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Philippe Vasset
NIGERIA Editor in Chief
EUROMED HUB FOR NIGERIAN GAS
What has Nigerian gas got in common with the Euromed system? Answer: a gas "hub" in France for the West European market. French state secretary for industry Christian Pierret raised the possibility during the Association Technique du Gaz en France (ATG) convention that wound up in Toulouse on Sept. (...)   [682 words]   [$11,2]
OIL & GAS
NIGERIA
EUROMED HUB FOR NIGERIAN GAS
   What has Nigerian gas got in common with the Euromed system? Answer: a gas "hub" in France for the West European market. French state secretary for industry Christian Pierret raised the possibility during the Association Technique du Gaz en France (ATG) convention that wound up in Toulouse on Sept.  (...)  [682 words]   [$11,2]
SAUDI ARABIA
ARAMCO DROPS PETROGAL
   Saudi Aramco announced on Sept. 23 that negotiations on an agreement in July to take a 27.5% in Petrogal, Portugal's leading distribution company that is also active in five Portuguese-speaking African companies, "had been broken off.  (...)  [478 words]   [$7]
CAMEROON/CHAD
EXXON TAKES PRE-EMPTIVE ACTION
   The Green movement can be relevant on occasion but also destructive, such as Greenpeace when it plays on the public's fears regarding pipes in the Channel and buoys in the North Sea, where it now threatens to prevent any new oil drilling west of the Shetlands.  (...)  [493 words]   [$7]
NIGERIA
NNPC CONCERNED
   There are early signs that NNPC is becoming concerned about the drift of drilling units out of Nigeria and the impact this could have on exploration.  (...)  [500 words]   [$7]
ERITREA
ANADARKO BUILDS UP PROPERTY
   The U.S. company Anadarko has just added a new, 9308 sq.km. property to the south of a 27,115 sq.km. licence, Zula, which it acquired exactly two years ago in the Eritrean offshore.  (...)  [210 words]   [$7]
MADAGASCAR
SELL-OFF STARTS
   Price Waterhouse has picked 10 companies to take part in pre-qualification for the privatization of Madagascar's downstream sector but less than half will remain in the running when the invitation to tender is issued, in principle before the year's end.  (...)  [361 words]   [$7]

AT A GLANCE
ALGERIA    LICENCE CONFIRMED FOR PETRONAS; ANADARKO UPGRADES
 [101 words]   [$2,1]
ANGOLA    CHEVRON SEEKS NEW SEMI-SUB
 [141 words]   [$2,1]
ANGOLA    AMOCO TO DRILL WITH ROBERT F. BAUER
 [275 words]   [$2,1]
ANGOLA    ENERGY AFRICA TO DRILL
 [100 words]   [$2,1]
ANGOLA    TOTAL IN RUNNING FOR DEEP OFFSHORE?
 [158 words]   [$2,1]
GABON    OMEGA DRILLS FOR AGIP
 [131 words]   [$2,1]
GABON    GEOSERVICE OPERATES REMBOUE SYSTEM
 [41 words]   [FREE]
WEST AFRICA    RATES SURGE
 [234 words]   [$2,1]
NAMIBIA    WELL TRANSFERRED
 [97 words]   [$2,1]
ELECTRICITY
CHAD
THE LAST ACT
   The government has just officially launched the privatization that will go along with the oil and electricity project based on the Sedigi project.  (...)  [490 words]   [$7]
TUNISIA
HYDRO QUEBEC IN NEW PACTS
   Four and a half years after a major agreement annonced with Societe Tunisienne de l’Electricite et du Gaz (STEG), Hydro Quebec International has just clinched two technical cooperation  (...)  [202 words]   [$7]

AT A GLANCE
UGANDA    IMPREGILO SIGNS
 [61 words]   [$2,1]
MOROCCO    FOUR PARTS TO FINAL JORF LASFAR BOT CONTRACT
 [290 words]   [$2,1]

MINING
ZIMBABWE
ANGLO TEAMS WITH CAMBRIAN
   Anglo has matched its move in Tanzania (see above) with another in Zimbabwe in its elaborate game of Go in southern Africa’s gold sector.  (...)  [419 words]   [$7]
TANZANIA
TANGANYIKA AND ANGLO HAPPY
   Australia’s Tanganyika Gold now seems within reach of its plan to prove up to a million ounces of gold — the target of all juniors — at its Buhemba project in Tanzania.  (...)  [669 words]   [$7]
CANADA
ANVIL & 1ST QUANTUM ADVANCE
   Anvil Mining is awaiting initial results of drilling on 3,000m that began this month on Dikilushi to come back from Johannesburg but it has already announced the discovery of high  (...)  [323 words]   [$7]
CANADA
GCM’S INPUT TO STATE COFFERS
   Gecamines is getting a $30 million loan from a consortium of South African banks, including the Standard Bank, AEM has learned from a source close to the negotiations in Johannesb  (...)  [1047 words]   [$7]
CANADA
A $3M SURPRISE FOR RHODES
   Confusion in the awarding of mining licences by Kinshasa has forced an Australian concern, Rhodes Mining, to make an unexpected payment of $US3 million.  (...)  [375 words]   [$7]

AT A GLANCE
EGYPT    GOOD START ON SUKKARI
 [279 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA/EUROPEAN UNION    CALL FOR SYSTEM TO BE MAINTAINED
 [106 words]   [$2,1]
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