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| Identifier | Subject | Date | Office | Classification | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00HANOI899 |
VIETNAM: PREPARING FOR APEC ENERGY MINISTERS MEETING [...] ACCORDING TO THE MINISTRY OF INDUSTRY (MOI), MINISTER DANG VU CHU WILL LEAD VIETNAM'S DELEGATION TO THE MAY 10-12 APEC ENERGY MINISTERS CONFERENCE IN SAN DIEGO. (NOTE: THE GOVERNMENT OF VIETNAM DOES NOT HAVE A MINISTRY OF ENERGY. CERTAIN FUNCTIONS ARE DELEGATED TO OTHER MINISTRIES OR TO STAT [...] |
2000-04-28 08:40:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG ECIN EPET VM APEC |
| 00HARARE4941 |
MUGABE DISCUSSES FUEL AND PAN-AFRICAN UNITY IN [...] (C) IN A SEPTEMBER 5 CONVERSATION WITH THE AMBASSADOR, FORMER COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY MINISTER -- AND MUGABE CONFIDANT -- NATHAN SHAMUYARIRA PROVIDED A SHORT READOUT OF PRESIDENT MUGABE'S VISIT TO TRIPOLI THE WEEK OF AUGUST 28. ACCORDING TO SHAMUYARIRA (WHO WAS PART OF THE ZIMBABWEAN DELEGATIO [...] |
2000-09-06 14:15:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EPET ECON ZI |
| 00HARARE5350 |
GOVERNMENT CONTINUES STOPGAP FUEL ACQUISITION [...] (SBU) ACCORDING TO PRESS REPORTING, THE GOVERNMENT OF ZIMBABWE SIGNED A ZIM$2.5 BILLION (APPROXIMATELY USD 50 MILLION) LINE OF CREDIT WITH PRETRONAS, THE MALAYSIAN OIL COMPANY. MOTOR FUELS WILL BE SUPPLIED TO THE COUNTRY OVERLAND, BY RAIL AND ROAD, BY ENGEN. THE MALAYSIAN COMPANY, WHICH HAS [...] |
2000-09-22 10:24:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EIND PGOV AMGT ZI |
| 00HARARE5364 |
GOVERNMENT OF ZIMBABWE NOTIFIED ON EXCHANGE [...] PER REFTEL INSTRUCTION, EMBOFF REACHED GOZ FOREIGN MINISTER STANISLAUS MUDENGE BY TELEPHONE ON SEPTEMBER 23, 2000 AT 11:45 A.M. LOCAL TIME AND INFORMED THE MINISTER OF THE PLANNED EXCHANGE OF OIL FROM U.S. STRATEGIC PETROLEUM RESERVE. MUDENGE THANKED US FOR THE INFORMATION BUT OTHERWISE HAD N [...] |
2000-09-25 15:09:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | EPET ENRG ECON PREL ZI |
| 00HARARE5397 |
ZIMBABWE BANK DIRECTOR PROVIDES SOME HOPE FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: DCM AND POLOFF CALLED ON GIDEON GONO, DIRECTOR OF THE COMMERCIAL BANK OF ZIMBABWE (CBZ), SEPTEMBER 25 TO GET AN UPDATE ON ZIMBABWE'S FUEL SITUATION. AS REPORTED REF B, THE CBZ, AND GONO PERSONALLY, HAS BEEN INSTRUMENTAL IN KEEPING FUEL FLOWING INTO ZIMBABWE UNDER THE MOST ARDUO [...] |
2000-09-26 14:04:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET PREL PINR ECON SENV ZI SA |
| 00KINSHASA8385 |
WEEKLY ECONOMIC REPORT - WEEK OF DECEMBER 11 - [...] (U) SUMMARY: Gasoline and diesel prices rose on December 11, and public transportation fares went up 50 percent on the 13th. Kinshasa's motor fuel supplies were adequate but the GDRC twice closed service stations without providing advance notice, causing confusion. The Congolese franc weakene [...] |
2000-12-18 15:35:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EPET EMIN KSAC AMGT PREL CG |
| 00KINSHASA8558 |
WEEKLY ECONOMIC REPORT - WEEK OF DECEMBER 18 - [...] (U) SUMMARY: Gasoline and diesel supplies were adequate in Kinshasa, though reports that current supplies are noxious persisted. The Congolese franc weakened on the parallel market to about 142 Congolese francs per US dollar. The GDRC held a week-long workshop on the conditions of state-owned [...] |
2000-12-26 15:09:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EPET EMIN KSAC AMGT PREL CG |
| 00STATE229666 |
TALKING POINTS ON IRAQI SUSPENSION OF OIL EXPORTS [...] BACKGROUND: ON DECEMBER 1, IRAQ SUSPENDED OIL EXPORTS WHICH FUND THE UN OPERATED OIL-FOR-FOOD PROGRAM. IT DID SO EVEN THOUGH THE SECURITY COUNCIL AGREED TO ALLOW SHIPMENTS TO CONTINUE UNTIL UN OFFICIALS COULD CONCLUDE A PRICING MECHANISM THAT REFLECTS A FAIR MARKET VALUE FOR IRAQ'S DECEMBER [...] |
2000-12-04 18:23:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | EPET ENRG PREL IZ |
| 01ABUJA1529 |
NIGERIA: AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH SPECIAL ADVISOR [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Howard F. Jeter; Reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On June 22 Ambassador Jeter, DOE Energy Advisor, and Econoff (notetaker) met in Abuja with Special Advisor to the President for Petroleum Affairs and Energy, Dr. Rilwanu Lukman. Dr. Lukman indicated [...] |
2001-06-29 15:05:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV PGOV NI OIL |
| 01ABUJA1624 |
NIGERIA: MEETING WITH SPECIAL ADVISOR FOR [...] Classified by Ambassador Howard Jeter for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (C) Summary: On June 22 Ambassador Jeter, DOE Energy Advisor Brodman, and Econoff Flook (notetaker) met in Abuja with Special Advisor to the President for Petroleum Affairs and Energy, Dr. Rilwanu Lukman. During t [...] |
2001-07-10 12:40:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ELAB ECON NI |
| 01ABUJA2511 |
OBASANJO TO RELEASE 1.2 BILLION EXCESS CRUDE [...] (C) Summary: During a September 26 Council of State meeting, President Obasanjo and state governors resolved their highly publicized squabble over the fate of excess oil revenues. In exchange for the governors accepting a partial allocation of 1.2 billion USD, Obasanjo agreed to eliminate t [...] |
2001-10-03 10:58:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON EPET EFIN |
| 01ABUJA3201 |
NIGERIA: ENDGAME ON GAS FLARING [...] (C) Summary: Minister of State for the Environment Imeh Okopido has enlisted the World Bank, the Government of Norway and environmentalists from around the world to support his position over the issue of gas flaring in Nigeria. Okopido,s personal crusade is to advance the deadline to end gas f [...] |
2001-12-13 16:07:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET SENV PGOV NI |
| 01ABUJA3227 |
NIGERIA: U.S.-U.K. TEAM RAISES VOLUNTARY [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Howard F. Jeter; Reasons 1.5 (b) and (d). 2. (C) Summary: A joint delegation from the British Foreign Office and the State Department met Nigerian government officials and oil company representatives from November 26-28 in Lagos and Abuja to discuss implementa [...] |
2001-12-19 08:25:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM EPET PREL NI |
| 01ABUJA997 |
Revenue Sharing and Resource Control [...] (U) In the interests of de-mystifying what is for everyone, Nigerians included, an extremely convoluted federal revenue-sharing system, Embassy offers the following summary explanation to help define the issues at stake in the resource control lawsuit being heard in the Nigerian Supreme Court. [...] |
2001-05-04 17:38:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN EPET PGOV PINS NI |
| 02ABUJA122 |
NIGERIA: STRIKE HAS LIMITED IMPACT DURING FIRST [...] (U) Summary: As of 1:30 pm Nigeria Time (7:30 am EST), the Nigerian Labour Congress, general strike was most effective in Lagos (Lagos septel). Although showing slightly less than normal activity, Abuja has not been greatly affected by the strike. However, there was substantial compliance in [...] |
2002-01-16 17:28:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ELAB EPET EFIN ECON NI SCOI |
| 02ABUJA1636 |
NIGERIA: BAKASSI MAY LEAD TO CONFLICT [...] (S) SUMMARY: Tensions between Nigeria and Cameroon are rising in anticipation of the ICJ's ruling on the Bakassi dispute. Many observers expect a ruling before the Court's summer recess begins in July. The Nigerian public is not ready to hear that Bakassi belongs to Cameroon. Elections loom. S [...] |
2002-05-31 16:21:00 | Embassy Abuja | SECRET | PREL MOPS PBTS EPET CM NI ICJ |
| 02ABUJA1814 |
NIGERIA: NSA MOHAMMED REMARKS ON SAO TOME [...] (S/NF) Regional Affairs Counselor raised Nigeria's relations with Sao Tome and Principe (STP) with National Security Advisor Aliyu Mohammed last week. While Mohammed did not talk expansively, he stated that the bilateral relationship was friendly and good. He gave no indication of any strain, [...] |
2002-06-19 15:03:00 | Embassy Abuja | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL EPET TP NI |
| 02ABUJA2326 |
NIGERIA: LETTER FROM CHEVRON NIGERIA: ESCRAVOS [...] Ambassador Jeter received the following letter from Chevron Nigeria Limited, signifying the end of the occupation of Chevron's Escravos storage facility by Ugborodo women in Delta State: Begin Text END OF OCCUPATION OF ESCRAVOS TANK FARM BY UGBORODO WOMEN =Salutations We are [...] |
2002-08-05 19:06:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC PGOV EPET SOCI NI |
| 02ABUJA2438 |
TOP OIL ADVISORS ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT ENERGY FUTURE [...] (SBU) Summary: On July 25 Assistant Secretary Kansteiner and Ambassador Jeter discussed oil and gas issues with Dr. Rilwanu Lukman, Obasanjo's Special Advisor on Petroleum and Energy, and the current President of OPEC. Lukman denied rumors that Nigeria will leave OPEC under alleged U.S. pres [...] |
2002-08-21 17:41:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ETRD PREL NI |
| 02ABUJA2665 |
NIGERIA: U.S. OIL EXECUTIVES TELL SENATOR BINGAMAN [...] (C) Summary: On August 31, Senator Bingaman (D-New Mexico) met representatives of the three largest Nigerian-based U.S. oil companies (ChevronTexaco, Conoco, and ExxonMobile) to discuss natural gas flaring in Nigeria. The oil executives stated that efforts to halt gas flaring have been hamst [...] |
2002-09-13 09:07:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | OREP EPET SENV ECON PGOV NI |
| 02ABUJA2686 |
SUBJECT: NIGERIA: USTDA VISIT A SUCCESS STORY [...] Summary. United States Trade and Development Agency (TDA) Special Assistant for Projects Thomas Hardy completed agreements for feasibility studies for fertilizer and housing projects worth $722,000, discussed programs with the Ministers of Solid Minerals and Agriculture, and briefed senior s [...] |
2002-09-17 18:15:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON EAGR ECPS EAID EAIR EINV EPET EMIN KPAO NI |
| 02ABUJA2738 |
NIGERIA: OIL WORKERS' STRIKE CAUSES SHORT-LIVED [...] PENGASSAN, Nigeria's white collar oil and gas union, in cooperation with the blue collar Nigerian Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas (NUPENG), held a one day "warning strike" on September 23 to protest the planned privatization of certain downstream operations of the Nigerian National Petroleum [...] |
2002-09-25 15:32:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ELAB EPET NI |
| 02ABUJA2787 |
NIGERIA MIGHT IGNORE UNFAVORABLE RULING ON [...] (C) Summary: Nigerian Minister of State for Defense (Army) Batagarawa told us on September 27 said that Nigeria would disregard an unfavorable ICJ ruling on Bakassi. International pressure could be withstood. That evening, DCM heard a second report of Minister of Defense Danjuma's warning to [...] |
2002-10-03 18:43:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS MOPS PGOV PREL PREF EPET NI CM |
| 02ABUJA2836 |
NIGERIA: DEMARCHE TO GON ON AL-QAIDA THREATS [...] No summary [...] |
2002-10-11 17:54:00 | Embassy Abuja | SECRET | PTER ASEC EPET ENRG PREL NI |
| 02ABUJA2933 |
NIGERIA: MOD DANJUMA DENIES PARIS AGREEMENT ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: During an October 25 meeting with Ambassador Jeter, Nigerian Minister of Defense Lieutenant General (ret.) Theophilus Y. Danjuma discussed the GON's position on the ICJ's Bakassi decision. While Danjuma denied the GON had agreed to abide by the ICJ's ruling at the September 5 Pa [...] |
2002-10-25 18:45:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS MOPS PGOV PREL PREF EPET NI CM |
| 02ABUJA2961 |
NIGERIA: ECONOMIC ROUNDUP OCTOBER 30 [...] This periodic economic report includes: --U.S.-Nigeria Air Cargo: Taking Advantage of AGOA --GON Re-Thinks Nigeria Airways Deal --GON to Set Domestic Content Requirement for JV Oil Contracts --Local Concerns Over Niger Delta Dredging U.S.-Nigeria Air Cargo: Taking Advantage of AGOA ------ [...] |
2002-10-30 10:59:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EPET EINV EAIR NI |
| 02ABUJA3036 |
NIGERIA: MOD DANJUMA ACCUSES FRENCH OF ARMING [...] (C) During a private moment at the October 30 Australian National Day, I asked Minister of Defense T.Y. Danjuma if he could confirm reports of a GON military build-up in response to the ICJ decision on the Bakassi. Danjuma did not deny the reports as I thought he would; rather he said that N [...] |
2002-11-06 12:26:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS MOPS PGOV PREL PREF EPET NI CM |
| 02ABUJA3341 |
YEAR-END ECONOMIC POTPOURRI [...] This cable covers: -- Ambassador's Meets with World Bank and IMF prior to Article Four Consultation Meetings in Washington -- Central Bank is Optimistic about Near Term -- CBN and IMF Statistics on GDP Differ -- GON Not Worried About Drop in FOREX Reserves -- CBN Claims States Continue to [...] |
2002-12-19 14:43:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON EPET EAID PGOV NI |
| 02AMMAN3894 |
JORDAN'S IRAQ JITTERS [...] (S) Repeated public statements by Jordanian FM Muasher and PM Abul Ragheb since July 10 denying that Jordan will be used as a "launching pad" for U.S. military operations against Iraq shed light on GOJ sensitivity to its vulnerabilities vis-a-vis Baghdad. Similarly, on July 13, the GOJ issued [...] |
2002-07-16 08:22:00 | Embassy Amman | SECRET | PREL ETTC EPET IZ JO |
| 02AMMAN4533 |
JORDAN: NO INCREASE IN INSURANCE OR SHIPPING [...] (c) Summary. According to the head of the Jordanian Shipping Agents Association, the July issuance of a "special advisory" by the Maritime Liaison Office (MARLO) in Bahrain has not resulted in an increase in either insurance or freight charges for Aqaba shipping. End Summary. 2. (c) Se [...] |
2002-08-13 07:05:00 | Embassy Amman | SECRET | MOPS ETTC EPET PREL IZ JO |
| 02AMMAN7125 |
JORDAN-IRAQ TRADE AND OIL PROTOCOLS NEARLY SET FOR [...] (c) Following preliminary negotiations in Baghdad, terms for Jordan's annual oil and trade protocols with Iraq have been nearly agreed to, according to senior GOJ officials. The terms for the oil protocol will be virtually identical to last year's agreement, with minor adjustments to quantiti [...] |
2002-12-09 08:56:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC ETRD EPET EFIN IZ JO |
| 02AMMAN7130 |
JORDAN'S ENERGY MINISTER ON TANKERS AND PIPELINES [...] (s) Energy Minister Mohammed Bataineh updated DCM December 4 on a number of developments in Jordan's energy sector. The Minister commented on challenges facing the GOJ in maintaining a floating oil reserve in a tanker in Aqaba, discussed latest developments on the al-Arish-Aqaba gas pipelin [...] |
