Despite the potential of its offshore, oil production in Ivory Coast has never really taken off. After hitting 90,000 bpd in 2007, the country’s output dropped to under 50,000 bpd last year, according to official figures.
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Algerian energy minister Chakib Khelil was in Luanda between March 12-14 to take part in a third meeting of a [...]
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Nafie Ali Nafie, a special adviser to Sudanese president Omar el Bechir and former head of Sudan’s foreign intelligence agency, [...]
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The authorities in the breakaway province of Puntland approved new oil legislation on March 4 that ought to enable foreign [...]
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The Zambian government and World Bank are blaming one another for the energy crisis that has been gripping the country. [...]
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On March 12, Congolese president Joseph Kabila signed a decree (no. 08/022). That confirmed a first-ever block awarded in the [...]
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An activist fund has just taken on the Vaalco oil company that is present in Gabon and Angola. Such practices are becoming widespread.
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Active exclusively in North Africa up to now, the Petrovietnam concern has made its debut on a concession in the Gulf of Guinea.
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Hyperdynamics offered to reduce its acreage in return for a drilling license but was rebuffed.
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The British junior has just made its debut in Ivory Coast with a discreet partner.
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France's Total has sealed a new partnership with Conoil, a firm headed by Mike Adenuga.
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An oil company director, Murtala Yar’Adua, nephew of Nigeria’s president, is also active in trading.
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After a full year of bargaining, the Al Thani group in the United Arab Emirates has sold its stakes in blocks 3 and 7 to Kuwait’s Kharafi Group.
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Ireland’s Tullow Oil has returned to its initial idea of selling the crude it produces on Uganda’s domestic market.
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In recent years three companies have won acreage in the Afar region in the north-east of Ethiopia which has long been under-explored.
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The heavy oil field at Tsimiroro in western Madagascar has [...]
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As Africa Energy Intelligence had anticipated (AEI 455). Britain’s Dominion [...]
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The Ghanaian firm Gecad is scheduled to inaugurate a power plant at Tema on the coast east of Accra this [...]
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Local inhabitants have risen in protest over a second interconnection between Fungurume in Katanga and Zambia.
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Burundi, Rwanda and Tanzania are to join forces to build a hydro power plant.
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A South African company has accused the steel giant of elbowing it out of a project for a power plant.
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The U.S. firm Stanley Consultants is presently carrying out a [...]
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Kano state in northern Nigeria has penned a memorandum of [...]
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State-owned Sonatrach has decided use local currency to finance its huge petrochemical projects. As a result, Total, which won a [...]
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After they both acquired stakes in the British oil group Afren, France's BNP Paribas and the South African establishment Standard [...]
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Due to a number of projects currently underway the Nigerian government may be forced to scrap its policy of subsidizing [...]
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Total Gabon plans to partly finance a multi-year development program in Gabon with loans. Last year, Total Gabon kicked off [...]
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The Central Africa Republic’s ambassador to Washington, Emmanuel Touaboy, has become the latest recruit to Jarch Management’s advisory board. Toubay [...]
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The chief executive of Total, Christophe de Margerie, has shaken up the group's management to bring all of the company's [...]
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Robert Friedland has just has proceeded with a significant makeover of Ivanhoe Energy, the oil affiliate of his group Ivanhoe [...]
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A Nigerian court’s decision in late February to throw out legal challenge to the election of president Umaru Yar’Adua last [...]
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The new managing director of Cameroon’s Electricity Development Corp (EDC), Celestin N’Donga, also happens to be boss of the firm [...]
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Global Pacific & Partners is staging a conference in London on April 10-11 on the latest oil developments in the [...]
Global Pacific & Partners is organizing the 6th Maghreb & Mediterranean Oil & Gas Conference at the Residence Hotel in [...]
The CWC Group is organizing the 11th Gulf of Guinea Oil and Gas encounter at the Millennium Gloucester hotel in [...]
AES Sonel, the state-owned power company in Cameroon managed by [...]
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In its annual report for 2007 which Morocco’s Office National [...]
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The state-owned Botswana Power Corp (BPC) is seeking to reduce [...]
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Equatorial Guinea's government has just retained the services of a [...]
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The venture capital fund Elliott Associates and the Congolese Republic [...]
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