Angola

REGIONAL EARTH SCIENCES PROJECT

The European Development Fund (EDF) has approved a 4.95 million Ecu ($5.8 million) grant for the Eastern & Southern African [...]

PIERRE MAUROY

The former French prime minister and current chairman of the [...]

A FIFTEEN-NATION COMMON MARKET

The November 5 meeting - and twelfth summit - of the Preferential Trade Area (PTA) in Kampala saw COMESA, the [...]

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OUTLOOK FOR OIL

Angola's oil output will drop by 6% this year following a production shutdown on the Sohio on-shore block (operated by Fina) and partial halt on Block 2 in offshore Angola (Texaco, operator) due to the civil war.

BLOWOUT BUT LITTLE DAMAGE FOR CABGOC

Chevron has regained control of its Wamba A-10 well following [...]

EIFFEL AND TECHNIP FOR SECOND PLATFORM ON COBO

Technip announced last week that its affiliate Technip Geoproduction and [...]

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US TRADE PROPOSALS

The US administration of president Bill Clinton has taken a series of initiatives to revitalise US trade in Africa by targetting certain markets. The Republic of South Africa and, by extension, southern Africa will be the hard core of this [.

CABGOC IN INVESTMENT PUSH

The consortium led by Cabinda Gulf Oil (Cabcoc, part of Chevron group) in Cabinda offshore intends to invest more money [...]

ADB LOAN FOR SONANGOL

Planned for several years, the internal shakeup of Sonangol will be backed by the African Development Bank and other donor [...]

ADB GRANT ON STAND-BY

The African Development Fund (ADF, part of ADB group) is [...]

Operating in deep water on Block 16, Shell is finalizing [...]

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ESKOM APPEALS TO EC

For nearly 10 years Eskom chief Ian McRay has been championing the idea of an interconnection between Southern Africa's electricity grids and he seized the occasion of a conference staged on Oct. 14-15 by the Brussels Club on the theme [.

SONANGOL DROPS GNPC

Sonangol has signed two agreements to put field 4/26 into production. They take the place of an accord Sonangol had [...]

MINING FORUM SET

The date and venue for a mining forum that the development department of the European Commission has been preparing for [...]

Repsol's 1994 exploration budget includes funds for a well in [...]

Shell is negotiating a two-well contract with the dynamically-positioned ship [...]

CHEVRON TO HAVE PLATFORMS BUILT IN SOUTH AFRICA

Just as Nelson Mandela's call for the lifting of sanctions [...]

THERMODYN COMPRESSION MODULE FOR COBO-PAMBI

The $13 million module will be supplied by Framatome's turbine [...]

Chevron Cabinda has exercised four one-well options with the jack-up [...]