2002-12-09 11:27:00 | Embassy Amman | SECRET | ENRG EPET ETTC IZ JO |
| 02ANKARA8018 |
TURKEY-GREECE GAS INTERCONNECT ADVANCES, BUT KEY [...] (C) Summary and comment: Turkey and Greece have reached agreement on the text of an Intergovernmental Agreement for the Turkey-Greece gas interconnect, which they hope to sign by the end of November. BOTAS and DEPA have not, however, been able to agree on the price at which DEPA would purchas [...] |
2002-11-07 14:25:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET AJ GG KZ TU |
| 02ANKARA8141 |
MFA ON TURKEY-GREECE GAS INTERCONNECT [...] (C) Summary: MFA Deputy DG for Energy Hakki Akil reiterated to Econ Couns BOTAS's request for USG assistance in encouraging the Greeks to accept paying a higher price for natural gas from Turkey in the short-term for the long-term benefits the Turkey-Greece interconnect would provide. Akil a [...] |
2002-11-12 15:42:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET AJ GG KZ TU |
| 02ANKARA8863 |
IRAQ AND THE TURKISH GAS MARKET [...] (C) Summary and comment: The GOT denies recent press reports that suggest new developments on the Turkey-Iraq gas project. Although the MFA previously told us a 1997 Turkey-Iraq protocol on natural gas was null and void, BOTAS claims the protocol still exists, and was discussed as recently a [...] |
2002-12-09 12:35:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET ETTC AJ GG KZ TU IZ |
| 02ANKARA8986 |
BP STILL ANALYZING COMMERCIAL VIABILITY OF SHAH [...] (C) Summary and comment: BP's gas analyst is struggling to make the commercial case for Shah Deniz -- although he claims top management is committed to the project, he believes the Turkish gas market is still oversupplied and the project is too expensive. He also maintains that transporting [...] |
2002-12-16 13:17:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET AJ GG KZ TU |
| 02ANKARA9166 |
AMB. MANN'S VISIT TO TURKEY [...] (C) Summary: AK party officials, including Energy Minister Guler and three newly-elected parliamentarians, confirmed their support for the BTC and Shah Deniz projects to EB/CBED Ambassador Mann in his December 18-20 visit to Ankara. Mann reviewed U.S. energy policy in the Caspian, noting tha [...] |
2002-12-30 05:48:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET AJ GG KZ TU |
| 02HANOI2709 |
VIETNAM-RUSSIA: STRONG BUT "PRAGMATIC" [...] (U) SUMMARY. SINCE THE BREAKUP OF THE SOVIET UNION, VIETNAM'S TIES WITH RUSSIA HAVE EVOLVED FROM CLIENT STATE TO A RELATIONSHIP BASED ON " MUTUAL PRACTICALITY AND PRAGMATISM." POLITICAL AND DEFENSE TIES STILL COUNT, BUT THE ECONOMIC RELATIONSHIP APPEARS INCREASINGLY IN THE FOREFRONT. THE [...] |
2002-11-08 04:47:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER ETRD ECON EPET ENRG RS VM |
| 02HARARE1719 |
ZIMBABWE FACES FUEL SHORTAGES UNLESS NEW [...] (C) Summary. Amid rumors of imminent fuel shortages reminiscent of those that occurred in 1998, a local economist estimates that Zimbabwe retains at best a one-month supply of oil should pipeline and tanker shipments be curtailed. The southern and northern regions are serviced by different s [...] |
2002-07-25 12:37:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET ETRD ZI |
| 02HARARE2102 |
FUEL SHORTAGE OR PANIC BUYING? -- FUEL QUEUES [...] Summary. Various sources suggest that a nation-wide fuel shortage is likely sooner rather than later (reftel). Even with continued financial support from Libya regarding the fuel itself, widely reported in recent press accounts, the GOZ is facing huge pressures to produce forex to get the fue [...] |
2002-09-17 11:44:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EPET PGOV ZI |
| 02HARARE2246 |
ZIMBABWE'S FOREX/FUEL QUANDARY [...] (U) Summary: Zimbabwe's fuel shortage has worsened. Each new Libyan demand for foreign exchange sets off an eleventh hour crisis, as the GoZ seeks to wean hard currency from a rapidly shrinking economy. End Summary. Scapegoating Suppliers ---------------------- 2. (SBU) In a new twist sin [...] |
2002-10-09 10:05:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EPET EFIN ETRD ZI |
| 02HARARE2397 |
Zimbabwe May Scrap Fuel Support [...] (U) Summary: Reportedly smarting from a first-hand encounter with dry fuel pumps, President Mugabe has suggested parastatal NOCZIM may relinquish the job of importing fuel to the private sector, bringing an end to a costly and self-defeating fuel subsidy. This would require huge price increa [...] |
2002-11-04 12:08:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EPET EFIN ETRD ZI |
| 02HARARE2482 |
Will the Economy Implode? [...] Summary: The Government of Robert Mugabe has impoverished nearly every Zimbabwean, a case of collective downward mobility rarely experienced in countries not at war. A gardener who earned US$ 150/month at independence in 1980 now takes home less than US$ 15. As the economy continues to shrin [...] |
2002-11-13 10:49:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EPET EFIN ETRD ZI |
| 02HARARE2544 |
U.S. OIL FIRMS COULD GET SQUEEZED [...] (C) Summary: Indigenous firms are pressing the GoZ to let them take over business from foreign oil firms, according to Mobil officials. However, the company reps were subsequently encouraged by subsequent GoZ assurances on Tuesday that multinational investment should be protected. End Summary. [...] |
2002-11-18 06:55:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EPET ZI |
| 02HARARE2747 |
Govt shuts bureaux de change [...] Summary: Hundreds of bureaux de change have closed their doors as part of a GoZ strategy to kill the parallel currency market. Many bureaux are moving to more discreet locations, while several banks continue to exchange money at parallel rates. End Summary. "Talking down" the dollar ----- [...] |
2002-12-03 09:45:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EPET EFIN ETRD ZI |
| 02HARARE2809 |
Almost No Fuel [...] (U) Summary: Short of foreign exchange and shunned by Libya, this country is virtually running on empty. Doggedly patient Zimbabweans wait days in mile-long fuel lines that meander over and around city blocks. The roads have lost 75 percent of normal traffic, as the Government cannot muster [...] |
2002-12-17 14:06:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EPET EFIN ETRD AMGT ZI |
| 02HARARE2819 |
Business Leader Believes Zimbabwe Must Change [...] (SBU) Summary: Jewel Bank CEO Gideon Gono told us he believes Zimbabwe's macroeconomic imbalances are unsustainable over the next 6 months. Gono's frank appraisal hints that a dose of reality may be seeping through to the country's upper echelon. End Summary. 2. (SBU) The Ambassador and E [...] |
2002-12-18 08:28:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EPET EFIN ETRD ZI |
| 02HARARE2820 |
Keeping the Lights On in Zimbabwe [...] Summary: The GoZ will need to spend over twice its revenue to meet appropriation goals in 2003, according to our calculations. It will react to this bleak predicament by printing money, enduring shortages and relinquishing national assets. End Summary. 2. In spite of its veneer of transp [...] |
2002-12-18 09:32:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EPET EFIN ETRD ZI |
| 02HARARE2835 |
Harare's Fuel Lines: It's Not Pretty [...] Summary: An informal poll of Embassy staff today indicates that it remains very difficult to obtain fuel in Harare. Nonetheless, several stations are pumping and vehicles on the road have increased from approximately 25 to 50 percent of normal. End Summary. 2. Local staff say it has taken f [...] |
2002-12-19 13:55:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EPET EFIN ETRD AMGT ZI |
| 02HARARE2876 |
GOZ adds more price controls [...] Summary: The macroeconomically-challenged GOZ expanded its price freeze list on December 28. New controls will lead to further shortages and a burgeoning black market. End Summary. 2. Over the past months, the GOZ has rapidly expanded its price freeze. The latest list includes school unifo [...] |
2002-12-30 14:22:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EPET EFIN ETRD AMGT ZI |
| 02KUWAIT5415 |
KUWAIT ACTING OIL MINISTER ON PROJECT KUWAIT, [...] No summary [...] |
2002-12-17 07:29:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ETRD PREL KU SA QA IR ENRG EINV |
| 02KUWAIT5464 |
KUWAIT: SENIOR ADVISOR ON STATUS OF PROJECT KUWAIT [...] No summary [...] |
2002-12-22 07:00:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV KU |
| 02RANGOON1233 |
PREMIER DIVESTS, PETRONAS DIGS IN [...] (C) Summary: Premier Oil's decision to pull up stakes here seems based more on financial necessity than the pressure of boycotts. Petronas, Premier's partial owner and business partner in Burma, agreed to sell back its shares in Premier in exchange for the British firm's position in the Yetagu [...] |
2002-09-25 05:35:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV BM |
| 02RANGOON1340 |
BURMA: DARKNESS AT NOON [...] (C) Summary: Power is flowing nearly 24 hours a day in the capital. The government is making this happen through a hodgepodge of policy proclamations, full dams at the hydropower plants, and expensive, and potentially dangerous, stopgap measures. Because of increasing agitation over food pri [...] |
2002-10-16 06:37:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET ECON BM |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA2857 |
EMBASSY ADVOCACY FOR AES AS THE DECISION ON THE 210 [...] (SBU) The Embassy continues to advocate strongly for a transparent process that will treat American investors fairly, as the state electricity company ENEE's decision on the winner of the 210MW electricity tender approaches. ENEE's decision, like the bid opening itself (ref b), has been postpo [...] |
2002-10-11 15:43:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET EINV ECON HO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA2897 |
AES PROJECT: ANNOUNCEMENT OF 210MW BID WINNER [...] (SBU) Once again, the announcement of the winning bid in the 210MW energy contract has been delayed (bids were presented on July 26). Angelo Botazzi, the general manager of the state-owned electricity company ENEE, now says the decision will be announced sometime before October 23rd. As the [...] |
2002-10-17 22:29:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET EINV ECON HO |
| 02TEGUCIGALPA3492 |
HONDURAS' PETROLEUM MARKET STABLE FOR NOW, DESPITE [...] (SBU) Econoff approached Texaco Caribbean General Manager Richard Ritter (please protect) on December 30 to discuss the effect of the oil strike in Venezuela on Honduras' petroleum and energy needs. Honduras, which is party to an agreement signed between Venezuela and other countries in the r [...] |
2002-12-31 18:06:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG HO VE |
| 03ABUDHABI1027 |
UAE PASSES SAUDI ARABIA TO BECOME JAPAN'S TOP OIL [...] (U) According to official figures, UAE oil exports to Japan increased 20.6% in January 2003 from December 2002. The Emirates thus officially became the top oil exporter to Japan, shipping 1.05 million barrels per day (bpd), slightly larger than the 1.02 million bpd sent from Saudi Arabia. Almo [...] |
2003-03-02 13:25:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET ETRD JA TC |
| 03ABUDHABI1086 |
(C) ABU DHABI OVERPRODUCING QUOTA BY 200,000 B/PD, [...] (U) Classified by DCM Richard A. Albright for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (C) A western oil executive in an excellent position to know told Econchief March 5 that he believes that the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) is overproducing the UAE's 2.14 million barrel per day (bpd) OPE [...] |
2003-03-05 13:06:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET PGOV BEXP ENRG ECON TC |
| 03ABUDHABI1088 |
UAE OIL OFFICIAL'S VIEWS ON IRAQ AND THE OIL [...] (U) Classified by DCM Richard Albright, for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (C) The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company's (ADNOC) Deputy CEO, Abdullah Bin Nasser Al-Suwaidi does not believe that the oil market would collapse following a military conflict with Iraq and removal of Saddam Hussein fro [...] |
2003-03-05 13:58:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET PGOV BEXP ENRG ECON EINV TC |
| 03ABUDHABI1138 |
ABU DHABI NATIONAL OIL COMPANY (ADNOC): TOUGH NUT [...] (U) Classified by DCM Richard Albright, for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2.(C) Summary and comment: Aspiring participants in the UAE oil market -- including American oil companies -- continue to find it difficult to get a foot in the door at ADNOC, the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company. ADNOC of [...] |
2003-03-10 10:54:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET PGOV BEXP ENRG ECON EINV TC |
| 03ABUDHABI1292 |
(C) ABU DHABI'S OIL PRODUCTION CAPACITY (C- [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba, for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (S/NF) Summary and comment: In separate meetings with Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) CEO Yousef bin Omeir and Deputy CEO Abdulla Nasser Al-Suweidi on March 17, Econchief was provided an unprecedented l [...] |
2003-03-17 14:18:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET//NOFORN | KPRP PINR ENRG EINV EPET ETRD |
| 03ABUDHABI1337 |
(C) WESTERN OIL EXEC CLARIFIES COMMENTS REGARDING [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba, for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (C/NF) A western oil executive previously commented to Econchief that the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) is producing about 10 percent or 200,000 barrels per day (b/d) over its current OPEC quota of 2. [...] |
2003-03-19 12:41:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET//NOFORN | EPET PGOV BEXP ENRG ECON EINV TC |
| 03ABUDHABI1384 |
(S) JORDANIAN OIL NEEDS: UAE READY TO [...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY AMBASSADOR MARCELLE M. WAHBA FOR REASONS 1.5 (B,D). 2. (S) IN THE COURSE OF A MEETING ON THE AFTERNOON OF 3/23, MFA MINSTATE SHAYKH HAMDAN BIN ZAYID STATED THAT HE HAD BEEN CALLED BY JORDANIAN FM MUASHER THE PREVIOUS EVENING, WHO HAD TOLD HIM THAT IRAQ HAD CUT ITS OIL P [...] |
2003-03-23 13:39:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | PREL EPET EAID PGOV JO SA KU TC |
| 03ABUDHABI1513 |
(C) DOLPHIN GAS PROJECT: STILL NO GAS SALES [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (S) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Almost one year after the selection of U.S. firm Occidental Petroleum to assume a 24.5 percent stake in the Dolphin project to pump natural gas from Qatar to the UAE, actual gas pu [...] |
