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Philippe Vasset
AFRICA Editor in Chief
DE BEERS TO KEEP PUSHING ON EXPLORATION
De Beers has been compelled to cut back on investment following a 28% drop in sales of gem-quality rough idamonds by its Central Selling Organization in 1998 - to $3.3 billion - along with a 20% contraction in Japanese demand and slower-than-expected growth on the U. (...)   [665 words]   [$11,2]
OIL & GAS
ANGOLA
PSA'S SIGNED FOR THREE BLOCKS
   The government announced just before the New Year that it had signed three PSA's concerning blocks 21, 22 and 24 in Angola's deep offshore off Cuanza Sul province.  (...)  [541 words]   [$7]
NIGERIA
FIND FOR ELF IN DEEP OFFSHORE
   Elf Petroleum has made an appearently substantial discovery in Nigeria's deep offshore. The French group remained silent about results of the Ukot-1 well that it drilled in the deep offshore at a water depth of 750 meters with the Sedco 700 which it had sub-contracted from Elf Congo (the semi was subsequently sent to Congo to spud a new well, Nkanga Marine 1, in the Haute Mer permit in early December:  (...)  [507 words]   [$7]
NIGERIA
KICKOFF FOR AMENAM & BONGA
   The Nigerian government has approved a decision in August, 1997 that resulted in the choice of Elf Petroleum Nigeria as operator for the joint development of Amenam-Kpona.  (...)  [332 words]   [$7]
AFRICA/UNITED STATES
DRAFTING AN OIL POLICY?
   A closed-door meeting in Washington just before New Years gave rise to what could appear as an American effort to dovetail activity concerning the oil industry in sub-Saharan Africa.  (...)  [957 words]   [$7]
TUNISIA
AN FPSO FOR ISIS
   Corexland BV has issued a letter of intent to a consortium made up of the British company Victoria Oilfield Development and the U.  (...)  [132 words]   [$7]
MADAGASCAR
ASSESSMENT ACCORD
   In late December Frontier Resources International was awarded a technical assessment license that it will be able to convert into a four-year seismic option at the end of 1999.  (...)  [185 words]   [$7]
ANGOLA
BLOCK O TO PROVIDE 600,000 BPD
   Initial development of the Kuito field on Angola's block 14 is going to be put back relative to earlier indications that it would be put into production in the autumn of 1999.  (...)  [387 words]   [$7]

AT A GLANCE
ANGOLA    AMOCO TO DRILL TWO MORE WELLS WITH OCEAN ALLIANCE
 [162 words]   [$2,1]
ANGOLA    CHEVRON RELEASES PETROBRAS XVI AND LIMITS ITSELF TO FOUR JACK-UPS
 [90 words]   [$2,1]
NIGERIA    TUGBOAT FLEET UP TO STRENGTH
 [76 words]   [$2,1]
IVORY COAST    SANTA FE DRILLS SECOND WELL ON CI-24
 [142 words]   [$2,1]
IVORY COAST    PETROCI TO MARKET LPG FOR VEHICLES
 [143 words]   [$2,1]
BENIN    LOCAL COMPANY BUYS PRIVATIZED SONACOP
 [96 words]   [$2,1]
SOUTH AFRICA    DEREGULATION PUT BACK
 [202 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA    THREE OF GLOBAL'S JACK-UPS SOON TO BE MOTHBALLED
 [270 words]   [$2,1]
ELECTRICITY
NIGER
PRE-SELECTION FOR KANDADJI STUDY
   The Haut Commissariat au Barrage de Kandadji is seeking a consultant to carry out a feasibility study on the Kandadji dam for which it received a $1.  (...)  [361 words]   [$7]

AT A GLANCE
CAPE VERDE    GOVERNMENT SEEKS CONSULTANTS
 [83 words]   [$2,1]
SOUTH AFRICA    EIB LOAN
 [74 words]   [$2,1]
UGANDA    FINANCE MINISTRY TAKES OVER PRIVATIZATION BRIEF
 [209 words]   [$2,1]
MOROCCO    ALSTOM LANDS FFR190 MILLION CONTRACT
 [116 words]   [$2,1]
MOROCCO    KUWAITI FUNDING FOR DAM EQUIPMENT
 [60 words]   [$2,1]
SENEGAL    SENELEC-SCHLUMBERGER IN METER JV
 [103 words]   [$2,1]

MINING
AFRICA
DE BEERS TO KEEP PUSHING ON EXPLORATION
   De Beers has been compelled to cut back on investment following a 28% drop in sales of gem-quality rough idamonds by its Central Selling Organization in 1998 - to $3.3 billion - along  (...)  [665 words]   [$11,2]
ANGOLA
YETWENE TO REOPEN
   Canada's DiamondWorks wants to put its alluvial diamond mine at Yetwene in Lunda Norte back into production in late January, company chairman and CEO Bruce Walsham declared.  (...)  [474 words]   [$7]
ANGOLA
DE BEERS SAID TO CLOSE EYES
   De Beers reacted calmly to a report by a London-based non-governmental organization which claimed that the group's commercial policy had helped UNITA to re-arm itself, thus fanning  (...)  [793 words]   [$7]
KENYA
HEADWAY FOR TIOMIN'S PROJECT
   The Canadian firm Tiomin Resources has found a way to bankroll a final feasibility study that it needs to carry out on its Kwale deposit in Kenya before developing it.  (...)  [415 words]   [$7]

AT A GLANCE
ZAMBIA    MOU WITH ANGLO ON NKANA AND NCHANGA
 [245 words]   [$2,1]
SOUTH AFRICA    AFRIORE IN COAL DEAL
 [74 words]   [$2,1]
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