Chad seizes control of COTCO, halts dividends to Savannah
Chad has said it is holding talks with Cameroon on increasing stakes in COTCO and how to share management.
Chad has said it is holding talks with Cameroon on increasing stakes in COTCO and how to share management.
It took only days for Savannah Energy’s plans for Chad to come unstuck, as the government threw up objections to its ExxonMobil acquisition.
Glencore has reported strong earnings for 2021, although in terms of energy it was largely driven by coal, rather than oil.
Savannah Energy has formalised its purchase plans in Chad, striking a $626 million deal with ExxonMobil and Petronas.
Chad has no plans to sell a stake in its export pipeline to Cameroon, Société des Hydrocarbures du Tchad (SHT) has said in a statement.
Taiwan’s CPC Corp. has celebrated the arrival of Chadian crude in its home market.
Chad asked Glencore to suspend payments on its oil-for-cash loan this year, a move that could prove a precedent for private creditors worried about being dragged into a global debt-relief push for poor countries.
Glencore’s core business of marketing held up well in 2019 but the trader took a $2.8 billion impairment charge, driven in part by the loss of its oil exploration licences in Chad.