2003-03-30 13:20:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | EPET PGOV ENRG ECON EINV IR TC |
| 03ABUDHABI1663 |
ADGAS ADMITS QATAR UNDERCUTTING LNG MARKET; PLANS [...] (U) Classified by DCM Richard A. Albright for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). ABU DHABI CONCEDES LNG MARKET TO QATAR -------------------------------------- 2. (C) The managing director of the Abu Dhabi Gas Liquification Company (ADGAS), Hassan Al-Marzooki, told Econchief April 2 that his fir [...] |
2003-04-07 13:00:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET PGOV BEXP ENRG ECON EINV TC |
| 03ABUDHABI1830 |
TFIZ01: UAEG CONSIDERS REQUEST TO DONATE [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (C) In delivering the Secretary's oral message (refs A and B), Ambassador previewed ref C talking points with UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Shaykh Hamdan bin Zayid Al-Nahyan on 4/13. The Ambassado [...] |
2003-04-15 14:24:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON EPET PREL IZ TC |
| 03ABUDHABI1936 |
DEMARCHE PRIOR TO OPEC MINISTERIAL [...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY DCM RICHARD A. ALBRIGHT FOR REASONS 1.5 (B,D). 2. (S) ECONCHIEF DELIVERED REFTEL DEMARCHE 4/22 TO PETROLEUM MINISTRY DIRECTOR FOR ECONOMIC AFFAIRS HAMDAN AL-AKBARI. AL-AKBARI LISTENED CAREFULLY, BUT MADE NO SUBSTANTIVE COMMENT OTHER THAN TO PROMISE TO PASS ON OUR VIEWS [...] |
2003-04-22 13:56:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | PREL EPET ECON TC |
| 03ABUDHABI1939 |
TFIZ01: UAEG CONSIDERS REQUEST TO DONATE [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (C) Ambassador delivered 4/18 DoD Undersecretary Dov Zakheim's letter to UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Shaykh Hamdan bin Zayid Al-Nahyan, requesting the UAEG to donate petroleum products to Iraq. [...] |
2003-04-22 14:29:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON EPET PREL IZ TC |
| 03ABUDHABI2641 |
UAE TO SUPPORT JORDAN OIL NEEDS FOR [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (C) MFA Minstate Hamdan bin Zayid contacted the Ambassador on June 2 to convey information about the UAEG's ongoing assistance to Jordan and Morocco. With regard to Jordan, Hamdan reported that the UAE has agreed t [...] |
2003-06-03 12:50:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EPET EAID PGOV JO MO SA KU TC |
| 03ABUDHABI2761 |
UAEG PREDICTS NO MAJOR MOVEMENT AT THE JUNE [...] (U) Classified by Acting DCM Thomas E. Williams, for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (C) UAE Ministry of Petroleum Director of Economic Affairs and OPEC delegate Hamdan Al-Akbari told Acting DCM June 9 that he believes oil market supply and demand are balanced, current pricing is "adequate," [...] |
2003-06-09 11:32:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET PGOV BEXP ENRG ECON EINV TC |
| 03ABUDHABI3208 |
ABU DHABI'S NEXUS OF ECONOMIC POWER, PART II: THE [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba, for reasons 1.5 (b) and (d). ------------ Introduction ------------ 2. (C) This is the second cable in a series that focuses on the informal, and less visible, power structure of Abu Dhabi emirate and -- through the power of the purse st [...] |
2003-07-09 13:32:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET//NOFORN | ECON EFIN EINV EPET PINS PREL PGOV TC |
| 03ABUDHABI3506 |
UAE OIL MINISTER SAYS OPEC QUOTAS WILL REMAIN [...] (U) UAE PETROLEUM MINISTER OBEID BIN SAIF AL-NASIRI TOLD LOCAL REPORTERS ON JULY 27 THAT HE EXPECTS OPEC'S PRODUCTION QUOTAS TO REMAIN UNCHANGED AT THE CARTEL'S JULY 31 MEETING IN VIENNA. HE SAID THAT OPEC COULD NOT JUSTIFY A PRODUCTION INCREASE AT THIS TIME BECAUSE OIL PRICES ARE WITHIN A RA [...] |
2003-07-28 13:40:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON EINV EPET TC |
| 03ABUDHABI3591 |
UAEG REQUESTS LIST OF U.S. DELEGATES TO THE [...] POST RECEIVED A DIPLOMATIC NOTE FROM THE UAE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS FORMALLY REQUESTING THE NAME OF THE HEAD OF THE U.S. DELEGATION TO THE SEPTEMBER 23-24 IMF/WORLD BANK MEETINGS IN DUBAI, AS WELL AS A COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF THE MEMBERS OF OUR DELEGATION PARTICIPATING IN THE MEETINGS. [...] |
2003-08-03 11:43:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON EFIN EINV EPET ETRD PGOV TC |
| 03ABUDHABI3721 |
UAE MAY CUT OIL PRODUCTION LATER THIS YEAR [...] (U) Classified by Charge d'Affaires, a.i., Richard A. Albright, for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (C) The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) acknowledged publicly on August 10 that it will cut oil production in the last quarter of 2003 to undertake major repair work in the Lower Zakum a [...] |
2003-08-12 13:30:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET PGOV BEXP ENRG ECON EINV TC |
| 03ABUDHABI4361 |
UAE'S REPRESENTATIVE TO OPEC "SURPRISED" BY [...] (U) Classified by Economic Section Chief Oliver B. John, for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (C) In a 9/28 meeting with Econ Chief, UAE Ministry of Petroleum Director of Economic Affairs and OPEC delegate Hamdan Al-Akbari said he was "a little bit surprised" by the organization's decision las [...] |
2003-09-28 09:49:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET PGOV BEXP ENRG ECON EINV TC |
| 03ABUDHABI4694 |
UAE: DOLPHIN SIGNS MAJOR GAS SUPPLY AGREEMENTS [...] (C) Summary and comment: The Ambassador met with Occidental Petroleum CEO Dr. Ray Irani 10/21 -- days after Dolphin Energy Limited (DEL) signed two long-term supply agreements with the UAE's major power and water companies. DEL, in which Oxy maintains 24.5 percent equity, intends to begin pum [...] |
2003-10-21 13:50:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET PGOV BEXP ENRG ECON EINV TC |
| 03ABUDHABI4790 |
OCCIDENTAL PETROLEUM LOOKING AT 2ND QATAR GAS [...] (C) On October 27, David Scott, General Manager of Oxy of Abu Dhabi (protect) told Econchief that Occidental Petroleum, along with the UAE Offsets Group and other consortium partners, was in the initial stages of a large gas to liquids (GTL) project with Qatar. The consortium has signed an MO [...] |
2003-10-28 10:41:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON TC |
| 03ABUDHABI5031 |
ADNOC EXECUTIVES AND STUDENTS ALLEGE MISTREATMENT OF [...] (U) SUMMARY: ON SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2003, ABU DHABI CONOFF AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS ASSISTANT VISITED THE ABU DHABI NATIONAL OIL COMPANY (ADNOC) SCHOLARSHIP OFFICE. DURING THIS MEETING, CONOFF DISCUSSED VISA PROCESSING DELAYS, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY (DHS) PROCEDURES AT US PORTS OF ENTRY [...] |
2003-11-19 14:21:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPAO CVIS CMGT ECON EPET BEXP TC |
| 03ABUDHABI5076 |
UAE: TALK ABOUT TOWN [...] (U) Classified by Charge d'Affaires Richard A. Albright, for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (U) This is the first in a series of "Talk About Town" cables that the U.S. Mission in Abu Dhabi and Dubai hopes to provide on a periodic basis. These cables will report on local business atmospheric [...] |
2003-11-23 14:03:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EAIR ECON EPET PGOV PREL SOCI TC |
| 03ABUDHABI889 |
UAE REITERATES A COMMITMENT TO MAINTAINING OIL [...] (U) UAE Oil Minister Obaid bin Saif al-Nasseri publicly declared on 2/22, following a meeting with Russian Oil Minister Igor Yusufov, that OPEC is prepared to act decisively to ensure no disruption of oil supplies to world markets. In remarks widely covered by the local and international pres [...] |
2003-02-24 05:56:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ECON ENRG TC |
| 03ABUJA1026 |
NIGERIA: ECONOMIC ROUNDUP JUNE 13 [...] (U) This periodic economic report from Abuja and Lagos includes: --Obasanjo Highlights Economy in Inaugural Speech . . . But Disputes Poverty Figures --Obasanjo Holds Off Naming Cabinet --GON Bans Import of Baryte, Mineral Used for Oil Drilling --World Airways Lands in Lagos --Parallel Marke [...] |
2003-06-12 09:29:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV EAIR EPET NI |
| 03ABUJA1061 |
NIGERIA: US-DONATED BOATS HELP STEM OIL LOSSES [...] No summary [...] |
2003-06-13 17:40:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EPET PINS ASEC NI |
| 03ABUJA1091 |
NIGERIA: FUEL PRICE INCREASE MAY TRIGGER VIOLENCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 20, the GON announced a 65 percent fuel price hike, increasing consumer prices from 26 naira to 40 naira per liter. Most Nigerians expected a rise in costs, but did not expect the announcement to come so quickly nor probably did not expect its magnitude. The move however [...] |
2003-06-20 17:33:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ELAB PINS PGOV NI |
| 03ABUJA1107 |
NIGERIA: NLC THREATENS GENERAL STRIKE OVER FUEL [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) called on June 24 for a nationwide strike beginning Monday June 30 to protest the GON's fuel price hike. Some in the NLC leadership were lukewarm about a strike; however, the decision was no surprise. The Union's long standing and perhaps its m [...] |
2003-06-26 15:08:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ELAB PINS PGOV NI |
| 03ABUJA1135 |
NIGERIA: FUEL STRIKE SLOWS COUNTRY [...] (U) Summary: The promised nation-wide strike by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) over fuel price increases began June 30. While the strike did not completely shut down the country or any of its major cities, streets throughout Nigeria were less busy than normal, as many workers stayed home. A [...] |
2003-06-30 19:04:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB PINS EPET ENRG ASEC CASC PGOV NI |
| 03ABUJA1138 |
NIGERIA: OIL COMPANIES COURT DELTA MILITANTS [...] No summary [...] |
2003-07-01 12:45:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EPET PREL PGOV PINS NI |
| 03ABUJA1147 |
NIGERIA: POLICE KILL FOUR DEMONSTRATORS; STRIKE [...] (U) Summary: The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) strike entered its second day with reports of sporadic violence, including four people apparently killed near Abuja. Nevertheless, the general mood is less tense than it was during the strike's first day. Some domestic flights resumed today, and [...] |
2003-07-01 17:02:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB EPET ENRG PGOV ASEC CASC NI |
| 03ABUJA1148 |
NIGERIA: HOSTAGE-TAKING IN THE DELTA [...] No summary [...] |
2003-07-01 18:10:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ASEC PINS PGOV NI |
| 03ABUJA1157 |
NIGERIA: GON AND LABOR REMAIN AT LOGGERHEADS AS [...] (U) Summary: Nigeria has entered the third day of a national strike, with no agreement in sight between the National Labour Congress (NLC) and the Obasanjo Administration over fuel prices. Tensions in Abuja rose today as police clashed with NLC leaders and demonstrators. Street clashes conti [...] |
2003-07-02 17:45:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB EPET ENRG PGOV ASEC CASC NI |
| 03ABUJA1162 |
NIGERIA: STRIKE CONTINUES TO HOLD FOR FOURTH DAY [...] (U) SUMMARY: July 3 was relatively quiet in Abuja. Vehicular traffic was light, gas lines were growing and most offices and businesses had skeletal staffing. Indicating that the political opposition may be looking for ways to exploit the strike, the Embassy experienced a peaceful demonstratio [...] |
2003-07-03 18:31:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB EPET ENRG PGOV ASEC CASC NI |
| 03ABUJA1168 |
NIGERIA: STRIKE SITREP DAY 5 - 1200 JULY 4 [...] (U) Summary: The strike continued for a fifth day. Thus far, Abuja is quiet but there is a possibility of demonstrations after Juma,at prayers this afternoon )- not only in Abuja but in other Northern cities as well. There were no demonstrations in Abuja yesterday, but peaceful demonstration [...] |
2003-07-04 12:23:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB EPET ENRG PGOV ASEC CASC NI |
| 03ABUJA1172 |
NIGERIA: STRIKE ENTERS SECOND WEEK [...] (U) Summary: The labor strike entered its second week today, as the GON and NLC failed to reach a compromise on the extent of the fuel price increase. Information from labor sources was conflicting, with some insiders forecasting an imminent settlement and others predicting an extended strike. [...] |
2003-07-07 17:42:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB EPET ENRG PGOV PHUM ASEC CASC NI |
| 03ABUJA1195 |
NIGERIA: FUEL STRIKE ENDS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) accepted the GON's 34 naira (23 cents) fuel price offer early this morning. With this, Labor's eight-day strike has ended, one day after the most violent twenty-four hours of the strike. Five to ten demonstrators were reportedly killed in Lagos y [...] |
2003-07-08 17:18:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB EPET ENRG PGOV PHUM ASEC CASC NI |
| 03ABUJA1230 |
NIGERIA'S INITIAL RESPONSE TO COUP IN SAO [...] (C) Ambassador Jeter talked separately to Sao Tomean President de Menezes and new Nigerian Foreign Minister Adeniji July 16. According to both sources, President Obasanjo has been in direct communication with the coup leaders, telling them to stand down and return power to the country's const [...] |
2003-07-17 19:25:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MASS MOPS PINS EPET PGOV NI TP |
| 03ABUJA1239 |
NIGERIA: GON THINKS SAO TOMEAN COUP LEADERS WILL [...] (C) MFA Permanent Secretary, Ambassador Daniel Hart and Nigerian Ambassador to Sao Tome and Principe Saidu Pindar discussed the Sao Tomean coup with A/DCM Brian Browne on July 18. Hart and Pindar stated that the proximate cause of the putsch was sustained frustration over de Menezes' foot dr [...] |
2003-07-19 11:26:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MASS MOPS PINS EPET PGOV TP NI |
| 03ABUJA1286 |
NIGERIA: CLOSER DIALOGUE WITH THE OIL COMPANIES [...] No summary [...] |
2003-07-29 15:10:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET PHUM PGOV PINS NI |
| 03ABUJA1314 |
NIGERIA: AID ASST. ADMINISTRATOR'S DELTA VISIT [...] No summary [...] |
2003-07-31 16:17:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PGOV PINS EPET PREL PHUM NI |
| 03ABUJA1325 |
KIDNAPPING OF NIGERIAN CHEVRON WORKER [...] No summary [...] |
2003-08-01 15:43:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET PINS PGOV NI |
| 03ABUJA1328 |
RENEWED WARRI VIOLENCE A CAUSE FOR CONCERN [...] No summary [...] |
