Since entering the continent in 1956, the oil company has put profit over the wellbeing of communities and ecosystems
Must we choose between short-term well-being and long-term environmental damage?
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New scientific research shows the oil company understood the science before it became a public issue and spent millions to promote misinformation
The extremist insurgency in Mozambique has been an ongoing threat since 2017. SADC needs to act now, say analysts
Mozambique is starting to accept it needs more than private military aid to fight the Islamic State insurgency
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The country must abide by its commitment to empower particularly black women when an oceans economy is developed
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‘Offshore rigs have made some countries rich. They have also proven to be the feeding ground for corrupt elites’
Mineral Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe welcomed the news of the discovery
Angola was badly hit by the oil-price plunge in 2014
The desperate state oil company’s ill-conceived bid to refine crude at its gas-to-liquid plant might be the last
nail in its coffin
​French energy giant Total has officially quit its multi-billion-dollar gas project in Iran, says Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh
Rising oil prices can push up inflation, but first, they translate into rising revenues and profits for energy majors and producer nations
Worries over Trump’s stalled economic agenda and upcoming high-stakes Washington fights had hurt global stocks on Friday
Six large energy companies have asked the United Nations for help in setting up a carbon pricing scheme that would include their operations.
Multinationals such as Total and Citadel have been exploring investment in oil, electricity and railways now that the region has stablised.
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Libyan rebels have decided to keep oil export terminals shut following the government’s rejection of their demands to share revenues.
Oil company Total has shut down a gas plant in Nigeria after a gas leak and has begun working at trying to limit the environmental impact.
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/ 9 November 2011
Gabon’s oil union has relaunched talks with the government about a dispute over the use of expatriate labour, averting the threat of a strike for now.
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/ 23 October 2009
French oil major Total has made an offshore oil discovery in Angola, the company said on Friday.
The secretive world of Middle East oil deals will be thrown open in Baghdad next week when a contract auction is broadcast live.
Production is soaring in Alberta’s bitumen belt, but the environment is suffering, writes John Vidal.
A string of deals with foreign firms to plug financing gaps in Nigeria’s oil industry will help unlock significant shut-in potential in the world’s eighth biggest exporter. Nigeria has signed deals worth -billion with Exxon Mobil and Total over the past week and is finalising a similar agreement with Royal Dutch Shell.
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/ 25 September 2007
Climate change is spurring a ”worldwide economic and industrial restructuring” as more and more of the world’s largest companies seek to confront global warming, an investor survey said on Monday. Even so, some big firms were still doing far too little to identify risks and opportunities from climate change.