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  • Vol 49 No 8
  • 11/04/2008

Big oil, dear oil, new oil

The hundred-dollar barrel has boosted both Africa's national oil companies and ambitious resource nationalists. Algeria, Angola, Egypt and Nigeria see their national oil companies as potential instruments of diplomatic and economic power - as long as the ...

  • Vol 49 No 8
  • 11/04/2008

Lake Albert and the gushers

Congo-Kinshasa and Uganda still disagree about their shared border, but the scraps in which soldiers and civilians were killed on Lake Albert late last year have faded away, and companies on the Ugandan side are looking for oil again. The biggest is T...

  • Vol 49 No 8
  • 11/04/2008

Nigeria takes on Big Oil

President Umaru Yar'Adua has launched a thorough restructuring of the state-owned energy sector and a review of commercial contracts. His reform team hopes to bring in partners like China and Russia while raising funds on international capital markets....

  • Vol 48 No 2
  • 19/01/2007

Gushing higher

Although oil prices are heading downwards, investors and explorers resolutely talk up Africa's energy prospects

  • Vol 43 No 5
  • 08/03/2002

African energy

Western concerns about instability in the Middle East send oil companies south

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