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Philippe Vasset
CANADA Editor in Chief
GECAMINES' FLEXIBLE DEFENCE
The grave issue of massacres against refugees has put paid to the most obvious attempts by external powers to influence policy in the new Congo (DRC).This has had an impact on mining projects that preceded the upheaval in Democratic Republic of Congo but have suffered from the growing difficulty of outside countries from which investors hail to push their interests. (...)   [640 words]   [$11,2]
OIL & GAS
GHANA
SECOND LICENCE FOR NUEVO
   The independent American company Nuevo Energy signed an agreement on Oct. 17 with Ghana's mines and energy minister and the Ghana National Petroleum Corp.  (...)  [239 words]   [$7]
SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE
ERHC DEFENDER OF SEA RIGHTS
   The exploration part of the pact that the U.S. company Environmental Remediating Holding Corp (ERHC) signed with Sao Tome & Principe in June aims to help the tiny island defend its rights with regard its maritime economic zone.  (...)  [631 words]   [$7]
MOROCCO
LICENCE NEAR ESSAOUIRA FOR LASMO
   LASMO has been awarded an initial, one-year prospecting licence to examine a block covering 7,000 sq.km. in the Essaouira region with an option to convert it into an ordinary licence laying down conditions for its exploration and eventual development.  (...)  [505 words]   [$7]
NIGERIA
PONTICELLI & CHAGURI LAND DEALS
   The Bordeaux-based French firm Ponticelli recently won a contract in tandem with the Lebanese-Nigerian company IPCO owned by Gilbert and Jack Chaguri to serve as prime contractor for the Obite gas processing-compression station for the Elf-NNPC joint venture.  (...)  [341 words]   [$7]
ANGOLA
THREE RIGS TO DRILL GIRASOL
   The die hasn't absolutely been cast on the drilling system for development wells on Girasol and Dalia, Elf's two discoveries that contain reserves of at least 1.  (...)  [845 words]   [$7]
SOUTH AFRICA
LICENCE FOR ENERGY AFRICA
   The South African firm Energy Africa was awarded a licence off the western coast of the country last week. The property would be called an appraisal licence or a seismic option elsewhere but was termed differently in view of legislation governing Soeker's monopoly on oil exploration.  (...)  [401 words]   [$7]

AT A GLANCE
EQUATORIAL GUINEA    NOMECO FIXES GLOMAR ADRIATIC V
 [67 words]   [$2,1]
NIGERIA    ROBERT F. BAUER'S SIDE TRIP TO CARIBBEAN
 [108 words]   [$2,1]
TUNISIA    NOMECO'S TESTS ON BAGUEL PROJECT
 [102 words]   [$2,1]
WEST AFRICA    MARKET STILL TIGHTENING
 [185 words]   [$2,1]
MADAGASCAR    HONEYMOON BETWEEN MADAGASCAR'S SOLIMA AND GLENCORE
 [303 words]   [$2,1]
ETHIOPIA    INCREASE IN ETHIOPIAN IMPORTS VIA DJIBOUTI
 [53 words]   [$2,1]
SOUTH AFRICA    MOBIL RETURNS
 [161 words]   [$2,1]
NIGERIA    NNPC TO COMPLETE SHIFT TO ABUJA
 [88 words]   [$2,1]
WEST AFRICA    TRANSOCEAN DRILLER TO PULL OUT
 [146 words]   [$2,1]
ELECTRICITY
SUDAN
OLD HYDRO PROJECT RESURFACES
   Sudan has fixed the conditions of a new agreement -- this time with China -- on building the hydroelectrical and irrigation dam it has been thinking of constructing for years on the  (...)  [288 words]   [$7]
TANZANIA
UGANDA OFFERS TO UP SUPPLIES
   The Ugandan government has offered to increase Uganda's exports of electricity towards Tanzania with the construction of a line that will serve the north-east of the country and would  (...)  [165 words]   [$7]

AT A GLANCE
AFRICA    SHELL ANNOUNCE RECORD SOLAR ENERGY PROGRAM
 [139 words]   [$2,1]
IVORY COAST    WORK TO START ON AZITO IN MID-JANUARY
 [66 words]   [$2,1]
NIGERIA    WORLD BANK LOAN LIKELY FOR POWER PLANT UPGRADE
 [205 words]   [$2,1]
SOUTH AFRICA    NEW START AT EQUIPPING GREATER JO'BURG
 [103 words]   [$2,1]

MINING
CANADA
GECAMINES' FLEXIBLE DEFENCE
   The grave issue of massacres against refugees has put paid to the most obvious attempts by external powers to influence policy in the new Congo (DRC).This has had an impact on mining  (...)  [640 words]   [$11,2]
GHANA
PMMC EXPERIMENT
   To improve its recovery rate of small-scale gold production, Ghana's Precious Minerals Marketing Corporation is experimenting with an incentive system with local associations via district  (...)  [540 words]   [$7]
GUINEA/LIBERIA
ROCKS ON THE IRON ROUTE
   The battle lines are becoming clear in the seemingly inevitable clash of political and economic interests -- both external and inside Liberia itself -- surrounding the resumption  (...)  [529 words]   [$7]
GHANA
FEASIBILITY STUDY FOR KONONGO
   A freeze in production at the Konongo gold mine now appears to be only temporary following an announcement by its owner, Ghana Gold Mines of Australia, that recent drilling results  (...)  [214 words]   [$7]

AT A GLANCE
TANZANIA    SAMAX-RESOLUTE PROJECT TAKES OFF
 [259 words]   [$2,1]
GHANA    AFRICWEST GOLD PREPARES TO DRILL ON NANGODI CONCESSION
 [124 words]   [$2,1]
ZIMBABWE    DELTA GOLD SIGNS UP FOR NGUEZI
 [264 words]   [$2,1]
SOUTH AFRICA    JCI'S NEW GAS-BASED STEEL PROJECT
 [240 words]   [$2,1]
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