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17/10/2018

Orange consents to a €40 million ‘discount' for Malabo

The lawyer Jean-Charles Tchikaya has been at the forefront of [...]

16/10/2018

Trading houses want Shell out of the picture

While Shell may have a contract to lift LNG until 2020 there are several candidates lining up to take its place in Malabo. [...]

Breaking news 10/10/2018

Exclusive. How Malabo settled its dispute with Orange

Equatorial Guinea and Orange have settled their dispute after the state agreed to pay the French telecommunications group an additional [...]

02/10/2018

Ophir allows cloud to thicken dangerously around fortuna

According to our sources, the interim managing director of Ophir [...]

19/09/2018

Rocky times ahead with Brazil Free

Searched on 14 September by the border control police at the airport of Sao Paulo, where he had just landed, [...]

18/09/2018

EG Ronda 2016: politics puts process on hold

While Equatorial Guinean oil minister Gabriel Obiang Lima has announced a new tender for early 2019, the last round of [...]

18/09/2018

Technip-Subsea 7- Schlumberger cornered by G. Obiang

Though so far little applied, the rules that require oil services firms to have local partners have become a government hobby horse. [...]

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04/09/2018

Jacinto Owono, the new local content bête noire for oil firms

Jacinto Owono, the former PanAtlantic general manager for Equatorial Guinea who first cut his teeth with Hess Corp, has now [...]

22/08/2018

‘Teodorin' the golden boy lives it up in Europe

Despite receiving a three-year suspended sentence and a fine of [...]

17/07/2018

Family tensions with Obiang clan force Total to take the long road

Although its talks over the acquisition of two exploration blocks [...]

19/06/2018

Total fires up Gabriel/Teodorin Obiang rivalry

Negotiations with the French major have stoked the flames of the Obiang vs. Obiang conflict. [...]

05/06/2018

Ophir's financial tumult sends Schlumberger reeling

Following Ophir's failure to secure funds to develop Fortuna, Schlumberger jumps ship. [...]

22/05/2018

How Ophir's woes got the better of Nick Cooper

British junior Ophir Energy, which is particularly active in Equatorial Guinea, Tanzania and the Ivory Coast, has been hit with [...]

24/04/2018

Fortuna: Chinese financiers rock Ophir's boat

The junior has been pushing back and pushing back its final investment decision on Fortuna. Here's why. [...]

03/04/2018

Gabriel Obiang Lima in seduction mode in Abu Dhabi

Frustrated with the recent wait-and-see approach taken by American firms active in Equatorial Guinea over the past two decades in [...]

03/04/2018

Antonio Oburu mysteriously reappears at GEPetrol

According to our sources, the chief executive of Equatorial Guinean state-run firm GEPetrol, Antonio Oburu, returned to his desk in [...]

20/03/2018

EG-24: who is Ophir Energy negotiating with?

British firm Ophir Energy is on the verge of finalising [...]

20/03/2018

Vice president Teodorino Nguema Obiang, the bee in IMF's bonnet

Much the same as the Congo-B (see here), Equatorial Guinea [...]

07/03/2018

Obiang Nguema runs roughshod over the opposition Free

As usual after reports of an umpteenth attempted coup (the most recent dating back to late December), the Equatorial Guinean [...]

06/03/2018

Marathon sells its assets to Total bit by bit

The American independent energy firm neglects its producing African blocks to focus on its North American portfolio. [...]

02/03/2018

The army sells its services to boost the state coffers

According to information obtained by the Indian Ocean Newsletter, the [...]

20/02/2018

Noble fears for the security of its transborder deposits

As American firm Noble Energy sits poised to start up talks over the unitisation of its Yolanda (block 2 in [...]

20/02/2018

Total getting under Gabriel Obiang's nose

The French major has been dilly-dallying about investing in E&P, to the point of getting on the government's nerves. [...]

07/02/2018

The murky ‘putsch' against Obiang bolsters relations with Biya

The alleged coup attempt against the president of Equatorial Guinea has strained relations with N'Djamena, while strengthening ties with Yaounde. [...]

23/01/2018

Fortuna: who is Ophir's mystery Chinese partner?

AEI revealed the name of the Chinese financial institution that has been negotiating with Ophir to develop the LNG project. [...]

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