Spotlight | Africa
Italy’s ENI steals the show from France’s Total

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Long in the vanguard in Africa, Total is fast being overtaken by ENI. Pressing ahead on every front in both production and exploration, the Italian major has acquired one of the most impressive African portfolios ever cobbled together.

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Long in the vanguard in Africa, Total is fast being overtaken by ENI. Pressing ahead on every front in both production and exploration, the Italian major has acquired one of the most impressive African portfolios ever cobbled together.

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Spotlight | Africa
Italy’s ENI steals the show from France’s Total

Congo
With trouble after trouble, ENI forced to shut down wells

Congo
ENI offers gas to help miners ward off energy crisis

Gambia
Though close to Senegalese offshore, Banjul is not the oil mecca it would like to be

Mozambique
ExxonMobil renegotiates unitisation of Mamba

Ghana
Kimathi Kuenyehia wants to be the miners' go-to lawyer

Spotlight | Africa
Total pushes on accelerator to catch up with Italy's ENI

Mauritania | State-owned
Petronas's plan to close down Chinguetti

Africa
Total’s three "country targets" in 2017

Mozambique | Major
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Madagascar | Majors
For Total it’s really over

Africa
SacOil rubs shoulders with service firms and traders

Mozambique
ENI’s long haul to put Coral on track

Spotlight | Mozambique
Maputo sees India as potential bankroller for its gas

Mozambique
Fabio Castiglioni, ENI's new man in Maputo

Angola
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Africa
Yves-Louis Darricarrere, from top job at Total to Kosmos' board

Uganda
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Libya
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DRC
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Mozambique
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Uganda
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Ivory Coast
ENI pushing Total to explore shared block

Spotlight | Mozambique
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Angola
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ENI's success in offshore good for Italy's business

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