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Sierra Leone

DRILLING COSTS STILL RISING

Charter rates for offshore drilling rigs are continuing to climb sharply in West Africa. Jack-up dayrates are particularly buoyant and [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.01.1997

MORE TURNKEY PROJECTS

The relative shortage of drilling rigs and rise in charter prices (see above) have helped to boost demand for turnkey [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.01.1997

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WEST AFRICA: COMPETITION CARRIES THE DAY

Initial exploration in West Africa's deep offshore has proved encouraging but because of the huge investments involved it would be best for host countries to display more flexibility regarding E&P contracts. That view, voiced by Lambert Ona Ovono, deputy CEO [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.11.1996

SECURITY GUARANTEE DEMANDED FOR SIERRA RUTILE

The failure to get the Sierra Rutile mine back into [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.11.1996

NIGERIAN GAS PROJECT RE-LAUNCHED

The West African Gas Pipeline project which is to link Nigeria to Ghana via Benin and Togo will be on [...]

Subscribers only Energy 23.10.1996

STILL GOLD AND DIAMOND PROJECTS

Sierra Rutile and its shareholders CRL (Australia) and Nord (United States) are having trouble finding the US$80 million they consider [...]

Subscribers only Energy 23.10.1996

EAG STRETCHES ITS WINGS

St Genevieve Resources in Montreal has its acreage once again in West Africa after transferring it earlier this year to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 25.09.1996

CDC LOOKS AT PROJECTS

The Commonwealth Development Corp is thinking of increasing loans to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 25.09.1996

SIEROMCO-EO CONTRACT

In a brief interview with AEM on his movement's views on mining, Fayia Musa, European spokesman for Sierra Leone's Revolutionary [...]

Subscribers only Energy 11.09.1996

SALTING LEAVES BAD TASTE

The discovery that the Canadian firm Timbuktu Gold Corp. indulged in some serious sample salting when it trumpeted gradings supposedly [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.07.1996

MONEY RAISED FOR FOUR DIAMOND PROJECTS

Amcan Minerals Ltd. of Toronto has raised US$1 million for [...]

Subscribers only Energy 26.06.1996

26 JACK-UPS BY LATE JULY

Increasing drilling activity off West Africa is continuing to draw in more jack-up drilling units from around the world. The [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.06.1996

UNCERTAINTY OVER Sierra Rutile

While Sierre Rutile would like to re-open its Sierra Leone operation next year there is still a lot of uncertainty [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.05.1996

MERGER TO PACK LITTLE PUNCH

Given the relatively marginal nature of the offshore services market along West Africa's coast the impact of any takeover of [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.05.1996

SHARE DEAL

Jack Gunter and the firm he controls have sold two [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.05.1996

WHICH PLATFORM FOR ATLAS/SUMMIT?

Global Marine Integrated Services has Falrig 83 (formerly D K [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.05.1996

EDF BUYS 35% STAKE IN TOTAL ENERGIE

An investment by Electricité de France in Total Energie, which [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.05.1996

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ENGEN'S AFRICAN GAME PLAN

When South Africa's Engen group set up Energy Africa early last year to encompass its upstream interests its aim was to promote the new firm's "African identity" to build a reasonable portfolio of assets in West Africa.

Subscribers only Energy 27.03.1996

Sierra Rutile TO STUDY REOPENING MINE

Sierra Rutile has just sent an evaluation team for the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 27.03.1996

NOBLE ACQUIRES NEDDRILL FLEET

Noble Drilling has signed a letter of intent with Nedlloyd [...]

Subscribers only Energy 27.03.1996

ANOTHER JACK-UP

The growth in the West African jack-up fleet looks set [...]

Subscribers only Energy 27.03.1996

ANTWERP'S BRILLIANT 1ST HALF 1995

Statistics from the Higher Diamond Council on Antwerp's gem imports during the first six months of 1995 underline more emphatically [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.02.1996

EX-AFRICAN DIVISION HEAD TEXACO'S NEW BOSS

Peter Bijur, aged 53, who currently overseas Texaco's overseas divisions, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.02.1996

MOBIL BRINGS IN NEW SUB

Mobil is carrying through its project to bring an additional semi-submersible to West Africa for work in Equatorial Guinea. The [...]

Subscribers only Energy 31.01.1996

SEMI-SUB SHUFFLE CONTINUES

Elf is in the final stages of negotiations to fix the Reading & Bates semi sub Jim Cunningham, currently in [...]

Subscribers only Energy 17.01.1996

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Sierra Leone

DRILLING COSTS STILL RISING

MORE TURNKEY PROJECTS

Spotlight
WEST AFRICA: COMPETITION CARRIES THE DAY

SECURITY GUARANTEE DEMANDED FOR SIERRA RUTILE

NIGERIAN GAS PROJECT RE-LAUNCHED

STILL GOLD AND DIAMOND PROJECTS

EAG STRETCHES ITS WINGS

CDC LOOKS AT PROJECTS

SIEROMCO-EO CONTRACT

SALTING LEAVES BAD TASTE

MONEY RAISED FOR FOUR DIAMOND PROJECTS

26 JACK-UPS BY LATE JULY

UNCERTAINTY OVER Sierra Rutile

MERGER TO PACK LITTLE PUNCH

SHARE DEAL

WHICH PLATFORM FOR ATLAS/SUMMIT?

EDF BUYS 35% STAKE IN TOTAL ENERGIE

Spotlight
ENGEN'S AFRICAN GAME PLAN

Sierra Rutile TO STUDY REOPENING MINE

NOBLE ACQUIRES NEDDRILL FLEET

ANOTHER JACK-UP

ANTWERP'S BRILLIANT 1ST HALF 1995

EX-AFRICAN DIVISION HEAD TEXACO'S NEW BOSS

MOBIL BRINGS IN NEW SUB

SEMI-SUB SHUFFLE CONTINUES

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Sierra Leone

DRILLING COSTS STILL RISING

MORE TURNKEY PROJECTS

Spotlight WEST AFRICA: COMPETITION CARRIES THE DAY

SECURITY GUARANTEE DEMANDED FOR SIERRA RUTILE

NIGERIAN GAS PROJECT RE-LAUNCHED

STILL GOLD AND DIAMOND PROJECTS

EAG STRETCHES ITS WINGS

CDC LOOKS AT PROJECTS

SIEROMCO-EO CONTRACT

SALTING LEAVES BAD TASTE

MONEY RAISED FOR FOUR DIAMOND PROJECTS

26 JACK-UPS BY LATE JULY

UNCERTAINTY OVER Sierra Rutile

MERGER TO PACK LITTLE PUNCH

SHARE DEAL

WHICH PLATFORM FOR ATLAS/SUMMIT?

EDF BUYS 35% STAKE IN TOTAL ENERGIE

Spotlight ENGEN'S AFRICAN GAME PLAN

Sierra Rutile TO STUDY REOPENING MINE

NOBLE ACQUIRES NEDDRILL FLEET

ANOTHER JACK-UP

ANTWERP'S BRILLIANT 1ST HALF 1995

EX-AFRICAN DIVISION HEAD TEXACO'S NEW BOSS

MOBIL BRINGS IN NEW SUB

SEMI-SUB SHUFFLE CONTINUES

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WEST AFRICA: COMPETITION CARRIES THE DAY

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ENGEN'S AFRICAN GAME PLAN