FRENCH AND JAPANESE CONTRACTS

LPG, SOUNDING OUT MARKET 

A Moroccan source has depicted Rubis' plan to build an imports terminal with a capacity of 40,000 tons per year [...]

HALFWAY MOVE FOR HYDRO CONGO 

Companies slated for privatization in Congo are going to change their management before the sell-off, including Hydro Congo. The latter [...]

PETROCI TO MARKET LPG FOR VEHICLES 

Petroci-Gaz is planning to start marketing LPG for vehicles in [...]

FOUR WAY TIE-UP FOR LPG LOGISTIC COMPANY 

On October 26 the Societe Cherifienne des Petroles (SCP), Tissir-Primagaz, [...]

LPG BOTTLING PLANT WITH MOROCCAN COMPANY 

On Sept. 22 the Moroccan firm Somepi signed an agreement [...]

LPG IMPORT CAPACITY BOOSTED 

Kenya plans to build a butane-propane terminal to increase storage [...]

BICKERING AT TFT 

Bickering has broken out on the on-going Tin Fouye Tabankort [...]

DOUBTS OVER ESCRAVOS GAS PROJECT'S SECOND PHASE 

Chevron announced that a shipment of LPG left the Escravos [...]

AFRIQUIA BUYS INTO PETRO-IVOIRE AFRIQUIA 

The private Ivory Coast distribution company Petro-Ivoire now has Morocco's [...]

NEW DOWNSTREAM HITCHES 

A project to build a terminal for LPG imports has moved ahead with an agreement signed by the Kenya Pipeline [...]

VITOGAZ'S DEBUT IN PROPANE 

The French company Vitogaz is making its debut in the LPG sector in Morocco, more precisely in propane. Vitogaz's holding [...]

TOTAL KEEPS UP PACE IN AFRICA 

Output from small and medium-sized fields which was characterized by the production start-up 15 years ago on the 2/85 block [...]

FIRST LPG SHIPMENT FROM NKOSSA 

Elf indicated on Jan. 28 that the first shipment of [...]

START UP FOR ALBA'S LPG 

Production of liquefied petroleum gas from wet gas on the Equatorial Guinea field of Alba began on Jan. 24. Initial [...]

NKOSSA IN PRODUCTION; LPG IN FIVE MONTHS 

Operator Elf Congo started up production on Nkossa on June [...]

LPG BOTTLE PLANT ON WAY 

AEM understands that Ivory Coast's state-owned Petroci has signed an agreement with the Lebanese group Daher et Jaber for the [...]

PROJECT FOR LPG TERMINAL AT MASSAWA  Free

The construction of an LPG terminal and a plant to [...]

TOTAL AND REPSOL SIGN UP 

The Algerian government and Total announced on Jan. 28 that they had signed an agreement expected for some months on [...]

ARZEW LPG PROJECT UNDERWAY 

Work began in December to extend the Jumbo LPG plant at Arzew. The contract was awarded to the Japanese companies [...]

BP SETS THE PACE 

It took the November elections that legitimized Lamine Zeroual's presidency and prompted the leaders of FIS to take their distance [...]

SOUTH KOREA FINANCES LPG CYLINDER PLANT 

South Korea has just offered Ghana a $8 million loan [...]

BRAKE ON LPG CONSUMPTION? 

Is the government about to apply a brake on the consumption of liquified petroleum gas in Ghana? Tsatsu Tsikata, managing [...]

OILING THE WORKS 

A delegation from Madagascar's Office des Mines Nationales et des Industries Stratégiques (OMNIS) led by its general manager Max Desire [...]

EXPORTS AT 81.7 MTOE IN 1994 

Sonatrach produced 163.2 Mtoe in the form of oil, condensates and gas in 1994 and sold 100 Mtoe, with 63 [...]

TANZANIA OXYGEN TO DISTRIBUTE LPG 

Tanzania Oxygen Ltd. (TOL) has undertaken a three year investment [...]

