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West Africa

Nigeria
South/South Summit

The Nigerian capital, Abuja, played host on Nov. 30-Dec.1 to the first Africa/Latin America summit gathering. No less than 25 [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.12.2006

Nigeria
DPR Boss Back in Business

The director of Nigeria’s Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), Tony Chukwueke has returned to his post following a three week [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.12.2006

Equatorial Guinea
Malabo Reassures Oil Men

Equatorial Guinea’s mines and energy ministry said on Nov. 24 that new oil legislation had been approved by Parliament and [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.12.2006

Mauritania
GDF Seeks to Replace BG

The French gas group is reportedly on the verge of bidding for BG’s assets in Mauritania’s offshore.

Subscribers only Energy 12.12.2006

Ghana
The Odili Family’s License

A company owned by the brother-in-law of the governor of River state in Nigeria was recently awarded a block in Ghana’s offshore.

Subscribers only Energy 12.12.2006

Nigeria
A New Regional Oil Play

The representative of the trader Arcadia in Nigeria, Mohamed Asibelua has joined forces with a number of Western partners to set up an oil group with interests in Nigeria and elsewhere in the region.

Subscribers only Energy 12.12.2006

Guinea
Ahmadou Sadiou Diallo

Guinean businessman Ahmadou Sadiou Diallo filed a suit in 1998 against the Democratic Republic of Congo - Zaire at the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 05.12.2006

Nigeria
Cloud over Tender

Recent allegations against two leading Nigerian oil figures, Tony Chukwueke and Edmund Daukoru, could prevent the Nigerian government from organizing [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.11.2006

Niger
Flurry of Bids for Agadem

After showing Exxon the door, Niger is negotiating with several companies which appear keen on acquiring the Agadem block.

Subscribers only Energy 28.11.2006

Nigeria
Threat Over OK LNG

Due to delays, it won’t be possible for the government to approve the OK LNG project before presidential elections in April, to the displeasure of Nigeria’s current leader who is the program’s leading backer.

Subscribers only Energy 28.11.2006

Nigeria
India’s GAIL Seeks LNG

The Gas Authority of India has begun talks with several [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.11.2006

Nigeria
Ukraine Plants its Flag

Ukraine’s leading oil producer, UkrNafta, is about to debut in [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.11.2006

Nigeria
Two Stations Up for Sale

Nigeria’s Bureau of Public Enterprises is poised to privatize two [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.11.2006

Nigeria
Nigeria Oil & Gas 2007

CWC Associates is organizing a conference on Nigeria's oil industry [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.11.2006

Spotlight | Togo
Who’s interested in mines?

Office Togolais des Phosphates (OTP), Togo’s sole industrial mining operator and once the country’s main source (60%) of foreign currency, is now in poor shape and urgently needing fresh cash. Some investors have shown up but revamping the mining sector [.

Subscribers only Mining 21.11.2006

Mauritania
Alba Mineral in Uranium Play

Alba Mineral Resources, a British junior which had been active in exploring for nickel, or, copper and cobalt up to [...]

Subscribers only Mining 21.11.2006

Ghana
Accra : There are no war diamonds

The Ghanian government has refuted a United Nations report dated [...]

Subscribers only Mining 21.11.2006

Senegal
Rumors on Mineral Deposits

Mineral Deposits. told the Australian Stock Exchange on Nov., 9 [...]

Subscribers only Mining 21.11.2006

Nigeria
Korean Power Projects

The state-owned South Korean group Posco Engineering is to build a gas-fired power plant and a gas pipeline for Nigeria.

Subscribers only Energy 14.11.2006

Gambia
New White Knight for Nawec?

The Gambian government has found a new firm to manage the National Water Electricity Co (Nawec).

Subscribers only Energy 14.11.2006

Mauritania
Ever-Shrinking Reserves

In a "right of issue" submitted on Nov. 2 to the Australian Stock Exchange, the Australian firm ROC, partner of [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.11.2006

Nigeria, United Kingdom
Philip Thomas

Facing a wide range of security problems threatening its operations and supplies in Nigeria, RoyalDutch/Shell has hired a veteran Foreign [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.11.2006

Nigeria
Rilwanu Lukman

Former secretary-general of OPEC and ex oil minister of Nigeria, Rilwanu Lukman now finds himself the new chairman of Afren [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.11.2006

Nigeria
Allied Energy in Energy Gambit

The Nigerian oil company Allied Energy, the local affiliate of [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.11.2006

Nigeria
Nigeria Oil & Gas 2007

CWC Associates is organizing a conference on Nigeria's oil industry [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.11.2006

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