WHO'S WHO

AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°633 - 28/07/2010
NIGERIA
Ledum Mitee

There’s some question over who is the real chief of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MSOP). (...) [219 words] [$5.4]

AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°633 - 28/07/2010
GUINEA
John O’Keefe

Hyperdynamics has been continuing to beef up its management team since the American group signed a definitive agreement with Guinea on May 10 concerning its offshore block. (...) [130 words] [$5.4]

AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°633 - 28/07/2010
TUNISIA
Chris Green

After serving for five years as technical director and then as head of operations at the Irish firm Circle Oil, Chris Green was named chief executive of the company on July 7. (...) [133 words] [$5.4]

AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°633 - 28/07/2010
TANZANIA
Michael Howard

Retired British politicians are increasingly re-cycling themselves into African oil. After Mark Malloch Brown at Vitol (see Page 1), the former leader of Britain’s Conservative Party, Michael Howard, joined the board of Britain’s Orca Exploration on July 20. (...) [101 words] [$5.4]

AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°632 - 14/07/2010
UNITED KINGDOM
Helen Tarnoy

In early July, the co-founder of Aldwych International alongside Mark Fitzpatrick in 2004, Helen Tarnoy took over as head of the British firm which develops several power projects in Africa. (...) [158 words] [$5.4]

AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°632 - 14/07/2010
UNITED KINGDOM
Justus van der Spuy

The boutique bank Ambrian Capital, which advises Chariot Oil & Gas (AEI 623), has set up an affiliate dubbed Ambrian Energy to trade in crude and oil products. (...) [144 words] [$5.4]

AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°632 - 14/07/2010
TUNISIA
Benoit Debray

A former deputy chief of the production and drilling department of the Institut Francais du Petrole (IFP), the French national Benoit Debray was appointed non-executive chairman of the Canadian concern Candax Energy on June 29. (...) [137 words] [$5.4]

AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°632 - 14/07/2010
GUINEA
Mahmoud Thiam

Guinea’s mines minister who also handles the oil brief, Mahmoud Thiam, could retain his post in a government set up following the second round of presidential elections. (...) [152 words] [$5.4]

AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°631 - 30/06/2010
SUDAN
Lual Acuek Deng

As Africa Energy Intelligence anticipated in its last issue (No. 630), Lual Acuek Deng, a member of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), was named Sudan’s oil minister on June 15. (...) [163 words] [$5.4]

AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°631 - 30/06/2010
AFRICA
Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani

The long-standing chief of Foxtrot International, which operates the CI-27 gas license in Ivory Coast, the American businessman of Iranian origin, Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani took over early this month as head of RAK Petroleum, the oil company of the emirate of Ras al Khaimah. (...) [131 words] [$5.4]

AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°631 - 30/06/2010
AFRICA
Nathali Delapalme

Africa adviser to three French foreign ministers between 2002 and 2007 (Dominique de Villepin, Michel Barnier and Philippe Douste-Blazy) Nathalie Delapalme discreetly took a seat on the board of the French oil company Maurel & Prom late last month. (...) [121 words] [$5.4]

AEI n°633 - 28/07/2010
ALGERIA

Tadahiro Matsushita , the deputy Japanese economy and industry minister, held talks on July 22 with (...)

[70 words] [$1.8]

AEI n°633 - 28/07/2010
NIGERIA/MALI

Amadou Toumani Toure , the president of Mali, is due to travel to Abuja in October for talks with his (...)

[87 words] [$1.8]

AEI n°633 - 28/07/2010
CONGO-K

Henry Bellingham , Britain's secretary of state in charge of African affairs, met on July 19 with (...)

[55 words] [$1.8]

AEI n°632 - 14/07/2010
ZIMBABWE

Elton Mangoma , Zimbabwe's new energy minister, led a delegation that met with Catherine Ashton, (...)

[85 words] [$1.8]

AEI n°632 - 14/07/2010
NIGERIA

Abdullah Gul , the president of Turkey dropped in on his Nigerian counterpart, Goodluck Jonathan, (...)

[70 words] [$1.8]

AEI n°632 - 14/07/2010
SUDAN

Serge Montesquieu , one of the executives who see to Total’s operations in Sudan, was able to meet (...)

[78 words] [$1.8]

AEI n°631 - 30/06/2010
LIBYA

Shokri Ghanem , the chief executive of Libya's National Oil Corporation (NOC), will meet in London (...)

[81 words] [$1.8]

AEI n°631 - 30/06/2010
ANGOLA/GHANA

Jose Eduardo dos Santos , the president of Angola, dropped in on June 20-21 for an official visit at the (...)

[65 words] [$1.8]

AEI n°631 - 30/06/2010
KENYA/RWANDA

Moses Wetangula , the Kenyan foreign minister, held talks on June 21 with Rwanda president Paul (...)

[82 words] [$1.8]

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