2003-08-04 14:36:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET PINS ASEC PREL PGOV NI |
| 03ABUJA1333 |
OBASANJO TALKS TOUGH ON OIL THEFT AND WARRI CRISIS [...] No summary [...] |
2003-08-06 16:33:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET PINS PGOV ASEC NI |
| 03ABUJA1338 |
NIGERIA: RESTARTING OIL PRODUCTION IN WARRI [...] No summary [...] |
2003-08-06 18:18:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET PINS ASEC PGOV NI |
| 03ABUJA1354 |
ANTICIPATED MILITARY OPERATIONS IN THE DELTA [...] No summary [...] |
2003-08-08 17:03:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET PINS PGOV ASEC NI |
| 03ABUJA1359 |
PRIVATIZATION OF GON MINORITY SHAREHOLDINGS [...] Action request, para 8. 2. Summary. The Government of Nigeria (GON) wants to privatize the approximately forty percent minority share it holds in foreign oil service companies (OSCs) operating in Nigeria; e.g., in Halliburton Nigeria. The GON wants to divest itself by way of private pl [...] |
2003-08-08 18:51:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG EINV BTIO KIDE NI |
| 03ABUJA1372 |
ADVANCING THE VOLUNTARY PRINCIPLES IN NIGERIA: USE [...] No summary [...] |
2003-08-12 14:06:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EPET KCRM PHUM SNAR NI |
| 03ABUJA1379 |
WARRI CRISIS UPDATE 13AUG03 [...] No summary [...] |
2003-08-13 16:18:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET PINS ASEC PGOV PHUM NI |
| 03ABUJA1387 |
WARRI CRISIS UPDATE 14AUG03 [...] No summary [...] |
2003-08-14 17:44:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET PGOV ASEC PINS NI |
| 03ABUJA1408 |
WARRI CRISIS UPDATE 18AUG03 [...] No summary [...] |
2003-08-18 16:29:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET PINS PGOV PHUM NI |
| 03ABUJA1409 |
WARRI CRISIS UPDATE 19AUG03 [...] (U) Classified by Counselor James Maxstadt for reasons 1.5 (b) and (d). 2. (C) Summary: Violent clashes between Itsekiri and Ijaw militants continued in Warri town through August 19, according to press reports and local observers in Warri. The death toll since August 15 is at least 50, [...] |
2003-08-19 15:35:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PHUM PINS MOPS ASEC EPET NI |
| 03ABUJA1411 |
WARRI CRISIS UPDATE 20AUG03 [...] No summary [...] |
2003-08-20 15:53:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET PINS ASEC PGOV PHUM NI |
| 03ABUJA1430 |
WARRI CRISIS UPDATE 21AUG03 [...] (U) Classified by Counselor James Maxstadt for reasons 1.5 (b) and (d). 2. (SBU) Warri remained calm overnight August 20-21 and through the day August 21 with a large Nigerian Army force observed throughout the town, according to a Warri-based worker for U.S. NGO "IFESH." Local press and [...] |
2003-08-21 17:38:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EPET PGOV PINS ASEC PHUM NI |
| 03ABUJA1441 |
WARRI CRISIS UPDATE 22AUG03 [...] (U) Classified by Counselor James Maxstadt for reasons 1.5 (b) and (d). 2. (SBU) Warri town remains calm, reports the Warri office of U.S. NGO "IFESH" and Police Commissioner Charles Akaya. Shell's Warri office reopened the afternoon of August 21 with a "skeleton staff," according to Shel [...] |
2003-08-22 16:57:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS EPET PGOV ASEC PHUM NI |
| 03ABUJA1473 |
FOLLOW-UP ON APRIL 2003 TRANSOCEAN HOSTAGE TAKING [...] No summary [...] |
2003-08-27 15:35:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ASEC PGOV NI PLAB |
| 03ABUJA1635 |
OBASANJO VISITS WARRI; HOLDS MEETING WITH WARRING [...] (SBU) According to press reports and Warri contacts, President Obasanjo traveled to Warri the morning of September 19 for an aerial tour of the violence-affected areas in the Warri creeks and a meeting with elders and youth leaders of the three ethnic groups in the area. 2. (SBU) Corporat [...] |
2003-09-19 17:04:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EPET PINS NI |
| 03ABUJA1638 |
A VIEW TO A SPILL: SHELL IN THE SPOTLIGHT [...] (SBU) During an early August visit to Port Harcourt, CRO met with the Center for Social and Corporate Responsibility (CSCR), a Port Harcourt-based NGO operating on a grant from Catholic Relief Services, to discuss CSCR's investigation into the major October 2002 oil spill at a Shell trunk line [...] |
2003-09-19 17:23:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET SENV EWWT PHUM PGOV NI |
| 03ABUJA1656 |
SHELL RESUMES LIMITED PRODUCTION IN WARRI; [...] (C) During a September 23 phone conversation with CRO, Shell's Security Manager for the Warri area, Tony Obuaya, confirmed that three Shell flow stations in the Warri Southwest Local Government Area (LGA) have been reopened, with one additional site reoccupied and scheduled to resume productio [...] |
2003-09-24 15:11:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ASEC PINS PGOV NI |
| 03ABUJA1700 |
NIGERIA: FUEL PRICES HIKED BY FIAT [...] (C) This morning Nigerians returned to work after yesterday's public holiday and learned from the media that the GON had deregulated the downstream oil sector. According to a fuel marketer, the notification came in a letter on September 29 which said that the GON would not subsidize fuel af [...] |
2003-10-02 15:31:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB EPET ENRG PGOV PHUM ASEC CASC NI |
| 03ABUJA1731 |
GAS STRIKE: HEARTBURN TO BEGIN OCTOBER 9 [...] (SBU) It seems certain that a strike and/or demonstrations will start in at least some parts of Nigeria October 9, led by a coalition of unions and NGOs protesting President Obasanjo's September 30 deregulation of gasoline prices. Violence could easily erupt, although the Nigeria Labor Congres [...] |
2003-10-08 17:37:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINS EPET ECON NI |
| 03ABUJA1735 |
OBASANJO CRITICIZES NLC IN NATIONAL SPEECH JUST [...] (U) On the evening of October 8 President Obasanjo delivered a nationally televised speech sharply criticizing the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC). Obasanjo bitterly denounced the NLC's strike threat, but also called on the NLC to reach an agreement with the oil marketers (including the GON-ow [...] |
2003-10-09 16:39:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINS EPET ECON NI |
| 03ABUJA1737 |
STRIKE IS OFF, DEREGULATION MAY STILL BE ON [...] (U) After a "Stakeholders' Forum" October 8, mediating Governor Bola Tinubu announced a four-point agreement between them on behalf of the GON's oil company, oil marketers and the unions: -- The GON-owned NigeriaN National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) will maintain the present price on gas [...] |
2003-10-09 17:23:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS EPET ECON NI |
| 03ABUJA1761 |
SIGNS OF RENEWED FIGHTING IN WARRI [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: Indications from various sources in the Warri area suggest strongly that the relative peace seen in the region for the past seven weeks is about to break. Reports of a recent Ijaw attack on a boat of unarmed Itsekiri villagers attempting to return to villages destroyed by Ijaw [...] |
2003-10-10 16:51:00 | Embassy Abuja | SECRET | PINS PGOV PTER EPET PHUM NI |
| 03ABUJA1762 |
GAS PRICES THE MORNING AFTER [...] (SBU) Touring Abuja city, the Abuja Federal Capital Territory, and neighboring state Niger on October 10, it is clear the end of the proposed October 9 strike had an effect on the gasoline retail market, but not what was agreed (Refs A and B). Virtually all Abuja city gasoline stations were o [...] |
2003-10-10 16:51:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EPET PINS ELAB NI |
| 03ABUJA1787 |
NIGERIA: POLICE ARREST LABOR OFFICIALS [...] (C) Summary: Nigerian Police arrested six Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) leaders Monday in an apparent move by the GON to hinder Labor's efforts to monitor a 34 naira per liter cap on fuel prices and blunt a possible NLC nationwide strike. Abuja's Magistrate Court refused bail yesterday for the [...] |
2003-10-15 15:30:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB EPET PGOV PHUM NI |
| 03ABUJA1908 |
OIL COMPANIES DIFFER ON RESTARTING WARRI [...] (C/NF) Summary: Shell's October resumption of oil production in Warri has highlighted a widening split between the Anglo-Dutch oil firm and Chevron on how to manage relations with local Ijaw and Itsekiri communities, and how to maintain security. Shell put its money into increasing the Niger [...] |
2003-11-03 14:27:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV EPET PINS NI |
| 03ABUJA344 |
NIGERIA: OBASANJO ON IRAQ, TERRORISM AND OIL [...] (C) Summary: President Obasanjo February 13 publicly called for Iraq to disarm peacefully, noting that the US could not be expected to stand down its forces otherwise. Recalling South Africa's decision to give up WMD programs, Obasanjo repeated these points during a private meeting with Amba [...] |
2003-02-14 17:13:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER EPET NI IZ |
| 03ABUJA352 |
Bakassi -- Meeting with Ould-Abdallah: Cameroon [...] (U) This is an action message; see para 10. 2. (C) Summary: Nigeria's approach to its border dispute with Cameroon is sophisticated, but its commitment to execute what it negotiates less certain, UNSYG representative Ould- Abdallah told Ambassador Jeter. However, the Cameroonians under [...] |
2003-02-18 16:01:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS SENV EPET EFIS NI CM |
| 03ABUJA367 |
NIGERIA: ECONOMIC ROUNDUP FEBRUARY 20 [...] This periodic economic report from Abuja and Lagos includes: --Canned Beer and Soda Coming Soon to Nigeria --Nigeria's Juice Ban Squeezes Out U.S. Exports --Trucks Roll Only at Night in Port Harcourt Canned Beer and Soda Coming Soon to Nigeria ------------------------------------------- [...] |
2003-02-20 14:09:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EAGR ELTN EPET EIND EINV NI |
| 03ABUJA380 |
NIGERIA COMPLETES FINANCING PACT FOR BILLION [...] (U) On January 23, Nigeria LNG (NLNG) held a signing ceremony for the six Nigerian banks providing $160 million of the $1.06 billion financing for Nigeria's fourth and fifth liquefied natural gas production trains. State-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) holds 49 percent of [...] |
2003-02-21 13:16:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET EINV OPEC |
| 03ABUJA385 |
NIGERIA PROPOSES NEW OPEC QUOTA SCHEME [...] (C) Summary: Special Assistant on Petroleum Issues Kupolokun told the Ambassador on February 14 that Nigeria had made a thinly-veiled threat to withdraw from OPEC while proposing to other members a new quota allocation scheme based on production capacity and socioeconomic indicators rather tha [...] |
2003-02-21 15:19:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG PREL NI OPEC |
| 03ABUJA472 |
NIGERIA: MEETING WITH NNPC MANAGING DIRECTOR [...] Summary: On January 31, Ambassador Jeter and Econoff met with Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Group Managing Director, Jackson Gaius-Obaseki, and NNPC Group Executive Director, Refining and Petrochemicals Directorate, Mansur Ahmed. Gaius-Obaseki told the Ambassador that the NNP [...] |
2003-03-11 13:18:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | EPET ENRG PREL NI OIL |
| 03ABUJA554 |
NIGERIA: VIOLENCE ESCALATES IN ESCRAVOS [...] (U) Proprietary information in paragraphs 3-4. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: Escalating violence between Ijaws and Itsekiris have combined with security inadequacies to force ChevronTexaco and Shell to halt some operations, reducing Nigeria's crude production by 350,00 [...] |
2003-03-22 19:22:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | EPET CASC PINS ASEC PREF PGOV PHUM NI |
| 03ABUJA555 |
NIGERIA: PRESIDENT OBASANJO'S STRATEGY FOR [...] (C) Summary: The Ijaw militants in the Delta who instigated this latest round of communal violence are surprisingly well armed, according to President Obasanjo. In order to avoid a potentially bloody confrontation, Obasanjo has opted for a strategy of attrition and containment instead of direc [...] |
2003-03-22 19:27:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ASEC CASC PGOV PINS NI |
| 03ABUJA558 |
TFIZ01: NIGERIAN CRUDE PRODUCTION DROPS ABOUT 33% [...] (SBU) Summary: Ongoing ethnic strife may cut Nigeria's crude production by 33% and its exports by 43% -- larger cuts than most media are reporting. The evacuation of Escravos, hub for 440,000 of ChevronTexaco's 510,000 bpd, is expected to conclude March 24. ChevronTexaco seeks U.S. imagery [...] |
2003-03-24 13:34:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EPET CASC AINR ASEC PINS ELAB PREF NI IZ |
| 03ABUJA629 |
NIGERIA: CONCERN FOR CRISIS IN THE DELTA [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a March 26 evening meeting, President Obasanjo, Ambassador Jeter and British High Commissioner Philip Thomas discussed the ongoing crisis in the oil-producing Niger Delta. Jeter and Thomas expressed concern about the implications of a continuing crisis on stability and on [...] |
2003-04-03 18:47:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET PREL MOPS PHUM NI |
| 03ABUJA653 |
NIGERIA: DELTA OIL CRISIS MAY PINCH THE ECONOMY [...] News that Chevron returned to Escravos to gradually resume oil production is encouraging. Shell also may soon return. However, armed local groups remain a wild card. Their ability to foil resumption of oil production is all too real as evidenced by the April 6 pipeline disruption only a few day [...] |
2003-04-08 09:33:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EPET ENRG EINV PGOV PREL NI |
| 03ABUJA659 |
NIGERIA: NAVY MINISTER SAYS MILITARY MUST TAKE [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a March 27 meeting with Ambassador Jeter, Minister of State for Defense (Navy) Chris Agbobu discussed the recent violence in Delta State. He attributed the fighting to political power struggles between the Ijaw and Itsekiri ethnic groups, Ijaw dissatisfaction with Delta S [...] |
2003-04-09 18:04:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV MOPS EPET ASEC CASC PINS NI |
| 03ABUJA666 |
RIVERS STATE VIOLENCE COULD IMPACT OIL [...] No summary [...] |
2003-04-10 18:55:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL EPET NI |
| 03ABUJA716 |
NIGERIA -- SSS DIRECTOR PREDICTS ENFORCEMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY. During an April 11 meeting with Ambassador Jeter, the Director General of the State Security Service, Kayode Are, (SSS) predicted a post- election "enforcement action" against Ijaw militants in the Warri area. END SUMMARY. 2. (C) Are contended there was more to the current [...] |
