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Chevron

Together with Exxon and ConocoPhillips, Chevron is one of America’s three oil supermajors. The company is a major player in African oil and gas, principally in Nigeria and Angola.

DRC
Who is the Israeli rep trying to sell drones to Kinshasa?

An Israeli consultant has met on several occasions with advisors from the Congolese president's office to discuss drone surveillance projects, including over the country's disputed territorial waters.

Subscribers only Defence, Business 10.07.2020

Spotlight | Nigeria
Marginal fields: who among Buhari's buddies can help bidders win over DPR?

Junior oil firms flocked in their hundreds to bid for one of the 57 marginal fields put up for sale by the Abuja authorities to avoid a financial debacle as the Covid-19 crisis continues.

Subscribers only Energy 01.07.2020

Chad
Why Déby has opted for a direct confrontation with Glencore

Relations between the regime in N'Djamena and the raw materials trading giant have recently become strained. Here is why.

Subscribers only Energy 23.06.2020

Angola
General Electric brings in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher to defend it against Portugal's Aenergy

In early June, US firm General Electric appointed Orin Snyder and Anne Champion (Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher), to defend it in the action brought against Aenergy.

Subscribers only Energy, Business 23.06.2020

Nigeria
PwC's Mr Energy Pedro Omontuemhen audits books for NNPC

When the state-owned oil giant NNPC retained PwC to audit the 2018 accounts of three of its subsidiaries (Napims, N-Gas and NPDC), a central role was played by PWC's lead energy consultant for West Africa, Pedro Omontuemhen.

Subscribers only Energy 22.06.2020

Spotlight | Angola
Dos Santos era throwback Somoil changes boss again to steady ship

The best-connected junior in Angola has been struggling to retain a stable management team and has turned to Edson dos Santos Sousa, formerly of Sonangol and ExxonMobil, to restore some order.

Subscribers only Energy 12.06.2020

Angolan junior Somoil, whose new CEO is Edson dos Santos Sousa, was founded by former chairmen of Sonangol.

Nigeria
Covid-19: Africa Oil weathers storm thanks to fuel hedging

Junior oil firms are facing the very real threat of having to close before the year's end or deal with a deep crisis but there is one such company - highly active in Africa - that may have been able to limit the damage: Africa Oil Corp.

Subscribers only Energy 28.05.2020

Angola
Equinor and DOF Subsea steer Norway's diplomatic moves with Lourenço

Norway can count on DOF Subsea and Equinor to help the country build and then strengthen its ties with its largest economic partner in Africa, Angola.

Subscribers only Energy 27.05.2020

President João Lourenço (right) with vice president of Norwegian company DOF Subsea, Jan-Kristian Haukeland.

Ivory Coast
Oil distribution: MRS/Corlay Global/Petroci abritration saga rumbles on

The arbitration proceedings between the Ivorian national oil firm Petroci and Abuja's favourite trader MRS Oil over the purchase of Chevron's distribution assets are not going to be over any time soon.

Subscribers only Energy 22.05.2020

Nigeria
Oil minister Sylva works behind scenes for quick sale of Shell, Exxon, Chevron, Total marginal fields

Nigeria has finally embarked on a sell-off of oil fields no longer wanted by oil majors, but the timing is terrible.

Subscribers only Energy 14.05.2020

Minister of State for Petroleum Timipre Sylva.

Angola, DRC
Lourenço assigns Tete António to oversee oil relations with Tshisekedi

The recently sacked Angolan foreign affairs minister Manuel Domingos Augusto had been fighting for the past two years to make sure the Kabila-era oil deal was kept as is.

Subscribers only Energy 22.04.2020

Nigeria
NAPIMS tussles with oil majors Shell/ExxonMobil/Total over cost-cutting

NNPC's local content arm is trying to keep the oil sector profitable by imposing severe cuts in international companies' expenditure, to the detriment of their Nigerian partners.

Subscribers only Energy 21.04.2020

Nigeria
OML 128: Chevron and Equinor target Oditah to sink NNPC

A new development in the NNPC vs. Chevron and Equinor [...]

Subscribers only Energy 31.03.2020

Angola
Angola LNG Marketing welcomes a Sonagas senior

Angolan national Manuel Barros recently joined the board of the London-based Angola LNG Marketing that sells Angola LNG's LNG production [...]

Subscribers only Energy 17.03.2020

Chad
Idriss Déby scares off Petronas, ExxonMobil, Glencore and co

Chevron led the way in 2014 when it sold its 25% interest in the southern Doba Basin assets to Société [...]