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West Africa

Equatorial Guinea
Mending Fences with Malabo

Pursuing its efforts to resolve its quarrel with Malabo, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero's left-wing government sent its foreign minister, Miguel [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.03.2005

Equatorial Guinea
Six New Licenses Up for Grabs

Marathon has just relinquished large parts of its G and F concessions. GEPetrol has broken them up into six licenses and is putting them onto

Subscribers only Energy 01.03.2005

Nigeria
Pioneer in Deal with Eze

On the heels of Kosmos, the American group Pioneer is to team up with Oranto Petroleum owned by prince Arthur Eze.

Subscribers only Energy 01.03.2005

Nigeria

Gas Hitch Generates Power Cuts

Subscribers only Energy 01.03.2005

Nigeria
Oil Legislation Revamped

The Nigerian Parliament organized a three-day debate last week on a bill amending the Petroleum Act of 1969. The new [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.03.2005

Nigeria
Eighty Licenses For Sale

The licensing round that Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation will launch [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.03.2005

Nigeria | Nnpc
A LPG Plant

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has teamed up with the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.03.2005

Nigeria
Daewoo to Build Agbami's FPSO

Regularly put back, the contract for construction of a FPSO [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.03.2005

Nigeria | Penspen
Advising on Pan-African Pipeline

Africa Energy Intelligence has learned that the British consultancy Penspen [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.03.2005

Guinea
Vote Postponed on GlobAl Deal

Scheduled for early February, a vote by Guinea's Parliament concerning the basic agreement for the U.S. group Global Alumina's new [...]

Subscribers only Mining 22.02.2005

Liberia
BHP Billiton In Iron Deal

BHP Billiton took its eye off the scramble for the Nimba Mountain iron holdings of the former Liberian American Minerals [...]

Subscribers only Mining 22.02.2005

Senegal
Kumba Shuns Investment in Sabodala

Although Kumba International holds the biggest stake – 13.5%-- in Minerals Deposits Ltd. (MDL) which won the Sabodala gold mine [...]

Subscribers only Mining 22.02.2005

Guinea
Khalil Khan

A diamond and gold exploration group with the acronym AREDOR and run by the Canadian entrepreneur of Pakistani origin, Khalil [...]

Subscribers only Mining 22.02.2005

Spotlight | Nigeria
Rilwanu Lukman Pops Up Again

Former OPEC secretary-general and ex oil adviser to Nigerian presidents Ibrahim Babangida and Olesegun Obasanjo, Rilwanu Lukman will shortly take over as boss of a new private oil company named Afren. Modeled along the lines of Energy Africa, a South [.

Subscribers only Energy 15.02.2005

Nigeria
Easing Up on Abacha Family

The legal action undertaken by Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo against the family of former president Sani Abacha appears to have [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.02.2005

Senegal
Harsh Verdict on SENELEC

Senegal's Commission de Regulation du Secteur de l'Electricte has just published a report on SENELEC's performance over the five past [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.02.2005

Nigeria
Banks Battle for Eleme Sale

Three banks have submitted bids to Nigeria's Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) to conduct the sale of the Eleme petrochemical [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.02.2005

Equatorial Guinea | Gepetrol
Bidding Round in Sight

Equatorial Guinea's state-controlled group GEPetrol is preparing a licensing round [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.02.2005

Liberia
New Acreage Awarded

Britain's Regal Petroleum has followed Woodside and Repsol in winning [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.02.2005

Nigeria
Bonga's Costs Rise

Initially planned for 2003, production start up on the Bonga [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.02.2005

Nigeria
Two New Trains for NLNG

Funsho Kupolokun, the chief executive of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.02.2005

Mauritania
Total Lands Concessions

France's Total has signed production sharing licenses with the Mauritanian [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.02.2005

Nigeria
Transparency in the Nigerian Economy

The British firm Clearwater Research Service is organizing a conference [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.02.2005

Equatorial Guinea
Oil & Gas in Equatorial Guinea

The CWC Group is organizing a conference in Kuala Lumpur [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.02.2005

Guinea
Alkaly Yansane

Following our article concerning Alkaly Yansane (AMI 101), Colin Harris, the head of Rio Tinto's operations in Guinea, wrote to [...]

Subscribers only Mining 08.02.2005

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