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Addax Picks Chrome as Partner

Switzerland’s Addax Petroleum has teamed up with a Nigerian partner, Chrome, and a South Korean group to develop the OML 137 gas field.

Subscribers only Energy 02.09.2008

France Spies Opportunities

Nigerian foreign minister Ojo Maduekwe received Matthieu Louvot, a technical adviser to French president Nicolas Sarkozy, in Abuja on Aug. [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.09.2008

Arbitrage on Block 4

A London arbitration panel has awarded an additional 7.2% to Addax on block 4 in the Joint Development Zone (JDZ) between Nigeria and Sao Tome.

Subscribers only Energy 29.07.2008

Bonga Audit Apparently Scrapped

Matters are straightening out between Shell and Nigeria. The first sign: the NNPC has apparently dropped its idea of auditing the development costs of the Bonga field.

Free access Energy 29.07.2008

Suntera in Tie with Gazprom

The Indian-Russian group Suntera, a joint venture between India’s Sun Group and the Russian gas trader Itera, is continuing to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.07.2008

Hycienth Nyakuma

While heading a delegation of around 30 members of Parliament visiting Zambia, the Nigerian deputy Hycienth Nyakuma called for traditional [...]

Subscribers only Mining 22.07.2008

Spotlight
Nigerian Traders Seek New Vistas

Long confined to trading in crude and in oil products in their country, Nigeria’s traders are flush in cash and intent on building up their business throughout the African continent and indeed in Europe. Some have reached the point of [.

Subscribers only Energy 15.07.2008

Mittal Under Fire in Abuja

After recommending that several concessions be cancelled, the panel investigating licensing rounds during Olusegun Obasanjo’s presidency is now expected to turn its gun-sights on Mittal Investment.

Free access Energy 15.07.2008

Fresh Delay for WAGP

Initially set for January of this year and then put back to May, the inauguration of the West African Gas Pipeline (WAGP) isn’t expected to take place until September.

Subscribers only Energy 15.07.2008

Brown Fuels Uproar in Delta

When the G8 summit in Japan wound up on July [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.07.2008

Flex LNG Raises USD 350 Mn

A builder of floating gas liquefaction units, Norway’s Flex LNG [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.07.2008

Spotlight
Will the last in be the first out?

After calling for several investigations into one case or another, the Yar’Adua government has kicked off an inquiry into all petroleum permits awarded by the previous Obasanjo regime in licensing rounds in 2005, 2006 and 2007.

Subscribers only Energy 01.07.2008

Privatizing Security in Delta

After an attack on a rig on the Bonga field, a former adviser to Olusegun Obasanhjo has once again suggested hiring private security companies in the Niger Delta.

Subscribers only Energy 01.07.2008

Shares for States in OK LNG?

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation is seeking to bring two states into BG’s project for a liquefaction plant at Okola, to the irritation of the operators.

Subscribers only Energy 01.07.2008

Presidential Encounter

Nigerian president Umaru Yar’Adua is scheduled to soon meet with [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.07.2008

Frontier Oil Sets Record Straight

In response to our article "The Shell Connection" (AEI 465), [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.07.2008

Private Power Station for Niger State

The firm Transatlantic Investment and Development Company headed by Chima [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.07.2008

Ibrahim Garba

The Managing Director of Nigeria’s Mining Cadastre Office has been relieved of his functions. Ibrahim Garba, who was on attachment [...]

Subscribers only Mining 24.06.2008

Centrica Endorses Akwa Ibom

In conjunction with Norway’s StatoilHydro and the Greek concern Consolidated Contractors International Co (CCC), the British gas group Centrica signed [...]

Subscribers only Energy 17.06.2008

Floating LNG Plant on Bilabri

Peak Petroleum has teamed up with Mitsubishi after trying to develop its Bilabri gas field with Equator.

Subscribers only Energy 17.06.2008

DPR

The director of the Nigeria's Department of Petroleum Resources, Tony [...]

Subscribers only Energy 17.06.2008

Call for Bids to Maintain Power Plant

Shell has just issued an invitation to tender for a [...]

Subscribers only Energy 17.06.2008

Chief Ado Ibrahim’s Iron Ore Deal

Chief Ado Ibrahim, the traditional chief of the state of Kogi in Nigeria, who graduated from the Camborne School of [...]

Subscribers only Mining 10.06.2008

Zhao Shouhe

The managing director of China’s Mining Investment Co spent time in Abuja in late May to look into development opportunities [...]

Subscribers only Mining 10.06.2008

Bank of Africa

A private bank present throughout all of West Africa, where [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.06.2008

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