ELF ENDS SELL-OFF ON N'KOSSA 

In announcing two weeks ago that Elf Congo was selling off a 4% interest in N'Kossa to Engen and a [...]

KOREAN FUNDING FOR TEMA 

The Tema refinery operated by the Tema Oil Refinery Corp (TOR) is poised to begin work later this month on [...]

FREE TRADE ZONE FOR LPG TERMINAL 

The newly-inaugurated terminal for receiving, storing and exporting LPG that [...]

ELF AND SHELL OPEN REGIONAL LPG TERMINAL 

The domestic market for LPG has expanded rapidly in Mauritius [...]

THIRD PRICE RISE IN 10 MONTHS 

Two weeks ago the price of oil products was increased [...]

LPG PROJECT, PIPELINE TO BE COMMISSIONED 

Several companies operating in the oil products distribution branch in Kenya, including Caltex, Shell and Total, are planning to set [...]

REFINERY DITCHED IN IDA PROJECT 

A consultancy will be chosen from a short list by the end of January to carry out three studies forming [...]

LPG POLICY SKIDS OFF COURSE 

The absence of any regulations concerning the use of LPG as fuel for cars in Ghana has thrown a spanner [...]

GAS PRESSURE RISES 

Gabon's gas reserves are too modest to rank the country as potentially a major gas supplier, unlike Nigeria or, to [...]

SHARE ISSUE FOR CALUB 

The government has set aside a third of shares in the Calub Energy Development company for private Ethiopian investors, issuing [...]

MOBIL AND TOTAL PRIVATIZED BY SUMMER 

The privatization of the distribution affiliates of Mobil and Total [...]

FOXTROT ON STARTING BLOCKS 

The financial package for the Foxtrot gas and electricity project has been virtually put together following a meeting of donor [...]

OIL PROJECT LAUNCHED 

The initial phase in a series of tenders will open this month to select oil storage and pipeline equipment as [...]

LPG: $400 MILLION FROM JEXIM 

Sonatrach signed two loan agreements worth 42.25 billion yen ($400 million) with Japan's Eximbank in Tokyo on Oct. 21. The [...]

SHELL TO BUILD NEW LPG STORAGE 

Shell plans to invest 180 million rupees (roughly $10.1 million) [...]

KPRL PROJECTS STALLED 

Two projects hatched a year ago to provide new equipment [...]

BREAKTHROUGH FOR SONATRACH 

Sonatrach has made a breakthrough on the Turkish market for liquified petroleum gas (LPG), one of the fastest growing in [...]

TECHNIP PRIME CONTRACTOR 

With its affiliate Technip Geoproduction, Technip has obtained the contract for detailed engineering on the Ffr8.5 billion project to develop [...]

TOTAL IN LNG DE-BOTTLENECKING 

The current program to upgrade the gas liquefaction plant at Marsa el Brega is expected to help Libya triple its [...]

LPG OUTPUT TO RISE 

Sonatrach is aiming to raise its LPG export capacity to [...]

HAMRA LPG FOR CORSICA 

The city of San Pellegrino south of Bastia in Corsica [...]

STUDIES CONTINUING ON CALUB 

A good part of the $830 million that the World [...]

ALGERIAN LPG TANKS FOR MOROCCO 

The Oran factory of the Entreprise Nationale de Charpentes et [...]

GAS MARKET BOOM 

An "extremely important phase" has been completed with regard to the future Algeria-North Africa-Spain gas pipeline and a decisive turn [...]

LPG PROJECT FOR SNDP 

The Société Nationale de Distribution Pétroliere (SNDP), which holds 40% of the Tunisian market, has issued an invitation to tender [...]

300 000 T/YEAR LPG ORDER FOR TOTAL 

Total has confirmed that it recently signed a contract for annual deliveries of 300 000 tons of LPG from Libya, [...]

LPG TRAINING SEMINAR IN OCTOBER 

Marrakech will play host to a training seminar between Oct.19-21 [...]

Sonatrach has commissioned a group of state-owned Algerian companies, including [...]