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Gabon

Ali's hot air PR machine

Spin doctors have cast the Gabonese president as a builder. But the reality on the ground is very different.

Subscribers only Politics 09.07.2014

Eric Bygodt

French national Eric Bygodt who was supposed to take up a post of legal adviser to Addax Gabon on July [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.07.2014

Confusion over oil bill

Gabon's new hydrocarbons bill that was published in the Journal [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.07.2014

Fugro still on buying spree

The Dutch firm Fugro has been buying up assets in [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.07.2014

Simeon Edzo Mezui

Simeon Edzo Mezui, the maintenance and production chief of Addax [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.07.2014

Nick Cooper

Nick Cooper, general manager of Ophir Energy, has proved unlucky [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.07.2014

Accrombessi survives Haut-Ogooue

Campaigning to be "reelected" as Gabon's leader, Ali Bongo has taken measures to obtain the support of his native Haut-Ogooue province without going so far as to axe his chief of staff Maixent Accrombessi, as some would have liked.

Subscribers only Politics 25.06.2014

Pascaline Bongo appeals to Ping

Confirmed on June 10 in the honorary role of Ali [...]

Subscribers only Politics 25.06.2014

Juste Ibinga-Koula

The staff of Gabonese oil minister Etienne Ngoubou has expanded with the arrival of a new adviser in charge of [...]

Subscribers only Energy 24.06.2014

Bongo's facelift for spy agencies

Gabonese president Ali Bongo has overhauled the country's security services in a key move in advance of 2016 elections.

Subscribers only Politics 11.06.2014

Sub-contractor versus Addax

The Moroccan logistics firm Satram has launched legal proceedings against Addax for breach of contract.

Subscribers only Energy 10.06.2014

Erik Slotboom

Addax Petroleum, an affiliate of China’s Sinopec, is pushing ahead with its drive to hire former executives of Shell Gabon. [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.06.2014

Spotlight
Ali Bongo, Jean Ping square off

It had seemed that former opposition leader Pierre Mamboundou's death in 2011 and Andre Mba Obame's failing health would give Ali Bongo a free run at the 2016 presidential elections. But that was before Jean Ping came onto the scene.

Subscribers only Politics 28.05.2014

Bongo's softer line on Total

Africa Energy Intelligence understands the Gabonese subsidiary of France's Total received a new proposal concerning a tax adjustment from the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 27.05.2014

What bill and what contracts?

Confusion reigns supreme in Libreville about what legislation and what production sharing contracts are to be applied for new oil blocks. Even lawyers specializing in the branch are at a loss.

Subscribers only Energy 27.05.2014

Etienne Ngoubou

The cancellation of the 1st National Forum on Gabon Oil & Gas which was to be held in Libreville on [...]

Subscribers only Energy 27.05.2014

Alex Stewart to re-do its sums

According to our sources, Gabon’s Direction Generale des Impots (DGI) [...]

Subscribers only Energy 27.05.2014

"Council of war" against Ali Bongo in Paris!

With just two days to go to the third New York Forum Africa (NYFA), which is due to take place [...]

Subscribers only 21.05.2014

Ping hones strategy against Ali

Jean Ping could be a serious challenger to Ali Bongo in the 2016 presidential elections. He has been mobilising his national and international contacts to beef up his political campaign.

Subscribers only Politics 14.05.2014

Project Associates prospects for Gabon

Under contract to the Gabonese president's office, the British firm [...]

Subscribers only Business 14.05.2014

Etienne Ngoubou

Etienne Ngoubou, Gabon’s oil minister, preferred to attend the Offshore [...]

Subscribers only Energy 13.05.2014

Assmang targets Gabon's iron ore

A South African producer of iron, chrome and manganese, Assmang, [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.05.2014

Jean Ping on warpath

Ali Bongo's regime is coming under attack at home as well as abroad - from Jean Ping, the former African Union commission chief who is mobilising opposition to Bongo in Libreville.

Subscribers only Politics 30.04.2014

Bongo takes to ruling by decree

The Gabonese president has signed a decree that effectively holds sway over the country’s oil industry. But a few aspects it failed to address could scare investors away.

Subscribers only Energy 29.04.2014

Sales tax furore

The Union Petroliere Gabonaise (UPOEGA), a local association that represents [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.04.2014

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