Sierra Leone

CRL PICKS SIERRA LEONE BEFORE CAMEROON

The Australian group Consolidated Rutile (CRL) has acquired a 50% [...]

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 [...]

JACK-DOWN

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

TOUGH POLITICAL CONDITIONS

The European Community's threat to freeze the EEC and bilateral funding that accounts for over two thirds of foreign aid [...]

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 [...]

IFC BACKS Sierra Rutile PROJECT

International financing for Sierra Leone has resumed following a break caused by last April's military putsch. The International Finance Corp [...]

DIAMOND CRACKDOWN

The Provisional Revolutionary Council that was set up following the April 29 military putsch announced on May 15 that it [...]

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 [...]

Chevron International has won a contract over six rival bids [...]

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

FAC BACKING FOR BRGM

France's Fonds d'aide et de coopération in late December approved a 10 MF credit for the Bureau de Recherches Geologiques [...]