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Wedding Bells for Maurel and Prom and Burren?

Envied for its success and the ever-rising price of its shares on the Stock Exchange, the French junior Maurel and Prom wants to move into higher gear by expanding its portfolio and increasing its market capitalization. Merger with Burren? Announced [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.12.2004

ANVIL MINING

ANVIL MINING has initialed a joint venture agreement with the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 07.12.2004

$100 Million at Stake

The Swiss Supreme Court is to hand down its verdict by the year's end on an appeal filed by Total [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.11.2004

New Headquarters

The Societe Nationale des Petrole du Congo has begun work [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.11.2004

Bringing Them Back to Kimberley Process

A recent contract signed between the Antwerp based firm Independent Diamond Valuator (IDV) and Congo-B is aimed at bringing Congo [...]

Subscribers only Mining 23.11.2004

Double Whammy for GGPC

Formed only a year ago, the Gulf of Guinea Petroleum Corporation is poised to sign up for two concessions in Gabon and in Congo-B.

Subscribers only Energy 15.11.2004

The $10 Million Bonus

When MPs gathered in parliament last week to consider the production sharing agreement with Total on Haute Mer C they were informed Congo had pocketed a $10 million bonus from the group.

Subscribers only Energy 15.11.2004

Delhi Has Designs on M'Boundi

India has followed in China's footsteps in taking a close look at Maurel & Prom's M'Boundi field in Congo-B that [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.11.2004

Louis-Marie Djama

An adviser to Congo-B's mines and energy minister, Louis-Marie Djama, a 47-year-old professor at the sciences faculty in Brazzaville who [...]

Subscribers only Mining 26.10.2004

Licensing Round Held Back

Launched early this year, a licensing round in Congo-B's shallow offshore has been held up by disputes between various government departments. Only two blocks will be awarded.

Subscribers only Energy 19.10.2004

Oil Defies Maritime Borders

A growing number of fields appear to be straddling the maritime boundary between Angola and Congo-B.

Subscribers only Energy 19.10.2004

An Annual Power-Backed Loan?

Revealed by Africa Energy Intelligence in its last issue (AEI 378), a $32 million oil-backed loan that BNP-Paribas and Trafigura [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.10.2004

New Well on Moho Bilondo

Long stalled because of a dispute between the Congo-B government [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.10.2004

Re-Opening London Office

Closed when Congo-B's creditors tried to seize its assets, the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.10.2004

First Audit for SNPC

Ernst & Young has been contracted to conduct a first [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.10.2004

Study on Congo-B's potential

Founded by geologists Peter Gaffney and Ben Cline, the firm [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.10.2004

Debt-for-Oil Deal

A board of inquiry in Kinshasa is taking a close interest in a package put together by BNP and Trafigura to allow Brazzaville to pay its debt to SNEL in Congo-K.

Subscribers only Energy 04.10.2004

Total Crosses the Border

A discovery by Total in Congo-B's ultra deep offshore raises the prospect of a joint development with block 31 in Angola.

Subscribers only Energy 21.09.2004

New Bidding Round in Offing

After settling its problems with Total and awarding the Marine XI license, Congo is expected to kick off a new bidding round in coming months.

Subscribers only Energy 07.09.2004

Nguesso's New Tack on Diamonds

In mid-August president Denis Sassou Nguesso personally unveiled a series [...]

Subscribers only Mining 31.08.2004

IMF's Verdict

In a new stage in Congo-B's long campaign to persuade the Paris Club to roll over its debt, talks between [...]

Subscribers only Energy 24.08.2004

Bastille Day Permits for French

After year-long talks, Congo-Brazzaville last week awarded two new licenses to Maurel & Prom and Perenco. It is now holding talks with Total on issuing a tender for Moho Bilondo.

Subscribers only Energy 20.07.2004

Take-Off for Regional Projects?

Efforts by Burundi, Rwanda and Congo-K to re-float a regional community under Belgian auspices could revive a number of power projects.

Subscribers only Energy 20.07.2004

Barred from Kimberley Process

The Kimberley Process has decided to exclude Congo-Brazzaville from the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 13.07.2004

Getting Grip on Pollution

The coast of Pointe Noire in Congo-B narrowly escaped an [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.07.2004

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