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...Local units of France’s TotalEnergies and Italy’s Agip own 10 per cent and 5 per cent, respectively. The joint venture controls 18 oil production licences and is operated by SPDC....
...Even if the BoE eventually decides against a CBDC, the exploration can be a catalyst for faster payments, better messaging standards and enhanced security....
...“I am now a director of two successful companies, one start-up and one reasonably sized mineral exploration company....
...He uses original moulding techniques to create sinuous, otherworldly forms that are evident in his recent Arums porcelain vases and limited-edition Reflecteur mirror, while his iconic S table, from 2007,...
...Given the importance of commodity trading, there is surprisingly limited information on payments traders make to governments in exchange for oil, gas and minerals....
...One of Africa’s biggest oil prospects is back in the hands of Royal Dutch Shell and Eni after a Nigerian court reversed an earlier decision to seize an offshore exploration and production block that has...
...Nigeria’s anti-corruption agency is investigating allegations that Nigerian subsidiaries of UK-listed Shell and Agip, owned by Eni of Italy, entered “a fraudulent agreement” with a Nigerian company linked...
...They claim that the British company Equion Energia (formerly BP Exploration (Colombia) Limited) negligently managed the construction of the Ocensa oil pipeline in Colombia during the mid-1990s – causing...
...But investment in exploration has been limited and, while new production is coming on-stream, the pipeline of projects has dried up....
...Afren, the Africa-focused oil explorer, has extended its interest in a Nigerian exploration licence by lifting its stake in local partner First Hydrocarbon Nigeria to close to 80 per cent....
...gas to market, as well as financing exploration and development....
...That leaves only minor upside on the table for Alkane’s nascent shale gas licences; it owns 800 square kilometres of onshore exploration licences....
...“The return on investment for gas exploration is not attractive until prices are much higher....
...She claimed the company “aided and abetted” the Nigerian government’s human rights violations against the Ogoni people....
...Elcrest is also buying a 10 per cent stake in the field from Total of France and a 5 per cent from Agip of Italy, giving it a 45 per cent stake....
...A poetic exploration of the horrors of war that builds to a denouement that has all the pacy tension of a political thriller....
...assets held by Royal Dutch Shell, Total and Agip to increase its exposure to the country....
...A funny, moving and occasionally bizarre exploration of life’s upheavals and reversals....
...The Nigerian deepwater licences will consolidate Cnooc’s existing position in the country....
...Indigenous Nigerian oil companies have won exploration licences since Ghana discovered oil in commercial quantities in 2007....
...Senior government officials say they are working on plans to restart production involving the NNPC and perhaps another Nigerian company or foreign player....
...Profits from exploration and production division was 50 per cent of our half year, by 2013 the downstream will be a maximum of 20 per cent. FT: That’s an extraordinary change for a company like this....
...Limited, which is listed in London....
...After paying for the Nigerian investment, liquid funds were still likely to stay high at over US$4bn after the share issue, it said....
...The acquisition, pending approval by the Nigerian state oil company and the Chinese government, would boost CNOOC’s overseas portfolio, which has been limited to small holdings in Indonesia and Australia...
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