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Sao Tome and Principe
Nigeria's Growing Grip on Offshore

A company that will control future receipts from Sao Tome e Principe's offshore belongs to businessmen close to Nigeria's president.

Subscribers only Energy 29.01.2002

Chad
Inquiry into IPP Project

The World Bank has called for an inquiry into an agreement between IECI and Chad concerning the construction of a [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.01.2002

Congo
General Electric in Power Project?

A consortium made up of Agip, Chevron and the U.S. group General Electric has reportedly taken in hand a project that ABB/Spie initiated for a 50 MW gas-fuelled power station.

Subscribers only Energy 29.01.2002

DRC
World Bank Sets its Conditions

Africa Mining Intelligence understands that a $25 million World Bank loan to Gecamines which Congo-K's deputy mines minister Ambroise Mbaka [...]

Subscribers only Mining 22.01.2002

Spotlight | Document | Cameroon, Nigeria
Nigeria & Cameroon in Oil Showdown

Accompanied by a flock of lawyers, Nigeria and Cameroon will shortly appear before the International Court of Justice in The Hague to seek a ruling in their long-standing border dispute. Africa Energy Intelligence can reveal the timetable for the hearings [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.01.2002

Congo
Warning to TotalFinaElf

A 30-year sentence handed down in absentia against former president Pascal Lissouba in Brazzaville on Dec. 28 for swindling public [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.01.2002

Central Africa
Lake Chad’s Oil Secrets (Part 2)

Among firms jockeying for position around Lake Chad, the U.S. concern RSM Production could well be the first to drill.

Subscribers only Energy 15.01.2002

Burundi
Chester Crocker, Oil Agent

Former U.S. assistant secretary of state for African Americans Chester Crocker is endeavoring to promote oil exploration around Lake Tanganyika.

Subscribers only Energy 15.01.2002

DRC
SNEL Lands Belgian Loan

Alphonse Myumba, head of the temporary management panel at Societe [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.01.2002

Gabon | ROYALDUTCH/SHELL
Discovery in Gabon

Anxious to encourage exploration in Gabon, the country’s oil minister, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.01.2002

Burundi
Hitimana Aims for Lower Interest Rates

Burundi’s new mines minister, Mathias Hitimana, will join forces with Banque de la Republique du Burundi (BRB) to propose a [...]

Subscribers only Mining 08.01.2002

DRC
Agreement to Hand Out Banro’s Assets

Canada’s Banro Corporation which was stripped of its cassiterite concessions [...]

Subscribers only Mining 08.01.2002

Sao Tome and Principe
The Nigerian Imbrolio

The new president of Sao Tome e Principe, Fradrique de Menezes, has been working since his election in September to wriggle out of a contract signed by his predecessor with the American group ERHC.

Subscribers only Energy 02.01.2002

Cameroon, Nigeria
Tim Daniel

The Nigerian government has chosen Tim Daniel from the London law firm DJ Freeman to represent its interests in a [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.01.2002

Chad
World Bank Forgives and Forgets with $40 Million Loan

The World Bank has been making a lot of friendly [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.01.2002

Congo
Warning to TotalFinaElf

A 30-year prison sentence against former Congo-B president Pascal Lissouoba [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.01.2002

Spotlight | Chad
Lake Chad’s Oil Secrets

Even as the development of the Doba fields looks like being delayed by an inquiry by the World Bank’s Inspection Panel oil companies are displaying an interest in two other areas in the region.

Subscribers only Energy 11.12.2001

Congo
Inquiry into Oil Taxes

Why are taxes on oil cheaper in Congo-Brazzaville than among its West African neighbors? The question is intriguing and the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 11.12.2001

Congo | SASOL
Goodbye Congo-B

According to Africa Energy Intelligence sources in Johannesburg, Sasol Petroleum International is seeking to sell its assets in Congo-Brazzaville in [...]

Subscribers only Energy 11.12.2001

DRC
Belgium Ready to Renovate Three Power Stations

On Dec. 7 the Belgian government endorsed a project to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 11.12.2001

DRC
Will Oryx Take UN to Court?

The British Broadcasting Corporation had to officially present its excuses to Oryx Natural Resources for falsely claiming during one of [...]

Subscribers only Mining 04.12.2001

Belgium, DRC
Georges Forrest

The former head of Gecamines’ board – he was suspended in early August, and boss of Entreprises Generales Malta-Forrest, Georges [...]

Subscribers only Mining 04.12.2001

Congo
Creditors Bang on Elf’s Door

The agreement that TotalFinaElf boss Thierry Desmarest signed with a lot of fanfare last month to re-schedule Congo-B’s debt guaranteed [...]

Subscribers only Energy 27.11.2001

Congo | SNPC
Delicate Balancing Act

Founded in 1998 to market Congo-Brazzaville’s oil production -- it currently sells 30,000 bpd worth $200 million, or a third [...]

Subscribers only Energy 27.11.2001

Congo | eni
Discovery in Congo-B

Agip Congo, an affiliate of ENI, has already reaped a [...]

Subscribers only Energy 27.11.2001

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