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Mauritania
New momentum in Banda saga

Tullow Oil, operator of the Banda gas field with its 1.3 TCF of reserves, is currently examining different bids to [...]

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Energie du Mali
Environmental Resources Management
Kinross
SNIM
Societe de Production dElectricite a Partir du Gaz
Societe nationale delectricite
Somelec
Tullow Oil
Wartsila
World Bank

Mauritania
SPEG and its gas projects down the drain

Following Tullow Oil’s withdrawal as operator of the Banda gas project (AEI 736) the Mauritanian government has wound up Societe [...]

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Mauritania
Kinross pulls rug under Banda

A project to develop the Banda gas field (1.2 TCF) operated by Tullow Oil has hit a snag. The British [...]

Subscribers only Energy 23.09.2014

Mauritania
$130 million for Banda

Following its debut on the Banda gas permit with the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.06.2014

Mauritania
Riyadh lends funds- with strings

Saudi Arabia’s Fund for Development (SFD) is beginning to oblige countries that it assists financially to retain firms based in [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.06.2014

Spotlight | Mauritania
Abdel Aziz hasn’t much luck with oil

Eight years after the outset of oil exploration in Mauritania, campaigns to find fresh resources have failed one after the other and the amount of actual production has never been so low. And with presidential elections just two weeks away [.

Subscribers only Energy 10.06.2014

Namibia
Doubts tinge hope on Kudu

Tullow Oil has long been saying the final investment decision on Kudu will come this year. Namibia’s mines and energy [...]

Subscribers only Energy 25.02.2014

Mauritania
Banda’s future looks dim

The appointment of a new oil minister in Nouakchott appears to have thrown a spanner into negotiations with Tullow Oil, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.01.2014

Africa
Mike Simpson

One of the commercial directors and negotiators of Tullow Oil, Mike Simpson, has left the company. Simpson recently played a [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.01.2014

Spotlight | Mali
Shake-up in unrefined gold exports in 2015

Africa Mining Intelligence understands that Mali’s industry and mines minister, Boubou Cisse, is drafting an amendment to the mining code that will prove crucial to the future of Mali’s gold industry: a blanket ban on exporting unrefined gold.

Subscribers only Mining 17.12.2013

Spotlight | Mozambique
The leading families eyeing energy sector

The major projects under way (such as the future production of oil and gas and electricity installation) will not only bring funds into the State coffers via taxes paid by the foreign companies. They will also bring prosperity to a [.

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Spotlight | Mozambique
Production a long way off for country's gas

Now the proud owner of 184 TCF of gas, and thus ahead of Nigeria's with its 182 TCF, Mozambique became Africa's leading nation in terms of gas reserves this year. However, the two main operators, ENI and Anadarko, face a [.

Subscribers only Energy 17.09.2013

Algeria
Energy pact with EU

To make no mistake about the importance of an Algeria/European Union energy pact, the president of the EU Commission, José [...]

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Mauritania
Roadblocks lifted for Banda

Mauritania’s oil and energy ministry is moving ahead slowly but surely on the development of the Banda gas field and the power plants it will supply.

Subscribers only Energy 16.07.2013

Benin
A “mirage” plant materializes

The inhabitants of Benin had begun to suspect the Mari Gleta 1 power station that was to be constructed by [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.02.2013

Nigeria
A boost for Nigerian LNG in Tokyo

Andrew Yakubu, the chief executive of Nigerian National Petroleum Corp [...]

Subscribers only Energy 09.10.2012

Nigeria
New fleet for Bonny Gas

While waiting for a final investment decision on Brass LNG, the biggest operation in Nigeria's gas sector this year will [...]

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DRC
Inga 3 or Grand Inga: what choice?

A lot of circumstances, mainly technical, are working in favor of building a Grand Inga dam rather than Inga 3.

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Riyadh lends funds- with strings

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Doubts tinge hope on Kudu

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Banda’s future looks dim

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Shake-up in unrefined gold exports in 2015

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The leading families eyeing energy sector

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Production a long way off for country's gas

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Energy pact with EU

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Roadblocks lifted for Banda

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A “mirage” plant materializes

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A boost for Nigerian LNG in Tokyo

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New fleet for Bonny Gas

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DRC
Kinshasa's thorny Kyiv-Moscow balancing act over armaments

Egypt
The rise of militia businessman Arjani

Mauritania
New momentum in Banda saga

Mauritania
SPEG and its gas projects down the drain

Mauritania
Kinross pulls rug under Banda

Mauritania
$130 million for Banda

Mauritania
Riyadh lends funds- with strings

Spotlight | Mauritania
Abdel Aziz hasn’t much luck with oil

Namibia
Doubts tinge hope on Kudu

Mauritania
Banda’s future looks dim

Africa
Mike Simpson

Spotlight | Mali
Shake-up in unrefined gold exports in 2015

Spotlight | Mozambique
The leading families eyeing energy sector

Spotlight | Mozambique
Production a long way off for country's gas

Algeria
Energy pact with EU

Mauritania
Roadblocks lifted for Banda

Benin
A “mirage” plant materializes

Nigeria
A boost for Nigerian LNG in Tokyo

Nigeria
New fleet for Bonny Gas

DRC
Inga 3 or Grand Inga: what choice?