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Daukoru Seeks to Soothe EU

Nigerian oil minister Edmund Daukoru called in 21 ambassadors from European Union countries on Sept. 26 to outline his country’s [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.10.2006

Newcomers Shunned at Brass LNG

Despite efforts by Nigeria’s Department of Petroleum Resources to bring ONGC Mittal and then Centrica and BG into the Brass [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.10.2006

Licenses Revoked?

In the run-up to a licensing round it plans to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.10.2006

Uche Igwe

The civil society liaison officer of the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI), Uche Igwe, has reiterated his call for [...]

Subscribers only Mining 26.09.2006

Spotlight
The First Gas-Backed Loans?

The development frenzy in Nigeria's gas industry at the moment presents a number of risks - operational, political and commercial - as well as a huge question mark, who is going to finance the government's share? The main shareholder in [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.09.2006

Campaign and Corruption

With less than eight months to go before the first round of Nigeria’s presidential election, incumbent president Olusegun Obasanjo and [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.09.2006

Centrica & BG Replace Mittal

After a six month battle, France’s Total managed last month to acquire Chevron’s stake in the Brass LNG project. But [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.09.2006

Chevron Pledges to Build Plant

In the wake of Total, Agip and RoyalDutch/Shell, Chevron will build a gas-fired power plant.

Subscribers only Energy 19.09.2006

Cosmas Niagwam

The chair of Nigeria’s Senate Committee on Solid Minerals Development, Cosmas Niagwam, has been asked by mines minister Leslye Obiora [...]

Subscribers only Mining 12.09.2006

Sinopec

Sinopec, the China National Petroleum Corp, has won a tender [...]

Subscribers only Mining 12.09.2006

Elections Next April

The date for next year’s presidential election has been officially set for April 21, 2007 by Nigeria’s independent electoral commission. [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.09.2006

Now a Maritime Boundary...

The joint Cameroon-Nigeria committee is to meet in Yaounde on Sept. 6-7 in an effort to reach agreement on a [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.09.2006

Bonanza for Security Firms

Attacks on oil rigs and kidnappings in the Delta appear to offer ever-bigger opportunities to private western security firms.

Subscribers only Energy 05.09.2006

Afren Execs in Gas Deal

Several executives of the British junior are partners in a new firm that wants to mount an LNG project in Nigeria.

Subscribers only Energy 05.09.2006

Striking Deals with Oil Groups

Nigeria’s Shoreline power company has joined ranks with Petrodel with the intention of submitting joint bids in a forthcoming oil licensing round.

Subscribers only Energy 05.09.2006

Budget Veto for ONGC Mittal

Owner of the Nigerian concessions OPL 209 and OPL 285, the joint venture between Indian’s state-owned oil company ONGC and [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.09.2006

Joshua Gana

The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has just awarded operating licenses to four independent electricity companies: Farm Electric Supply, ICS [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.09.2006

Ado Yakubu Wanka

A Nigerian banker, Ado Yakuba Wanka, who sits on the board of First Bank of Nigeria, has replaced Carlos Gomes [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.09.2006

Centrica Has Big Plans Up Sleeve

Beaten out by Total in the race for Chevron’s stake [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.09.2006

Spotlight
Lobbyists Battle over Alscon in Washington

A new twist has taken place in the privatization of the Nigerian aluminum refinery Alscon. The BFI Group Divino Corporation, a U.S-Nigerian consortium which lost out to Ruski Alumini (RusAl) in a competition to acquire 77.

Subscribers only Mining 29.08.2006

Probe into NLNG Widens

The United Kingdom has followed on the heels of the Securities & Exchange Commission and the French, Swiss and American [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.08.2006

Wilbros Reaches Settlement

A year after revealing that the former boss of its international department, James Tillery, may have paid bribes to Nigerian [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.08.2006

Osman Shahenshah

The financial director of Afren, the British junior active in Nigeria, Congo-Brazzaville and Sao Tome, Osman Shahenshaw has joined the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.08.2006

Jeffrey Auld

After operating for two years, Equator Exploration, a firm active in Nigeria and Sao Tome, has finally gotten around to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.08.2006

Delay on OK LNG

Early this month the OK LNG consortium signed a memorandum [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.08.2006

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