AFP: Oil-rich Gabon has cancelled a major offshore drilling auction, after deciding it had more to gain from selling rights individually to energy companies, a ministerial advisor said on Monday. “Gabon wants to better negotiate its interests. After reflection, it is more advantageous to negotiate directly with all the individual companies,” said Guy Martial Mbeang Mba, an advisor to Mining, Oil and Hydrocarbons Minister Julien Nkoghe Bekale. Mbeang Mba said negotiations would no longer be limited…