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More transparent, investor-friendly procedures are promised to attract investors to key sectors like electricity, but high transaction costs and burdensome bureaucracy remain a challenge

ANGOLA: Amec wins Cabgoc contract; EGYPT: GDF Suez takes Ashrafi stake; EGYPT: KEC find; EQUATORIAL GUINEA: Mustang wins Belinda FEED; EQUATORIAL GUINEA: Afex signs; KENYA: CNOOC finds gas with onshore well; LIBYA: Medco findl ERHC ENERGY: Ntephe confirmed as chief executive

Final contracts have yet to be awarded, but national oil company Sociedade Nacional de Combustíveis de Angola (Sonangol) has moved to reaffirm Luanda’s commitment to raising levels of local content – and show who has control of the Angolan industry – by rejecting operator Total E&P Angola’s recommendations for contractors to build the giant Clov project’s infrastructure.

AfDB Governors recommend 200% capital increase and New Clean Energy bonds; Regideso debt; Pride bribery allegations

ANGOLA: Cabinda service contract for M-I SWACO; CAMEROON: Polarcus starts seismic survey for Noble; REPUBLIC OF CONGO: Eni extends; DR CONGO: SOCO signs up Caroil rig; KENYA: Global, Dana and Woodside settle dispute; KENYA: Magadi seismic tender

ALGERIA: Sonatrach makes two Illizi finds; ALGERIA: Petroceltic raises $120m in share placing; ANGOLA: Sinopec buys overseas upstream assets; EGYPT: Aegean Energy widens horizons; NAMIBIA: Block 1711 extension; NIGER: CNPC to drill again; TUNISIA: Two new licences for Shell; UGANDA: Dominion to drill in June

Operator Eni has announced two discoveries in Block 15/06, while Total has announced a find on Block 17/06.

Interest in West African hydrocarbons has focused primarily on offshore plays in recent years.

The Angolan regime is celebrating a period of political change with constitutional amendments and personnel changes that are intended to allow the economy to grow while maintaining power in the hands of the small elite gathered around President José Eduardo dos Santos.

ANGOLA: Total contract for FMC; CONGO-B: Non-commercial well on La Noumbi; EGYPT: Successful test of Circle’s Al-Amir SE-5 well; EGYPT: Two finds for Dana Gas; GABON: M&P confirms new play in Onal licence; GUINEA: Repsol out?; TUNISIA: Petroceltic to drill on Ksar Hadada; DANA PETROLEUM: Egypt drilling plans; SAN LEON ENERGY: Buying Island Oil & Gas

ANGOLA: Big tanker order for DSME; NIGERIA: KBR awarded contract for Eleme plant revamp; TUNISIA: IDB, Steg sign loan for gas supply project

ANGOLA: Eni in double discovery; EGYPT: Egas block awards signed; EGYPT: Gas find on West El Burullus; EGYPT: Gas find for Melrose; EGYPT: Apache announces Western Desert extension; EQUATORIAL GUINEA: CNOOC drilling; TUNISIA: New find for OMV

Total was forced to declare force majeure on shipments of Girassol crude from Block 14 after swordfish punctured an oil loading pipe.

ANGOLA: ONGC in Sonangol venture; EGYPT: Spectraseis completes survey for Shell; EQUATORIAL GUINEA: Gazprom Neft to take two blocks; ETHIOPIA: Dry well for Petronas; MOZAMBIQUE: Anadarko starts offshore drilling

The attack on a bus carrying the Togolese football team as it entered Angola’s oil-rich Cabinda enclave from Republic of Congo shocked the Luanda government, and the international community, on the eve of the Africa Cup of Nations (Cocan2010) tournament’s kick-off in Luanda.