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Spotlight | Nigeria, North Africa
GAS: THE AWAKENING

Forecasts of a sharp rise in European demand for gas have spurred a revival in African LNG projects at a time when Nigeria's plans seem likely to be put on ice, perhaps for several years. Despite ups and downs, Algeria [...]

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Energy

Africa, France
TOTALFINELF A MARKET GIANT?

If Total Fina succeeds in its takeover bid for Elf the impact on the gas market could be extremely significant. [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.07.1999

Nigeria
NLNG-ENEL CONTRACT MODIFIED

Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas signed a new gas agreement with ENEL in London just before New Year's Eve that confirmed [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.01.1998

Spotlight | Nigeria
EUROMED HUB FOR NIGERIAN GAS

What has Nigerian gas got in common with the Euromed system? Answer: a gas "hub" in France for the West European market. French state secretary for industry Christian Pierret raised the possibility during the Association Technique du Gaz en France [.

Subscribers only Energy 01.10.1997

South Africa
TOTAL IN MARKET FORCES FRAY

Total has no intention of watching a major shakeup in the South African oil market from the sidelines if the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.08.1995

Morocco
CATCHING THE TRADE WINDS

Morocco's Office National de l'Electricité chose the occasion of Jacques Chirac's lighting visit to Morocco on July 19 during an [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.08.1995

Ghana
KWESI BOTCHWEY GOES

Kwesi Botchwey may owe his downfall to a drillship. The dismissal of Botchwey, a top-rate finance minister who played a [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.08.1995

Algeria, Nigeria
GAS EQUATION

Only if cif prices rise will Sonatrach be able to develop its gas fields sufficiently to overshoot its initial export [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.07.1995

Sudan
FRESH START FOR PROJECT

Elusive rumors that Saudi Arabian interests might be involved in a solution to the Arakis project were confirmed at last [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.07.1995

Spotlight | Russia, Sudan
RUSSIANS BACK IN BUSINESS

Having hung around too long for Arakis to raise the $300 million needed its the Heglig-Port Sudan oil line project, Sudan signed an agreement in April with the Russian oil company Yukos and an engineering firm to build the facility [.

Subscribers only Energy 05.07.1995

France
VALOT NAMED BOSS OF TOTAL EXPLORATION-PRODUCTION

Daniel Valot has been named managing director of Total's Exploration-Production [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.07.1995

Spotlight | Madagascar
ZAFY AND RAVONY AT ODDS

Marked on June 10 by the largest opposition demonstration seen in Antananarivo since last year, the campaign for the impeachment of the head of state Albert Zafy, which opposition MPs are now threatening to continue inside parliament, has rekindled the [.

Subscribers only 17.06.1995

Somalia
TWO-FACTION AGREEMENT

Somali businessman Osman Hassan Ali (aka Atto), who represents the US oil major Conoco in Mogad-iscio and was earlier the [...]

Subscribers only 17.06.1995

Somalia
DIVORCE IN THE AIR

Somali businessman Osman Hassan Ali (aka Ato) has made it official: on May 8 he announced in Mogadiscio that he [...]

Subscribers only 13.05.1995

United States
KENYA-BORN EXECUTIVE TO HEAD CALTEX

David Law Smith, a 55-year-old executive born in Kenya, will [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.04.1995

Canada
PRIVATIZATION, DEREGULATION, GLOBALIZATION

These three current trends in the energy sector will form [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.02.1995

Eritrea
AFEWORKI VISITS USA

Eritrean head of state Isaias Afwerki began a three-week visit to the United States on January 14 during which he [...]

Subscribers only 28.01.1995

Nigeria
ACCIDENT ON MOBIL'S UBIT PLATFORM

An inquiry was set up immediately by Mobil Producing Nigeria [...]

Subscribers only Energy 25.01.1995

Spotlight | Madagascar
WARNING FOR THE REVEREND

Breaking with their customary political immobility, head of state Albert Zafy and prime minister Francisque Ravony this week slapped a first warning on national assembly chairman Reverend Richard Andriamanjato by firing his protégé, central bank governor Raoul Ravelomanana, the man [.

