AFRICA ENERGY & MINING n° 116 - 25/08/1993

ALGERIA NEW RACE AGAINST TIME The Mafia-style murder of Kasdi Merbah on Saturday made it clear that the new government to be formed this week following the dismissal of Prime Minister Belaid Abdesslam and his replacement by Redha Malek is unlikely to escape from the cycle of violence gripping the country. (...). [Total : 1066 Words]. (8,2USD) 58

MAURITIUS WINNING BIDS FOR SHELL AND BP Shell and BP have been awarded contracts from the State Trading Corp (STC) to supply oil products to the island in the 1993-94 fiscal year. (...). [Total : 50 Words]. (1,5USD) 268 GABON PERMIT FOR SHELL A new permit has been awarded to Shell Gabon on a block named Kenguerie Marin, where it will hold a 60% share alongside the Gabonese government (40%). (...). [Total : 63 Words]. (1,5USD) 224 ALGERIA FRENCH AND JAPANESE CONTRACTS Algiers has awarded contracts to Entrepose and Sofregaz involving the Alrar Hassi R'Mel LPG line on one hand and, on the other, to Japan's Itochu and JGC regarding LPG extraction units at Hassi Messaoud. (...). [Total : 246 Words]. (4,7USD) 56 FRANCE/AFRICA CRUDE SALES STILL FALLING Figures for the first half of 1993 confirm the downward trend of French imports of African crude that was evident in the first quarter. (...). [Total : 317 Words]. (4,7USD) ANGOLA TOTAL DELAYS DRILLING Total has put back until January the drilling programme it was to have launched in October-November with a jack-up. (...). [Total : 27 Words]. (FREE!) ALGERIA BECHTEL FOR PIPELINE Sonatrach has awarded Bechtel the contract to install the Algerian section of the North Africa-Europe gas pipeline running from Hassi R'Mel to the Moroccan border, a 48 inch diameter line some 530 km in length. (...). [Total : 591 Words]. (4,7USD) CONGO The jack-up C.E. Thornton has completed its programme for Agip. (...). [Total : 18 Words]. (FREE!) UNITED KINGDOM/AFRICA "SUB-SAHARAN OIL AND MINERALS." CAPETOWN Scheduled for Nov. 29-30, the conference is being organized by the British company Europe Energy Environment and sponsored by Gabon's ministry of mines and energy, Sonangol of Angola and the South African Chamber of Mines. (...). [Total : 99 Words]. (1,5USD) GABON Elf has extended the contract for the jack-up Glomar Adriatic I for six months starting from November. (...). [Total : 17 Words]. (FREE!) NAMIBIA FIRST DRILLING CONFIRMED FOR EARLY OCTOBER Norsk Hydro has chartered the Saipem semi-sub Scarabeo 4 for what will be the first drilling on a block awarded in the 1991 bidding round. (...). [Total : 188 Words]. (1,5USD) 184 ALGERIA NEW RACE AGAINST TIME The Mafia-style murder of Kasdi Merbah on Saturday made it clear that the new government to be formed this week following the dismissal of Prime Minister Belaid Abdesslam and his replacement by Redha Malek is unlikely to escape from the cycle of violence gripping the country. (...). [Total : 1066 Words]. (8,2USD) 58 NIGERIA The Chiles Offshore jack-ups Seabee and Hornet have quit Nigeria for the U. (...). [Total : 50 Words]. (1,5USD) SOUTH AFRICA QUESTION MARK OVER MOSSGAS Pretoria is now officially considering whether to scrap the Mossgas-Mossref project which went into service at the end of 1992 even though gas production for the project has now reached its maximum. (...). [Total : 397 Words]. (4,7USD) ANGOLA RANGER STRIKES ON BLOCK 4 Although work was postponed from March to June because of civil conflict earlier this year, Ranger Oil has made what it deems a commercial discovery on Block 4 in the Angola offshore, where it operates with a 70% share. (...). [Total : 136 Words]. (4,7USD) SOUTH AFRICA E-BT PROJECT SHELVED. Soekor will not sign, as it had planned to do, a contract for a floating production system for the E-BT field and the E-AR and E-AA satellites in the offshore Bredastorp basin, where the Mossel Bay gas field is also located. (...). [Total : 105 Words]. (4,7USD) SOMALIA OIL IN THE PICTURE? Do oil considerations lie behind Washington's change of heart concerning warlord Gen. Mohamed Farah Aideed in Somalia? The Italian daily La Repubblica seems entirely convinced of it and claims Aideed was "betrayed" by the U. (...). [Total : 512 Words]. (4,7USD) 300 NIGERIA On behalf of the Statoil/BP Alliance Oil venture, Statoil has begun seeking a rig for a multi-well drilling programme in up to 1300 metres of water starting in the first quarter of 1995. (...). [Total : 33 Words]. (FREE!) CAMEROON/CONGO The Sedco Forex tender unit Searex XI has left Cameroon where it was working for Elf and is en route to Singapore prior to starting a new contract with Brunei Shell. (...). [Total : 53 Words]. (1,5USD) 518 CONGO NEW LEGISLATION IN WORKS Prime Minister Joachim Yhombi Opangoa announced on July 30 that a draft law on the oil sector would shortly be tabled before parliament. (...). [Total : 261 Words]. (4,7USD) 617 MOROCCO LOCAL INVESTOR TAKES OVER PETROM A private Moroccan investor, Ali Bouaida, has acquired the state's 51% share in Petroles du Maroc (Petrom, 140 service stations), it was learned in early August. (...). [Total : 58 Words]. (1,5USD) CONGO BOUYGUES AND ETPM FOR N'KOKSSA Bouygues and its affiliate Bouygues Offshore are to team up with ETPM to build offshore supports for production and processing facilities to develop Congo's N'Kossa field, the first in West Africa's deep offshore. (...). [Total : 429 Words]. (4,7USD) 580

