Guinea

A GLUM YEAR

According to the latest available figures from the franc zone's issuing banks - Banque des Etats d'Afrique Centrale (BEAC) and [...]

GARAFIRI: WAITING FOR MORE FUNDS

Even though a $150 million programme has been underway since last year to beef up the facilities of Energie Electrique [...]

NIGERIAN GAS PIPELINE ON TRACK

The NNPC's project to build a gas pipeline to Ghana, for which talks began early this year as AEM stated [...]

STUDY PLANNED WITH ADB ASSISTANCE

The ADB's board will shortly decide on whether to offer [...]

NOBLE BUYS WESTERN PLATFORMS

Noble Associates has bought nine jack-ups from Western Oceanic for [...]

TWO JACK-UPS SENT TO USG

Western Oceanic is pinning its hopes on the Gulf of [...]

TENDERS SET FOR JULY

The Organisation pour la Mise en Valeur du fleuve Senegal (OMVS) will issue invitations to tender for the 5 X [...]

BIDDING ON PRIVATISED MANAGEMENT PUT BACK

An invitation to tender issued under the auspices of Ernest [...]

The International Human Resources Development Corp (IHRDC, Boston) said it [...]

RIGS MOVING OUT

The slump in demand for jack-up drilling rigs offshore West [...]

LANSANA KOUYATE

The Secretary General of the United Nations, Boutros Boutros Ghali has appointed Lansana Kouyate as deputy special envoy to Somalia. [...]

JACK-DOWN

The jack-up rig market in West Africa, which covers drilling in up to 100 metres of water, looks like turning [...]

CALL TO TENDER FOR PRIVATIZATION

The government is issuing a call to tender next week [...]

TRACTEBEL PICKED FOR CBG PROJECT

The Compagnie des Bauxites de Guinée (CBG) has signed a major contract with Tractebel Industrie, a division of the Belgian [...]

OBK WOUND UP

The wholly-owned state company Office des Bauxites de Kindia (OBK) has been wound up and transformed into a limited liability [...]

PRIVATIZATION IN SIGHT

Moves to privatize Guinea's electricity branch are gathering steam. Brandishing their recent success in the Ivory Coast (see below) SAUR [...]

COMPROMISE CLEARS WAY

The 10th summit meeting of the Organisation pour la Mise en Valeur du Fleuve Sénégal held early last week in [...]

THE BALANCE OF FORCES

A survey carried out by the British stockbroker County Natwest Wood Mackenzie (CNWM) has confirmed the extreme concentration of oil [...]

NEW RISE FOR ELF'S NET PRODUCTION

Elf Aquitaine's commercialized production of African crude (group share after [...]