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Societe Ivoirienne de Raffinage

The Société ivoirienne de raffinage, or SIR, is the Ivorian state-owned company in charge of refining and distributing the country’s oil products.

Ivory Coast
Majors slug it out to corner gas market

A surge in gas consumption that Ivory Coast’s offshore fields can’t meet has whetted the appetite of the big oil companies.

Free access Energy 05.04.2016

Tanzania
Former Addax & Oryx Group executives grab a prize as traders

They may have been beaten out by their former employer, Addax Energy, for the contract to supply Tanzania with oil [...]

Subscribers only Energy 09.02.2016

Ivory Coast
How Toungara saved his job as oil minister

Against all expectations, a government re-shuffle by Alassane Ouattara on Jan. 12 following his re-election as president in October, saw [...]

Subscribers only Energy 26.01.2016

Ivory Coast
Buhari investigates Nigerian cargos sold to SIR

Sahara Energy could find itself in trouble with Nigeria’s new government. Indeed, Abuja is looking into the terms of its contracts with SIR and Petroci.

Subscribers only Energy 22.12.2015

Ivory Coast
Ebata pushes boundaries of his oil empire in Abidjan

In setting up Orion Oil & Gas, an affiliate of his exploration company Orion Oil. in Abidjan in mid-November, Congolese [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.12.2015

Ivory Coast, Nigeria
Petroci teams up with First Oil for NNPC’s crude

Ivory Coast’s oil ministry is continuing to lobby for tie-ups between Petroci and Nigerian traders.

Free access Energy 10.11.2015

Ivory Coast
Societe Ivoirienne de Raffinage cuts all business ties with Ecobank

Africa Energy Intelligence understands that state-owned Societe Ivoirienne de Raffinage (SIR) has excluded the Panafrican establishment Ecobank from all of [...]

Subscribers only Energy 27.10.2015

Ivory Coast
Squabble over future floating gas terminal

A project for a floating re-gasification and storage unit (FRSU) that would import gas to produce electricity is stalled for [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.06.2015

Ivory Coast
Sahara Energy beats off competition from Vitol

The Nigerian company Sahara Energy, which is close to ex-president [...]

Subscribers only Business 17.06.2015

Ivory Coast
Petroci slammed by drop in gas output

Ever-rising demand for electricity in Ivory Coast is hitting at the accounts of Petroci and CI-Energies, the company that manages [...]

Subscribers only Energy 17.03.2015

Benin, Ivory Coast
How Elephant Oil uses Evangelist connections

Apart from Benin, where it penned an exploration contract for block B in 2013 (see P. 1), the British junior [...]

Subscribers only Energy 17.02.2015

Ivory Coast
SIR gets even further into the red

The cash-strapped Societe Ivoirienne de Raffinage (SIR) is still finding [...]

Subscribers only Business 04.02.2015

Angola, Ivory Coast
Sonangol snubs SIR

Luanda still harbours a grudge towards Alassane Ouattara for his treatment of Laurent Gbagbo - and this has impacted on Ivorian oil interests.

Subscribers only Business 17.12.2014

Ivory Coast
SIR sorely in need of cash

Societe Ivoirienne de Raffinage (SIR) is still finding it hard to discover a permanent source of cash to guarantee its [...]

Subscribers only Energy 24.06.2014

Equatorial Guinea, Ivory Coast
Quick fix for gas shortage

Abidjan no longer has enough gas to develop its many power station projects and has called on Malabo for help.

Subscribers only Energy 27.05.2014

Angola, Ivory Coast
Oil back-pedalling

Ivory Coast president Alassane Ouattara is keen on forging fresh [...]

Subscribers only Energy 27.05.2014

Ivory Coast, Liberia
SIR in disarray

Liberia has been hit by severe shortages of diesel fuel [...]

Subscribers only Energy 25.02.2014

Ivory Coast
SIR pulled back from the brink

The French bank Societe Generale has put together a financial package that allows Ivory Coast’s refinery to buy crude. It had been a cliff-hanger for Societe Ivoirienne de Raffinage.

Subscribers only Energy 31.12.2013

Ivory Coast
Societe Generale helps SIR

The Societe Ivoirienne de Raffinage (SIR) is unlikely to have [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.12.2013

Ivory Coast
Oil revolution underway

A top to bottom reform of Ivory Coast's oil sector is being carried out, opening the marketplace to new partners and opening the capital of national companies to private investors.

Subscribers only Politics 27.11.2013

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Namibia oil utopia hangs on TotalEnergies' final investment decision

Nigeria
The latest secrets of a $10bn legal scandal between Abuja and London

Ivory Coast
Majors slug it out to corner gas market

Tanzania
Former Addax & Oryx Group executives grab a prize as traders

Ivory Coast
How Toungara saved his job as oil minister

Ivory Coast
Buhari investigates Nigerian cargos sold to SIR

Ivory Coast
Ebata pushes boundaries of his oil empire in Abidjan

Ivory Coast, Nigeria
Petroci teams up with First Oil for NNPC’s crude

Ivory Coast
Societe Ivoirienne de Raffinage cuts all business ties with Ecobank

Ivory Coast
Squabble over future floating gas terminal

Ivory Coast
Sahara Energy beats off competition from Vitol

Ivory Coast
Petroci slammed by drop in gas output

Benin, Ivory Coast
How Elephant Oil uses Evangelist connections

Ivory Coast
SIR gets even further into the red

Angola, Ivory Coast
Sonangol snubs SIR

Ivory Coast
SIR sorely in need of cash

Equatorial Guinea, Ivory Coast
Quick fix for gas shortage

Angola, Ivory Coast
Oil back-pedalling

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SIR in disarray

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SIR pulled back from the brink

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