Oil | - Part 11

Funding Nigerian oil cash calls from debt key for economy: minister

LAGOS, Capital Markets in Africa: Nigeria must get out of paying so-called cash calls to joint ventures with oil and gas companies to stand a chance of pulling its ailing economy out of recession, Finance Minister Kemi Adeosun said on Friday. The minister said the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) had spent 110 billion naira ($360 million) on cash calls this month, which dwarfed the country’s 41 billion naira income from oil production over the…

Deal or No Deal, OPEC’s Freeze Talks Are Already Succeeding

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LAGOS, Nigeria, Capital Markets in Africa: Even as speculation builds over whether OPEC will clinch an output deal with Russia this month, their negotiations are already paying off. Hedge funds and other investors reversed their bets on falling oil prices at the fastest pace in five months after producers said they would meet in Algiers, data from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission show. While skepticism has grown about whether the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries,…

Libya’s Oil Comeback Derailed as Former General Seizes Ports

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LIBYA, Capital Markets in Africa: Libya’s plans to restore oil production suffered a significant setback after forces loyal to the eastern region’s powerful military commander ousted government-backed fighters from key export terminals, just days before a tanker was due to load the first shipment in nearly two years. Khalifa Haftar’s fighters took the ports of Ras Lanuf and Es Sider from Ibrahim Jadran, leader of local Petroleum Facilities Guard units, on Sunday. His forces now control shipping…

Murray & Roberts of South Africa Mulls U.S. Oil & Gas Deal

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Johannesburg, Capital Markets in Africa: Murray & Roberts Holdings Ltd., the South African engineering and construction-projects company in talks to sell its building and infrastructure units, said it’s evaluating a U.S. oil and gas acquisition and will probably seek a larger international deal in years to come. Murray & Roberts, which built landmarks such as Johannesburg’s Carlton Centre, Africa’s tallest building, is working to transform itself into an international operator specializing in underground mining, oil…

Iran, Nigeria Have Right to Raise Oil Output, Algiers Host Says

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LAGOS, Capital Markets in Africa: OPEC and other producers can reconcile talks aimed at stabilizing the oil market with the prerogative of Iran, Nigeria and Libya to boost output, according to Algeria’s energy minister. “Iran has the right to increase production to the pre-sanctions level,” Algeria’s Noureddine Bouterfa said in an interview in Moscow Friday, after meeting his Russian counterpart Alexander Novak. “It is also the right of Libya, Nigeria to increase.” Bouterfa was shuttling between Moscow…

Senegal | Woodside to Buy Conoco’s Senegal Assets for $350 Million

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DAKAR, Senegal, Capital Markets in Africa: Woodside Petroleum Limited agreed to buy ConocoPhillips’s assets in Senegal for $350 million to gain a stake in exploration blocks off the West African nation. ConocoPhillips holds 35 percent of a contract with the Senegal government covering three offshore blocks, Rufisque Offshore, Sangomar Offshore and Sangomar Deep Offshore, Perth-based Woodside said in a statement to the stock exchange Thursday. “This is a gutsy move from Woodside, which will only pay off…

Brent Oil Trades Near $50 as Nigeria Militants Carry Out Attacks

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NIGERIA, Capital Markets in Africa: Brent crude traded near $50 a barrel as Nigerian militants carried out attacks on oil production sites, threatening to deepen the country’s biggest output losses in decades. September futures rose as much as 0.8 percent in London after advancing 1.3 percent Friday. The Niger Delta Avengers said they attacked five crude-pumping facilities overnight Sunday, dealing a blow to a government effort to enforce a cease-fire. Shale drillers in the U.S. brought back the most oil rigs…

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