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Addax Strikes a Great Deal

Addax Petroleum has just teamed up with a well-connected Nigerian firm that acquired a promising block in Nigeria’s offshore without competitive bidding.

Subscribers only Energy 31.10.2006

Spotlight
Last Licensing Round Before Elections

Scheduled for next month, the sale of 50 onshore and offshore concessions in Nigeria has been slow in moving to the starting blocks. The delay can be partly explained by extreme political tension in the run-up to next year’s presidential [...]

Subscribers only Energy 17.10.2006

Mittal building its empire

Although it is constantly bickering with its partner ONGC, Lakshmi Mittal’s steel group has managed to quickly build up an oil portfolio in Nigeria.

Subscribers only Energy 17.10.2006

Total Cleared

A four-year investigation in Paris into Elf’s payment of a $6 million commission to Nigerian leaders by a Lebanese go-between, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 17.10.2006

FID Delay for Brass LNG

Speaking during the Seventh Annual World LNG Summit organized by [...]

Subscribers only Energy 17.10.2006

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

NNPC
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?

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. [...]