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West Africa

Mauritania
Vietri Stokes Mauritania Hopes

In the run-up to presidential elections in June, Max de Vietri is trying to persuade the government to set up a network of gas pipelines.

Subscribers only Energy 10.02.2009

Ghana
Secret Talks on Jubilee

With estimates of Jubilee’s reserves rising by leaps and bounds the fact that two blocks are present on the field complicates the process of developing the acreage.

Subscribers only Energy 10.02.2009

Guinea
Madison on Lookout for Projects

A partner of the Al Guhair conglomerate in the United Arab Emirates, the Canadian junior Madison Petrogas is seeking to sign a partnership pact with Guinea’s government..

Subscribers only Energy 10.02.2009

Nigeria
Year Starts Out Well for Addax

The Swiss group Addax has made new oil finds on [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.02.2009

Nigeria
Petrobras Says Akpo Start-Up is Weeks Away

Production will begin in April on the Akpo field located [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.02.2009

Benin
New Start for Seme Field?

Nigeria's South Atlantic Petroleum company owned by former defense minister [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.02.2009

Guinea
Momo Sacko

Currently legal advisor to the minister for mines and geology, Momo Sacko has been appointed chief advisor in charge of [...]

Subscribers only Mining 03.02.2009

Niger
Niamey, 24-26/02 2009

The Niger Chamber of Commerce for agriculture and industry and ITE Group are organising the second "Mining, Petroleum & Telecommunications [...]

Free access Mining 03.02.2009

Liberia
Museveni Backs Mining Ugandan Uranium

The Ugandan president, Yoweri Museveni, has called on investors to [...]

Subscribers only Mining 03.02.2009

Guinea | Conakry
Bauxite Operators Pull in Horns

RusAl group, which operates the Friguia aluminium refinery, is due [...]

Subscribers only Mining 03.02.2009

Burundi, Nigeria
A Golden Deal for Trader MGG

Leonidas Hatungimana, spokesman for Burundi’s president, told the Burundi parliament in early January that Nigeria was about to double its [...]

Subscribers only Energy 27.01.2009

Nigeria
Oando Continues Shopping Spree

With the withdrawal of companies from E&P operations beginning to make itself felt in Africa, Oando is continuing to systematically buy up acreage.

Subscribers only Energy 27.01.2009

Liberia
A Whiff of Sulphur over Oil

Instead of organizing a third licensing round, Liberia has opted to award reconnaissance licenses. The first company to step forward is a mining group specializing in sulfur.

Free access Energy 27.01.2009

Equatorial Guinea
Ophir Saves the Day

In the past several years Equatorial Guinea has been seeking gas reserves that would warrant building a second train at [...]

Subscribers only Energy 27.01.2009

Mauritania
Shell Turns Up Heat on GDF-Suez

Mauritania’s government and Shell have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore the possibility of producing gas in the country. That could spark competition between Shell and GDF Suez.

Subscribers only Energy 27.01.2009

Ivory Coast
World Bank Rescues CIE

Up until the end of 2007 the Compagnie Ivoirienne d’Electricite (CIE) supplied the north of the country without being paid. The World Bank is going to make up the shortfall.

Subscribers only Energy 27.01.2009

Nigeria
Billy Agha

In late January, Godwin Ukpaima Billy Agha was appointed director of Nigeria’s Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) that awards oil [...]

Subscribers only Energy 27.01.2009

Nigeria
Mohammed Sanusi Barkindo

As Africa Energy Intelligence had anticipated (AEI 478), the appointment of Rilwanu Lukman as Nigeria's oil minister at the end [...]

Subscribers only Energy 27.01.2009

Nigeria
John Orange

The Canadian firm Exile Resources has named BP veteran John Orange to its board. Orange is already a member of [...]

Subscribers only Energy 27.01.2009

Guinea
Kadhafi Backs Putsch

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has just sent two generators producing [...]

Subscribers only Energy 27.01.2009

Nigeria, Sao Tome and Principe
Disappointed with the JDZ

Sao Tome president Fradique de Menezes travelled to Nigeria in [...]

Subscribers only Energy 27.01.2009

Nigeria | Abuja
New Plan to Improve Power Production

In mid-January Bello Suleiman, vice president of the state-owned Power [...]

Subscribers only Energy 27.01.2009

Nigeria
Control Risks Group

Highly active, like its countryman ArmorGroup, in the Niger Delta, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 27.01.2009

Nigeria | Abuja
Kenneth Julien

Kenneth Julien, a special envoy of the prime minister of [...]

Subscribers only Energy 27.01.2009

India, Nigeria | New Delhi
Emmanuel O Egbogah

Emmanuel O Egbogah, adviser to Nigerian president Umaru Yar’Adua, seized [...]

Subscribers only Energy 27.01.2009

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