Subscribers only 14.01.1995

France
ELF-GDF "TIE-UP" DISMISSED

Rarely has a denial been so brief -- four lines, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.12.1994

Gabon
OXY TO DRILL IN 900M

Occidental Petroleum appears ready to pull out all the stops technically on its first series of three wells in the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.12.1994

Algeria
FURTHER PULLOUTS PLANNED

BHP was preparing late last week to pull out of Algeria where it has operated two permits in the south-east [...]

Subscribers only Energy 09.11.1994

Spotlight | South Africa
ENERGY WEEK

"The government has signed with ENH," declared Mario Marques, managing director of Mozambique's Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos. However, it was not with ENH but with Enron that Mozambique had signed a memorandum of understanding to develop the Pande gas deposit, [.

Subscribers only Energy 26.10.1994

Ethiopia
AFAR EXPLORATION'S MAJOR GAMBLE

Afar Exploration is seeking a partner among other independants for a farm out before proceeding with a contractual well that [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.09.1994

Sierra Leone
DE BEERS ARRIVES BY SEA

Up until now De Beers and Anglo American studiously avoided any comment on reports they were interested in small Sierra [...]

Subscribers only Energy 31.08.1994

Madagascar
NEW YORK LIES JUST OVER THERE...

In the first three months of 1994, no less than ten businessmen went to see the trade attache at the [...]

Subscribers only 11.06.1994

Gabon
OIL MINISTER WITH A WORLD BANK PROFILE

Paul Toungui has been given the mines-enery and hydraulic resources [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.03.1994

Nigeria
NLNG ON THE MOVE

The Abacha's regime move to break off negotiations with the IMF appears to be the major obstacle standing in the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.03.1994

Congo
AGIP CONGO TO REMAIN AND OXY ASKED TO EXPLORE

Agip Congo is determined to push ahead with exploration and [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.03.1994

Sudan
RIEK MACHAR THENY DHURGON

During a tour of Europe to seek political support and financial aid, the leader of one of Sudan's opposition movements, [...]

Subscribers only 12.02.1994

ZAIRE
COUNTING ON FRIENDS

Libya will ship oil products to Zaire in coming weeks, announced Bachkir Saleh following a meeting at Gbadolite on Dec. [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.01.1994

Equatorial Guinea
NEW GOVERNMENT

The new government of Equatorial Guinea appointed by Silvestre Siale [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.01.1994

Libya
OILINVEST: NEW PARTNERS

Rather than going exclusively to the Italian groups Armani, Montanari and Triboldi as had initially been indicated, the 55% of [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.11.1993

Cameroon
YAOUNDE IN NEW PUSH

The managing director of Société Nationale des Hydrocarbures (SNH), Adolphe Moudiki, announced a few days ago that the state-owned company [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.10.1993

Madagascar
SECURITY BOOM

The United States embassy in Madagascar has signed a contract with Securmad covering the security of embassy buildings, personnel and [...]

Subscribers only 11.09.1993

ZAIRE
NEW QUARREL OVER PRICES

Oil companies are "deliberately orchestrating an artificial shortage of motor fuel in the country," declared Yoka Lokondo, spokesman for Faustin [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.09.1993

Nigeria
NEW MINISTER AND STATE SECRETARY FOR OIL

Donald Etiebet, a trained geologist who made a fortune in [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.09.1993

Spotlight | Algeria
NEW RACE AGAINST TIME

The Mafia-style murder of Kasdi Merbah on Saturday made it clear that the new government to be formed this week following the dismissal of Prime Minister Belaid Abdesslam and his replacement by Redha Malek is unlikely to escape from the [.

Subscribers only Energy 25.08.1993

Mozambique
OILY MANOEUVRES

The recent creation of a new fuel distribution company in Mozambique, Topoil SA, a joint venture between Total Oil Products [...]

Subscribers only 31.07.1993

Comoros islands
KNOTTY ISSUE

A meeting was scheduled for Paris this week between officials from EDF-International and a Comoros Islands delegation led by Youssouf [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.07.1993

France
BERNARD ESAMBERT TIPPED FOR ELF CHAIRMANSHIP

Many insiders believe Bernard Esamberg is osition to take over [...]

Subscribers only Energy 26.05.1993

South Africa
MOSSREF SHIPS ALCOHOL TO BRAZIL

Mossref is presently selling all of the alcohol by-product turned out in its installations to Brazil, a spokesman from the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 21.04.1993

Nigeria
NEW PROJECTS OUTLINED

Nigeria may find itself exporting gas to Ghana. Talks on such a project will get underway before the end of [...]

