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Philippe Vasset
CANADA Editor in Chief
UNDER WORLD BANK'S WATCHFULL EYE
Road repairs around Kinshasa and humanitarian missions were all that Laurent Kabila's government won from the "Friends of the Congo" conference organized under the auspices of the World Bank on Dec. 3-4 in Brussels. The "stabilization and recovery" plan prepared with the World Bank's help hardened up policies already laid out for infrastructure, including electricity, and for mines, to some extent. (...)   [619 words]   [$11,2]
OIL & GAS
CANADA
UNDER WORLD BANK'S WATCHFULL EYE
   Road repairs around Kinshasa and humanitarian missions were all that Laurent Kabila's government won from the "Friends of the Congo" conference organized under the auspices of the World Bank on Dec. 3-4 in Brussels. The "stabilization and recovery" plan prepared with the World Bank's help hardened up policies already laid out for infrastructure, including electricity, and for mines, to some extent.  (...)  [619 words]   [$11,2]
CANADA
"STUDIES" ON A REFINERY
   Can the "new Congo" succeed in modernizing the old Matadi refinery and equip it with units to treat heavy crude and crack residual fuels even though international donors are opposed to the construction of new refineries, arguing that it's more economical to import products, and even a project advanced by an oil country like Angola doesn't convince experts?  (...)  [384 words]   [$7]
UGANDA
SECOND LICENCE IN WEST
   Uganda has found buyers for roughly a quarter of the 18,000 sq.km. it was offering on Albert Grabben, the region adjacent to Lake Albert in the west of the country.  (...)  [287 words]   [$7]
ALGERIA
GHADAMES BASIN THE ENGINE OF GROWTH
   More than ever, the Ghadames basin has provided the engine for the rise in Algeria's oil production. Exploration on the basin resumed little by little following Algeria's move in 1986 to renew contracts with international oil companies, with Agip in the vanguard.  (...)  [824 words]   [$7]
ALGERIA
BSFN ON STREAM AROUND 2001
   It now appears the Bir Sif Fatima Nord (BFSN) discovery can be developed and if that is confirmed it would come on stream in the year 2001, Broken Hill Pty declared in giving its shareholders an update on the situation of its operations in Algeria.  (...)  [271 words]   [$7]
ANGOLA
NEW PERMITS IMMINENT
   The government is expected to probably announce this week which operators have won blocks 23, 24 and 25. The blocks, relatively to the south in the deep offshore zone (which runs from 14 in the north to 30), are considered less promising than those already awarded in the north.  (...)  [317 words]   [$7]

AT A GLANCE
ALGERIA    BICKERING AT TFT
 [122 words]   [$2,1]
ANGOLA    ETPM TO BUILD JACKET FOR NEMBA NORTE FOR CHEVRON
 [124 words]   [$2,1]
ANGOLA    CABINDA GULF EXTENDS GLOMAR ADRIATIC X
 [48 words]   [$2,1]
CAMEROON    PERENCO TO START DRILLING
 [30 words]   [FREE]
CONGO    AGIP TO DRILL WITH OCEAN LIBERATOR
 [141 words]   [$2,1]
EQUATORIAL GUINEA    A FUTURE OIL BASE?
 [93 words]   [$2,1]
KENYA    LPG IMPORT CAPACITY BOOSTED
 [93 words]   [$2,1]
KENYA    SKEPTICISM CONCERNING UGANDA PIPELINE
 [109 words]   [$2,1]
LIBYA    ELF TO TENDER FOR SEMI-SUB
 [93 words]   [$2,1]
GABON    OCCIDENTAL DEBATES OMEGA PROGRAM
 [130 words]   [$2,1]
TUNISIA    KEY SINGAPORE SWITCHES TO TUNISIA
 [54 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA    NEWLY-SOLD JACK-UP ON OFFER
 [100 words]   [$2,1]
ELECTRICITY
SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE
UPGRADE FOR POWER STATION
   The small Sao Tome hydroelectric power station Contador is going to be rehabilitated so as to restore a capacity that could theoretically cover a quarter of the country's needs.  (...)  [122 words]   [$7]
CANADA
TARGETTED APPROACH
   The Democratic Republic of Congo is pushing a $300-$350 million program based on private programs that it hopes will attract funding from bilateral and multilateral donors.  (...)  [942 words]   [$7]
MOZAMBIQUE
KICKOFF FOR RSA-MAPUTO LINE
   Only days before the Cabora Bassa-Zimbabwe interconnection went into service on Dec. 1 a meeting was held in Mozambique on Nov.  (...)  [399 words]   [$7]

AT A GLANCE
ERITREA    SWEDPOWER TO HELP EAA MANAGE ITS NETWORK
 [82 words]   [$2,1]
MAURITIUS    ADP LOAN FINALLY APPROVED
 [152 words]   [$2,1]
BENIN    ADP LOAN
 [22 words]   [FREE]
UGANDA    NILE INDEPENDENT POWER'S INITIAL AGREEMENT WITH SOCIETE GENERALE
 [206 words]   [$2,1]
ETHIOPIA    BRITISH MISSION IN FEBRUARY
 [49 words]   [$2,1]

MINING
MOZAMBIQUE
ASIAN BUYERS FOR JCI PROJECT
   A project by JCI and Arco to build a direct reduced iron (DRI) plant in Beira has received a vote of confidence following last summer's agreement with CVRD of Brazil to have the latter  (...)  [274 words]   [$7]
GHANA
REUNION RESUMES WORK ON CHIRANO
   After an 18-month suspension, exploration resumed in late November on the Chirano gold prospect, declared Reunion Mining whose partners in the venture are Finland's Outokumpu company  (...)  [162 words]   [$7]
IVORY COAST
ANGLO INTERESTED IN SODEMI
   Anglo American Corp is displaying a keen interest in the privatization of the state-owned Ivory Coast mining company Sodemi that has been in the works for the past two years.  (...)  [136 words]   [$7]
CANADA
A LITTLE MORE CLARITY
   The mining part of the economic "stabilization and recovery" plan that the Kinshasa government presented at the "Friends of the Congo" meeting in Brussels on Dec.  (...)  [875 words]   [$7]

AT A GLANCE
MOZAMBIQUE    FRENCH INTEREST FOR MOZAL
 [144 words]   [$2,1]
SOUTH AFRICA    NORSK HYDRO BACKS OUT OF PHOSPHATE PROJECT WITH FOSKOR
 [113 words]   [$2,1]
TANZANIA    SEVERAL LICENCES ACQUIRED BY AUSTRALIAN JUNIOR
 [204 words]   [$2,1]
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