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N°702 Paris, 07/02/2013 Subscribe  | Country Channels Benjamin Augé IVORY COAST Editor in Chief President Ouattara's petroleum pals Eighteen months after Alassane Outtara took office the oil sector remains under the control of just a handful of companies. Russian and Nigerian investments are paying off in Abidjan while Chinese groups are trying to get a foot into the door. (...)           NIGERIA Standard Chartered saves PPMC    The British bank Standard Chartered is expected to help Nigeria's Pipelines & Products Marketing Co (PPMC) to shed part of its yawning deficit of $3. (...)        CONGO-B Dig Oil tiptoes into central basin     Under discussion for nearly a year, South Africa's Dig Oil has landed a license in Congo-B that lies alongside its block in Central African Republic. (...)      NIGER Former Agadem acreage on sale     The lone concession pumping oil in Nigeria has been carved up in a manner that senior government officials are keeping secret for the moment. (...)    AFRICA Phil Edmonds' new oil play     The former cricket star has invested millions in a new oil services company dedicated exclusively to Africa. (...)    GHANA Suspense mounts over TEN     The stakeholders of the TEN project are expected in mid-July to announce their choice of an FPSO and offshore infrastructure for the fields. (...)    NIGERIA Smoke & mirrors for Seplat stake     France's MPI is seeking discreetly to sell a 20% stake in the Nigerian oil firm Seplat in which it owns 45%. (...)    GABON Workers want Addax to come back     Workers on the Obangue field who have come under pressure from GOC to quit without receiving severance pay are demanding that Addax be put in charge of the field once again. (...)    ALGERIA In Salah gripped by insecurity     The situation still hasn't returned to normal on the big gas fields in southern Algeria's six months after the dramatic hostage crisis at the In Amenas plant operated by BP. (...)    GHANA Chinese loan for Jubilee blasted     The boss of GNGC is going to find it increasingly hard to explain delays in Ghana's gas project, which have sewn discord in Parliament. (...)    NIGERIA A newcomer on Aje field     Explored but never actually worked, the Aje gas field keeps changing hands. (...)    GABON/EQUATORIAL GUINEA Malabo concocts a rival scheme     With Gabon encountering all sorts of problems in building a plant to transform gas into fertilizer on Mandji island, Equatorial Guinea is plotting a rival project on Bioko island. (...)    MALI Terminator in power play     The international community has found an original way to push the electrification of remote areas in Mali, including all of the northern region (Azawadi) which was overrun not that long ago by radical Islamist fighters. (...)    CONGO-K Kinshasa's other white elephants     With the attention of donors fixed on the Inga 3 dam, Congo president Joseph Kabila is making a strong pitch for power plants in other parts of the country. (...)    NAMIBIA EDF & Alstom interested in Kudu     French companies are among many others in showing interest in building an 800 MW power plant supplied by gas from the Kudu field. (...)    SUDAN Awad Elkarim Khair     Turf wars at the top in Sudan's oil sector tend to result in a lot of quick turnover among civil servants. (...)    NIGERIA/SUDAN Emmanuel Egbogah     Former oil adviser to Nigerian presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, Umaru Yar'Adua and Goodluck Jonathan, Emmanuel Egbogah has been asked by the African Union's Petroleum Monitoring Committee to try to bring about a rapprochement between Sudan and South Sudan on oil issues. (...)    NIGERIA George Abiodun Osahon     The former managing director of the Nigerian Petroleum Development Corporation (NPDC) is to shortly run Nigeria's Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR). (...)    SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE Fernando Manquengo     In the wake of Luis Prazeres' appointment as president of the Nigeria & Sao Tome Petroleum Joint Development Authority, his old job as head of Agencia Nacional do Petroleo will go to the agency's legal director, Fernando Manquengo. (...)    NIGER CNPC      ANGOLA Sonangol      CONGO-K/CONGO-B SNPC    CHINA/SUDAN Bid to export South's oil     Sudan's oil minister Awad Al Jaz and a presidential adviser Nafel Ali Nafie were in Beijing on June 24 to seek common ground with China concerning South Sudan's oil. (...)    gulf of guinea New move to fight piracy     A meeting of 12 leaders from the Gulf of Guinea region and West Africa in Yaounde on June 24-25 led to the creation of a new organization to battle piracy that could have trouble in (...)      IVORY COAST/GHANA Upping the ante with ports     After building the Luba Freeport oil terminal in Equatorial Guinea, Britain's Lonrho group is to shortly start constructing a deep water port in western Ghana. (...)      MOZAMBIQUE Renamo threat to cut electricity     Tempers are flaring between Mozambique's government and former guerrillas of the Renamo opposition, some of whom have gone underground. (...)    CAMEROON Miranda Correia Amendoeira & Associados      AFRICA Strand Partners      ZAMBIA Norton Rose    TUNISIA Talks with Lundin     As Africa Energy Intelligence anticipated would be the case (>AEI 698), the Tunisian government started to negotiate on June 25 with the Swedish-Swiss oil firm Lundin which launched (...)      CHAD Caracal pulls in its horns     To avoid suffering the same fate as Oryx Petroleum (whose bid to raise funds fell well short of expectations in May), Canada's Caracal Energy, formerly Griffiths Energy, has had second (...)      IVORY COAST IFC in major loan for Ciprel     After the gas-fired Azito power station went over to a combined cycle regime last year, the Ciprel station in the port of Vridi south of Abidjan is now poised to do likewise. (...)    NIGERIA Guarantee cutback for NBET     Marking time for the past two years, a World Bank project to offer a $1 billion guarantee to the Nigeria Bulk Electricity Trading (NBET) has been quietly cut back to $800 million. (...)    ZIMBABWE CMEC to refinance Hwange     Barely had it won the tender to extend the coal-powered Hwange power plant than China Machinery & Equipment Company (CME) turned to state-owned Chinese banks, and particularly the (...)    Tripoli Joseph Muscat      Yaounde/Malabo Mahamadou Issoufou      Windhoek Jose Maria de Botelho

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