STATE-OWNED COMPANIES

AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°668 - 01/02/2012
ALGERIA
Sonatrach
The China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC) reached an agreement with Algeria’s state-owned Sonatrach at the end of January to get the refinery at Adrar in southern Algeria back into working order. (...)  [110 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°668 - 01/02/2012
GHANA
GNPC
Ghana National Petroleum Corp has received some bad news. Production on the Jubilee field won’t hit a peak of 120,000 bpd in 2012. (...)  [120 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°667 - 18/01/2012
SIERRA LEONE
Petroleum Resources Unit (Sierra Leone)
Freetown has just quietly issued a new call for bids to explore its offshore. (...)  [110 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°666 - 04/01/2012
ALGERIA
Sonatrach
Under questioning in Algeria’s parliament on December 29, energy minister Youcef Yousfi said that his staff was putting the final touches to changes in the 2005/2007 petroleum law. (...)  [101 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°666 - 04/01/2012
NIGERIA
PPPRA
The panel that regulates Nigeria’s oil products sector, Petroleum Products Pricing and Regulatory Agency (PPPRA), officially announced the end of subsidies for gasoline as of January 1. (...)  [110 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°665 - 14/12/2011
GHANA
CNPC
The Africa director of Tullow Oil, Tim O’Hanlon, is due in Niamey on Dec. (...)  [102 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°664 - 30/11/2011
GUINEA
BRPP
Executives from Guinea’s Bureau de Recherche et de PromotionPetrolieres (BRPP) are privately voicing their surprise about a contract Guinea signed with the Filipino firm Herman Trading for the construction of a 6,000 bpd refinery in the coastal town of Boffa. (...)  [111 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°664 - 30/11/2011
GHANA
Petrobras
Executives from the Brazilian state-run company were in Ghana in late November to meet with officials from the Ghana National Gas Company as well as those from the Ghana National Petroleum Corp. (...)  [117 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°663 - 16/11/2011
ALGERIA
Sonatrach
The chief executive of the national oil company, Nordine Cherouati, could finally be replaced in coming days by the manager of Sontrach’s Swiss affiliate based in Lugano, Abdelhamid Zerguine. (...)  [106 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°662 - 03/11/2011
ALGERIA
Sonatrach
In its annual report for 2010 published on October 25, the government-run oil company indicated it had made 29 finds during the year on its own. (...)  [125 words]   [$2,1]
 
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°668 - 01/02/2012
ANGOLA
Sonangol
The United States is turning up the heat on Angola’s national oil company to stop investing in the South Pars 12 gas field in Iran. (...)  [96 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°667 - 18/01/2012
ALGERIA
Sonatrach
A project to build the Galsi gas pipeline between Algeria and Sardinia has perhaps found the political backing it has lacked up to now. (...)  [112 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°667 - 18/01/2012
EQUATORIAL GUINEA
GEPetrol
Equatorial Guinea’s national oil company is gradually setting oil diplomacy operations into motion as president Teodoro Obiang Nguema has been recommending during his travels in Africa. (...)  [104 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°666 - 04/01/2012
CAMEROON
SNH
Hydrac, the research lab of Cameroon's Societe National des Hydrocarbures (SNH), is currently proceeding with an operation to chemically tag gasoline refined in the north of the country by Sonara. (...)  [112 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°665 - 14/12/2011
LIBYA
NOC
International pressure has prompted Libya's National Transition Council to set up a committee to investigate how oil revenue was siphoned off during the rule of Muammar Gaddafi. (...)  [129 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°665 - 14/12/2011
ANGOLA
ENE
In naming Jao Baptista Borges as Angola’s new energy minister on Dec. (...)  [93 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°664 - 30/11/2011
ANGOLA
Sonangol
According to our sources, Angola’s government, in tandem with state-owned Sonangol, is currently drafting a new decree modifying oil legislation adopted in 2004 and encouraging local oil companies to involve themselves in the oil sector. (...)  [85 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°663 - 16/11/2011
ANGOLA
Sonangol
Angola’s Parliament adopted a bill on Nov. 10 that forces oil companies operating in the country to work with local banks to pay taxes to the state, as well as to settle their local bills. (...)  [107 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°663 - 16/11/2011
UGANDA
PEPD
Uganda's Petroleum Exploration and Production Department (PEPD) is expected to probably start offering new exploration acreage to oil companies early next year. (...)  [94 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°662 - 03/11/2011
IVORY COAST
ENI
The construction arm of Italy’s ENI, Saipem, penned a memorandum of understanding with Ivory Coast’s mines ministry in early October to conduct a study on building a gas pipeline between the east of the country and Abidjan. (...)  [100 words]   [$2,1]

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