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Nigeria

Looking at Latin America

Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo made a lengthy tour of Latin America last week, visiting Brazil and Mexico. The latter country [...]

Subscribers only Energy 13.09.2005

Spotlight
Lion's Share to Local and Asian Firms

Unveiled over the weekend, the results of a licensing round in Nigeria's offshore clearly reflect an overarching trend in oil exploration on the continent. The lion's share went to Asian groups and to local companies. The former won because, strongly [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.08.2005

Cooperating with Iran

Nigeria played host for over two weeks in August to a delegation from the Iranian defense ministry headed by Tahir [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.08.2005

NLNG Inquiry Widens

The American group CB&I has been ensnared in the inquiry into the payment of bribes by the TSKJ consortium (Kellogg [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.08.2005

New Stakeholders in Akpo

After more than a year of bargaining, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) is poised to acquire a 50% stake [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.08.2005

December Deadline for Bonuses

The firms that were awarded concessions in the Joint Development [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.08.2005

Three New Fields for NPDC

In mid-August, Chevron transferred three of its fields to the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.08.2005

Cargoes for Insiders

Despite the Obasanjo administration's promise to put an end to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.08.2005

Afren Makes its Debut

Less than a month after setting up an affiliate in [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.08.2005

Breakthrough on Bakassi?

With United Nations mediator Ahmed Ould-Abdallah acting as go-between, the Nigerian authorities last month proposed a compromise to Cameroon on [...]

Subscribers only Energy 26.07.2005

Koreans in Overdrive

Four state-owned South Korean companies have announced their participation in a call to bids issued by Nigeria in the spring. [...]

Subscribers only Energy 26.07.2005

Total in Tie with NPDC

After two years of bargaining, France's Total has finally brought the E&P affiliate of state-owned NNPC into its OPL 223 concession.

Subscribers only Energy 26.07.2005

Headway in NLNG Case

Inquiries into the payment of bribes by the TSKJ consortium (made up of Kellogg Brown & Root, Technip, Snamprogetti and [...]

Subscribers only Energy 26.07.2005

Lukoil to Bid for Refineries?

Russia's Lukoil has followed Sinopec of China and Libya's Tamoil [...]

Subscribers only Energy 26.07.2005

Bargaining for Acreage

All the companies awarded acreage in the Joint Development Zone [...]

Subscribers only Energy 26.07.2005

Helping to Find Local Partner

Several former Shell executives have set up a new company to serve as marriage-makers between Western groups and local Nigerian firms.

Subscribers only Energy 12.07.2005

Chinese Strategy

Beijing has just finalized a trading agreement with Nigeria but relations between the two remain chilly.

Subscribers only Energy 12.07.2005

Private Plant for Mabon

The Nigerian oil services company Mabon has just penned a Build Operate Transfer (BOT) contract with the Nigerian government to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.07.2005

Edmund Daukoru

Adviser to Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo for oil affairs since November, 2003, Edmund Daukoru could shortly join the government. He [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.07.2005

Licensing Round to End

Kicked off in March, a licensing round organized by Nigeria's [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.07.2005

OML 113 Moves Closer to Development

The consortium that operates OML 113 is preparing to award [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.07.2005

Big Loan for Power Sector

On July 1 the World Bank's board approved a $172 [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.07.2005

Abiola Family on OML 109

Canada's Transatlantic has just sold its assets in Nigeria to the local firm Summit Oil.

Subscribers only Energy 28.06.2005

PSA Talks to Begin

The Joint Development Authority which administers the Joint Development Zone [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.06.2005

NorthWest Africa Upstream

Global Pacific & Partners is organizing a conference in Dakar [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.06.2005

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