Oil & Energy

The Fruit That Did Not Fall – Dissident Voice

Given their excellent relations with Washington, it would be best if the Spanish government went to the United States to take a look at what happens in Yankee prisons, their ruthless treatment of millions of prisoners, their electric chair …

Nigeria army says kills 11 Boko Haram insurgents – msnbc.com

Niger and Cameroon, on the cusp of the Sahara. It has since spread to much of Nigeria’s north and has become the top security threat in Africa’s biggest oil producer. Suspected sect members attacked a police station in Mandwari, in … Continue reading

Petroleum price subsidy unavoidable but who pays for it? – Modern Ghana

Several other countries have price stabilization funds, including Argentina (for LPG and natural gas), Cameroon, Chile, Colombia, Ethiopia, Malawi, and Thailand. While different options exist for financing stabilization funds, Ghana could introduce a Price …

Anglophones Feel Like a Subjugated People – Inter Press Service

Economically, Anglophones also feel exploited. “Cameroon’s oil comes from the Southwest Provincce. How come the road network in the region has been abandoned?” Fru Ndi, the Anglophone opposition leader of the Social Democratic Front (SDF), asked during a …

Juba Fuels Sudan Oil Row With Kenya Pipeline Deal – AllAfrica.com

On Monday, Mr Kiir accused Sudan of seizing crude oil worth $815 million over the revenue sharing … from Lamu to Sudan onwards to the Central Africa Republic, and finally Cameroon, is also in the works. This won’t be all … Continue reading

Oil Revenues Controversy: Sudan’s obstructionism threatens war – Sudan Tribune

Chad’s oil pipeline through Cameroon; see below). Moreover, de Waal’s implicit suggestion that an independent South Sudan should be obliged to replace 40 percent of Khartoum’s budget revenues is absurd, the more so since the budget gap is …

CONFLICT RISKS: NIGERIA – CNBC

Both Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea have been attacked by Niger … Under-investment and corruption have stagnated domestic electricity production for years: the current production of about 2,600 Megawatts is barely adequate for about 10 percent of the …

Chad refinery shuts down again amid ‘dialogue of the deaf’ – Oil & Gas Journal

Chad exported 36.7 million bbl of its oil from January to November 2011, according to a statement issued by Cameroon-based Pipeline Pilot Steering & Monitoring Committee (PSMC). Chad transports its crude through the 1,080-km Chad-Cameroon Pipeline …

Small-caps: Bowleven falls on funding worry – Financial Times

Bowleven lost 7.2 per cent to 80¼p on Tuesday after Investec Securities voiced concerns about how the Cameroon-focused oil explorer would fund its 2012 drilling campaign. Though it saw Bowleven’s assets potentially worth more than 400p per …

LEAD: Co-hosts Equatorial Guinea off to winning start at Nations Cup – Worldnews.com

The country consists of a mainland territory, Río Muni, which is bordered by Cameroon to the north and Gabon to the … rooted in power shift arising from the dramatic increase in oil production which has occurred since 1997.