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Philippe Vasset
ALGERIA Editor in Chief
PRICE OF COMMUNICATIONS GAP
Will the failure of Algeria's government and Sonatrach to implicate fully the oil sector staff into a shake-up of the state-owned company under a "Development Plan" aimed at transforming it into an "international group" run efficiently by the private sector be viewed as another perverse throw-back to French administrative tradition? (...)   [872 words]   [$11,2]
OIL & GAS
ALGERIA
PRICE OF COMMUNICATIONS GAP
   Will the failure of Algeria's government and Sonatrach to implicate fully the oil sector staff into a shake-up of the state-owned company under a "Development Plan" aimed at transforming it into an "international group" run efficiently by the private sector be viewed as another perverse throw-back to French administrative tradition?  (...)  [872 words]   [$11,2]
SUDAN
ARAKIS CLARIFIES TECHNICAL ISSUES
   Vancouver-based Arakis has not managed as yet to put together the $300 million that its affiliate State Petroleum needs to push through a development programme on fields discovered by Chevron in Sudan.  (...)  [671 words]   [$7]
GABON
OXY TO DRILL IN 900M
   Occidental Petroleum appears ready to pull out all the stops technically on its first series of three wells in the deep Gabonese offshore starting in April, 1995.  (...)  [523 words]   [$7]
NIGERIA
TERMS SET FOR TSKJ CONTRACT
   Nigeria's project to export liquified natural gas has made major advances on two fronts. Firstly, two months after the Nigerian LNG (NLNG) consortium chose the TSKJ group of constructors (Technip, Snamprogetti, Kellogg, JGC) to build the liquefaction plant and auxiliary facilities at Finima on the island of Bonny (AEM 143) a memorandum of understanding between NLNG and TSKJ has laid out the "contract terms and conditions" on based on a cash offer.  (...)  [608 words]   [$7]
WEST AFRICA
WORLD BANK SET ON GAS PROJECT
   There is every indication the World Bank has set its mind on seeing an existing gas pipeline in Nigeria between Escravos and the Egbin power station near Lagos extended to Ghana via Benin and Togo.  (...)  [400 words]   [$7]

AT A GLANCE
NIGERIA    GLOMAR ADRIATIC VII FOR MOBIL?
 [133 words]   [$2,1]
ANGOLA    TEXACO TO FIX THREE DRILLING RIGS IN YEAR
 [181 words]   [$2,1]
TUNISIA    SAMEDAN ASSIGNS OPTION ON WELL TO MARATHON
 [107 words]   [$2,1]
ALGERIA    THIRD PRICE RISE IN 10 MONTHS
 [209 words]   [$2,1]
CONGO    ELF DEEP OFFSHORE DRILLING "END OF 1995."
 [116 words]   [$2,1]
CAMEROON    PHILLIPS TO DRILL WITH GLOMAR HIGH ISLAND VII
 [35 words]   [FREE]
CHAD    WORLD BANK PREPARES LOAN FOR MAJOR PROJECT
 [165 words]   [$2,1]
NIGERIA    ELF RETAINS TRIDENT VIII
 [24 words]   [FREE]
NAMIBIA    SASOL PLANS TO START DRILLING WITH NEDDRILL 1 IN SIX MONTHS
 [151 words]   [$2,1]
IVORY COAST    JACK-UP CLIFFS 10 FOR UMIC PROJECT
 [40 words]   [FREE]
MAURITIUS    ELF AND SHELL OPEN REGIONAL LPG TERMINAL
 [94 words]   [$2,1]
TUNISIA   
 [34 words]   [FREE]
FRANCE    ELF-GDF "TIE-UP" DISMISSED
 [341 words]   [$2,1]
NIGERIA    $8 MILLION ORDER FROM SHELL
 [88 words]   [$2,1]
ELECTRICITY
MOROCCO
ADB LOAN FOR "ELECTRICITE VIII"
   The Office National de l'Electricité will launch the first phase of a new section of renovation and extension work on its transmission-distribution network in January.  (...)  [435 words]   [$7]
SENEGAL
DEMAND SIDE MANAGEMENT
   Senegal is still not willing to bow to pressure from donor countries to privatize its electricity company, Sénélec. It has even rejected handing over management of the company to  (...)  [304 words]   [$7]

AT A GLANCE
ZIMBABWE    RIFT WITH WORLD BANK OVER ELECTRICITY RATES
 [86 words]   [$2,1]
EGYPT    INTERCONNECTION PROJECT WITH JORDAN STARTS
 [69 words]   [$2,1]

MINING
ZAIRE
WORLD BANK'S GUARDED OPTIMISM
   The World Bank's delegate for Central Africa and the Indian Ocean, Eugene Scanteje, met in late November with prime minister Kengo wa Dondo to examine the prospects of resuming loans  (...)  [695 words]   [$7]
ZAMBIA
ZCCM PRIVATIZATION PUT OFF TO 1996?
   The sell-off of Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines looks increasingly likely to be put off until after the 1996 elections. That, at any rate, appears to be the opinion of several well  (...)  [711 words]   [$7]
SOUTH AFRICA
ANC STAKES OUT POSITION
   On Dec. 1 the African National Congress published a 61-page draft on its proposals in the mining and energy sectors and called on industry to discuss and voice an opinion on them.  (...)  [328 words]   [$7]

AT A GLANCE
ZAIRE    COMMITTEE TO STUDY ANTI-SMUGGLING MEASURES
 [168 words]   [$2,1]
UGANDA    PRIORITY TO PROCESSING MINE PRODUCTS
 [97 words]   [$2,1]
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