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Roc Oil’s Mysterious Partners

In making its debut in Angola’s onshore this month, the Australian company Roc Oil was accompanied by two partners unknown [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.10.2001

Manuel Arnaldo De Sousa Calado

Appointed to the job on Sept. 28, Manuel Arnaldo De Sousa Calado , the new chairman of the board at [...]

Subscribers only Mining 23.10.2001

A Super Major in Angola and Nigeria

The merger between Chevron and Texaco that became effective on Oct. 10 has turned the new ChevronTexaco company into the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.10.2001

TotalFinaElf Firing on All Cylinders

TotalFinaElf ’s prime project on block 17, Girassol, is [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.10.2001

Rescue Plan for Endiama

Angola’s national diamond company, Endiama , plans to sell off its non-mining assets – energy generation, water supply, building and [...]

Subscribers only Mining 09.10.2001

IMF and Bermuda Triangle

During a conference organized last week by the British-Angola Forum in London, the International Monetary Fund 's director for Angola, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.10.2001

Jonathan Walters

Serving as moderator between the IMF and Sonangol during a conference organized in London by the British-Angola Forum last week [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.10.2001

PETROBRAS
Seeking a Partner

Although it has officially suspended its strategy of acquiring new [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.10.2001

UNITA Threatens Luanda’s Power Supply

The Viana power station some 16 km from the center [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.10.2001

Alrosa Seeks Four More Gem Deposits

Despite the slowdown in world demand for polished diamonds, the Russian firm Alrosa is finalizing talks with the Angolan government [...]

Subscribers only Mining 24.09.2001

Flurry of Contracts

A number of contracts for work on fields in Angola’s deep offshore have been awarded since Sonangol and the majors [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.09.2001

Norwegian Lobbying

During a visit to Oslo early this month, Angolan oil minister Jose Botelho de Vasconcelos and Norway’s deputy oil and [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.09.2001

Textile Lobbying in America

An American lobbying company representing a plethora of southern Africa textile producers is moving heaven and earth to lift all [...]

Subscribers only 14.09.2001

Start-Up for Capanda in 2002?

Angola’s energy and mines minister, Luis Filipe da Silva, has confirmed that the 520 MW Capanda hydro-electric dam on the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.09.2001

EDEL’s Unpaid Bills

Rui Gourgel, managing director of Empresa de Distribuicao de Electricidade [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.09.2001

TAAG Runs Short on Jet Fuel

Twice in recent weeks, Sonangol Distribuidora has been unable to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.09.2001

Juniors Get the Edge Over Majors

Ever since February, 2000 when the Angolan government cancelled all mining contracts – licenses, concessions and marketing agreements – the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 28.08.2001

MARIO SOARES

The president of Lisbon’s chamber of commerce, Joao Soares, has won a legal victory over Angola’s leaders who last year [...]

Subscribers only Mining 28.08.2001

Security Fears for Operators

The crash of an aircraft operated by the American security company Airscan on July 16 has triggered concern among oil [...]