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Gabon

Total & ENI on the offensive

European majors initially excluded from the bidding round in Gabon’s deep offshore are now back in the picture. Admitted at [...]

Subscribers only Energy 11.02.2014

Work slow to take off on Obangue

Production stuttered to a stop when work on Obangue was handed over from Gabon Oil Co to Addax.

Subscribers only Energy 11.02.2014

Manganese: Comilog no longer alone

Thanks to the arrival of new operators in the key sector of manganese, Gabon should well succeed in producing a [...]

Subscribers only Mining 04.02.2014

Bechtel holds all the infrastructure cards

Even if the Belinga iron ore project has yet to find a new operator following the official withdrawal of China's [...]

Subscribers only Mining 04.02.2014

Bongo places favorites in top government posts

Three close associates of president Ali Bongo are now running the key interior and defense ministries in the extended government [...]

Subscribers only 30.01.2014

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New generation elbows out elders

The electoral calendar determines the political timetable in Gabon. Profiting from the recent round of local elections, President Ali Bongo has taken a scalpel to the teams that are supposed to carry out his orders. At the president's office and [...]

Subscribers only Politics 29.01.2014

Heenan Blaikie advises Gabon

Canadian Heenan Blaikie's Paris office of advised the Gabonese government [...]

Subscribers only Business 29.01.2014

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Ngoubou gets the better of Addax

Taking over as oil minister in February, 2012, Etienne Ngoubou succeeded in making himself indispensable to president Ali Bongo and his chief-of-staff Maixent Accrombessi. And he has finally won the tug of war he began a year ago with China’s [.

Subscribers only Energy 28.01.2014

A well-connected Swiss firm

The Geneva-based law firm Tavernier Tschanz is working increasingly on African briefs, some of which involve oil.

Subscribers only Energy 28.01.2014

Alex Stewart to wind up work

The auditing concern headed by Enrique Segura, Alex Stewart International, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.01.2014

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China keen on tripartite cooperation

The resolution of the COMIBEL (Belinga mining company) affair in Libreville end of last year has enabled Gabon to regain control of the iron ore deposit, CMEC (China Machinery Engineering Corp) to not lose face and Parisian legal expertise in [.

Subscribers only Mining 21.01.2014

Patrick de Saint-Simon

A fine connoisseur of the African mining sector, Patrick de Saint-Simon and his long-standing friend Bernard Salome, who was since [...]

Subscribers only Mining 21.01.2014

Franceville: Indians talking to Setrag

According to our sources, India’s Coalsale Group, which has been [...]

Subscribers only Mining 21.01.2014

Final straight for the new legislation

According to our sources, the bill for Gabon’s new mining [...]

Subscribers only Mining 21.01.2014

Ali Bongo chooses mayor

Gabon's President Ali Bongo has appointed the new head of Libreville, making a choice that proves Laure Olga Gondjout is being put out to grass.

Subscribers only Politics 15.01.2014

The firms denied in deep offshore

Two Western majors put in very low financial bids to operate in Gabon’s deep offshore and, as a consequence, were spurned by Libreville.

Free access Energy 31.12.2013

Oil bill to wait until 2015

The first drafts of Gabon’s new oil and gas code [...]

Subscribers only Energy 31.12.2013

Denis Chatelan

Denis Chatelan, managing director of Perenco in Gabon, has come [...]

Subscribers only Energy 31.12.2013

MADELEINE BERRE (CPG)

Madeleine Berre, 46, the director of the Gabonese subsidiary of [...]

Subscribers only Business 31.12.2013

Who holds the purse-strings?

The government's inability to satisfy wage claims by teachers reflects the fact that only the president is in charge of Gabon's finances.

Subscribers only Politics 11.12.2013

Jean-Felix Obamba

Former deputy managing director of Perenco in Gabon, Jean-Felix Obamba, seems a force to be reckoned with in the local [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.12.2013

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Ndong Sima, between rock and a hard place

Always busy with his international agenda, President Ali Bongo has stepped back from national politics and his long-suffering prime minister Raymond Ndong Sima has had to take up the slack. Bongo's distancing himself has triggered a power-struggle between the head [.

Subscribers only Politics 27.11.2013

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Gabon

Total & ENI on the offensive

Work slow to take off on Obangue

Manganese: Comilog no longer alone

Bechtel holds all the infrastructure cards

Bongo places favorites in top government posts

Spotlight
New generation elbows out elders

Heenan Blaikie advises Gabon

Spotlight
Ngoubou gets the better of Addax

A well-connected Swiss firm

Alex Stewart to wind up work

Spotlight
China keen on tripartite cooperation

Patrick de Saint-Simon

Franceville: Indians talking to Setrag

Final straight for the new legislation

Ali Bongo chooses mayor

The firms denied in deep offshore

Oil bill to wait until 2015

Denis Chatelan

MADELEINE BERRE (CPG)

Who holds the purse-strings?

Jean-Felix Obamba

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Ndong Sima, between rock and a hard place

Economie Plus Gabon in crisis

Siat's plantation labour woes in Libreville

Etienne Ngoubou

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Gabon

Total & ENI on the offensive

Work slow to take off on Obangue

Manganese: Comilog no longer alone

Bechtel holds all the infrastructure cards

Bongo places favorites in top government posts

Spotlight New generation elbows out elders

Heenan Blaikie advises Gabon

Spotlight Ngoubou gets the better of Addax

A well-connected Swiss firm

Alex Stewart to wind up work

Spotlight China keen on tripartite cooperation

Patrick de Saint-Simon

Franceville: Indians talking to Setrag

Final straight for the new legislation

Ali Bongo chooses mayor

The firms denied in deep offshore

Oil bill to wait until 2015

Denis Chatelan

MADELEINE BERRE (CPG)

Who holds the purse-strings?

Jean-Felix Obamba

Spotlight Ndong Sima, between rock and a hard place

Economie Plus Gabon in crisis

Siat's plantation labour woes in Libreville

Etienne Ngoubou

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New generation elbows out elders

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Ngoubou gets the better of Addax

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China keen on tripartite cooperation

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Ndong Sima, between rock and a hard place