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Nigeria

French banks sound warning bell

Worried over the capacity of the Pipeline & Product Marketing Co to pay its huge bills, French banks are privately talking of declaring it in default.

Subscribers only Energy 29.11.2011

Amnesty Widens

Nearly 250 former rebels from the Niger Delta (247, to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.11.2011

New cash sought for Satellite

Officials from the Nigeria National Petroleum Corp (NNPC) dropped in [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.11.2011

Traders square off with Abuja

The federal government’s determination to do away with subsidies in refined productions is being fought tooth and nail by several powerful local players.

Subscribers only Energy 15.11.2011

Seplat negotiates loan

In a prospectus prior to its flotation on NYSE Euronext, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.11.2011

Jagal Ventures

Having bought the former oil services company NigerDock in 2003, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.11.2011

Leaders mull four-nation railway scheme

A plan for a railway running between Cotonou, Niamey, Ouagadougou and Abidjan has been concentrating minds among leaders in the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 08.11.2011

Concordia turns to Vallee Poussin for top job

Active up to now in North and South America, Concordia Resources Corp has turned its attention to Africa by acquiring [...]

Subscribers only Mining 08.11.2011

Oriental to sell Ebok & Okwok

Africa Energy Intelligence understands that Oriental has retained Bank of China, a private Asian establishment, to find a buyer for [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.11.2011

Who is Heritage’s partner?

Anxious to buy Shell’s stake on OML 30 (AEI 661), [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.11.2011

A long wait for Kulczyk

Six months after putting in the winning bid when Shell [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.11.2011

Spotlight
How Abuja buys peace in the Delta

The amnesty that late president Umaru Yar'Adua offered in 2009 to militants from the Niger Delta marked its second anniversary on Oct. 4. And the results are there for all to see in the oil region: production climbed back to [.

Subscribers only Energy 18.10.2011

Conoil out, Heritage in

Heritage is trying its luck on OML 30 in the hope of capitalizing on the withdrawal of Conoil's bid for the block. But the process involving the sale of Shell's acreage in the Delta remains highly confused.

Free access Energy 18.10.2011

NNPC

It’s become a ritual whenever a new Nigerian president takes [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.10.2011

Dele Adesina & Co.

With state-owned NNPC refusing to approve the sale of Malabu [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.10.2011

Barnaby Briggs

Barnaby Briggs,Shell’s director for strategic relations, attended the Niger Delta [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.10.2011

Ambassador Chijioke Wigwe back in Nairobi

The Nigerian Ambassador to Kenya, Chijioke Wilcox Wigwe, who was recalled to his country last May after savagely beating his [...]

Subscribers only 14.10.2011

First Reserve on buying spree

A stakeholder in Glencore and CHC Helicopters, the huge oil investment fund First Reserve Corp now has a company specializing [...]