Gabon
Total and Tullow flounder, Shell cautious at Mboumba meetings
When in Cape Town for the Africa Oil Week, the now former minister met with the oil firms to take stock of their activities in Gabon and get a feel for their interest in his licencing round. Here's what they had to say to each other. Mboumba was ousted on December 2 to make room for the former director general of hydrocarbons Vincent de Paul Massassa to take the role.