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Hard slog ahead for Total's new chief in Abuja

Although Total’s new boss in Abuja, Nicolas Terraz, has worked for the group for years - he started in 2001 [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.09.2015

New race for governorship of oil-rich Bayelsa state

Who’s likely to become governor of the oil-rich Bayelsa state [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.09.2015

Boko Haram intelligence-sharing

On September 14-16, a few days before Nigerian leader Muhammadu [...]

Subscribers only Politics 16.09.2015

Buhari scuttles Pipeline and Products Marketing Co by splitting it up

Even before Esther Nnamdi Ogbue was named new boss of the Pipeline and Products Marketing Co (PPMC, see AEI 752), [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.09.2015

Once an ally, Offor turns into a liability for Addax

A multi-billion dollar, last minute agreement under the previous government could cause serious trouble for China’s Addax. Here’s why.

Subscribers only Energy 15.09.2015

A spotlight on Buhari's oil talks in Paris

Business and security are to play a cardinal role in the official visit of Nigeria's new president, Muhammadu Buhari, to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.09.2015

Maurel & Prom gets a boost from MPI takeover

In acquiring the Nigerian firm MPI, Maurel & Prom has improved its financial posture and extended its operational potential.

Subscribers only Energy 15.09.2015

Stripped of swap contracts, Sahara Group needs fresh cash

In order to acquire new acreage in Nigeria and boost its production, Sahara Group plans to list on the London [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.09.2015

Paul Boroh, Buhari's new point man in the Niger Delta

Leaving his post when former Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan was defeated in late May, Kingsley Kuku, his adviser on the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.09.2015

Elisabeth Proust waves goodbye

The head of Total E&P Nigeria, Elisabeth Proust, was due [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.09.2015

Soldiers to step in for ex-militants in guarding pipelines

Nigeria’s new president, Muhammadu Buhari, is going to get the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.09.2015

Buhari wraps up funding of Azura-Edo

The government of Nigeria’s new president, Muhammadu Buhari, has put [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.09.2015

Spotlight
Bollore's rail deal stranded on platform

Although it has been loudly trumpeted in media in the region as the infrastructure project of the century, the West African rail loop being promoted by Vincent Bollore is as uncertain as it is litigious.

Subscribers only Politics 02.09.2015

Spotlight
Fresh team raring to go on the oil front

President Muhammadu Buhari’s first oil industry appointments in August targeted the management of NNPC and they ought to delight oil companies which had been waiting impatiently for changes at the top. The new executives, picked with their regional origins carefully [.

Subscribers only Energy 01.09.2015

Winners and losers in NNPC swap deals

In step with one of the priorities of Nigeria’s president Muhammadu Buhari, contracts that had allowed for cargoes of crude [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.09.2015

Petroci wins Corley under the noses of Vivo and Total

After a long fight, Ivory Coast’s state-owned Petroci looks set to win the Corlay Group’s assets in the country. And [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.09.2015

Seven Energy pulls out all the stops

Nigeria’s Seven Energy has shifted into higher gear to position itself as leader on the gas market - and thus in electricity - in Nigeria.

Subscribers only Energy 28.07.2015

Total disavows Elisabeth Proust and team

Head of the French major Total's operation in Nigeria since 2014 - she replaced Guy Maurice who became chief of [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.07.2015

Ziakede Akpobolokemi, a new Ijaw fired by Buhari

Members of the Ijaw ethnic community who were appointed under president Goodluck Jonathan (himself a member of the community based [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.07.2015

MEND’s leaders turn up heat on Buhari

The cancellation of maritime security contracts since Muhammadu Buhari came [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.07.2015

Ballard sets up his own Africarail company

In highly discreet fashion, the firm Africa Rail Innovation was [...]

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Mining 21.07.2015

Federation of Chambers of Mines on the cards

ECOWAS has just put the finishing touch to a statement [...]

Subscribers only Mining 21.07.2015

Buhari puts swap contracts and NNPC under microscope

The new Nigerian president doesn’t trust the audit reports issued by the previous government and wants everybody to know it.

Subscribers only Energy 14.07.2015

Adesola Oyinlola puts his address book at Lekoil's disposal

When the Nigerian explorer Lekoil starts producing on the Otakikpo marginal field, on which it holds a 40% interest in [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.07.2015

World Bank gives push to Abuja’s transmission capacity

The World Bank is poised to lend $350 million to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.07.2015

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