Subscribers only Energy 11.03.1993

Spotlight | Madagascar
ECONOMIC DEADLINE

The transition towards a third republic in Madagascar, has kicked off with the electoral victory of Albert Zafy in the presidential may well turn out to be none too smooth from an economic point of view, given that the country's [.

Subscribers only 20.02.1993

Spotlight | Angola
EVER-RELIABLE PARTNERS

Three weeks after the fall of the Soyo logistic base, oil production in Angola is entirely the work of two operators, Cabinda Gulf Oil (Chevron) and Elf Angola, which are also alone in being able to pursue exploration and development.

Subscribers only Energy 11.02.1993

Spotlight | Comoros islands
SHADY STOCK DEALINGS IN US

The grandiose projects of a United States-based oil company in Colorado, Transamerican Petroleum Corporation (TPC), that were to be realized in the Comoros Islands, are going to be used in a game of speculation on the United States second market.

Subscribers only 06.02.1993

Spotlight | Somalia
FRANCE PULLING OUT THE STOPS

With a view to ensuring that the Americans are not the only ones to get in on the diplomatic act in Somalia, and looking ahead to the time when the United Nations will take charge of Operation Restore Hope there, [.

Subscribers only 30.01.1993

Somalia
A REAL SCOOP

Conoco, Amoco, Chevron and Philips divided up the cake by obtaining permits covering "two thirds of Somalia" before the overthrow [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.01.1993

Algeria
SAFIR OFF TO SLOW START

The joint engineering company SAFIR set up at the end [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.01.1993

Nigeria
NLNG'S FINANCIAL WOES

A major rift between the IMF and Nigeria surfaced in early January, shedding an even grimmer light on Nigeria's difficulty [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.01.1993

Spotlight | Sudan
A MURKY TALE

Several new twists have been added to the jumble of Sudanese projects revolving around Chevron's discoveries. Within the space of a few days the political-industrial-financial saga took on dimensions far beyond what would be considered normal for a country that [.

Subscribers only Energy 24.12.1992

Sudan
THE BATTLE OF MALAKAL

A spokesman for the Nasir faction of the Sudan People's liberation Army (SPLA) in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, Akol Deng [...]

Subscribers only 31.10.1992

Madagascar
RALLYING ROUND "TRANSITIONAL POPE"

Madagascar's former foreign minister, Jacques Rabemananjara, has announced he is to stand in the presidential election on November 25. Backed [...]

Subscribers only 24.10.1992

Spotlight | East Africa
NEW FRONT LINE

Aid from the Sudanese government to the extension of Islamic fundamentalism in Eastern Africa is becoming an increasingly greater source of concern to different circles. Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania, moving slowly down the road to multi-party political systems and economic [.

Subscribers only 24.10.1992

Algeria
ALGERIAN-U.S. TIE-UP

An agreement was signed in Algiers on Sept. 16 to set up a joint company between GETSCO, a subsidiary of [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.10.1992

Algeria
ABDESSELAM MINUS LAOUSSINE

The appointment of Belaid Abdessalam, the "architect of Algeria's industrialization," as prime minister on July 8 does not signal a [...]

Subscribers only Energy 23.07.1992

Spotlight | Algeria
BAD TIMING

News that Mohammed Boudiaf, president of Algeria's High State Committee, had been assassinated reached London in the early afternoon of June 29 when senior Sonatrach officials were presenting details of Algeria's first licencing round at the Intercontinental hotel.

Subscribers only Energy 09.07.1992

Nigeria
SHAKE-UP AT THE TOP

A major shakeup among top officials of Nigeria's state-run oil company has followed quickly on the heels of the resignation [...]

Subscribers only Energy 25.06.1992

Sudan
Hassan Al Tourabi attacked

The leader of the National Islamic Front (NIF), Hassan Al Tourabi, who was on a private visit in Canada after [...]

Subscribers only Politics 06.06.1992

Spotlight | France
TOTAL GROUP "DECONTROLLED"

To what extent will the reduction in French government control over Total influence the group's investment decisions in Africa or its choices between Africa and the other regions where it operates? The government's powers over Total are destined to wane [.

Subscribers only Energy 28.05.1992

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Africa, France TOTALFINELF A MARKET GIANT?

