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Noble goes all in for offshore

The unrest in Cameroon's English speaking-region, where Noble Energy operates the Yoyo block, does not seem to have whet the [...]

Free access Energy 18.09.2018

Convicted in Gunvor case, Collard lashes out at former employers

The court case has leapt forward with a key confession from Belgian trader Pascal Collard, found guilty of "corruption".

Subscribers only Energy 18.09.2018

Who will SNPC boss R. Ominga appoint head of Perenco JV, Congorep ?

Congorep, the firm 49% controlled by state firm Societe nationale des petroles du Congo (SNPC) is still short of a [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.09.2018

Denis Christel Sassou Nguesso tries desperately to cling onto slipping hold of trading sector

Ousted from the executive bodies of the state-run Societe nationale [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.09.2018

Paris embassy accounts released

Congo-B ambassador in France Rodolphe Adada is relieved. On September 6, the Paris court of appeal ordered the lifting of [...]

Subscribers only Politics 14.09.2018

CEMAC mining code in final stages before launch

A work group tasked to validate the mining code to [...]

Subscribers only Mining 11.09.2018

Splits among the Freemasons amid the economic turmoil

The country's main lodges are profoundly split over the disquieting situation that still prevails in Congo-B.

Subscribers only Politics 05.09.2018

Government strategy
Ominga flouts crisis and appoints a plethora of SNPC executives

Although the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has been in talks [...]

Subscribers only Energy 04.09.2018

No getting around the IMF for Sassou Nguesso

The failure of Prime Minister Clement Mouamba's mission to Beijing leaves the government no option but to swallow Washington's medicine.

Subscribers only Politics 22.08.2018

Martin Mberi to seek a resolution to the Pool conflict

In early August, Martin Mberi was appointed as permanent secretary of the Conseil national du dialogue, a new body set [...]

Subscribers only Politics 22.08.2018

SNPC desperately seeking funds in Abu Dhabi

To ride the wave of its newly earned membership with OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries - AEI 820), [...]

Subscribers only Energy 21.08.2018

Sassou Nguesso thumbs his nose at the IMF

The Congolese president is resisting the austerity measures demanded by the monetary institution.

Subscribers only Politics 18.07.2018

How Abuja almost killed Brazzaville's OPEC bid?

Although named the 15th member of OPEC during the organisation's latest summit held in late June, Congo-B had struggled to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 17.07.2018

SNPC: Alphonse Okoye's agenda already shaped by IMF pressure

The new board chairman of the Societe nationale des petroles du Congo (SNPC) and former director general of external trade, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 17.07.2018

Landry Gantsui, Coastal Energy man close to Sassou on Soco deal

The success of Coastal Energy's purchase of Soco's Congo-B assets has much to do with its CEO Conrad Clauson's local [...]

Subscribers only Energy 17.07.2018

Teresa Goma elbows out Pelfaco's Congolese partners on Sounda Marine

Congo-B's new head of hydrocarbons, Teresa Goma (AEI 812) lost [...]

Subscribers only Energy 17.07.2018

The Mbochis remain at the helm of the SNPC

Despite extensive restructuring in recent months, the oil company remains firmly in the hands of the president's ethnic group. Analysis.

Subscribers only Politics 04.07.2018

Claude Wilfrid Etoka, Sassou Nguesso's leading advocate

The boss of Eco Oil Energy, SARPD Oil and Petroleum Exploration & Production Africa, 49-year-old Claude Wilfrid Etoka, known as [...]

Subscribers only Politics 04.07.2018

How OPEC became an African club

The Vienna-based organisation, traditionally only open to the world's largest oil producers, has become a diplomatic tool for secondary producers and firms in Africa to develop their networks.