2003-04-17 20:42:00 | Embassy Abuja | SECRET | PREL PGOV EPET MOPS NI |
| 03ABUJA718 |
NIGERIA: WARRI CRISIS COMING TO A HEAD [...] No summary [...] |
2003-04-17 22:26:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS EPET NI |
| 03ABUJA753 |
NIGERIA: GON SAYS OPEC UNLIKELY TO CUT [...] (S) On April 22, Ambassador Jeter delivered reftel demarche to President Obasanjo's Special Advisor on Petroleum Affairs and Energy Rilwanu Lukman. Lukman, who is leading Nigeria's delegation to the April 24 OPEC meeting in Vienna and was OPEC General Secretary for ten years, said the normal [...] |
2003-04-25 16:49:00 | Embassy Abuja | SECRET | PREL ECON EPET NI IZ |
| 03ABUJA768 |
NIGERIA: DISGRUNTLED OIL WORKERS HOLD [...] Summary: Since April 16, disgruntled Nigerian oil service workers have held hostage as many as 97 expatriates, including 23 U.S.-citizens on four offshore oil rigs beyond the eastern Niger Delta. Transocean Sedco Forex, a Houston-based, Cayman Island-registered oil service company, operates th [...] |
2003-04-29 21:00:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC ASEC EPET ENRG ECON PINS PGOV NI |
| 03ABUJA806 |
NIGERIA: NEGOTIATIONS CONTINUE FOR RELEASE OF 17 [...] (C) Transocean Sedco Forex Managing Director Ian Clark told the Ambassador April 30 that the 273 hostages, including 96 expatriates of whom 17 are U.S. citizens, are in good health--despite contrary press reports. However, food and water stocks may be running low. President Obasanjo offered to [...] |
2003-04-30 20:07:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | CASC ASEC EPET ENRG ECON PINS PGOV NI |
| 03ABUJA807 |
NIGERIA: HOSTAGE CRISIS CONTINUES, MILITARY GETS [...] (C) Transocean Sedco Forex officials confirm that striking oil workers still hold 273 hostages--including 17 U.S. citizens and 79 other expatriates--on four rigs off Port Harcourt. The company's Managing Director Ian Clark says the platforms have been re-supplied with sufficient quantities of [...] |
2003-05-01 16:26:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | CASC ASEC EPET ENRG ECON PINS PGOV NI |
| 03ABUJA810 |
NIGERIA: NO MILITARY ACTION YET ON OIL RIG HOSTAGE [...] (C) GON National Security Agency Military Assistant Colonel Idris and State Security Service Director General Kayode Are both told the Ambassador on May 2 that Nigerian naval vessels near the four Transocean Sedco Forex rigs have not yet taken any action. He indicated that a contingency plan w [...] |
2003-05-02 12:07:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | CASC ASEC EPET ENRG ECON PINS PGOV NI |
| 03ABUJA813 |
NIGERIA: AGREEMENT REACHED ON OIL RIG HOSTAGE [...] National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) local and national leadership on May 3 agreed unconditionally that all 273 hostages and 99 striking workers on board the four Transocean Forex Sedco rigs near Port Harcourt would be allowed to disembark. The Settlement was negotiated [...] |
2003-05-02 17:56:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC ASEC EPET ENRG ECON PINS PGOV NI |
| 03ABUJA816 |
NIGERIA: WARRI IJAWS THREATEN RENEWED VIOLENCE; [...] No summary [...] |
2003-05-02 19:26:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS EPET ENRG NI |
| 03ABUJA817 |
NIGERIA - SSS DIRECTOR ON THE ELECTION AND [...] (C) During an April 30 meeting with Ambassador Jeter, the Director General of the State Security Service (SSS) Kayode Are said that all political parties had committed electoral fraud. He also asserted that the outcome of the Presidential contest was a genuine reflection of the actual vote, a [...] |
2003-05-02 19:58:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EPET PINS MOPS NI |
| 03ABUJA824 |
NIGERIA: SHELL'S "SEA EAGLE" ENDANGERED [...] April 29 local newspapers reported that Shell's newly deployed Floating Production and Storage and Offloading Platform (FPSO), the "Sea Eagle," had been threatened by unidentified criminal elements in the Delta. Shell's Nigerian subsidiary, Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC [...] |
2003-05-06 14:49:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINS PGOV EPET NI |
| 03ABUJA826 |
NIGERIA: OIL RIG HOSTAGES SAFELY ON SHORE [...] Transocean Sedco Forex Managing Director Ian Clark told Econoff May 5 that all hostages and striking oil workers had been safely removed from the company's four rigs off Port Harcourt. He said the rigs are not yet back in operation but have been fully staffed by a new group of workers. 2 [...] |
2003-05-06 16:36:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC ASEC EPET ENRG ECON PINS PGOV NI |
| 03ABUJA887 |
NIGERIA: INFORMATION ON GON FISCAL TRANSPARENCY [...] Paragraph 2 provides answers to reftel questions. 2. A. Does the host government publish the national budget in a timely manner? Answer: Yes, with minimum delay (under one year). B. Where sub-national levels of government are significant, are their combined fiscal positions pub [...] |
2003-05-14 16:49:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | AA AMGT EAID ECON EFIN EINV EPET ETRD NI |
| 03ABUJA905 |
NIGERIA: VP ON POLITICS, PROSPECTS FOR REFORM [...] (C) Summary: DCM 8 May met with VP Atiku Abubakar and others in Washington. Atiku sought continued USG support for market-based economic reforms but volunteered that President Obasanjo remained uncomfortable about giving up State control. Atiku hoped to make progress on AGOA and to lift fu [...] |
2003-05-16 16:34:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MASS ETRD EPET EINV KDEM EAID NI |
| 03ABUJA945 |
Evaluating the Terrorist Threat to U.S. Oil [...] (SBU) The Mission understands that consideration is being given to issuing a revised travel warning for Nigeria to make specific mention of a possible terrorist threat to U.S. oil facilities in Nigeria. Given the dated and speculative nature of the possible threat, the Mission strongly urges [...] |
2003-05-27 13:39:00 | Embassy Abuja | SECRET | CASC ASEC PREL PTER EPET NI |
| 03ABUJA984 |
NIGERIA: OIL REVENUE ALLOCATION ISSUE UNRESOLVED [...] Summary. This cable provides an update on the ongoing disagreement between the Presidency and National Assembly over the politically sensitive oil revenue allocation issue. This matter is important not just because of the money at stake and the potential impact on the financial well-being of t [...] |
2003-06-05 11:18:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | EPET PBTS EFIN PGOV NI |
| 03ABUJA990 |
NIGERIA: OIL COMPANY SECURITY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ambassador Jeter, Consul General and CG Lagos staff met EXXON/MOBIL, Halliburton and ChevronTexaco Managing Directors on May 27 to encourage more timely notification of the Mission in the event of hostage-takings, occupation of facilities, or interruption of oil company operati [...] |
2003-06-05 14:49:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ASEC CASC ECON EINV NI |
| 03AMMAN1234 |
DCM'S MEETING WITH ENERGY MINISTER BATAYNEH [...] (u) Following are info items from the DCM's February 24 meeting with Energy Minister Mohammed Batayneh: 2. (c) Gasoil shortage: Due to unseasonably cold weather, local consumption of gasoil and fuel oil has risen higher than expected. Normally, Jordan stockpiles gasoil and fuel oil re [...] |
2003-03-03 06:34:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EAIR ETTC JO |
| 03AMMAN1252 |
BIDDER ON JORDAN-IRAQ OIL PIPELINE SEEKS USG [...] (sbu) We were recently contacted by Brock Tuppeny, Business Development Manager for Petrofac, a UK-registered company with extensive operations in Texas and partial U.S. ownership. According to Tuppeny, Petrofac is involved in, inter alia, construction of the Georgian portion of the Baku-Ce [...] |
2003-03-03 12:15:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BEXP EPET ETTC IZ JO |
| 03AMMAN1749 |
DENYING PETROFAC'S ADVOCACY REQUEST [...] (u) On March 13, Embassy informed Petrofac Business Development Manager Brock Tuppeny of the USG's determination that Petrofac's bid on the Iraq-Zarqa pipeline project would not qualify for advocacy support (ref a). We cited USG concerns over the Iraq portion of the project and possible US [...] |
2003-03-23 17:49:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP EPET ETTC IZ JO UNSC |
| 03AMMAN1881 |
TFIZ01: MUASHER SAYS STORY ON RESUMPTION OF OIL [...] (S) The Ambassador raised with Foreign Minister Marwan Muasher March 29 local press reports that as many as thirty Jordanian oil tanker trucks have returned to Iraq to restart the delivery of Iraqi crude to Jordan. The Ambassador said he found the reports beyond comprehension. In response t [...] |
2003-03-29 17:23:00 | Embassy Amman | SECRET | PREL MOPS EPET IZ JO |
| 03AMMAN1898 |
TFIZ01: INFOMIN: SEVEN OIL TRUCKS GO TO IRAQ, [...] (C) Information Minister Mohammad Adwan told the Ambassador March 30 that, contrary to information reported in ref conversation with Foreign Minister Marwan Muasher, the GOJ had in fact sent seven oil tanker trucks to al-Qaem in Iraq (near H-1) to take delivery of some Iraqi oil. The trucks [...] |
2003-03-30 12:58:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EPET ETRD IZ JO |
| 03AMMAN2367 |
TFIZ01: JORDAN'S ENERGY MINISTER ON OIL SITUATION, [...] (c) Summary: Jordanian Energy Minister Mohammed Bataineh told us April 17 that after a slow start, Gulf oil was now flowing into Jordan to replace Iraqi crude. Jordanian reserves had dipped initially when Iraqi oil stopped flowing, but had since stabilized and were expected to replenish soo [...] |
2003-04-20 10:28:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ETRD ENRG IZ JO |
| 03AMMAN3375 |
JORDANIAN RESPONSE: CONSOLIDATED APPROPRIATIONS [...] (U) As per REFTEL, responses to questions addressing government fiscal transparency in Jordan are as follows: a-3 b-There are no significant subnational levels of government c-The Jordanian national budget is published in the Royal Gazette, as well as in national newspapers and on the Inte [...] |
2003-06-09 11:25:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT EAID ECON EFIN EINV EPET ETRD JO |
| 03AMMAN3512 |
JORDAN'S ENERGY MINISTER CONFIRMS CONTINUATION OF [...] (sbu) Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Mohammed Batayneh confirmed on June 12 press reports that the GOJ had reached agreement with Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and the UAE on a 3-month extension to the deal reached prior to the war to supply Jordan with concessional oil. Batayneh said the [...] |
2003-06-15 06:33:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ETRD PREL KU SA JO TC |
| 03AMMAN4650 |
GOJ BEGINS OIL DISCUSSIONS WITH IRAQ [...] (c) Summary: A working-level GOJ delegation from the Ministries of Energy and Finance, along with refinery officials, traveled to Baghdad July 24 to open discussions with Iraqi counterparts concerning resumption of crude exports from Iraq to Jordan. The two sides held exploratory discussio [...] |
2003-07-27 15:51:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG PREL IZ JO |
| 03AMMAN7299 |
NEW ENERGY MINISTER ADDRESSES OIL SUPPLY ISSUES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Newly appointed Jordanian Minister of Energy Azmi Khreisat told the Ambassador on November 5 that Jordan has agreed to purchase three million barrels of Iraqi oil before the end of the year. He expressed optimism about the six-nation power grid initiative and the Egyptian gas pip [...] |
2003-11-06 18:00:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV PREL JO IZ |
| 03AMMAN861 |
SAUDIS TELL KING ABDULLAH THEY WILL JOIN OIL DEAL; [...] (S) King Abdullah told the Ambassador and PolCouns February 5 that Saudi CP Abdullah confirmed to him during his February 4 visit to Saudi Arabia that the Saudis are prepared to provide Jordan with oil in the event of a cutoff in supplies from Iraq. The King said the oil would come through [...] |
2003-02-06 16:42:00 | Embassy Amman | SECRET | PREL EPET MARR IZ EAID SA KU JO UA |
| 03ANKARA1448 |
BTC, SHAH DENIZ, TURKEY-GREECE INTERCONNECT: ON [...] (C) Summary: BP and BOTAS General Manager Bildaci are still concerned that BOTAS does not have sufficient authority to meet its obligations under the BTC turnkey contract. BP has sent a letter to Energy Minister Guler requesting his personal intervention on this issue; Bildaci is raising it [...] |
2003-03-06 14:19:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET AJ GG KZ TU |
| 03ANKARA1724 |
CBED AMBASSADOR MANN'S MARCH 12 VISIT TO ANKARA [...] (C) Summary: During CBED Ambassador Mann,s March 12 visit to Ankara, MFA and Ministry of Energy officials requested his intervention with the World Bank on the negative pledge clause issue (reftel) and with Greece on the Interconnector Turkey-Greece (ITG). MFA Deputy U/S Kilic also pressed f [...] |
2003-03-19 10:36:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET AJ GG KZ TU |
| 03ANKARA1952 |
IMPACT OF IRAQ OPERATION ON KIRKUK-YUMURTALIK [...] (C) Summary: BOTAS General Manager Bildaci told us the oil flow in the Kirkuk-Yumurtalik (Ceyhan) Pipeline had decreased by half and likely would stop completely by March 26. Bildaci attributed the slow-down to the lack of oil tankers transporting crude from the port at Ceyhan since the sta [...] |
2003-03-25 15:41:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET ETTC TU IZ |
| 03ANKARA1967 |
IMPACT OF IRAQ OPERATION ON BTC PIPELINE, TPAO [...] (C) BOTAS General Manager Gokhan Bildaci and BP's local BTC Co. President Yasar Latifov told us March 25-26 the Iraq Operation thus far had not had a serious impact on BTC; however, both said they were very concerned that the extra burden the war had placed on Turkey's infrastructure and const [...] |
2003-03-26 13:22:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET AJ GG ETTC TU IZ |
| 03ANKARA2165 |
BOTAS GENERAL MANAGER BILDACI DISCHARGED [...] (U) The Ministry of Energy has officially dismissed Gokhan Bildaci from his position as Chairman and General Manager of BOTAS, the state pipeline company. This move has been expected since the AK government took over in November 2002. Bildaci told econoff he learned about his dismissal when he [...] |
2003-04-03 08:52:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET AJ GG TU |
| 03ANKARA2445 |
KIRKUK-YUMARTALIK PIPELINE: TANKS FULL, NO NEW [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 5. 2. (SBU) BOTAS Deputy General Manager Fuat Celepci told econoff April 15 that the oil flow in the Kirkuk-Yumurtalik (Ceyhan) pipeline had stopped completely on April 9, and that no tankers had transported crude from Ceyhan since March 20. Celepc [...] |
