Energy Intelligence understands that the United Arab Emirates consulting firm, Petro-Tec, which is headed by Omar B Abuelbasher and had been contracted to peg out and promote the Erdis basin in north-eastern Chad, presented its findings to the oil ministry on Dec. (...)  [208 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°665 - 14/12/2011
SUDAN
Al Jaz again in charge of oil
Awad Al Jaz has back in business as Sudan’s oil minister. (...)  [221 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°665 - 14/12/2011
CONGO-K/UGANDA
Kinshasa seeks transit rights
In late November, Congo-K’s embassy in Kampala asked permission from Uganda’s energy ministry to send exploration gear across Uganda for its own territory. (...)  [150 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°664 - 30/11/2011
GHANA
Panel set up for oil oversight
After much equivocation, Ghana finally formed a Petroleum Committee to regulate its oil industry on November 23. (...)  [177 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°664 - 30/11/2011
NIGER
Zinder’s prices contested
On November 14, Niger’s energy and oil minister, Pierre Foumakoye Gado, announced a list of prices for oil products from the Zinder refinery with effect from December 1. (...)  [227 words]   [$2,1]

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