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Tullow Oil’s Sunderland AFC sponsorship ends amid controversy
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Apr 11, 2013
Last year we raised some concerns about a new sponsorship deal between Tullow Oil and Sunderland football club, aka Sunderland AFC. Only it wasn’t actually Tullow that was doing the sponsoring, it was a strange body called Invest In Africa, that was all about promoting Africa (homogenous and undifferentiated continent that it is) as a...
London-based oil-mercenary company marches into Libya
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Oct 4, 2011
Oil and private military/mercenary company Heritage has muscled its way into Libya. The London-based oil company is the first new foreign oil company to buy its way into Libya, after acquiring a controlling 51% stake in Sahara Oil Services – which apparently brings the right to bid for and operate oil and gas licenses in...
A Lake of Oil: Congo’s contracts escalate conflict, pollution & poverty
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May 17, 2010
A Lake of Oil analyses confidential oil contracts held by UK companies Tullow and Heritage in the Democratic Republic of Congo that were leaked by Platform, revealing the danger of economic rip-off and rights abuses in one of Africa's most unstable countries.
Contracts Curse: Uganda’s oil agreements place profit before people
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Feb 18, 2010
Held secret by the Ugandan government and oil companies Tullow and Heritage, Platform has revealed the terms of the contracts for oil operations by Lake Albert on the Uganda-Congo border, and their economic implications. For the first time, Uganda’s Production Sharing Agreements are available to the public to read, after a leaked copy was placed...
