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Sao Tome and Principe

Nigeria's Growing Grip on Offshore

A company that will control future receipts from Sao Tome e Principe's offshore belongs to businessmen close to Nigeria's president.

Subscribers only Energy 29.01.2002

Desperately Seeking Partners

The Australian firm Fusion Oil which acquired a series of concessions in West Africa is now seeking partners to develop them.

Subscribers only Energy 15.01.2002

The Last Oil Frontier

Oil companies will start moving seriously this year into parts of West Africa’s deep offshore that haven’t yet been fully explored.

Subscribers only Energy 15.01.2002

The Nigerian Imbrolio

The new president of Sao Tome e Principe, Fradrique de Menezes, has been working since his election in September to wriggle out of a contract signed by his predecessor with the American group ERHC.

Subscribers only Energy 02.01.2002

Oil Output to Jump 60% by 2005

West Africa figures among the oil producing areas that consumer [...]

Subscribers only Energy 27.11.2001

Watchdog Panel for Manantali

An offshoot of OMVS , the Societe de Gestion de l’Energie de Manantali has just set up a committee to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.10.2001

Spotlight
Atlas Petroleum & Friends Gain Ground

A small oil company that counts among the holdings of Nigerian millionaire Prince Arthur Eze , Atlas Petroleum has grown in recent years into a fairly big regional player. Its affiliate, Oranto Petroleum , has just acquired 50% on two [.

Subscribers only Energy 02.10.2001

The Bank’s Privatization Bonus

After awarding a loan worth nearly $100 million in late July for the renovation of NEPA’s facilities in Nigeria, the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.09.2001

Setback for Okore Mining

A project by Australia’s Shield Telecommunications to bring all of its mining assets in West Africa under the roof of [...]

Subscribers only Mining 11.09.2001

Eskom to Manage Manantali

An operating contract for the Manantali dam worth $84 million was signed on July 26 between the Societe de Gestion [...]

Subscribers only Energy 21.08.2001

Toad Rule in Nimba

A species of toad that lives exclusively in the Nimba [...]

Subscribers only Mining 24.07.2001

Focus on West Africa

In snapping up the U.S. company Triton Energy early last week, Amerada Hess considerably beefed up its portfolio in the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 17.07.2001

Angola to Offer ?Brotherly? Help

After meeting in late June in Luanda with officials from [...]

Subscribers only Energy 17.07.2001

Africa Major Exporter to U.S.

Out of $23.5 billion worth of goods and services that [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.06.2001

Semafo makes another discovery in Burkina

Semafo, the Canadian mining exploration company in West Africa, in [...]

Subscribers only Mining 15.06.2001

Lure of the Deep Offshore

Already figuring among the biggest oil operators in West Africa, Royal Dutch/Shell has just scored two new points in the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.06.2001

Truce in Border Disputes ?

The oil-producing nations in West Africa are having a lot of trouble sharing out oil wealth inasmuch as some of [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.05.2001

Promoting the Off-Shore

The government of Sao Tome & Principe has begun promoting the country’s offshore again after signing an agreement fixing its [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.05.2001

A Profitable Region

West Africa’s share in revenue of Global Industries ., a [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.05.2001

New Start & Name Switch for Shield

Shield Telecommunications, previously known as Leo Shield Exploration, which owns the Abore gold project in Ghana, plans to revive its [...]

Subscribers only Mining 13.03.2001

Spotlight
The Sonatrach Imbroglio

With Algerian energy and mines minister Chakib Khelil standing in since Feb. 28 as acting chairman of Sonatrach, the Algerian authorities have remained remarkably close-mouthed about the departure of Abdelhak Bouhafs a little over a year after he returned as [.