2003-04-15 07:51:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET AJ GG ETTC TU IZ |
| 03ANKARA2459 |
BTC OPERATIONAL ISSUES: PROGRESS, BUT CHALLENGES [...] (C) Summary: The GOT has made progress on outstanding BTC operational issues since BTC Co sent a "material breach" letter to Energy Minister Guler on April 7. Guler has named a new manager for the BTC Directorate, and has committed to increasing the project manager's authority. These develo [...] |
2003-04-15 12:17:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET AJ GG KZ TU |
| 03ANKARA2552 |
KIRKUK-YUMARTALIK PIPELINE: CLARIFICATION ON [...] (C) Reftel reported that BOTAS executives had informed Embassy that the storage tanks at Ceyhan were full with about 6.5 million barrels of oil from the Kirkuk-Yumurtalik (Ceyhan) pipeline. Based on questions from Washington, Embassy double-checked the figures today. BOTAS Deputy General Ma [...] |
2003-04-18 15:31:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET TU IZ UNSC |
| 03ANKARA2997 |
BTC CO LIFTS MATERIAL BREACH CLAIM [...] (C) Summary: BTC Co has formally informed the GOT that the government is no longer in material breach of its obligations under the BTC agreements (reftel). BTC Co CEO Michael Townshend told us he is satisfied that the GOT has resolved all outstanding operational issues, a point he reiterated [...] |
2003-05-08 04:31:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET AJ GG KZ TU |
| 03ANKARA3190 |
AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES PIPELINES, BOT PROJECTS WITH [...] (C) Summary. Energy Minister Guler reiterated to Ambassador May 13 his personal commitment to completing BTC construction on time in Turkey, and thanked Ambassador for his reassurance that U.S. support for BTC had not decreased with the change in Iraq. Ambassador requested GOT support for th [...] |
2003-05-15 08:20:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET ETTC GG TU IZ |
| 03ANKARA3268 |
MFA RAISES KIRKUK-YUMARTALIK PIPELINE AGAIN [...] (U) This cable contains an action request. See para 3. 2. (C) MFA Deputy Under Secretary for Economic Affairs Alev Kilic and Director General For Energy Hakki Akil told Econ Couns May 15 that, as the MFA had told us previously (reftel), the lack of oil flow in the Kirkuk-Yumurtalik pipel [...] |
2003-05-17 05:17:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET AJ GG ETTC TU IZ |
| 03ANKARA3537 |
DISCUSSION WITH MFA ON TURKEY-IRAQ TRADE AND [...] (U) This cable contains an action request. See para 8. 2. (SBU) Summary: DCM met with MFA Deputy U/S for Economic Affairs Alev Kilic May 29 to discuss ways in which Turkey could begin establishing a normal trading relationship with Iraq. Kilic said the MFA was ready to move forward [...] |
2003-05-30 15:32:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREL EPET IZ TU |
| 03ANKARA373 |
USG SUPPORTS MANDIL FOR IEA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: [...] No summary [...] |
2003-01-15 14:17:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG EPET AORC TU IEA OECD |
| 03ANKARA3731 |
FACILITATING TURKEY-IRAQ FUEL OIL FOR GASOLINE/LPG [...] (C) In separate June 9 meetings, Ambassador and EconCouns urged MFA U/S Ziyal and Foreign Trade U/S Kayalar, respectively, to facilitate GOT approval of the pending SOMO-Delta Petroleum barter deal (reftel), under which SOMO would export fuel oil to Turkey in return for benzine (gasoline) and [...] |
2003-06-09 15:05:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET PREL ETRD IZ TU |
| 03ANKARA3794 |
KDP'S CONTINUED PRACTICE OF CHARGING FEES AT [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 4. 2. (C) Recent reports that the KDP intends to continue charging taxes/fees for goods crossing the Turkish-Iraqi border threatens to stall our ability to facilitate the flow of goods to Iraq and could hamper our overall reconstruction efforts. [...] |
2003-06-11 14:09:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET PREL IZ TU |
| 03ANKARA400 |
TURKISH OFFICIALS QUESTION IRAQ IMPACT ON ENERGY [...] (C) Summary: Turkish officials have begun to ask about the potential impact of an Iraq operation on Turkish energy interests, raising with us the possible effect on BTC, Shah Deniz, the Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline, and Turkey's oil supply. BOTAS is worried about the potential impact on Iskenderun [...] |
2003-01-16 08:57:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET ETTC IZ AJ GG KZ TU UNSC |
| 03ANKARA4070 |
IRAQI SOMO-DELTA PETROLEUM BARTER DEAL UNDERWAY [...] (U) Baghdad minimize considered. 2. (SBU) Delta Petroleum and the MFA confirmed to us that the GOT had given final approval for the pending SOMO-Delta barter deal (reftels), under which SOMO will export fuel oil to Turkey in return for Turkish benzine (gasoline) and LPG. Delta Petroleum o [...] |
2003-06-25 15:02:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EPET PREL TU IZ |
| 03ANKARA4224 |
BOTAS READY TO RESUME PIPELINE OPERATIONS; WAITING [...] (U) Baghdad minimize considered. 2. (SBU) BOTAS General Manager Mehmet Bilgic told econoff July 3 that the storage tanks at Ceyhan, which store Iraqi crude from the Kirkuk-Yumurtalik line, were nearly empty. The only remaining oil in the storage tanks was bound for Turkey's Kirakkale refi [...] |
2003-07-03 13:57:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG PREL TU IZ |
| 03ANKARA528 |
ENERGY MINISTER GULER ON RUSSIAN GAS, BTC [...] (C) Summary. Energy Minister Guler told Ambassador January 15 that one of his top priorities was to renegotiate Turkey's expensive natural gas contracts with Russia. He asked if the U.S. would help him strengthen his negotiating hand vis-a-vis the Russians by tolerating -- or pretending to t [...] |
2003-01-22 14:27:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET GG TU KZ ETTC |
| 03ANKARA6302 |
TURKEY RAISES CONCERN ABOUT STALLED OIL EXPORTS [...] (U) Baghdad Minimize considered. 2. (C) Turkish officials are concerned by recent press reports that Iraq has decided to suspend oil exports through Ceyhan, diverting the Kirkuk crude through pipelines to the south. MFA Director General for Energy and Water Hakki Akil told EconCouns th [...] |
2003-10-07 16:16:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ETRD IZ PREL TU |
| 03ANKARA6345 |
TURKEY UNHAPPY WITH DECISION TO REVERSE [...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA Deputy DG for Energy and Water Haki Akil told EconCouns that Turkey was opposed to the recently announced agreement to reverse the Odessa-Brody pipeline. Akil said the agreement would mean more oil through the Turkish Straits and undermine U.S.-Turkish goals for the East-Wes [...] |
2003-10-09 08:33:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET PREL RS TU UK |
| 03ANKARA7000 |
KBR PERSPECTIVE ON HABUR GATE [...] (SBU-BUS SENS) A senior Kellogg, Brown and Root-Turkey (KBR-T) manager met with PO on Oct. 31 to update the state of current challenges to orderly flow in Turkey along the Iraq ground line of communication (GLOC) as well as transit bottlenecks at the Habur Gate. The KBR-T official noted tha [...] |
2003-11-07 14:55:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EPET PREL IZ TU |
| 03ANKARA753 |
BTC UPDATE FROM TURKEY [...] (C) Summary: BTC construction in Turkey is on schedule (first pipe is scheduled to arrive at Iskenderun port on February 7) and on budget; however, there is some concern that the change in government has slowed down the decision-making process on operational issues. We believe that occasiona [...] |
2003-01-29 17:56:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET AJ GG KZ TU |
| 03ANKARA7878 |
AMBASSADOR MANN, TURKISH OFFICIALS DISCUSS NEXT [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Steven Mann, State Department Special Representative for Caspian Energy Diplomacy, visited Ankara, December 16-18 to discuss Caspian issues with senior Turkish officials, who confirmed Turkey's commitment to the East-West Energy Corridor and expressed confidence that B [...] |
2003-12-23 12:21:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN ENRG EPET IZ PREL TU |
| 03ANKARA935 |
TURKISH PETROLEUM OPTIMISTIC ABOUT BUSINESS IN A [...] (C) Summary: The Turkish Petroleum Agency (TPAO) is optimistic about business opportunities in a post-sanctions Iraq. TPAO Vice President Bakiler believes TPAO will be well-placed to sign exploration and production agreements that the company has been negotiating for years with Iraq, and to [...] |
2003-02-06 15:10:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET AJ GG KZ TU |
| 03COLOMBO1027 |
FY 2003 TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY [...] Post response for Maldives to reftel survey request follows: a. Does host government publish national budget in a timely manner? 1 - Does not publish, or publishes with significant delay (three years or more) 2 - Yes, with some delay (one year or more) 3 - Yes, with minimum delay (under [...] |
2003-06-12 10:34:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | AA AMGT EAID EFIN EINV EPET ETRD MV ECPN |
| 03COLOMBO2199 |
IMI: OIL EXPLORATION OPPORTUNITY IN SRI [...] Summary: Hoping to begin off-shore oil prospecting soon, the Sri Lanka Government intends to announce its plans to international oil companies at a workshop in early 2004. End Summary. 2. The Government plans to open areas in the Mannar Basin off the north-western coast of Sri Lanka for [...] |
2003-12-31 10:13:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP EPET ENRG BTIO CE ECONOMICS |
| 03COLOMBO747 |
FY 2003 TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY [...] Post response to reftel survey request follows. Post consulted IMF and WB rep offices in Colombo and Central Bank contacts in preparing this response. a. Does host government publish national budget in a timely manner? 1 - Does not publish, or publishes with significant delay (three year [...] |
2003-05-05 10:18:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | AA AMGT EAID EFIN EINV EPET ETRD CE ECPN |
| 03HALIFAX352 |
AMBASSADOR'S VISIT TO NOVA SCOTIA: SECURITY, ECONOMY, [...] SUMMARY: Ambassador's visit to Nova Scotia October 9 - 14 was useful in reinforcing a traditionally good relationship between the province and the U.S., as well as dispelling misperceptions about U.S. energy, environmental and foreign policy. Primary topics of discussion were security, econo [...] |
2003-10-21 13:52:00 | Consulate Halifax | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ETRD EFIS ECON EPET MOPS SENV ASEC CA |
| 03HALIFAX356 |
NEWFOUNDLAND-LABRADOR PROVINCIAL ELECTION: TORY SWEEP ENDS [...] SUMMARY: There could be a new round of political wrangling between the federal government and the newly elected Progressive Conservative Party in Newfoundland-Labrador. In an October 21 provincial election campaign, the Tories led by the charismatic business leader Danny Williams, solidly to [...] |
2003-10-23 11:13:00 | Consulate Halifax | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ENRG EPET CA |
| 03HALIFAX394 |
PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS PRODUCE NEW LINEUP OF ENERGY MINISTERS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Canada's four Atlantic Provinces have all held provincial elections this year: Newfoundland-Labrador (October 21), Prince Edward Island (September 29), Nova Scotia (August 5), and New Brunswick (June 9). With the exception of Newfoundland-Labrador, the incumbent governments we [...] |
2003-11-21 11:39:00 | Consulate Halifax | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET PGOV CA |
| 03HALIFAX52 |
NOVA SCOTIA ENERGY MINISTER STILL OPTIMISTIC [...] SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The Nova Scotia provincial government remains optimistic about the future of the Deep Panuke offshore natural gas project despite EnCanaQs decision to halt work for the time being. The province is eager to persuade USG officials of Atlantic [...] |
2003-02-28 17:41:00 | Consulate Halifax | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG EPET PGOV ETRD CA US |
| 03HANOI1258 |
VIETNAM: P.L. 108-7 - Consolidated Appropriations [...] This cable was originally sent May 5, 2003 but encountered TERP transmission problems. Post apologizes for the delay. Responses to reftel questionnaire follow: a. Does host government publish national budget in a timely manner? 2 - Yes, with some delay (more than one year) b. Wher [...] |
2003-05-22 10:16:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | AA AMGT EAID ECON EFIN EINV EPET ETRD VM FINREF |
| 03HARARE1156 |
Deregulation Deal Could End Dry Spell for Fuel [...] (SBU) Summary: Fuel continues to be very scarce throughout the country. There are widespread rumors that multinationals will soon be allowed to import fuel and sell at a market price, but no formal approval has yet materialized. This would eliminate the GOZ's fuel subsidy, currently over 6 [...] |
2003-06-06 07:23:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EPET ZI |
| 03HARARE1321 |
Fuel Strategies Amidst The Downward Spiral [...] (SBU) Summary: As noted reftel, multinational oil companies remain in limbo as to whether they will be allowed to sell fuel imported with forex at a viable pump price. Industry sources report that the National Oil Company of Zimbabwe (NOCZIM) will continue to bring in heavily subsidized fuel [...] |
2003-06-27 10:19:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EPET ZI |
| 03HARARE152 |
ExxonMobil tells GOZ to cut fuel subsidy [...] (SBU) Summary: A visiting ExxonMobil delegation recently urged the GOZ to stop subsidizing fuel consumption, which has completely overburdened the country's foreign exchange assets. The delegation suggested a more targeted support mechanism for public transport and critical services that wou [...] |
2003-01-22 12:12:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET EFIN ECON ZI |
| 03HARARE1710 |
GOZ triples fuel price - again [...] Summary: The GOZ has raised the controlled price of leaded fuel from Z$ 450 to 1,170/liter. Not enough to reawaken Zimbabwe's somnolent gas stations, but it does partly formalize GOZ recognition of the falling Zimdollar. End Summary. A 17-fold increase since February --------------------- [...] |
2003-08-28 14:49:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EPET EINV ZI |
| 03HARARE2091 |
GOZ has no money for fuel [...] Summary: Oil parastatal NOCZIM has been unable to import fuel for GOZ purposes over the past week. End summary. 2. The fuel shortage is affecting Zimbabweans in a variety of ways: - The National Railway of Zimbabwe (NRZ), a critical cog in the country's economic infrastructure, has can [...] |