MOROCCO CABLES FOR SPAIN ORDERED Alcatel-Alsthom and Pirelli have won a contract (50-50) for four cables for a Morocco-Spain interconnection. The contract came several weeks in advance of a timetable that the chairman of the Spanish electricity transmission company Red Electrica, which has teamed up for the project with Morocco's Office National de Electricite (ONE) had announced (AEM 113). (...). [Total : 261 Words]. (4,7USD) MOZAMBIQUE/SOUTH AFRICA HV LINE FUNDING FALLS APART Options are open anew for companies seeking to supply transmission equipment for the rehabilitation of the high voltage line linking Caborra Bassa to South Africa through Mozambique. (...). [Total : 214 Words]. (4,7USD)

MOROCCO NUCLEAR COUNCIL SET UP Morocco has set up a "National Nuclear Energy Council" that will work under the prime minister to "propose guidelines and objectives to the government with regard to a national policy on the peaceful use of nuclear energy for economic, scientific and technological purposes, and to propose ways of dovetailing headway. (...). [Total : 110 Words]. (1,5USD) GHANA CEGELEC TO INSTALL WA-TECHIMAN HV LINE The Volta River Authority (VRA) has awarded a contract to Cegelec to connect the capital of the north west region, Wa, to the national grid via Techiman. (...). [Total : 60 Words]. (1,5USD) LIBYA ABB TURBINE POWER STATION ABB will build a power station equipped with turbines running on gas or oil products and hopes to sell a second to that country. (...). [Total : 65 Words]. (1,5USD) GAMBIA HANDOVER OF MANAGEMENT, PHASE TWO Management of the Gambia Utility Corp. has been turned over to a Franco-Danish consortium, Management Services, for a 10 year period, according to a news agency report from Banjul. (...). [Total : 73 Words]. (1,5USD) BOTSWANA EIB LOAN FOR SOUTH AFRICA-BOTSWANA LINE The European Investment Bank has just awarded a 7 million Ecus loan (nearly $8 million) to Botswana Power Corp. (...). [Total : 84 Words]. (1,5USD)