Namibia

FUNDING FOR EPUPA STUDY?

France's Fonds d'Aide et de Cooperation (FAC) and Germany's KfW have offered to put up money towards a Ffr15 million [...]

ELF AND BOUYGUES OFFSHORE ON MOVE

Elf Aquitaine will join the bidding in a second invitation to tender for Namibian exploration permits scheduled for the second [...]

Ranger is planning to drill one well in block 2213 [...]

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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 [.

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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 [.

MINING FORUM SET

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

SECOND ROUND AFTER MID-1994

Windhoek has confirmed that the second round of tenders for exploration permits will be held in the second half of [...]

THE WORLD BANK REPORTS IN

As each year, the World Bank annual report rounds up its activities and analyses economic performances in the divers regions [...]

TALKS ON MINING AND OIL

The British firm Europe Energy Environment is organising a conference in Cape Town on November 29 and 30 on the [...]

FIRST DRILLING CONFIRMED FOR EARLY OCTOBER

Norsk Hydro has chartered the Saipem semi-sub Scarabeo 4 for [...]

BRUSSELS SEMINAR ON INTER-CONNECTIONS

One of the themes of a new seminar in Brussels [...]

OXY DROPS ETOSHA

Occidental Petroleum has confirmed what its silence on the matter [...]

RIG SHARED FOR FIRST WELLS ?

Norsk Hydro is expected to start drilling its first well in offshore Namibia (block 2111) in October. Ranger Oil (block [...]

MONEY OUT OF EIB IN 1992

According to the 1992 annual report recently issued by the European Investment Bank (EIB), only a third of its credits [...]

SEISMIC SURVEY ON RANGER BLOCK FINISHED

Ranger Oil has completed a seismic study on its offshore [...]

BETTER MAIZE HARVEST DUE IN 1993

According to the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the next Maize harvest in Southern African countries belonging to the association [...]

SYSMIN SUBSIDY

Namibia has obtained the Sysmin financing it was expecting before the staging of a conference this month in Windhoek on [...]

The new regional offshore seismic survey awarded to Nopec (AEM [...]

OCCIDENTAL ON ETOSHA

Following in the footsteps of OPIC of Taiwan, which eventually [...]