2003-10-20 13:43:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EPET EINV PGOV ZI |
| 03HARARE409 |
Modest Hike in Fuel Prices [...] (U) Summary: The GOZ has nearly doubled the price of fuel, the first increase since June 2001. The higher pump price still reflects a heavy and unsustainable subsidy, meaning the country's fuel shortage will continue. Nonetheless, this is a small step toward market- determined pricing. End [...] |
2003-02-26 12:33:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EPET ETRD ZI |
| 03HARARE752 |
GOZ hikes fuel price again [...] (U) Summary: In an attempt to alleviate severe shortages, the GOZ has approximately tripled gas and doubled diesel prices. Economic impact will be substantial. End Summary. 2. (U) Leaded petrol's controlled price rises Z$ 145 to 450 and diesel Z$ 119 to 200. It was a politically- charg [...] |
2003-04-16 11:42:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ECON EINV ETRD ZI |
| 03HARARE781 |
Zimbabwe's Fuel Hikes: Why No Leadership? [...] (SBU) Summary: A week after raising fuel prices 3- fold, President Mugabe has offered no rationale or counsel to a shell-shocked populace. The aging Marxist seems unable to verbalize the case for economic orthodoxy. End Summary. 2. (U) Each day, this economy becomes more surreal. Many l [...] |
2003-04-23 10:06:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EPET PGOV EINV ETRD ZI |
| 03HARARE873 |
Fuel Crisis Intensifies [...] (U) Summary: Zimbabwe's fuel supply continues to worsen. Most motorists are grounded, importing their own or buying it at exorbitant black market prices. End Summary. 2. (SBU) Even though the GOZ has increased the leaded fuel price 6-fold since February, it is still unable to pay a dimin [...] |
2003-05-07 13:22:00 | Embassy Harare | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EPET PGOV EINV ETRD ZI |
| 03HOCHIMINHCITY268 |
HCMC BUSINESSES SEE LIMITED ECONOMIC IMPACT FROM WAR IN [...] As U.S. forces launched the first strikes against Iraq, government and business leaders in HCMC were still largely uncertain what effect the war would have on the local economy. Initial reports from some sectors, such as hotels, energy, and banking, appeared to indicate only short-term jitters [...] |
2003-03-20 13:56:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EPET ETRD PREL VM |
| 03KATHMANDU549 |
NEPAL: GOVERNMENT RAISES PETROL PRICES [...] (U) Summary: The Government of Nepal (GON) raised prices on all petroleum products to prevent further losses by state-owned Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC). The price increase should substantially reduce the corporation's monthly losses, but will not produce a profit. Prior to the increase, rumo [...] |
2003-03-26 11:20:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EPET PGOV NP GON |
| 03KUWAIT1002 |
KUWAIT OIL UPDATE -- MARCH 19, 2003 [...] No summary [...] |
2003-03-20 04:02:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET KU |
| 03KUWAIT1010 |
KUWAIT OIL UPDATE -- MARCH 20, 2003 [...] (C) A full breakdown of KPC production was not available today, but a senior KPC official reported total output was 2.45 million barrels for the period 0500 3/19/03 to 0500 3/20/03. 2.(C) Following several missile attacks aimed at Kuwait, a senior KPC official contacted EconChief to ascertai [...] |
2003-03-20 14:31:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET KU |
| 03KUWAIT1020 |
KUWAIT OIL UPDATE -- MARCH 21, 2003 [...] (C) Detailed breakdown of Kuwaiti oil production is not available today. A senior KPC official told EconChief today that production in the previous 24 hours reached 2.5 million barrels. He said that loading operations were proceeding as normal, although there had been some movements of tanker [...] |
2003-03-21 11:19:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET KU |
| 03KUWAIT1021 |
TFIZ01: OIL SMOKE CLOUDS OVER KUWAIT [...] SUMMARY: People in Kuwait awoke March 21, 2003, to a dark sky north of the city. Post confirmed through US military sources that the smoke clouds were caused from multiple oil well fires burning in Iraq and started by the Iraqis. Kuwait's Environment Public Authority (EPA) said the sky looke [...] |
2003-03-21 12:01:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EPET ALOW IZ KU |
| 03KUWAIT1036 |
KUWAIT OIL UPDATE -- MARCH 22, 2003 [...] (C) A senior KPC official told EconChief that the Kuwait Oil Company Firefighting team has been dispatched to Northern Kuwait to assess the situation and prepare to assist in fighting fires in Iraq's Rumaila field. Embassy understands that KOC Chairman Ahmad Al-Arbeed acted on instructions fro [...] |
2003-03-22 17:10:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET KU |
| 03KUWAIT1049 |
KUWAIT OIL UPDATE -- MARCH 23, 2003 [...] (C) A Senior KOC official tells the Embassy that the KOC firefighting team is now on site at the Ratqa Field camp in Northern Kuwait. They visited the site of burning oil wells in the Rumaila field in Southern Iraq yesterday, and intend to enter Iraq again tomorrow to begin the work of exting [...] |
2003-03-23 17:33:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET KU |
| 03KUWAIT1063 |
KUWAIT REQUESTS IMMEDIATE U.S. ASSISTANCE TO [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para. 5. 2. (C) Summary: On March 24, the GOK requested immediate USG assistance in facilitating an oil swap with Saudi Arabia, thereby providing Jordan with badly needed crude oil. End Summary. 3. (C) During their March 24 meeting, Kuwaiti MinS [...] |
2003-03-24 18:17:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID EPET KU SA JO |
| 03KUWAIT1064 |
KUWAIT OIL UPDATE -- MARCH 24, 2003 [...] (C) A detailed breakdown of Kuwait's oil production is not yet available for today, but Embassy is told output from 0500 03/23/03 to 0500 03/24/03 reached 2.42 million barrels. 2. (C) Kuwaiti firefighters apparently put out one of the fires burning in Iraq's Rumaila oilfield today, and they [...] |
2003-03-24 18:17:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET KU |
| 03KUWAIT1074 |
TFIZ01: THE WORD ON KUWAIT'S ENVIRONMENT [...] SUMMARY: As US-led military action against Iraq moved into its sixth day, Kuwait stepped up measures to protect the environment from Iraqi retaliatory strikes. Particular focus has been placed on monitoring the air and sea, as dark clouds from Iraqi oil fires continue to drift across the borde [...] |
2003-03-25 12:05:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EPET ALOW IZ KU |
| 03KUWAIT1078 |
KUWAIT OIL UPDATE -- MARCH 25, 2003 [...] No summary [...] |
2003-03-25 16:07:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET KU |
| 03KUWAIT1101 |
KUWAIT OIL UPDATE -- MARCH 26, 2003 [...] (U) Local press reports on 3/26 noted the visit of the acting Minister of Oil, Sheikh Ahmed Al-Fahed Al-Sabah to the Ratqa oil field where he met with the Kuwait oil firefighting team. The press report notes the cooperation of the Kuwaiti team with an American team could result in all the fire [...] |
2003-03-26 15:07:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EPET KU |
| 03KUWAIT1112 |
KUWAIT OIL UPDATE -- MARCH 27, 2003 [...] (U) Press reports on 3/27/03 confirm that efforts to extinguish fires burning in the Rumaila field in southern Iraq were abandoned on Tuesday, March 25, due to poor weather conditions, and added that joint efforts of the Kuwaiti Oil Company (KOC) firefighting team and U.S. contractor Boots and [...] |
2003-03-27 13:50:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET KU |
| 03KUWAIT1119 |
KUWAIT OIL UPDATE -- MARCH 28, 2003 [...] (C) Embassy notes that that KOC reported production from its northern fields has risen 7.1% from 400,265 barrels on March 26 to 428,689 barrels on March 28. This increase is expected to continue as KOC officials open more shut-in well heads in the Ratqa and, eventually, the Abdali fields. How [...] |
2003-03-28 13:31:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET KU |
| 03KUWAIT1148 |
KUWAIT OIL UPDATE -- MARCH 29, 2003 [...] No summary [...] |
2003-03-29 16:10:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET KU |
| 03KUWAIT1153 |
TFIZ01 - KUWAITI OIL FOR JORDAN [...] (S) Ambassador spoke with Kuwaiti Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Shaykh Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah afternoon of Thursday, March 27 on the status of Kuwait's agreement to provide Jordan with 25,000 barrels of oil per day (BPD) in light of the loss of Iraqi oil supplies. Ambassador [...] |
2003-03-30 07:26:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET | EPET EAID PREL KU SA JO |
| 03KUWAIT1162 |
TFIZ01: KUWAIT OIL UPDATE -- MARCH 30, 2003 [...] (C) Detailed Kuwaiti production figures are unavailable today, but total production is understood to remain above 2.4 million barrels per day. 2. (C) A senior KPC official confirmed today that all three refineries of the Kuwait National Petroleum Corporation (Mina Al-Ahmadi, Mina Al-Abdulla [...] |
2003-03-30 15:04:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET KU |
| 03KUWAIT1176 |
TFIZ01: KUWAIT OIL UPDATE -- MARCH 31, 2003 [...] No summary [...] |
2003-03-31 15:02:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET KU |
| 03KUWAIT1195 |
TFIZ01: KUWAIT OIL UPDATE -- APRIL 1, 2003 [...] No summary [...] |
2003-04-01 14:31:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET KU |
| 03KUWAIT1217 |
TFIZ01: KUWAIT OIL UPDATE -- APRIL 02, 2003 [...] (S/NF) Post has investigated rumors of an explosion and fire at the Rawdatain oil field in northern Kuwait, and found them to be untrue. KPC and U.S. military sources confirm that an apparent Iraqi missile did recently land in an unpopulated area south of the Rawdatain and west of the Sabriy [...] |
2003-04-02 14:24:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET | EPET KU |
| 03KUWAIT1227 |
TFIZ01: KUWAIT OIL UPDATE -- APRIL 03, 2003 [...] No summary [...] |
2003-04-03 12:05:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET KU |
| 03KUWAIT1232 |
TFIZ01: KUWAIT OIL UPDATE -- APRIL 04, 2003 [...] No summary [...] |
2003-04-04 09:54:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET KU |
| 03KUWAIT1274 |
TFIZ01: KUWAIT OIL UPDATE -- APRIL 05, 2003 [...] (C) Detailed oil production for Kuwait Oil Company was not available today, but production likely remains just under 2.4 million barrels. 2. (C) EconChief had a chance to visit the two wells in the Rumeila field of Southern Iraq that continue burning. One well is burning crude oil, emittin [...] |
2003-04-06 14:22:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET KU |
| 03KUWAIT1280 |
TFIZ01: KUWAIT OIL UPDATE -- APRIL 06, 2003 [...] No summary [...] |
2003-04-07 05:31:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET KU |
| 03KUWAIT1306 |
TFIZ01: KUWAIT OIL UPDATE -- APRIL 08, 2003 [...] (U) Local press reports today quote Kuwait Undersecretary for Oil Issa Al-Aoun as saying that Kuwait will continue to produce 2.44 million barrels of oil a day until further notice to meet shortages in the international oil market. He also told reporters that Kuwait will start supplying 25,000 [...] |
2003-04-08 14:03:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET KU |
| 03KUWAIT1381 |
TFIZ01: TRYING TO RESOLVE THE UNCC/RECONSTRUCTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Decisions will be made soon about distributions of Iraqi oil revenues that may have significant political as well as economic ramifications. Our GOK contacts accept in principle the idea of reducing the percentage of Iraqi oil revenues paid into the UN Compensation Commission (U [...] |
2003-04-13 06:18:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | EPET PREL EFIN KU IZ UNCC |
| 03KUWAIT1454 |
TFIZ01: KUWAIT OIL UPDATE -- APRIL 14, 2003 [...] (C) For the period beginning 0500 April 10 and ending 0500 April 14, total Kuwait daily crude oil production averaged 2,405,280 barrels per day. Average production from Northern Kuwaiti fields averaged 421,907 barrels per day for the period. 2. (C) The average stock level for Kuwait Export [...] |
2003-04-16 07:17:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET KU |
| 03KUWAIT3039 |
GOK REQUESTS INCREASED SECURITY FOR FUEL SHIPMENTS [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. 2. (C) MFA U/S Khalid al-Jarallah contacted the Ambassador on the afternoon of July 9 at the request of Minister of Foreign Affairs Shaykh Sabah al-Sabah. According to al-Jarallah there is a continuing need for security for trucks carr [...] |
2003-07-09 12:57:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PREL EPET IZ KU |
| 03KUWAIT3589 |
(C) GOK CLAIMS TURKS BUYING IRAQI OIL, [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para. 4. 2. (C) During their July 27 meeting, MFA U/S Khaled Al-Jarallah told the Ambassador that Turkish tanker trucks carrying mogas into Iraq for the CPA under a Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR) contract were returning to Turkey laden with Iraqi oi [...] |
2003-08-06 03:50:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EPET ETRD KU IZ TU |
| 03KUWAIT3775 |
SHEPHERDING HUMANITARIAN FUEL FOR BASRA [...] Summary. Apparently frustrated that the Coalition was not heeding Kuwait's requests to tighten controls on the Iraq-Kuwait border to limit smuggling, the GOK slammed shut to civilian traffic its northern border with Iraq on 12 August. Convoys of vehicles supplying the contracted-out logisti [...] |
2003-08-19 03:56:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EAID ENRG EPET MOPS PREL PGOV PTER KU IZ |
| 03KUWAIT4078 |
(U) IRANIAN FM VISITS KUWAIT [...] (C) SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION: Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi met with PM Shaykh Sabah al-Ahmed al-Sabah and FM Shaykh Dr. Mohammed al-Sabah, during a one-day visit to Kuwait on September 1. According to MFA, the visit was previously planned and not prompted by Kuwaiti PM Shaykh Saba [...] |
2003-09-04 18:35:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EPET KU IR IZ KNPT IAEA |
| 03KUWAIT4141 |
BIO DATA ON DR. ADNAN SHIHAB-ELDIN, OPEC [...] (U) Bio Data on Dr. Adnan Shihab-ElDin in reference to Kuwait 04078 para. 4. 2. (U) Name: Dr. Adnan Shihab-Eldin Director, Research Division, OPEC Secretariat, Vienna, Austria Present Position: 8/2001 - present Date of Birth: 1 November 1943 Citizenship: Kuwaiti Marital Status [...] |
2003-09-07 12:51:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | EPET IR IZ KU PREL IAEA KNPT |
| 03KUWAIT5454 |
