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Philippe Vasset
SUDAN Editor in Chief
A MURKY TALE
Several new twists have been added to the jumble of Sudanese projects revolving around Chevron's discoveries. Within the space of a few days the political-industrial-financial saga took on dimensions far beyond what would be considered normal for a country that combines considerable oil reserves with a highly volatile political situation. (...)   [1557 words]   [$11,2]
OIL & GAS
SUDAN
A MURKY TALE
   Several new twists have been added to the jumble of Sudanese projects revolving around Chevron's discoveries. Within the space of a few days the political-industrial-financial saga took on dimensions far beyond what would be considered normal for a country that combines considerable oil reserves with a highly volatile political situation.  (...)  [1557 words]   [$11,2]
IVORY COAST
FOXTROT ACCORD SIGNED
   As AEM went to press it was learned that an expected agreement with Bouygues, EDF and Apache International for the Foxtrot gas and electricity project had just been signed in Abidjan on Dec.  (...)  [576 words]   [$7]
TUNISIA
THREE NEW PERMITS
   Tunisia has just signed two new exploration conventions (contracts remaining to be ratified) involving the fifth and sixth permits to be awarded in 1992.  (...)  [224 words]   [$7]
CONGO
DRILLING ON N'KOSSA: END OF 1993
   Elf has made arrangements to enable Elf Congo to start drilling development wells on N'Kossa. But the spudding of production wells is not planned at present until the last three months of 1993, and not from the second quarter as had been scheduled when preliminary notification was made to service companies last July (AEM 89).  (...)  [683 words]   [$7]
GABON
BRITISH GAS SNARES PERMIT
   British Gas has won its new permit (AEM 94), allowing a new step in its efforts for international expansion while it faces mounting assaults on the quite considerable remains of its gas monopoly in the United Kingdom.  (...)  [166 words]   [$7]

AT A GLANCE
AFRICA   
 [53 words]   [$2,1]
NIGERIA   
 [76 words]   [$2,1]
ITALY   
 [87 words]   [$2,1]
CONGO   
 [38 words]   [FREE]
ERITREA    ASMARA WANTS MORE FROM OFFSHORE PERMITS
 [127 words]   [$2,1]
GABON    ELF'S FIRST "RURAL" STATION
 [20 words]   [FREE]
LIBYA   
 [53 words]   [$2,1]
NIGERIA    LNG: ONE DISAGREEMENT CAN HIDE ANOTHER
 [232 words]   [$2,1]
NIGERIA    SOFT SALES
 [212 words]   [$2,1]
CAMEROON   
 [68 words]   [$2,1]
NIGERIA   
 [44 words]   [FREE]
ANGOLA    AGREEMENT SIGNED FOR BLOCK 2/92 (TOTAL)
 [162 words]   [$2,1]
FRANCE   
 [120 words]   [$2,1]
GABON   
 [29 words]   [FREE]
FRANCE    SOCIALISTS AND ELF'S PRIVATIZATION
 [110 words]   [$2,1]
FRANCE    RELATIVE BRAKE ON EXPLORATION FOR ELF IN 1993
 [113 words]   [$2,1]
ELECTRICITY
ZAIRE
INGA-MBANDAKA LINE WORK RESTARTED
   Zaire's Société Nationale d'Electricité (SNEL) can now hope to extend its network next year to new clients in Equateur province and particularly to business and industry in the ar  (...)  [167 words]   [$7]
SOUTH AFRICA
WORLD BANK: ART OF THE POSSIBLE
   The question of whether South African companies obtain loans from World Bank institutions depends on constitutional changes occurring to allow the country to return to the Bank's  (...)  [527 words]   [$7]

AT A GLANCE
FRANCE   
 [157 words]   [$2,1]
ANGOLA   
 [82 words]   [$2,1]

MINING
MOZAMBIQUE
MOATIZE AIMS AT 10 MN MT/YEAR
   Production at the Mozambique coal mine Moatize, which is currently 100,000 t/year and is exported to Zimbabwe, could jump to 10 million t/y by the year 2000 and head essentially towards  (...)  [196 words]   [$7]
ZAIRE
SKIMMING THE SURFACE
   The Mobutu regime's top officials in the mining branch obviously figure along with the marshal himself among those liable to face charges following allegations contained in a report  (...)  [687 words]   [$7]
ZAIRE
SOUTH AFRICAN ACCORD ON EMKM
   Is South Africa interested in Kisenge manganese after casting an eye on gold from Kilomoto and the remains of what was the Sominki tin production company (AEM 94-95)?  (...)  [201 words]   [$7]
AFRICA
EXPERT RINGS THE ALARM
   Jean-Jacques Vanderverghe has made a personal crusade out of what mining companies have long known: it was not only concerning Rwanda (AEM 99) that he rang the alarm concerning what  (...)  [416 words]   [$7]

AT A GLANCE
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC   
 [44 words]   [FREE]
MOROCCO   
 [69 words]   [$2,1]
SOUTH AFRICA    GENCOR'S AUSTRALIAN BID VETOED
 [57 words]   [$2,1]
MALAWI   
 [70 words]   [$2,1]
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