Nigeria NLNG-ENEL CONTRACT MODIFIED

Spotlight | Nigeria EUROMED HUB FOR NIGERIAN GAS

South Africa TOTAL IN MARKET FORCES FRAY

Morocco CATCHING THE TRADE WINDS

Ghana KWESI BOTCHWEY GOES

Algeria, Nigeria GAS EQUATION

Sudan FRESH START FOR PROJECT

Spotlight | Russia, Sudan RUSSIANS BACK IN BUSINESS

France VALOT NAMED BOSS OF TOTAL EXPLORATION-PRODUCTION

Spotlight | Madagascar ZAFY AND RAVONY AT ODDS

Somalia TWO-FACTION AGREEMENT

Somalia DIVORCE IN THE AIR

United States KENYA-BORN EXECUTIVE TO HEAD CALTEX

Canada PRIVATIZATION, DEREGULATION, GLOBALIZATION

Eritrea AFEWORKI VISITS USA

Nigeria ACCIDENT ON MOBIL'S UBIT PLATFORM

Spotlight | Madagascar WARNING FOR THE REVEREND

France ELF-GDF "TIE-UP" DISMISSED

Gabon OXY TO DRILL IN 900M

Algeria FURTHER PULLOUTS PLANNED

Spotlight | South Africa ENERGY WEEK

Ethiopia AFAR EXPLORATION'S MAJOR GAMBLE

Sierra Leone DE BEERS ARRIVES BY SEA

Madagascar NEW YORK LIES JUST OVER THERE...

Gabon OIL MINISTER WITH A WORLD BANK PROFILE

Nigeria NLNG ON THE MOVE

Congo AGIP CONGO TO REMAIN AND OXY ASKED TO EXPLORE

Sudan RIEK MACHAR THENY DHURGON

ZAIRE COUNTING ON FRIENDS

Equatorial Guinea NEW GOVERNMENT

Libya OILINVEST: NEW PARTNERS

Cameroon YAOUNDE IN NEW PUSH

Madagascar SECURITY BOOM

ZAIRE NEW QUARREL OVER PRICES

Nigeria NEW MINISTER AND STATE SECRETARY FOR OIL

Spotlight | Algeria NEW RACE AGAINST TIME

Mozambique OILY MANOEUVRES

Comoros islands KNOTTY ISSUE

France BERNARD ESAMBERT TIPPED FOR ELF CHAIRMANSHIP

South Africa MOSSREF SHIPS ALCOHOL TO BRAZIL

Nigeria NEW PROJECTS OUTLINED

Spotlight | Madagascar ECONOMIC DEADLINE

Spotlight | Angola EVER-RELIABLE PARTNERS

Spotlight | Comoros islands SHADY STOCK DEALINGS IN US

Spotlight | Somalia FRANCE PULLING OUT THE STOPS

Somalia A REAL SCOOP

Algeria SAFIR OFF TO SLOW START

Nigeria NLNG'S FINANCIAL WOES

Spotlight | Sudan A MURKY TALE

Sudan THE BATTLE OF MALAKAL

Madagascar RALLYING ROUND "TRANSITIONAL POPE"

Spotlight | East Africa NEW FRONT LINE

Algeria ALGERIAN-U.S. TIE-UP

Algeria ABDESSELAM MINUS LAOUSSINE

Spotlight | Algeria BAD TIMING

Nigeria SHAKE-UP AT THE TOP

Sudan Hassan Al Tourabi attacked

Spotlight | France TOTAL GROUP "DECONTROLLED"

Spotlight | Algeria POLICY, PRICES, RESERVES

Spotlight | Libya PRESSURE BUILDS UP

Chad REFINERY: POSITIVE MOVES

Spotlight | Algeria COLLISION COURSE

Angola KAPANDA: NEW DELAY

Spotlight | Angola WITCH HUNT

Algeria CREDIT LINE FOR LNG PLANT AT SKIKDA

Chad REFINERY: POLITICS FIRST?

Spotlight | Gabon OPTIONS

Algeria GDF ACCORD: +1 BILLION CU.M/YEAR

About Africa Intelligence

Guinea
Behind the scenes of Mamadi Doumbouya's offensive on Russian miner Nordgold

DRC
Dan Gertler's billions of dollars in royalties at heart of huge legal battle

Spotlight | Nigeria, North Africa
GAS: THE AWAKENING

Africa, France
TOTALFINELF A MARKET GIANT?

