Vol 55 No 25 | MOZAMBIQUEOIL AND GAS Gas regime is getting there 19th December 2014 A green light for the LNG project and implementation of the Petroleum Law are just around the corner. Some wrinkles remain The government has reached final agreement with Italy's ENI and the United States' oil company Anadarko over their liquefied natural gas projects offshore the northern province of ...
Vol 54 No 19 | AFRICAOIL AND GAS A gamble on secession 19th September 2013 A private company claiming to have bought oil licences from three governments in exile is looking for investors. Several prominent secessionists sit on its advisory board Kilimanjaro Capital is not the first company to try selling mineral rights in territories claimed by secessionist movements but it must be one of the most bizarre. It claims to hav...
Vol 54 No 7 | SOUTH SUDANOIL AND GAS After they open the taps 29th March 2013 The 12 March deal between Juba and Khartoum now looks as if will restore South Sudan’s major source of government income – oil The Juba government ‘has given the order to resume oil production and companies are now making preparations to do so,’ a source close to the negotiations with Sudan told Africa Con...
Vol 54 No 7 | SOUTH SUDANOIL AND GAS What Juba gets from the oil deal 29th March 2013 Oil production from Unity State is expected to begin in ‘about three weeks’, said a source close to the deal on 12 March. Fields in Upper Nile, meanwhile, are expected to take ‘abo...
Vol 54 No 5 | NIGERIAOIL AND GAS Trust question 1st March 2013 Concern is growing in the Niger Delta over the fate of the charitable trust set up with US$5 million of the 2009 $15.5 mn. settlement that Shell made with the relatives of the l...
Vol 53 No 5 | AFRICAOIL AND GASMINING Companies fight regulation 2nd March 2012 New US laws and planned European regulations are coming under fire from well-organised oil and mining lobbyists Extractive industries don’t always like compulsory disclosure requirements. Companies are now fighting a rearguard action against recent United States and European Union legislatio...
Vol 52 No 24 | GHANAOIL AND GAS A pipeline of votes 2nd December 2011 Delays and disputes over a gas-fired industrial project could damage President John Atta Mills ahead of next year’s elections The promise that an offshore gas pipeline and processing plant – a cornerstone of Ghana’s new industrial plan – will be completed around the time of the presidential and parliament...
Vol 52 No 17 | NIGERIAOIL AND GAS Who cleans up in the Delta? 26th August 2011 A huge payout by Shell for spilling oil will not necessarily help those who suffered from the environmental damage On 3 August, the oil giant Shell agreed in the London High Court to settle a compensation claim for oil spills in Bodo, in the Niger Delta. This is a district with about 70,000 res...
Vol 52 No 17 | NIGERIAOIL AND GAS It's urgent? Set up a committee 26th August 2011 As the Bodo case was being settled, a damning United Nations report estimated the cost of an environmental clean-up in Ogoni at US$1 billion over up to 30 years. The report airs ma...
Vol 52 No 14 | SENEGALOIL AND GAS Refineries and rivalries 8th July 2011 The Chairman of the Board of the Société africaine de raffinage (SAR) is Serigne Mboup, a one-time ally of former Prime Minister Macky Sall, who is expected to challenge President ...