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DRC
New Blocks Carved Out

Lakes Tanganyika and Upemba are to shortly be divided into several blocks that the government will put up for sale.

Free access Energy 09.12.2008

DRC
Are South African Financiers Losing Faith?

South African experts mandated by the Industrial Development Corp (IDC) and the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) are to [...]

Subscribers only Mining 02.12.2008

Central African Republic
Saif Durbar

Still very active in mining in the Central African Republic, this businessman of Pakistani origin who is close to the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 02.12.2008

DRC
Activity Collapses in Katanga

According to the most recent estimates from the Katanga ministry [...]

Subscribers only Mining 02.12.2008

DRC
H Oil Moves Westwards

Africa Energy Intelligence has learned that H Oil, a firm owned by Jacques Hachuel and his son Alvaro, is currently [...]

Subscribers only Energy 25.11.2008

Chad
Breaking Ground for Refinery

The China National Petroleum Corporation is building a refinery at Zinder in Niger but also to the north of N’Djamena.

Subscribers only Energy 25.11.2008

Sao Tome and Principe
Cristina M. Fernandes Dias

On Nov. 11, Cristina Maria Fernandes Dias was appointed energy and mines minister in Sao Tome y Principe’s government. She [...]

Subscribers only Energy 25.11.2008

DRC
New Approach in Ituri?

Congo-K’s new oil minister, Rene Isekemanga Nkeka, met with the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 25.11.2008

Congo | Brazzaville
Contract for Bouygues in Congo-B

The electricity and maintenance affiliate of France's Bouygues Construction, ETDE, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 25.11.2008

DRC
Poyry Environment

The Czech consultancy Poyry Environment has just completed a pre-feasibility [...]

Subscribers only Energy 25.11.2008

DRC
Dubai Undercuts Antwerp in Diamonds

Things are not going well in Antwerp, the European capital of diamond trading. Exports of rough diamonds from Congo to [...]

Free access Mining 18.11.2008

Cameroon
GDF-Suez Looks at LNG Project

Africa Energy Intelligence understands that Philippe Olivier, president and executive director of France’s GDF-Suez Global LNG firm, and Adolph Moudiki, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 11.11.2008

Sao Tome and Principe
Joaquim Rafael Branco

The prime minister of Sao Tome y Principe, Joaquim Rafael Branco, will stand in as acting energy minister following the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 11.11.2008

Cameroon
Crackdown on Smuggling

The smuggling of refined oil products between Nigeria and Cameroon [...]

Subscribers only Energy 11.11.2008

Cameroon, Nigeria
News Blackout on Hostages

Oil companies have been left largely in the dark ever [...]

Subscribers only Energy 11.11.2008

Chad
An Inquest on Doba

The World Bank last month organized a discreet seminar on [...]

Subscribers only Energy 11.11.2008

Chad | N’Djamena
Jing Wen

Jing Wen, assistant managing director of the Chinese Petroleum Company [...]

Subscribers only Energy 11.11.2008

DRC | DIAMONDS
Strike Halts MIBA Production

Miniere de Bakwanga (MIBA), the national diamond company in the DRC, once again stopped activity on October 20. The employees, [...]

Subscribers only Mining 04.11.2008

Congo
MagMinerals Reassured by its Financiers

MagMinerals Potash Corp recently updated its financial advisor BNP Paribas and the main banks and export credit agencies, such as [...]

Subscribers only Mining 04.11.2008

DRC | Kinshasa
Renegotiation on Tenke Fungurume Blocked

The renegotiation of partnership contracts between Congolese semi-state-owned companies and [...]

Subscribers only Mining 04.11.2008

DRC
Gertler Looking for Partners

The only company to own a license in the future "joint development zone" between Angola and Congo south of Chevron’s [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.10.2008

Cameroon
Kribi Advances Little by Little

The first construction contracts for the Kribi power plant have been awarded but the project is still on stand-by while waiting for concrete proposals from donors.

Subscribers only Energy 28.10.2008

DRC
Rene Isekemanga Nkeka

Rene Isekemanga Nkeka was appointed new oil minister of Democratic Republic of Congo on Oct. 27. He will replace Lambert [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.10.2008

Sao Tome and Principe
Carlos Fernandes Marques

On Oct. 17, Carlos Fernandes Marques replaced Agostinho Rita as energy, natural resources and environment minister. Marques had previously been [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.10.2008

Congo
Amani Group

According to our sources, the U.S. Amani Group lobbying concern [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.10.2008

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