Nigeria
NLNG-ENEL CONTRACT MODIFIED

Spotlight | Nigeria
EUROMED HUB FOR NIGERIAN GAS

South Africa
TOTAL IN MARKET FORCES FRAY

Morocco
CATCHING THE TRADE WINDS

Ghana
KWESI BOTCHWEY GOES

Algeria, Nigeria
GAS EQUATION

Sudan
FRESH START FOR PROJECT

Spotlight | Russia, Sudan
RUSSIANS BACK IN BUSINESS

France
VALOT NAMED BOSS OF TOTAL EXPLORATION-PRODUCTION

Spotlight | Madagascar
ZAFY AND RAVONY AT ODDS

Somalia
TWO-FACTION AGREEMENT

Somalia
DIVORCE IN THE AIR

United States
KENYA-BORN EXECUTIVE TO HEAD CALTEX

Canada
PRIVATIZATION, DEREGULATION, GLOBALIZATION

Eritrea
AFEWORKI VISITS USA

Nigeria
ACCIDENT ON MOBIL'S UBIT PLATFORM

Spotlight | Madagascar
WARNING FOR THE REVEREND

France
ELF-GDF "TIE-UP" DISMISSED

Gabon
OXY TO DRILL IN 900M

Algeria
FURTHER PULLOUTS PLANNED

Spotlight | South Africa
ENERGY WEEK

Ethiopia
AFAR EXPLORATION'S MAJOR GAMBLE

Sierra Leone
DE BEERS ARRIVES BY SEA

Madagascar
NEW YORK LIES JUST OVER THERE...

Gabon
OIL MINISTER WITH A WORLD BANK PROFILE

Nigeria
NLNG ON THE MOVE

Congo
AGIP CONGO TO REMAIN AND OXY ASKED TO EXPLORE

Sudan
RIEK MACHAR THENY DHURGON

ZAIRE
COUNTING ON FRIENDS

Equatorial Guinea
NEW GOVERNMENT

Libya
OILINVEST: NEW PARTNERS

Cameroon
YAOUNDE IN NEW PUSH

Madagascar
SECURITY BOOM

ZAIRE
NEW QUARREL OVER PRICES

Nigeria
NEW MINISTER AND STATE SECRETARY FOR OIL

Spotlight | Algeria
NEW RACE AGAINST TIME

Mozambique
OILY MANOEUVRES

Comoros islands
KNOTTY ISSUE

France
BERNARD ESAMBERT TIPPED FOR ELF CHAIRMANSHIP

South Africa
MOSSREF SHIPS ALCOHOL TO BRAZIL

Nigeria
NEW PROJECTS OUTLINED

Spotlight | Madagascar
ECONOMIC DEADLINE

Spotlight | Angola
EVER-RELIABLE PARTNERS

Spotlight | Comoros islands
SHADY STOCK DEALINGS IN US

Spotlight | Somalia
FRANCE PULLING OUT THE STOPS

Somalia
A REAL SCOOP

Algeria
SAFIR OFF TO SLOW START

Nigeria
NLNG'S FINANCIAL WOES

Spotlight | Sudan
A MURKY TALE

Sudan
THE BATTLE OF MALAKAL

Madagascar
RALLYING ROUND "TRANSITIONAL POPE"

Spotlight | East Africa
NEW FRONT LINE

Algeria
ALGERIAN-U.S. TIE-UP

Algeria
ABDESSELAM MINUS LAOUSSINE

Spotlight | Algeria
BAD TIMING

Nigeria
SHAKE-UP AT THE TOP

Sudan
Hassan Al Tourabi attacked

Spotlight | France
TOTAL GROUP "DECONTROLLED"

Spotlight | Algeria
POLICY, PRICES, RESERVES

Spotlight | Libya
PRESSURE BUILDS UP

Chad
REFINERY: POSITIVE MOVES

Spotlight | Algeria
COLLISION COURSE

Angola
KAPANDA: NEW DELAY

Spotlight | Angola
WITCH HUNT

Algeria
CREDIT LINE FOR LNG PLANT AT SKIKDA

Chad
REFINERY: POLITICS FIRST?

Spotlight | Gabon
OPTIONS

Algeria
GDF ACCORD: +1 BILLION CU.M/YEAR