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Nigeria

Turning Up Heat on Companies

Irritated over what it sees as foot-dragging by oil companies to invest in local gas projects, Nigeria’s presidential office has [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.10.2008

NNPC

During a visit to Borno state in north-east Nigeria on [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.10.2008

New Oil Fund

Despite the crisis, the managers of a Nigerian fund which [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.10.2008

Partial Privatisation of Mining Sector

In order to reap more economic value from Nigeria’s mineral [...]

Subscribers only Mining 21.10.2008

BG Under Magnifying Glass

Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is showing a keen interest in agreements between BG and two Nigerian partners.

Subscribers only Energy 14.10.2008

France In Fresh Drive

France is sending out senior political figures to drum up business in Nigeria's power sector. After the French president's technical [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.10.2008

New License Awarded

In early October, the Nigerian concern Notor Energy was awarded [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.10.2008

Herbert Smith

The law firm advised the Nigerian trader MRS and the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.10.2008

IFC To Plough CAD 5 Million Into Riverstone Resources

The International Finance Corp, the private funding arm of the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 07.10.2008

Shell in Secret Talks

Fighting since the early 2000s with former Nigerian oil minister Dan Etete for control of OPL 245 (AEI 320/452), Shell [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.09.2008

Petroci in Downstream Play

In joining forces with a Nigerian firm to buy out Chevron’s retail network in West Africa, Petroci has greatly increased its footprint in the sub-region.

Free access Energy 30.09.2008

EDF Looking for LNG Projects

State-owned Electricite de France has emerged as a competitor to countryman GDFSuez in the African gas sector. A major purchaser [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.09.2008

The EU’s Gas Projects

After thinking for years about investing in a gas liquefaction scheme in Nigeria, the European Union is now interested in the project for a Trans Saharan gas pipeline.

Subscribers only Energy 30.09.2008

AES Founds Africa Power Co.

In late September, AES Corp set up Africa Power Co (AES APCO) to house all its assets in Africa, where [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.09.2008

Ledum Mitee

The new Niger Delta Technical Committee set up in early September by Nigerian president Umaru Yar’Adua to try to resolve [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.09.2008

Intels

Regularly under threat whenever a new government comes to power, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.09.2008

Afren Back on Acquisition Trail

Six months had passed without the British junior Afren buying up new acreage. Its investors are unaccustomed to such a [...]