Sao Tome and Principe

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ELECTRIC SECTOR TAKEOF

By the end of November the African Development Fund will have approved a long-awaited loan of nearly $5m that will enable this small island nation to develop its medium and low voltage distribution network in northern and eastern Sao Tome.

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 [...]

ADB TO FOLLOW IN CFD FOOTSTEPS

The African Development Bank (ADB) is expected to approve a grant at the end of 1993 for a project to [...]

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 [...]

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

RIGS MOVING OUT

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

FRESH FRENCH ASSISTANCE

The Caisse Francaise de Developpement (CFD) has just offered Sao Tome and Principe a Ffr15 million structural adjustment subsidy of [...]

JACK-DOWN

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

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 [...]

SAFEGE MANAGES EMAE

Safege, a subsidiary of Lyonnaise des Eaux and Dumez, is managing Sao Tome's Empresa de Agua e Electricidade (EMA) under [...]

Sao Tome was left without electricity at the end of [...]

VARIED PICTURE FOR 1991

Differences in mining production patterns that were evident in the first half of 1991 between countries of the franc zone [...]

Santa Fe Drilling is considering mobilising its recently-purchased jack-up Compact [...]

Meeting in Dakar on Feb. 17-18 ministers from the Organisation [...]