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The Council of Ministers on 3 February reviewed a host of measures related both to the recent unrest in the country and also to economic development. Among the dozens of decisions came the approval of four presidential decrees on oil and gas exploration. Included in these decrees are measures that will inch forwards developments

Algeria
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Houston-based McDermott International has won a contract to build a 15,000-tonne platform for Noble Energy’s Alen gas-condensate development project off the east coast of Bioko Island.

Equatorial Guinea
Issue 203 - 18 February 2011

Kosmos Energy: Board appointment

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Kosmos Energy, which has made a number of recent senior-level changes, has named former Noble Energy senior vice president and chief financial officer Chris Tong to the board of directors.

Issue 203 - 18 February 2011

Can Kenyan E&P come good?

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In Kenya, Tullow is hoping to replicate its success in Uganda, while Anadarko Petroleum Corporation is hoping to repeat its success offshore Mozambique.

Kenya
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Controversy is growing over the award by President Joseph Kabila of an oil exploration permit in the Virunga National Park, home to some of the world’s last few mountain gorillas. But while international organisations are urging the government to protect the park, MPs from North Kivu want exploration to go ahead in the hope of bringing development cash to the region.

DR Congo
Issue 203 - 18 February 2011

Sonangol unveils pre-salt players

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Sonangol has awarded 11 blocks in a restricted bid round for pre-salt blocks in the Kwanza Basin. The round was never publicly announced and 13 companies were invited to bid. Sonangol will have an average 35% stake in each block, while the China

Senegal
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The Ministry of Mines, Industry and Energy has finalised a contract with KBR to provide a conceptual study and associated project management services for the development of a low complexity, modular 20,000 b/d refinery at Mbini.

Equatorial Guinea
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The Gharabi-1 commitment well on offshore Block 6 has been plugged and abandoned after failing to find hydrocarbons. The well was drilled by operator Petronas, which is planning to pull out of Mauritania as part of a general withdrawal from Africa

Mauritania
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Continuing violence involving renegade militias, international oil companies and their security contractors, and government forces in the Virunga National Park area of eastern Congo highlights the wider region’s chronic instability and the problems that poses for IOCs who are entering Central Africa excited by its hydrocarbons potential.

DR Congo
Issue 203 - 18 February 2011

Deeper drilling success for Bowleven

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Gas player Bowleven has announced a discovery at a deeper than expected level in the Sapele-1 well in the Douala Basin.

Cameroon
Issue 203 - 18 February 2011

First exploration licence

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Zambia has finalised its first exploration licence, following the country’s first licensing round held in 2009. The local Barotse Petroleum Company was awarded its licence on 14 January.

Zambia
Issue 202 - 04 February 2011

Engen buys Chevron Tanzania assets

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South Africa-based Engen Petroleum formally acquired Chevron’s interests in Tanzania on 1 February, under one of seven agreements to take over downstream interests in sub-Saharan Africa and the Indian Ocean Islands.

Tanzania | Réunion
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Ras Lanuf refinery operator Libyan Emirati Refining Company (Lerco) is achieving excellent financial results, production department manager Lebna Ali Al-Beid was quoted on National Oil Corporation (NOC)’s website as saying.

Libya
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Law firm Gide Loyrette Nouel has announced that it assisted China’s Soluxe International on its $150m project to build the Soluxe International Industrial Zone – described as the “largest foreign investment project in Chad in recent years”

Chad
Issue 202 - 04 February 2011

Tanzania to license ultra-deep

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Tanzania plans onshore and offshore bid rounds this year, offering acreage beyond existing deep-water blocks. The fourth offshore round, which Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation (TPDC) hopes to launch at the AAPG conference in Houston in April,

Tanzania