Gabon

FIVE DEVELOPMENT PERMITS FOR ELF

Either alone or in conjunction with Elf Aquitaine and Shell Gabon, Elf Gabon has recently obtained five new onshore development [...]

DROP IN REVENUE FOR SOGARA

The Société gabonaise de Raffinage (Sogara) saw its sales dip [...]

SIXTH ROUND CLOSES ON MAY 17

The closure of the sixth Gabonese round of exploration permits has been re-scheduled to May 17, AEM has learned. The [...]

Agip has chartered the Saipem semi-sub Scarabeo 3 to drill [...]

METERS WORTH 30 MILLION RAND

Spescom of South reckons it will earn 30 million rand [...]

CFD FINANCES MICRO-POWER STATION

The Caisse Francaise de Developpement (CFD) has offered a Ffr27.6 [...]

CFD AND EIB LOANS

The Caisse Francaise de Development (CFD) has offered loans to Cameroon and Chad for projects in the electricity branch. In [...]

PERMITS FOR SHELL

Following permits offered to BGC in the deep offshore and [...]

AGIP DISCOVERY

Agip-Gabon has discovered oil on the Mpira Marin permit. The [...]

Elf has chartered the tender rig Robray T-5 from Smedvig [...]

BRITISH GAS SNARES PERMIT

British Gas has won its new permit (AEM 94), allowing a new step in its efforts for international expansion while [...]

ELF'S FIRST "RURAL" STATION

Elf has opened its first "rural" service station in Gabon [...]

Agip has issued a tender invitation for a semi-submersible drilling [...]

LYONNAISE TO MANAGE SEEG

Management of the Société d'Electricité et d'Eau du Gabon (SEEG) appears set to be handed over to the French concern [...]

Spotlight
BEST CARDS

Gabon's minister of energy, mines and oil resources, Jean Ping, declared emphatically during meetings to present the sixth round of Gabonese permits that the government had organized a truly competitive invitation to tender. But independent or second-ranking companies that attended [.

Elf is reported to be negotiating with Global Marine to [...]

SIXTH ROUND OPENS

Gabon's sixth invitation to tender for exploration has begun and will remain open until June 30 of next year. The [...]

URANIUM AND MANGANESE "OPECS" WITH SOUTH AFRICA?

President Omar Bongo declared in an interview on the TV [...]

EXPLORATION DECLINE LOOMING

Jean Ping has a highly different situation to contemplate on his return as minister of mines, energy and hydraulical resources [...]