STATE-OWNED COMPANIES

AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°623 - 03/03/2010 STATE-OWNED COMPANIES STEG The Societe Tunisienne de l’Electricite et du Gaz (STEG) is currently in talks with Burkino Faso, Mali and Congo-K on helping them to improve the effectiveness of their power sectors. (...)  [88 words]  [$1.8] AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°623 - 03/03/2010 STATE-OWNED COMPANIES Eskom On Feb. 5, the public South African utility Eskom awarded a new contract worth EUR 90 million to France’s Alstom to supply a control system for the Kusile power plant. (...)  [95 words]  [$1.8] AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°622 - 17/02/2010 STATE-OWNED COMPANIES Sonatrach An energy agreement allowing Warsaw to diversify its sources of gas supplies was signed on February 14 between Algeria's oil minister, Chakib Khelil, and the deputy Polish prime minister Waldemar Pawlak. (...)  [139 words]  [$1.8] AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°621 - 03/02/2010 STATE-OWNED COMPANIES STEG The Societe Tunisienne de l’Electricite et du Gaz signed a cooperation pact with the Rwandan power utility Electrogaz on Jan. (...)  [75 words]  [$1.8] AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°621 - 03/02/2010 STATE-OWNED COMPANIES Sonangol The Angolan oil group Sonangol will shortly become the leading stakeholder in the small Brazilian concern Starfish. (...)  [109 words]  [$1.8] AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°620 - 20/01/2010 STATE-OWNED COMPANIES Electrogaz The state-owned Rwanda utility Electrogaz was officially disbanded by Rwanda’s parliament at the end of December. (...)  [154 words]  [$1.8] AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°619 - 06/01/2010 STATE-OWNED COMPANIES NNPC A managing director of the World Bank and former Nigerian finance minister Ngozi Okonjo Iweala called on Dec. (...)  [120 words]  [$1.8] AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°619 - 06/01/2010 STATE-OWNED COMPANIES Tanesco The national utility Tanzania Electric Supply Co (Tanesco) has just seen the government cancel two calls for bids it launched last year for the construction of new power stations. (...)  [103 words]  [$1.8] AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°618 - 16/12/2009 STATE-OWNED COMPANIES PPMA On December 14, the Petroleum and Mineral Agency in the breakaway province of Puntland reached an agreement with Range Resources and Africa Oil on modifying production sharing contracts penned in 2005. (...)  [111 words]  [$1.8] AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°617 - 02/12/2009 STATE-OWNED COMPANIES NNPC Through its Nigerian affiliate Mobil Producing Nigeria (MPN), ExxonMobil has just renewed its contract with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) for their joint venture. (...)  [134 words]  [$1.8]   AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°623 - 03/03/2010 STATE-OWNED COMPANIES Sonatrach In an interview with Algeria’s radio network on Feb. 25, Algerian oil and energy minister Chakib Khelil stated that the question of whether the Galsi gas pipeline will pass by way of Corsica now depended only on the Italian authorities. (...)  [140 words]  [$1.8] AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°622 - 17/02/2010 STATE-OWNED COMPANIES GNPC Ghana's Parliament will shortly mull a new oil law that was initially drafted during the presidency of John Kufuor. (...)  [87 words]  [$1.8] AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°622 - 17/02/2010 STATE-OWNED COMPANIES SNEL The managing director of Congo-K's Societe Nationale d’Electricite (SNEL), Yengo Massampu, and its financial director, Muhiya Lundu, appeared before the Gombe appeals court in Kinshasa on Feb. (...)  [83 words]  [$1.8] AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°621 - 03/02/2010 STATE-OWNED COMPANIES LPRC The Liberia Petroleum Refining Co. signed an agreement in principle with Scotland’s Motherwell Bridge for the construction of three refined oil storage tanks near Monrovia. (...)  [116 words]  [$1.8] AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°620 - 20/01/2010 STATE-OWNED COMPANIES NNPC Nigerian oil minister Rilwanu Lukman admitted during an oil summit in Lagos on Jan. (...)  [61 words]  [$1.8] AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°620 - 20/01/2010 STATE-OWNED COMPANIES SNPC The company in charge of selling part of Societe National des Petroles du Congo’s oil in Asia, Cotrade Asia, has been liquidated on orders from the International Monetary Fund. (...)  [104 words]  [$1.8] AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°619 - 06/01/2010 STATE-OWNED COMPANIES Eskom The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersal) will make its thoughts known in February concerning a substantial rise in electricity rates that the national utility Eskom has been championing. (...)  [109 words]  [$1.8] AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°618 - 16/12/2009 STATE-OWNED COMPANIES Sonelgaz The chief of Algeria's national gas company, Sonelgaz, Nourreddine Bouterfa, recently reiterated his company’s need to increase its rates to pay for its future investments. (...)  [109 words]  [$1.8] AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°618 - 16/12/2009 STATE-OWNED COMPANIES GOIL The Ghanaian oil distribution company Ghana Oil Company will gain from a sales accord on crude that was reached on Dec. (...)  [111 words]  [$1.8] AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°617 - 02/12/2009 STATE-OWNED COMPANIES Sonatrach The Geneva arbitration court decided in favor of Sonatrach in late November in the dispute that pitted it against Spain's Gas Natural and Repsol concerning the Gassi Touil oil field. (...)  [122 words]  [$1.8]