Oil & Energy

Sterling Energy plc : Interim Management Statement – 4-traders (press release)

400 metres to 2,000 metres. The Company holds a 50% non-operated working interest in the Ntem licence, following the introduction in 2011 of Murphy Cameroon Oil Co. Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Murphy Oil Corporation, a successful deep-water operator …

U.S. says Boko Haram plans attacks on Nigerian capital – YAHOO!

Cameroon and Niger. Boko Haram shot dead two people on Monday in Maiduguri, where it has carried out almost daily attacks in recent months. President Goodluck Jonathan, who is a Christian from the southern oil-producing Niger Delta, has been criticized … Continue reading

Cameroon’s former PM Inoni Ephraim arrested – Mail & Guardian Online

He had been a key figure during the presidency of 79-year-old Paul Biya, who has been in power since 1982 and at one point press reports even identified him as his possible successor. A report last November by Cameroon’s National … Continue reading

Scraping the Bottom – Huffington Post

Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon and other countries with oil reserves, have investigated the possibility of setting up similar schemes as an alternative to traditional aid.” It’s one thing to pay Ecuador or Gabon to show restraint. But what will it take … Continue reading

Energy Cost: OPS Predicts Doom for Industrial Sector – THISDAY Live

explaining that the per capita energy consumption is one of the lowest in the world – about 12 watts, as against that of South Africa which is 478 watts; Cameroon, 29 watts; Gabon 124; Ghana, 27 watts; and Mauritius, 198 … Continue reading

Plexus wins £1m Bowleven contract – scotsman.com

Oil and gas engineering firm Plexus has won a £1 million contract to supply equipment to Edinburgh-based explorer Bowleven. Aberdeen-based Plexus will provide the well heads for use off the coast of Cameroon, in West Africa. The high-pressure, high …

Plexus extends Bowleven dealings – Upstream Online

UK-based engineering company Plexus Holdings will supply wellhead equipment for appraisal drilling wells to an arm of Cameroon-focused Bowleven under … the company make inroads to the West African oil and gas markets. Plexus signed a deal to supply …

15 European countries apply for Tehran’s oil show despite sanctions – Presstv

Eshaq Rouyvar, director of the 17th Iranian oil show Despite the European Union’s sanctions … Oman, Finland, Kazakhstan, Cameroon, Canada, Kuwait, Libya, Morocco, Mongolia, Mexico, and Nigeria have registered” to take part in the exhibition, Rouyvar …

Death toll from attack on Nigerian border town rises to 10 – Reliefweb.int

Banki has a popular market patronised by traders from Nigeria, Cameroon and Chad. Boko Haram’s increasingly bloody insurgency has left more than 1,000 people dead since mid-2009 in Africa’s most populous nation and largest oil producer. Criminal gangs have …

Gunmen kill 5 in Nigeria-Cameroon border – Vanguard

the border town between Nigeria and the Cameroon Republic as a group of gunmen attacked the police station, Immigration and Customs Excise outposts in the area. This was even as a black polythene bag containing some items under an electricity … Continue reading