(U) IRAQ: KUWAIT WANTS TO INCREASE "HUMANITARIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY. Officials from Altanmia, the Kuwaiti consortium transporting humanitarian fuel to Iraq under contract to KBR, have told CPA and KBR representatives that they are willing and able to deliver more fuel to Iraq, and that the GOK considers this a high priority. Increases in most fu [...] |
2003-12-03 09:07:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD EAID EPET PREL PGOV MOPS KU IZ |
| 03KUWAIT5756 |
(C) GOK STILL AWAITING QATARI GAS; UNLIKELY TO [...] (C) Summary: Despite increased publicity surrounding a possible Kuwaiti-Iranian natural gas deal, the GOK is unlikely to conclude an agreement with Iran, according to a well-placed Kuwait Petroleum Company (KPC) official. Rather, Kuwait is betting that Qatar will eventually serve as its prima [...] |
2003-12-20 13:44:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ETRD PREL KU SA QA IR |
| 03KUWAIT918 |
KUWAIT OIL SITREP 3/13/03 [...] (C) A Senior KPC official informed Embassy late afternoon of March 12 that Kuwaiti production reached 2.4 mmbd. The source noted that Embassy should watch the newspapers on 3/13 for further details. 2. (U) Local press reports on March 13 quoted Nader Al-Sultan, CEO of Kuwait Petroleum Corp [...] |
2003-03-16 04:04:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET KU |
| 03KUWAIT920 |
KUWAIT PREPARES ENVIRONMENT FOR WAR [...] SUMMARY: As part of Kuwait's wide-ranging contingency plans ahead of a potential US-led conflict in Iraq, the GOK has established an Emergency Response Committee tasked with protecting the country's environment. Still stinging from the devastating consequences of Saddam's campaign of "environ [...] |
2003-03-16 04:10:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EPET KU |
| 03KUWAIT965 |
KUWAIT OIL SITREP 3/17/03 [...] No summary [...] |
2003-03-18 07:23:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET KU |
| 03KUWAIT978 |
KUWAIT OIL SITREP 3/18/03 [...] No summary [...] |
2003-03-18 13:52:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET KU |
| 03LAGOS148 |
NIGERIA: NOT ONLY GAS FLARES IN NIGERIA, ITS' [...] (C) Summary: Arson is strongly suspected in the December 24 fire that destroyed the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) headquarters and records. The fire followed by barely a week a newspaper article asserting that there is solid, extensive and documented proof that GON official [...] |
2003-01-17 16:13:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC ECON EPET EINV DS DSS ITA IP AF OSAC |
| 03LAGOS1535 |
NIGERIA: DELTA KIDNAPPING THREATENS OIL [...] Summary: A Nigerian white collar worker for Chevron Nigeria Ltd. (subsidiary of Chevron/Texaco) and member of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association (PENGASSAN) was kidnapped outside his home on July 25 by a rogue group of armed Ijaw youths. The kidnapping is the latest in a [...] |
2003-07-31 14:50:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC EPET ENRG ECON CASC PGOV PINR PINS PTER NI XA XY |
| 03LAGOS168 |
A CONVERSATION WITH THE POLICE [...] (C) Summary: A very discouraged Deputy Police Commissioner (DPC) for Lagos State met with CG and Econoff on January 7 to discuss the recent fire at the national petroleum company building and the realities of police work in Lagos State. With an undercurrent of futility and resignation, DPC Har [...] |
2003-01-24 09:55:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PINR EPET ASEC NI |
| 03LAGOS1866 |
NIGERIA: WARRI: A PAUSE IN THE VIOLENCE? [...] (SBU) There has been no serious violence reported in Warri for almost two weeks, other than what has been described as an inter-factional "skirmish" over the weekend of August 30 in the settlement of Ugbomro lying between Warri and Effurun. Military patrols sent to restore peace found the body [...] |
2003-09-05 12:54:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS EPET PGOV ASEC PHUM NI |
| 03LAGOS1899 |
NIGERIA: UNIONS MAY EXPAND WORK ACTIONS OVER FEAR [...] Leaders from the National Union of Petroleum and Gas Workers (NUPENG) and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) are meeting in Benin City to discuss cooperative action amid reports that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), ChevronTexaco, [...] |
2003-09-10 11:57:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB EPET KDEM NI PGOV PREL |
| 03LAGOS1937 |
SOUTHERN SNAPSHOTS - WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 8, 2003 [...] (U) Almost exactly one year after the prominent husband and wife team of lawyers, Barnabas Chidi and Amaka Blessing Igwe, was hacked to death in the streets of Onitsha, a bail hearing was held in the Onitsha High Court for one of the prime suspects in the case. In an unusual move to get action [...] |
2003-09-16 12:03:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM EPET SENV NI |
| 03LAGOS1940 |
NIGERIA: MILITARY BUILD-UP KEEPS WARRI QUIET [...] (SBU) The town of Warri has remained mostly calm over the last two weeks as the Nigerian military and mobile police (known as MOPOL) continue to build a presence in the area. Over the weekend of September 6th, oil service contractors in Warri and a Shell spokesperson told Econoff that in reacti [...] |
2003-09-16 12:16:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PINS EPET PGOV ASEC PHUM NI |
| 03LAGOS1967 |
NIGERIA: SHELL AND POSSIBLY CHEVRON MAY RESUME [...] (C) SUMMARY. Shell Oil has been assessing its crude oil production facilities in the Delta swamps shut down by ethnic violence five months ago, and concludes some may again be operational by September 20, 2003. Shell could pump as much as 40,000 to 50,000 additional barrels per day of crude oi [...] |
2003-09-18 10:39:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET ETRD NI |
| 03LAGOS2043 |
NIGERIA: NLC MEETS TO PLAN MASS ACTION IN RESPONSE [...] The battle lines now appeared to be drawn between government and labor over possible fuel price increases. Long queues at gas stations throughout the country reflect speculation that the GON might announce further increases in fuel prices as early as October 1. 2. The Central Working Co [...] |
2003-10-02 10:21:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EPET PGOV KDEM NI |
| 03LAGOS2058 |
NLC PLANS TO BOYCOTT ALL AFRICA GAMES AS PART OF A [...] (U) On October 1, gas stations throughout the nation increased their prices from 34 naira per liter to 39.5 naira in Lagos and Abuja and as much as 60 naira per liter in several states in the east. While the majority of gas stations have raised prices (a handful of Nigerian National Petroleum [...] |
2003-10-03 15:26:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CASC ELAB ENRG EPET KDEM NI PGOV PHUM |
| 03LAGOS2069 |
Strike Begins Thursday, October 9 [...] Following its emergency National Executive Council (NEC) meeting in Ibadan on Saturday, October 4, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) announced a nationwide strike to begin at midnight on Thursday, October 9. NLC President Adams Oshiomhole said the Thursday start date allows labor leaders and [...] |
2003-10-06 16:24:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC CASC ELAB ENRG EPET KDEM NI PGOV PHUM |
| 03LAGOS2078 |
CHEVRON'S VIEW ON THE DYNAMICS BEHIND THE FUEL [...] (SBU) Summary: According to Chevron management some two weeks ago President Obasanjo ordered the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to cancel all outstanding orders for refined petroleum products, thus committing the country to an abrupt course of petroleum market reform and libe [...] |
2003-10-08 15:41:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ELAB ECON NI |
| 03LAGOS2080 |
NIGERIA: POLICE NOT PREPARED FOR OCTOBER 9 STRIKE [...] (C) Haruna John (PROTECT), Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) resident in Lagos State gave Pol/Econ Officer an update on police preparedness for the planned nationwide strike on October 9. According to John, the police force is not/not prepared to deal with potential problems that a strike ma [...] |
2003-10-08 17:52:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC ELAB ENRG EPET KDEM PGOV NI |
| 03LAGOS2081 |
LASCO: NEW STRIKE, NEW PLANNING: NOT A REPEAT OF [...] (SBU) Summary: Chima Ubani, Executive Director of the Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO), told us that labor and civil society leaders meeting on October 4 and 6 decided to begin a two-week general strike on Thursday, October 9. Demonstrations will be held on Thursday in Lagos, Abuja and Kano, [...] |
2003-10-09 05:31:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB EPET PHUM SOCI NI |
| 03LAGOS2090 |
STRIKE SUSPENDED: LABOR AND OIL COMPANY VIEWS [...] (U) Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) President Adams Oshiomhole announced October 8 at approximately 2300 that labor had suspended its planned October 9 strike after the NLC, governors, National Assembly legislators, and oil marketers reached an agreement. A hastily organized group, known as the [...] |
2003-10-09 17:43:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB EPET NI |
| 03LAGOS2100 |
NIGERIA: PRIVATE MARKETERS PLAN FUEL IMPORTS [...] (C) Private marketers are planning to import fuel in the coming weeks for retail sales in Nigeria. Managers at both Texaco and Mobil report that making joint purchases of large cargoes to reduce unit cost is preferable to smaller deliveries. A Texaco official indicated his company would be m [...] |
2003-10-10 17:22:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET NI PGOV PREL |
| 03LAGOS2147 |
NIGERIA: FUEL SUPPLY AND PRICE REMAIN IN TENSE [...] (C) Summary: The status of fuel supply and pricing in Nigeria remains in question as fuel marketers and labor leaders left a stakeholders' meeting on October 16 with little agreement but significant distrust and resentment. Labor promises mass action at retail stations if marketers do not sell [...] |
2003-10-17 16:22:00 | Consulate Lagos | SECRET//NOFORN | ECON ENRG EPET NI PGOV |
| 03LAGOS2193 |
NIGERIA: WARRI UPDATE 10/24/03 - ITSEKIRI WANT TO [...] (C) Summary. After more than a month of peace, clashes between ethnic groups in the Niger Delta appear on the rise, although less deadly than generally reported in the media. We have received reports of attacks and counter-attacks at multiple locations since Sunday, October 19. Chevron securit [...] |
2003-10-24 09:59:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET PGOV PINR PINS PHUM ASEC NI |
| 03LAGOS2200 |
NIGERIA: TALK OF "MASS PROTESTS" ON FUEL [...] No summary [...] |
2003-10-24 16:18:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EPET PGOV PHUM SOCI NI XY |
| 03LAGOS2287 |
PRESIDENT SHUFFLES THE DECK WITH NEW OIL ADVISOR [...] (U) SUMMARY. On Monday, November 3, the GON announced the removal of Jackson Gaius-Obaseki as the Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). Funsho Kupolokun, former Special Assistant to the President on Petroleum Matters, was appointed new GMD, effect [...] |
2003-11-04 17:41:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET PGOV PINR PREL EINV NI |
| 03LAGOS2330 |
OBASANJO, OIL MARKETERS WIN OVER LABOR AND CIVIL [...] No summary [...] |
2003-11-10 18:29:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB EPET PGOV PHUM SOCI NI XY |
| 03LAGOS2354 |
FMR BIAFRAN PRESIDENT GENERAL OJUKWU MEETS WITH CG [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Consul General and POLOFF (notetaker) met with former Biafran President General Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu and his assistant Prince Bob J. Onyema on 10 November. Ojukwu has plans to travel to the US at the end of November. Ojukwu discussed court cases contesting the res [...] |
2003-11-14 10:44:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | PINR PREL PGOV PNAT SOCI EPET NI XY |
| 03LAGOS2357 |
AMCITS NOT/NOT TAKEN HOSTAGE IN DELTA - CHEVRON [...] (C) Chevron's special security manager, Hamish Macdonald (sic), told Econoff on November 14 that no Americans were taken hostage in an incident earlier this week. Press reports indicate that four barges and 21 Chevron contractors were seized by Ijaw youths in the riverine area near Warri on [...] |
2003-11-14 15:47:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC EPET PINR NI CACS |
| 03LAGOS2363 |
OBASANJO SHOULD RESIGN CLAIMS CIVIL SOCIETY GROUP, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Civil society organizations continue to agitate on the national scene in an attempt to realize public policy and institutional reform, but have yet to produce real movement in that direction. Calls for protest against the upcoming Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) [...] |
2003-11-17 15:49:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EPET PGOV PHUM KDEM SOCI NI XY |
| 03LAGOS2387 |
FOUR WORN AND UNDER-UTILIZED REFINERIES FOR SALE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Nigeria's Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) has set November 14 as the deadline for investors to submit expressions of interest to be core investors (51 percent) in the country's four refineries. Major U.S. oil companies tell us they are not interested. Labor is taking a cautiona [...] |
2003-11-20 14:54:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV ELAB PHUM PGOV PINR SOCI NI |
| 03LAGOS2422 |
NIGERIA'S TRANSITION TO A DEREGULATED DOWNSTREAM [...] (C) SUMMARY. At the monthly Businessman's Lunch held at the American Guest Quarters pub in Lagos on November 6, executives of two major fuel marketing companies confirmed that the sector is essentially deregulated, and that there is no significant threat of mass action by organized labor (ref [...] |
2003-11-26 10:22:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG PINR EINV NI |
| 03LAGOS2434 |
EXPAT OIL WORKERS KIDNAPPED IN NIGER DELTA -- MORE [...] (SBU) On Thursday, November 27, seven expatriates were kidnapped in Nigeria's Niger Delta region. One has escaped or has been released. No American citizens appear to be involved. 2. (CO) The seven expatriate employees of the Canadian pipe-coating company Bredero Shaw were kidnapped off [...] |
2003-11-28 15:55:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC EPET PGOV PINR PHUM EINV NI |
| 03LAGOS2467 |
FUTURE OF NIGERIAN OIL & GAS [...] Cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2.(SBU) Summary: On July 11 and 12, Econoffs met with a variety of oil producing and servicing companies to gain insight into the current state of the Nigerian oil and gas industry and assess the country's potential contri [...] |
2003-12-05 19:35:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | NI ECON EINV |