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New oil bosses hail from Katanga - and favour Luanda

With a year to go before his second and final term in office comes to an end, Congolese president Joseph Kabila has shaken up his team of advisers and the civil servants who count in the oil sector. The common [...] (614 words)

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Exxon, Chevron and BP's blocks: João Lourenço hoodwinks Félix Tshisekedi

With Angola determined to be the sole owner, it looks as though the new DRC president Félix Tshisekedi will have to be content with mere crumbs of offshore blocks 0 and 14 (Chevron), block 15 (ExxonMobil), in production for over [. [...]

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Kabila's Mr Angola, Antoine Ghonda, has buddies handle E&P

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Banro pressures government to tackle mounting insecurity

Canadian concern Banro Corp took the authorities in Kinshasa to task in a letter reportedly sent in late September over [...]

DRC Energy 25/07/2017

President Kabila places his men in revamped Cohydro Free

Despite a change in name, the state-run firm will still be firmly under the grip of the same Katangese networks that have controlled the country's oil sector until now. [...]

DRC Energy 13/06/2017

Ministers come and go but Muganza's netwoks stay put

Behind the changing line-up of hydrocarbon ministers, the country’s oil sector is still under the thumb of the same powerful networks. [...]

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DRC Energy 08/03/2016

Kabila vents anger with Angola over joint oil zone

Congolese president Joseph Kabila has purged oil circles of all officials deemed to be soft on Angola and taken other significant measures indicating that a sea change in relations with Luanda is underway. Mukena spells it out to Luanda - [. [...]

DRC Energy 23/02/2016

EnerGulf makes a last ditch appeal

The American explorer EnerGulf is once again trying to persuade [...]

DRC Energy 26/01/2016

Jean Muganza seeks a new made-to-measure post

Negotiations linked to the wording of decrees implementing new oil and gas legislation in Congo-K have led to attempts to [...]

DRC Energy 26/01/2016

Kabuya Lumuna’s oil contacts work on Angola’s behalf

The former spokesman for late president Mobutu Sese Seko, Katanga-born Celestin Kabuya Lumuna remains highly influential in Congo-K political circles. [...]

DRC Energy 26/01/2016

EnerGulf’s future looks dim

After winning a 10-month respite last July, the American junior EnerGulf still hasn't started work on its contractual well on [...]

DRC Energy 13/10/2015

The murky past of oil minister Aimé Mukena

The political rise of Congo-K’s brand new hydrocarbons minister, Aime Ngoy Mukena, a loyal follower of president Joseph Kabila (AEI [...]

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Gustave Beya Seku handling oil relations again

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ANGOLA DRC Energy 15/09/2015

Will Cohydro have to repay Sonangol $150 million?

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DRC Energy 16/06/2015

Angola waits for a new oil czar to jump-start talks

The side-lining of president Joseph Kabila’s chief of staff and former deputy oil minister Gustave Beya Siku could have a major impact on the oil industry. He had been its real boss over the past four years and his departure [. [...]

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DRC Energy 02/12/2014

A promising oil region lies untended

The recent postponement of a seismics survey on Total’s block 3 in the Ituri region conceals a fierce struggle between the local authorities and the much-weakened central government in Kinshasa. The episode underscores the multitude of logistical, political and security [. [...]

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Kabila's Mr Angola, Antoine Ghonda, has buddies handle E&P

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President Kabila places his men in revamped Cohydro Free

Ministers come and go but Muganza's netwoks stay put

Kabila vents anger with Angola over joint oil zone

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Jean Muganza seeks a new made-to-measure post

Kabuya Lumuna’s oil contacts work on Angola’s behalf

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Gustave Beya Seku handling oil relations again

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