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End Game on block OML 30

Heritage Oil is taking advantage of its new-found financial firepower to make a bid for Shell’s stake on OML 30. But some details of the transaction have yet to be settled.

Free access Energy 27.03.2012

NNPC comes under pressure

According to Nigerian lawmaker Farouk Lawan, a report he wrote [...]

Subscribers only Energy 27.03.2012

Iron projects looking for investors

Nigeria's mining sector still looks a long way from taking [...]

Subscribers only Mining 20.03.2012

Spotlight
OPL245: What lay behind $1.3 billion deal

None of the parties involved in last year's acquisition by Shell and ENI of OPL 245 previously controlled by Malabu Oil & Gas headed by Dan Etete has said the least word in public about the deal. It was one [...]

Subscribers only Energy 13.03.2012

Private auction for local firms

Although an auction for marginal fields hasn’t yet begun, Nigerian companies are already jockeying to reserve the best blocks for [...]

Subscribers only Energy 13.03.2012

$600 million in guarantees

At the end of this month the World Bank will increase from $400 million to $600 million its guarantee on [...]

Subscribers only Energy 13.03.2012

Usan is first clean gas project

France’s Total won’t be flaring a cubic meter of gas on its new FPSO in Nigeria’s deep offshore. That’s far from being the case of other projects under development.

Subscribers only Energy 13.03.2012

Bruce Burrows

With only a few months to go before it starts a three-well drilling campaign in Ivory Coast, Australia's Rialto Energy [...]

Subscribers only Energy 13.03.2012

NNPC

The parliamentary panel that has been investigating oil product subsidies [...]

Subscribers only Energy 13.03.2012

More cash for Delta

Pressure by governors from northern Nigeria for a change in [...]

Subscribers only Energy 13.03.2012

No rebates for Shell acreage

Although they weren’t given the role of operators on OML [...]

Subscribers only Energy 13.03.2012

Eleda Capital Partner

Emeka Obi, one of the two middle-men involved in the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 13.03.2012

Bucy & Associates

A "business diplomacy" firm founded in 2009 by Nicolas Bourillon [...]

Subscribers only Energy 13.03.2012

Yenagoa
Timi Alaibe

Timi Alaibe, former special adviser to Nigeria's president on the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 13.03.2012

SEMS Exploration Services in expansion drive

The mining services company SEMS Exploration Services which is active in Ghana, Burkina Faso, Mauritania and Ivory Coast and headed [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.03.2012

Sultan Corp now named Balarama Resources

Holding dual Australian and Polish citizenship, Derek Lenartowicz, boss of [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.03.2012

Spotlight
Elections: Sub-Saharan winter drags on

While the Arab Spring may have raised the hopes of young people in Sub-Saharan Africa, on the whole rulers have managed to avoid regime changes and often made no attempt at transparency during the recent elections across the region.

Subscribers only Politics 29.02.2012

EIB sees TSGP projects as crucial

Unlike the European Commission, which appears put off by the security risks (AEI 669). the European Investment Bank looks to be very much in favor of the trans-Saharan pipeline scheme.

Subscribers only Energy 28.02.2012

Babs Omotowa

The new managing director of Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG), Babs Omotowa, is a seasoned veteran of Shell. Up to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.02.2012

North covets offshore

The governor of the Nigerian state of Niger in the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.02.2012

WAGP still stumbling

Deliveries by the West African Gas Pipeline (WAGP) that carries [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.02.2012

Where the millions flew

The cash laid out by Shell and Agip to buy [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.02.2012

Eland in fund-raising drive

Having finalized the acquisition of the stakes of Shell, Total [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.02.2012

McGuire Woods

The London outpost of the American law firm McGuire Woods [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.02.2012

Abuja
Ian Craig

Ian Craig,Shell’s vice president for Africa, has reported the full [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.02.2012

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