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N°704 Paris, 07/30/2013 Subscribe  | Country Channels Benjamin Augé ALGERIA Editor in Chief Sonatrach's cautious advance in Africa With discoveries in Algeria becoming increasingly rare and production falling from year to year (see P. 2). Sonatrach is sounding out prospects in other African countries like Ivory Coast and Mozambique. The aim of a former Sonatrach boss, Mohamed Meziane, who was fired for corruption, was to see Sonatrach turning out 120,000 bpd abroad by 2015. (...)           GABON Obangue workers evicted    The Gabonese authorities were clearly intent on flexing their muscles when they wrested control of the Obangue oil field from workers who had occupied it after failing to receive severance (...)        CONGO-B/IVORY COAST SNPC tightens grip on MBK     Congo-B's state-owned oil company and Ivory Coast's PertroCI are now sole owners of the MBK fields discovered by Elf in the 1980s. (...)      Pirates plant flag in Libreville     Already handicapped in its efforts to attract new oil companies to Gabon, Libreville is now confronting a potential influx of pirates from Nigeria. (...)    GHANA ENI submits PoD for Sankofa     The Italian major ENI is hoping for a quick green light from Ghana's government to develop the Sankofa license. (...)    NIGERIA Summer sales season in the Delta     Chevron is winding up the disposal of its acreage in the Niger Delta while Shell is preparing for another sell-off operation. But the conditions aren't all that propitious. (...)    NAMIBIA Big fish circling minnows     The major oil groups are increasingly moving in on Windhoek with the intention of swallowing up juniors that anticipated the opportunities some years back. (...)    Khartoum/Juba    Mediators win time    GHANA Work resumes at Atuabo     The China Development Bank (CDB) has finally started funding the gas purification plant at Atuabo in south-west Ghana again. Some $188 million was recently disbursed to pay the Canadian concern Thermo Design Engineering and therefore allow it to send the rest of the equipment needed to assemble the plant, which is to start receiving gas from the Jubilee field in 2014. (...)    AFRICA Traders on LNG spot market     Moves by Angola and Algeria to scrap the system of long-term sales agreements has opened the door to traders to negotiate LNG prices. (...)    NIGERIA Brass LNG puts brave face on it     Stakeholders in the Brass liquefaction project in Bayelsa state have trouble admitting it but the fate of their project appears deeply compromised. (...)    Accra/Abuja    WAGP starts supplying power plants    NIGER Russians lose Kandadji     The authorities in Niger moved on July 18 to cancel a contract awarded to Russia's Zarubezhvodstroy (ZBS) concern to build the 125 MW hydropower dam at Kandadji. (...)    CONGO-K Bamanisa in fresh call on Belgians     The governor of Orientale province, Jean Bamanisa, is asking for Belgium's assistance in new power and mining projects. (...)    MALAWI/MOZAMBIQUE Banda speeds up interconnection     Power shortages hitting at Malawi's economy have forced president Joyce Banda to do her utmost to import energy from future dams in Mozambique. (...)    NIGERIA Nasir el Rufai     There's little doubt about what book wins the prize as summer reading among oil circles in Lagos and Abuja "The Accidental Public Servant" is a book of memoirs published by an official once in charge of privatizations in Nigeria, Nasir Ahmed El Rufai. (...)    ALGERIA/IVORY COAST Hamed Koffi Zarour     Hamed Koffi Zarour has emerged as one of the most active lobbyists in touting Algerian interests in Ivory Coast. Zarour is currently attempting to get Sonatrach's foot in the door in Abidjan by winning contracts for its LPG. (...)      NIGERIA Stuart Connal     Former operations manager for the British gas firm Centrica in Nigeria between 2006-2010, Stuart Connal has been named to the board of the Nigerian oil company Seplat which operates OML 4, 38 and 41 in the Niger Delta. (...)      SOUTH SUDAN Macar Aciek Ader     Under secretary in charge of technical affairs at South Sudan's oil ministry, Macar Aciek Ader is currently in charge of everyday affairs at the department. (...)    ALGERIA Sonatrach/ENI      CONGO-B Coraf      LIBYA NOC    ALGERIA Glum outlook for Sonatrach     Although Sonatrach's annual reports in recent years have cheerfully spoken of regular advances in oil and gas revenue due to high prices on world markets, the company's financial health (...)      TANZANIA/MALAWI How to avoid The Hague     The three African mediators chosen by Africa Forum to examine the sovereignty issue in the north of Lake Malawi, which is being claimed by Tanzania, are expected to propose a plan (...)      MALI Newcomers on Taoudenni     Three new oil blocks were awarded at a final cabinet meeting overseen by Mali president Dioncounda Traore in Bamako before elections on July 28. (...)    MOZAMBIQUE CNPC finally on block 4     Although it came under strong fire in private by the Mozambique government in March, China's CNPC has finalized its acquisition of a 20% holding on ENI's block 4 in the Rovuma bas (...)    GAMBIA BGR Government Affairs      LIBYA Tatweer Research      AFRICA Stellar Energy Advisor    NIGERIA Probe into OPL 245 deal     Two years after it took place, the acquisition of OPL 245 in Nigeria by Shell andENI in April, 2011 has come under preliminary investigation by the British police unit Proceeds of (...)    NIGERIA Bartlett back in business     Insiders had little trouble in spying the hand of the former guru of British bank Standard Chartered, Andy Bartlett, in a $3 billion operation carried out by the Brazilian bank BTG (...)      TUNISIA Lundin talks break down     Talks that began last month between Tunisia and the Swedish oil company Lundin (AEI 698/702) have ended in stalemate. (...)      NAMIBIA Nampower seeks $860 million     In addition to choosing a company to build the Kudu gas-fuelled power plant at Walvis Bay (AEI 702), the state-owned utility Nampower is seeking cash to finance its part in the fa (...)    Beijing Stephen Dhieu Dau    Abidjan Luc-Adolphe Tiao    Yaounde Foumakoye Gado

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