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Sao Tome and Principe

The Big Offshore Bluff

Conflicting information concerning reserves has made it particularly difficult to re-negotiate contracts Sao Tome e Principe signed with ExxonMobil, PGS, Chrome and Nigeria.

Subscribers only Energy 04.02.2003

Petro Airlines (part three)

Airlines are continuing to line up to serve the new oil-producing countries in the Gulf of Guinea.

Subscribers only Energy 21.01.2003

Bid to End Stalemate with Abuja

Contacts between Nigeria and Sao Tome shifted into higher gear at the end of 2002 as the two worked to clear the way for a bidding round this year in the Joint Development zone (JDZ) they share.

Subscribers only Energy 07.01.2003

Compromise with Parliament

A squabble between the Sao Tome parliament and president Fradrique Menezes late last year over a bill to revise the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.01.2003

Chill in U.S. Relations ?

Although they were invited to take part in the West Africa Oil & Gas Forum organized two weeks ago in [...]

Subscribers only Energy 04.12.2002

Abdourahmane N’Dir

A Senegalese national, Abdourahmane N’Dir, will succeed his countryman Babacar Gueye as head of the Societe de Gestion de Manantali [...]

Subscribers only Energy 04.12.2002

Parliament Snubs President

By a vote of 55 to 51, Sao Tome's parliament last week approved a plan to revise the constitution to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.11.2002

William Brambaugh

A director of Mobil Angola from 1990 until his company merged with Exxon, William Brambaugh has become ExxonMobil's leading adviser [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.11.2002

Secret Bargaining with Nigeria

Talks got underway early this month between Sao Tome and Nigeria on resolving the share-out of oil resources between the two countries. But Sao Tome is constantly upping the ante.

Subscribers only Energy 19.11.2002

Setting Up Shop in Sao Tome

The Portuguese law firm Miranda, Correia, Amendoeira & Associados, which [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.11.2002

Spotlight
Menezes' Advisers and Friends

In his standoff with Nigeria concerning the share-out of revenue from their joint offshore acreage, Sao Tome president Fradrique Menezes could appear isolated in the face of Nigeria's powerful oil circles. But after tearing up the treaty that linked the [.

Subscribers only Energy 05.11.2002

Uncertainty Over Bidding Round

Sao Tome's new government wants to cancel a bidding round in the Joint Development Zone with Nigeria in the hope of obtaining better terms.

Subscribers only Energy 22.10.2002

Who'll Manage the Oil Money

Sao Tome's president and its prime minister clashed last week over the issue of who is to control future oil resources.

Subscribers only Energy 08.10.2002

Maria das Neves

Sao Tome e Principe's new prime minister, 44-year-old Marie das Neves, has long-standing ties with the United States, as does [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.10.2002

$28 million for PGS

The Norwegian oil services group PGS has earned nearly $28 [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.10.2002

Joint Development Authority First Licensing Round

CWC Associates is organizing the launch of a bidding round [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.10.2002

Tender Set for Oct. 21

The Joint Development Authority (JDA) that manages the Joint Development [...]

Subscribers only Energy 24.09.2002

Who Will Build WAGP?

Last month's agreement concerning the economic aspects of the West African Gas Pipeline project has sounded the opening shot in the fight for construction contracts.

Subscribers only Energy 10.09.2002

Petrobras Eyes Big Outlay

Over the next four years, Brazil's Petrobras plans to invest nearly $1.5 billion in developing its concessions in Nigeria, Equatorial [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.09.2002

Managing WAGP

Pre-qualification of equipment and oil services suppliers for the construction [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.09.2002

Parameters for WAGP

The timetable and corporate structure of the West African Gas Pipeline (WAGP) were fixed this summer. Nations on the pipeline's route won a few concessions.

Subscribers only Energy 27.08.2002

Eskom Draws Fire

Ministers from member countries of the Organisation pour la Mise en Valeur du Fleuve Senegal (OMVS) spent their entire meeting [...]

Subscribers only Energy 23.07.2002

Chrome Energy Case Settled

The arbitration proceeding that pitted the American-Nigerian firm Chrome Energy against the Sao Tome government has wound up in London just two months before a call to bids is to be issued.

Subscribers only Energy 23.07.2002

IFC's Plans for Gulf of Guinea Oil Projects

The International Finance Corp., private investment arm of the World Bank, is thinking of financing new energy projects in Africa [...]

Subscribers only Energy 09.07.2002

ChevronTexaco Moves into Position

Caught napping by ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillipps and Anadarko which sponsored president [...]

Subscribers only Energy 09.07.2002

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The Big Offshore Bluff

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Bid to End Stalemate with Abuja

Compromise with Parliament

Chill in U.S. Relations ?

Abdourahmane N’Dir

Parliament Snubs President

William Brambaugh

Secret Bargaining with Nigeria

Setting Up Shop in Sao Tome

Spotlight Menezes' Advisers and Friends

Uncertainty Over Bidding Round

Who'll Manage the Oil Money

Maria das Neves

$28 million for PGS

Joint Development Authority First Licensing Round

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Petrobras Eyes Big Outlay

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Eskom Draws Fire

Chrome Energy Case Settled

IFC's Plans for Gulf of Guinea Oil Projects

ChevronTexaco Moves into Position

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About Africa Intelligence

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DRC
The Tshisekedi clan's dangerous ties with cobalt looting "cartels"

Gabon
Gunvor secrets (2/2): the hidden clauses of the Assala Energy buyout

Spotlight
Menezes' Advisers and Friends