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DRC Issue dated 24/10/2012

Dig Oil the president’s pet

The firm headed by Andrea Brown has succeeded in starting the first-ever exploration campaign in the huge central basin without officially winning a permit. [...] (288 words)

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Dig Oil scores a try in Cuvette basin two weeks before elections

Its forceful legal pressure looks set to pay off as the South African junior is tipped to take up permits in Joseph Kabila's last days in power. [...]

Spotlight DRC 08/05/2018

Kabila's chief of staff, Nehemie Mwilanya, puppet master of oil deals

President Joseph Kabila's chief of staff, Nehemie Mwilanya Wilondja, has been involved with all of the country's main oil files since first joining the president's office for another position 14 years ago. A behind-the-scenes look at the Comico, Caprikat and [. [...]

DRC 18/11/2014

Fresh push for negotiations on the central basin

After several years of failing to get a final go-ahead to work on the central basin (Cuvette Centrale) in the [...]

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC 17/09/2013

Sapetro teams up with Dig Oil

The Nigerian firm Sapetro doesn’t seem particularly bothered that it is fleshing out its portfolio in highly unstable country shaken by insecurity. [...]

CONGO 02/07/2013

Dig Oil tiptoes into central basin Free

Under discussion for nearly a year, South Africa's Dig Oil has landed a license in Congo-B that lies alongside its block in Central African Republic. [...]

AFRICA 04/06/2013

GEM in new high risk bet Free

Managers of the Swiss equity fund GEM who financed acquisitions by the mysterious Caprikat and Foxwhelp firms in Congo-K have invested in a new oil concern named Labat Africa. [...]

Spotlight DRC 05/03/2013

Oil sector still alarmingly adrift

A year after new bosses were appointed to Congo-K’s hydrocarbons ministry the country’s oil industry is still going nowhere. A struggle between the department’s civil servants and its chiefs has often turned to the disadvantage of the minister, Crispin Atama, [. [...]

CONGO 06/11/2012

Headway for Dig Oil in SNPC talks

The South African firm Dig Oil has penned a memorandum of understanding to debut in Brazzaville's part of the central basin. [...]

Spotlight DRC 24/07/2012

Total, Caprikat & Soco caught up in tumult

Security problems in the eastern part of Congo-K are such that some oil companies like France’s Total are seriously thinking of declaring force majeure. To that can be added the controversy over Soco International’s exploration in the Virunga national park, [. [...]

DRC 28/02/2012

Central Basin carved up again

The president’s office ordered the biggest sedimentary basin in Congo-K to be pegged out. The new blocks are far smaller than previous concessions. [...]

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