Global consultancy firm Turner & Townsend has won a contract to project manage the construction of a 550 kilometres (340-mile) pipeline that will transport fuel from the port of Djibouti to Ethiopia
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Africa Oil completes farm out deal with Maersk Oil
Africa Oil Corporation has announced that it has completed a farm-out deal with Maersk Oil Gas for the South Omo and Rift Basin Blocks in Ethiopia
Oil prices on the agenda for IMF, Chad and Cote d'Ivoire
The impact of falling oil prices on the economies of Chad and Cote dIvoire will be on the agenda when leaders from both countries meet with Mr Mitsuhiro Furusawa, deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), this week
Shell now the second biggest non-state oil company
Shell has overtaken Chevron to become the worlds second largest non-state oil company, in the wake of the companys acquisition of BG Group
Orion upbeat about African oil and gas prospects
Kinshasa-based energy company, Orion, remains upbeat about its prospects in central and western Africa, despite the low oil price environment