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Spotlight | DRC
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 [...]

Published on 08/12/2015 at 04:30 GMT Reading time 3 minutes

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Mobutu man Kabuya Lumuna poised for oil sector comeback with Luanda?

The former president of the Congolese commission on continental shelf which worked on an extension to DRC's maritime rights is [...]

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Spotlight | Document | Angola, DRC
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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Felix Tshisekedi's security pact with Joao Lourenco

Obliged to accommodate his predecessor Joseph Kabila at home, the Congolese president Felix Tshisekedi is trying to strengthen his hand abroad through a rapprochement with Angola, which was always on very distant terms with Kabila.

Free access Politics 25.09.2019

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

A number of newcomers have used the period of transition and hesitation after Felix Tshisekedi's election to move into upstream business.

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Underwater explorers make environmental urgency a priority

Togo, Benin and Liberia have followed up on their request [...]

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DRC
Perenco backed into a corner and forced to renegotiate

Cornered into its long-term Bas-Congo fief, the family oil firm has to front up to the Congo-K government's ambitions to come to an agreement on its production terms and conditions.

Free access Energy 05.12.2017

DRC
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 [...]

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DRC
President Kabila places his men in revamped Cohydro

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.

Free access Energy 25.07.2017

DRC
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.

Subscribers only Energy 13.06.2017

Spotlight | DRC
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 - [.

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DRC
EnerGulf makes a last ditch appeal

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

Subscribers only Energy 23.02.2016

DRC
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 [...]

Subscribers only Energy 26.01.2016

DRC
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. [...]

Subscribers only Energy 26.01.2016

DRC
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 [...]

Subscribers only Energy 26.01.2016

DRC
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 [...]

Subscribers only Energy 13.10.2015

Angola, DRC
Gustave Beya Seku handling oil relations again

Former chief of staff of Congolese president Joseph Kabila, Gustave Beya Seku has returned to prominence with his appointment as [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.09.2015

Spotlight | Angola, DRC
Will Cohydro have to repay Sonangol $150 million?

The positive outcome of recent talks between Luanda and Libreville on extending the continental shelf made a collateral victim: Congo-K. The sharp about-turn on its claims regarding the continental shelf will, paradoxically, have a negative impact on the joint interest [.

Subscribers only Energy 15.09.2015

Spotlight | DRC
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 [.

Subscribers only Energy 16.06.2015

Spotlight | DRC
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 [.

Subscribers only Energy 02.12.2014

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Namibia oil utopia hangs on TotalEnergies' final investment decision

Spotlight | DRC
New oil bosses hail from Katanga - and favour Luanda

DRC
Mobutu man Kabuya Lumuna poised for oil sector comeback with Luanda?

Spotlight | Document | Angola, DRC
Exxon, Chevron and BP's blocks: João Lourenço hoodwinks Félix Tshisekedi

Angola, DRC
Felix Tshisekedi's security pact with Joao Lourenco

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

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Underwater explorers make environmental urgency a priority

DRC
Perenco backed into a corner and forced to renegotiate

DRC
Banro pressures government to tackle mounting insecurity

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President Kabila places his men in revamped Cohydro

DRC
Ministers come and go but Muganza's netwoks stay put

Spotlight | DRC
Kabila vents anger with Angola over joint oil zone

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EnerGulf makes a last ditch appeal

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

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