Minister of Mines and Energy Emmanuel Nadingar of Chad
Emmanuel Nadingar said landlocked producer Chad wanted to learn from the example of Algeria, whose Parliament this month passed a new energy law giving its state company Sonatrach a key role in the upstream oil and gas industry.
Chevron and Malaysia's Petronas, both members of an oil consortium in Chad led by ExxonMobil, did not affect the government's declared desire to renegotiate the terms of the consortium.
But Nadingar said the size of this stake had yet to be defined.
Nadingar said Chad had fresh exploration opportunities to offer to oil investors.
On Monday, Interim Defence Minister Emmanuel Nadingar had said that the government of the central African country was completely in control after a short-lived uprising, which was quashed without violence.
4), Emmanuel Nadingar has been named Chads new oil minister.
On Monday, Nadingar had said that the government of the central African country was completely in control after a short-lived uprising, which was quashed without violence.
Nadingar described the uprising as a mutiny by troops driven by "social and other needs.
Production has continued as normal, Oil Minister Emmanuel Nadingar said on Monday amid burned papers and broken furniture at his ministry building, which was looted following the Feb 2-3 assault on N'Djamena by eastern rebels.
Nadingar said plans to start work on a new 60,000 bpd refinery within the next month or two were likely to be delayed because of the recent fighting.
Nadingar said some records were backed up at other government buildings and the oil companies that had carried out the geological research should be able to provide copies of the rest.
Nadingar says that his people had benefited from the start of oil production in 2003.
Emmanuel Nadingar says Chadian troops clashed with hundreds of Sudanese fighters last Wednesday, after the militias attacked a village.
Nadingar is in New Delhi to attend the India-Africa Hydrocarbon Conference, jointly organised by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad)), India's ministry of petroleum and natural gas and Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Ficci.
Chadian Oil Minister Emmanuel Nadingar said the country’s 140,000-160,000 barrels per day oil output had not been affected by the fighting.
Chads acting Defense Minister Emmanuel Nadingar has warned neighbouring Sudan of violating its border.