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AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°675 - 16/05/2012
LIBYA
AGOCO
The Arabian Gulf Oil Company (AGOCO), an affiliate of Libya’s National Oil Corporation, found itself earlier this month in the odd position of having to issue threats just to keep petroleum flowing. (...)  [109 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°675 - 16/05/2012
SUDAN
Sudapet
Sudanese oil minister Awad Al Jaz is expected to shortly announce the results of a licensing round involving blocks 8, 10, 12B, 14, 15 and 18, which was organized in conjunction with state-owned Sudapet. (...)  [104 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°674 - 02/05/2012
CHAD
SHT
The chief of Societe des Hydrocarbures du Tchad (SHT), Mahamat Kasser Younous, and the new deputy managing director of the Djermaya refinery near N’Djamena in Chad, Bemadji Djerassem, were in Beijing in early April to participate in a meeting of the refinery’s board. (...)  [124 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°673 - 11/04/2012
MAURITANIA
SMH
In addition to signing an agreement with Chariot Oil & Gas on April 5 for block 19 in Mauritania’s coastal basin, the country’s oil minister, Taleb Ould AbdiVal approved the arrival of the U. (...)  [70 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°673 - 11/04/2012
ANGOLA
Sonangol
Angola’s official journal Diario da Republica dated March 16 (see document) finally came out with president Jose Eduardo dos Santos’ decree on the advantages being granted local oil companies. (...)  [121 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°672 - 28/03/2012
CHAD
SHT
The former managing director of Societe des Hydrocarbures du Tchad (SHT), Moustapha Boukar, will shortly become the first director of a new entity in Chad, the Autorite de Regulation du Secteur Petrolier Aval. (...)  [106 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°671 - 14/03/2012
ALGERIA
Sonatrach
The Algerian oil company is setting up a data base on exploring for shale gas. (...)  [90 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°671 - 14/03/2012
NIGERIA
NNPC
The parliamentary panel that has been investigating oil product subsidies in Nigeria since January is due to table its findings next week. (...)  [78 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°670 - 29/02/2012
ANGOLA
Sonangol
In the wake of the South African group Sasol’s recent retreat from Iran (AEI 668), Angola’s Sonangol has pulled out in its turn under joint pressure from the United States and European Union. (...)  [132 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°669 - 15/02/2012
CHAD
SHT
The ministerial panel set up in early February by president Idriss Deby to negotiate with CNPC on the conditions of re-opening of the Djermaya refinery was backed by a committee of technical experts. (...)  [100 words]   [$2,1]
 
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°675 - 16/05/2012
LIBERIA
NOCAL
The National Oil Company of Liberia has come under strong pressure from Parliament to re-negotiate the 10 production sharing contracts signed during the first term of president Ellen Sirleaf. (...)  [120 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°674 - 02/05/2012
ANGOLA
ENE
The new chairman of the board of Empresa Nacional de Electricidade (ENEL), Jose Carlos Santos Neves (see his biography on P. (...)  [107 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°674 - 02/05/2012
SOUTH AFRICA
PetroSA
South Africa has found a prime supplier to help it comply with a forthcoming embargo that the United States and European Union will slap on Iran. (...)  [95 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°673 - 11/04/2012
CHAD
SHT
According to our sources, the firm Petro-Tec headed by Sudanese national Omar Abu-elbashar staged a new round for companies interested in the Kufra basin in north-east Chad in Dubai on April 9. (...)  [113 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°672 - 28/03/2012
ANGOLA
Sonangol
The chief executive of ENI, Paolo Scaroni, has denied his group is on the point of selling its 33% stake in the Portuguese oil company Galp to Sonangol. (...)  [128 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°672 - 28/03/2012
CAMEROON
SNH
Oil output is continuing to fall in Cameroon and reportedly dropped to 55,000/60,000 bpd at the end of last year. (...)  [89 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°671 - 14/03/2012
GABON
Gabon Oil Co.
A decree dated February 10 (see document) and signed by former economy and trade minister Magloire Ngambia has limited to two years the time an oil company can operate in the country through a simple branch. (...)  [161 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°670 - 29/02/2012
NIGERIA
PPMC
According to our sources, certain Nigerian traders who own service stations have begun rigging gasoline pumps so that the liter delivered to a car now represents a tiny bit less gas in its tanks. (...)  [103 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°670 - 29/02/2012
UGANDA
CNOOC
No trumpets were particularly blowing when Tullow Oil sold two thirds of its three licenses on Lake Albert in Uganda to France’s Total and the Chinese company CNOOC in mid-February. (...)  [102 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°669 - 15/02/2012
ALGERIA
Sonatrach
The national oil company has reined in its ambitions in the petrochemical sector. (...)  [112 words]   [$2,1]

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