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volume 15, Issue #2,  Monday, February 08, 2010

• ERHC and Addax group conclude drilling campaign in Sao Tome
• Uganda sued over oil deals disclosure
• Uganda has potential to produce 100,000 barrels of oil a day
• Zambia invites second round of oil exploration bids
• Chevron venture spending $ 2.3 bn to cut flaring in Angola
• On international oil companies, China and Nigeria's crude oil licenses
• Canadian firm developing natural gas project in MENA
• Foster Wheeler receives oil refinery construction deal in Uganda
• Vopak and Zamil Group sign MoU to develop MENA joint venture
• PTTEP joins Chinese partner in Algeria
• Angolan refinery completion delayed until 2014-2015
• Tunisia commences first gas from Hasdrubal field
• Shell and Amerada accept Gabon-Norway-UK strategic asset exchange
• Nigeria's Oyo field pumps first oil offshore
• Algeria awards three of ten exploration licenses
• ENI announces acquisition of Heritage's interest in Uganda blocks
• NNPC acquires 178 filling stations to end fuel queues
• Shell wins South African permit
• PetroVietnam signs up to operate in Sudan and Angola
• Nigeria's Oando invests N 36 bn in domestic gas grid
• Total E&P signs MoU with Nigerian host communities
• Verenex shareholders approve Libyan deal
• Apache to invest extra in Egypt Western Desert exploration
• NNPC expects oil production to hit 2.087 mm bpd in 2010
• India's Essar to invest $ 400 mm in Kenyan refinery
• Kosmos announces appraisal well of Ghana offshore discovery
• Chevron, Shell and others flare 188 bn cf of gas in Nigeria
• Petroceltic's well successfully flows gas in Algeria
• Anadarko group to abandon Mozambique's Rovuma onshore well
• Rwanda signs green energy deal with US and UK firms
• Algeria and Egypt to form Selena energy joint venture
• Hess gauges gas-condensate find off Libya

volume 15, Issue #1,  Thursday, January 07, 2010

• Senegal grants extension on FAR's offshore blocks
• Cuba to train oil technicians in Uganda
• South Africa may face power black-outs in 2011-2012
• Nigeria receives $ 13 bn from oil firms in four years
• Arous Al-Bahar discovery well flows oil and gas offshore Libya
• Venture to build lubricants plant in Uganda
• Nigeria earns N 900 bn from Bonga Oil Field
• Chariot Oil & Gas commences seismic programme offshore Namibia
• Sudan supplies 80 % of Ethiopia's oil demand
• Rockson and GE to construct power plant in Nigeria's Kaduna
• Pacific Asia signs sale agreement for Nigerian Oyo Oilfield
• CNPC to expand Sudan refinery
• SOCO tests positiveoil and gas flows in Congo block
• Heritage to sell Ugandan blocks to ENI for $ 1.5 bn
• CNPC swaps Sudan asset interest with Petronas and signs oil refining deal
• West African pipeline completed but…
• Zambia awards exploration licenses for 11 blocks
• Nigeria's Gbaran-Ubie gas plant uses over $ 1 bn
• Petroceltic and Sonatrach test positive at Algeria's Isarene block
• Heritage to embark on major drilling programs in Iraq and Uganda
• Petroceltic's African gas field 10th largest in world
• Tanzania opens up petroleum sector

volume 14, Issue #17,  Friday, December 18, 2009

• Nigeria's NNPC takes over 133 stations
• Tunisia boasts the highest oil exploration success rate in North Africa
• Medgaz pipeline opening delayed
• Mozambique's EDM to issue natural gas for Maputo power stations
• Total sells stake in Zambian refinery
• Tullow Oil expects output from Ghana field in second half of 2010
• BP and ENI to use gas discovery for second Egyptian LNG train
• Sky Petroleum wins two Suntera blocks onshore Nigeria
• Cooper confirms estimated 94 mm barrels of oil in Tunisian prospect
• Nigeria aligns power and gas programs
• Angola enhances profile with rising reserves
• Sonatrach cuts costs of El-Merk project by $ 3.3 bn
• Ghana rejects oil talks between Kosmos and ExxonMobil
• Artumas group begins drilling on Mozambique's Rovuma block
• Nigeria wants Shell to take responsibility for cleaning up of Ogoniland
• Lebanon receives gas from Egypt to run power plant
• NOCK raises oil storage capacity in Kenya
• El Sewedy joins power project in Egypt
• International firms step up search for oil and gas reserves in Kenya
• Southern Sudan approves plans for 50,000-bpd refinery

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