Samuel Dossou-Aworet

Instead the oil international companies are heading in the other direction selling their on-shore and shallow water assets to Nigerian consortia run by industry veterans such as Oladipo Jadesimi and Béninois oil trader Samuel Dossou-Aworet (AC Vol 65 No 3 Shell leads oil majors' exit from the Niger Delta)...

3bn to Renaissance a consortium comprising Swiss-based Petrolin set up by Samuel Dossou-Aworet veteran Béninois oil trader and long-term oil advisor to Omar Bongo Ondimba late President of Gabon...

ENTER DOSSOU-AWORET NEW OIL KING IN THE NIGER DELTA If Shell's sale of its assets in the Niger Delta to the Renaissance consortium goes through it will leave Samuel Dossou-Aworet the 79-year old Béninois trader as the single most important oil executive in Nigeria in terms of upstream exploration and production assets...

Work has had to be paused because of legal action by the Beninese-Gabonese entrepreneur Samuel Dossou-Aworet who claims to have been the originator of the plans for rebuilding the railway line and to have talked to Bolloré (AC Vol 50 No 12 How to win in a recession)...

The consortium the Great Sahara Petroleum Operating Company (GSPOC) consists of state-owned Sudapet (20%); Hi Tech (7%); All Africa Investment (5%) a joint venture between Libya Oil Holding Limited (ex-Tamoil) and Petrolin owned by Gabonese man-about-Africa and friend of the late President Omar Bongo Samuel Dossou-Aworet; Saudi Arabia’s Al Qahtani (33%); Yemen’s Ansan Wikfs (20%); and Jordan’s Dindir (15%)...

Gabon’s Petrolin markets its own crude; its owner is local businessman Samuel Dossou-Aworet a business ally of the late President Omar Bongo Ondimba and his family...

Energy Africa has been bought by Anglo-Irish Tullow Oil; last year it saw off a bid from Petronas; the man who led the blocking of that deal was the influential Gabonese Samuel Dossou-Aworet who wanted to keep Energy Africa's 'African' identity...

One source suggests the recruitment may be financed through FIBA bank which is controlled by Gabonese President Omar Bongo and his Paris-based conseiller Samuel Dossou-Aworet...

Bongo's petroleum advisor Sam Doussou-Aworet is also Chief Executive of the newly formed private company Petrolin; President of the new African Petroleum Institute in Cape Town South Africa; and husband of Honorine Dossou-Naki Gabon's Ambassador to Paris and London...

Based in Geneva he is close to Bongo's daughter Pascaline a director of Elf- Gabon and the President's oil advisor Samuel Dossou-Aworet...