Exxonmobil

/ 30 May 2022

Faltering insurgency in Mozambique still threatens lives – and gas projects

Instability around crucial projects leaves them stalled, while Frelimo’s inability to accept its leadership failures is preventing long-term solutions to the conflict

By Luis Nhachote, The Continent

Africa

/ 12 June 2021

Petro states: What happens when 30% of your national budget disappears in a decade?

As the demand for oil shrinks and prices collapse, Africa’s petro states — the likes of Angola, Nigeria, Egypt and Equatorial Guinea — will be left with massive holes in their budgets

By Sipho Kings

Business

/ 9 May 2021

Oil boom may be the industry’s last hurrah

Biggest players in the game show signs of recovery but a low-carbon future may threaten fossil fuel

By Sarah Smit

Article

/ 21 February 2020

Apartheid criminals still at large

Corporations and banks that aided the apartheid regime have not been brought to book, so they continue to act with impunity

By Ilham Rawoot

Article

/ 22 June 2018

Reparations row dogs petrol giant

The push by Wentworth residents for Engen to give them a stake in the company has prompted it to take them to court to halt their protests

By Paddy Harper

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Article

/ 2 November 2007

State firms flex muscle in Africa oil boom

Africa’s state-owned oil firms are taking a bigger role in the rush to tap the continent’s energy resources and threatening to upstage the Western majors who have dominated exploration and drilling for decades. Governments from Luanda to Lagos are pushing for greater control and laying down increasingly stringent rules for the international firms.

By Paul Simao

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Article

/ 20 September 2007

Oil prices stay above $82 a barrel

Oil prices kept rising on Thursday after reaching record highs in the previous session on United States refinery outages and declines in US oil inventories. A decline earlier in the day was reversed in part by worries over a potential tropical-storm threat to oil and gas installations in the Gulf of Mexico, analysts said.

By Pablo Gorondi

Faltering insurgency in Mozambique still threatens lives – and gas projects

Petro states: What happens when 30% of your national budget disappears in a decade?

Oil boom may be the industry’s last hurrah

Apartheid criminals still at large

Reparations row dogs petrol giant

State firms flex muscle in Africa oil boom

Oil prices stay above $82 a barrel

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