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Nigeria

Crude More Profitable than Drugs

The United Nations has compared all illicit trade in West Africa and found that the smuggling of oil is indubitably the most profitable - and most destabilizing - traffic of all.

Subscribers only Energy 21.07.2009

But Who Masterminds the Traffic?

Nigeria’s presidential staff has a list of people who back mobs in the Delta. But Abuja hesitates to publish it.

Subscribers only Energy 21.07.2009

A Ministry in the Delta

In coming weeks, the Niger Delta minister, Elder Godsday Orubebe, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 21.07.2009

Oil Law (Triple Copy)

No less than three versions of the highly controversial Petroleum [...]

Subscribers only Energy 21.07.2009

NNPC Buys Patrol Boats

To keep a close eye on the Niger Delta and Nigeria’s offshore oil zones, the Nigerian Navy needs nearly 35 [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.07.2009

China Sonangol’s Secret License

Controlled by Sonangol and China’s Beiya International Development, China Sonangol is discreetly present in Nigeria’s offshore.

Free access Energy 07.07.2009

Local Stand-ins for Westerners

The Yar’Adua government is about to issue a call for bids for nearly 60 marginal fields. A few Western oil companies are positioning themselves to win from the auction.

Subscribers only Energy 07.07.2009

EU Eager for Nigerian Gas

The European Union and Nigeria have been conducting talks in recent months on forming a partnership for construction of the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.07.2009

NNPC

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corp (NNPC) has set up a [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.07.2009

MEND Clashes with Elders

An amnesty offered by the government in June has opened [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.07.2009

Amnesty International Hits at Majors in Delta

The human rights organization Amnesty International launched a worldwide campaign [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.07.2009

New Bidding Round Imminent

Starting in November, and for the first time, Sao Tome [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.07.2009

White & Case

To get its Nigerian affiliate First Hydrocarbon Nigeria Company (see [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.07.2009

Chakib Khelil

Chakib Khelil, Algerian oil minister and his counterparts from Nigeria [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.07.2009

Chinese Bank Eyeing Up Coal Prospects

The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) is seeking to generalise its financing operations in thermal coal. After setting [...]

Free access Mining 30.06.2009

Choice of NIOMCO Auditor Expected Soon

The National Ministry of Mines and Steel Development is expected [...]

Subscribers only Mining 30.06.2009

Abuja Wields Stick and Carrot

In a bid to persuade Chevron and Shell to sell it gas for Nigeria’s power plants, the Nigerian government has won a financial guarantee from the World Bank.

Subscribers only Energy 23.06.2009

Abuja Keeps Accra Waiting

Visiting the 200 MW Sunon Asogli power station at Tema [...]

Subscribers only Energy 23.06.2009

New Bickering Over Bakassi

Meeting for the first time since Bakassi was awarded to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 23.06.2009

Shell’s Envoys

Part of the USD 15.5 million that Shell will pay [...]

Subscribers only Energy 23.06.2009

Ho Sook Wah

Ho Sook Wah, director of Permata, the trading subsidiary of [...]

Subscribers only Energy 23.06.2009

World Bank Grant for Helping Small-Scale Miners

Nigeria’s Mines and Steel Development Ministry is expecting to receive [...]

Subscribers only Mining 16.06.2009

India Subsidizes its Firms

India’s overseas development program had put up USD 500 million for power interconnections in Africa on condition they be installed by Indian groups.

Subscribers only Energy 09.06.2009

Goodworks International

Helped to establish itself in Nigeria by GoodsWorks International, a [...]

Subscribers only Energy 09.06.2009

Labode Akinosho

Labode Akinosho, the chief operating officer of the private Nigerian [...]

Subscribers only Energy 09.06.2009

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