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Congo
CZECH HYDRO STUDY IN NORTH

Congo's government recently signed a contract with the Czech firm Geoindustria providing for the funding and execution of a feasibility [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.09.1999

Congo
SERVICE SECTOR BROUGHT TO HEEL

Congo's hydrocarbons minister Jean-Baptiste Taty Loutard called on Justice minister Martin Mbemba in a letter dispatched in July to curb [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.09.1999

Cameroon
AFD PROVIDES FUNDING

The Agence Francaise de Developpement has just offered Cameroon funding for facilities and work in the power sector, the first [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.07.1999

Cameroon, Chad
DISCREET BARGAINING AND A WILD CARD

Officials in the World Bank's central Africa department are counting and re-counting the numbers as the institution's board of directors [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.07.1999

Cameroon
A NICKEL-COBALT SCHEME

An American company working through a local affiliate named Geovic-Cameroun has won a license to mine nickel and cobalt deposits, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.07.1999

Gabon
AMERADA HESS SEEKS JACK-UP

Amerada Hess is in the market with an inquiry into [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.07.1999

Gabon
GLOMAR ADRIATIC I TO DRILL

Perenco has fixed the Global Marine jack-up Glomar Adriatic I [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.07.1999

DRC, Sierra Leone
BOULLE ON THE MOVE

Jean-Raymond Boulle has just transferred his controlling interest in Sierra Rutile (SRL) to MIL (Investment), the unlisted Luxembourg company owned [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.07.1999

DRC
KABILA AND RAUTENBACH FALL OUT

Relations between Congo president Laurent Kabila and Billy Rautenbach, the Zimbabwe businessman who controls Gecamines, have taken a sharp turn [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.07.1999

DRC, Sierra Leone
A DIAMONDWORKS-GXC LINK

Global Exploration Corp. (GXC), which has just made its debut in the Democratic Republic of Congo on several concessions on [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.07.1999

Gabon
DEBUT FOR AUSTRALIAN

The government was negotiating with an Australian firm, Millenium Oil [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.07.1999

Spotlight | DRC
MINES COULD DICTATE SETTLEMENT

The mining factor has begun to loom large again as prospects for a cease-fire in Democratic Republic of Congo brighten. Indeed, any accord would owe much to the situation in the industry, with Gecamines (GCM) plunging further into crisis and [.

Subscribers only Energy 30.06.1999

DRC, Sierra Leone
ONE ASPECT OF GLOBALIZATION

An Internet provider in Florida has just won a contract to open a site for the sale of "African diamonds [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.06.1999

DRC, Sierra Leone
CONGO TAKES NEIGHBORS TO COURT

The climate took a turn for the worse three days before the regional summit meeting at Lusaka on June 26 [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.06.1999

Spotlight | Gabon
NIOBIUM AT FUSION POINT

Confirmed in late April, Anglo American's acquisition of Reunion Mining in the midst of the South African group's global rush towards base metals (AEM 250) triggered a new episode in Gabon, where the small British mining company was to have [.

Subscribers only Energy 16.06.1999

Congo
GAS DEAL FOR MAGNESIUM ALLOYS?

When Magnesium Alloys Corporation (MAC) signed an agreement in early 1998 for its project to develop a magnesium mine from [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.06.1999

Congo
DROP IN INVESTMENT CONTAINED?

Semi-official sources in Brazzaville believe that investment in Congo in general and in the oil industry in particularly won't be [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.06.1999

Spotlight | Cameroon, Chad
THE LAST BUMPY MILE

Chad president Idriss Deby flew to Washington on May 24 to voice his concern over delays in the Doba-Kribi pipeline project to World Bank president James Wolfensohn. Cautious, Wolfenson met earlier in the morning with representatives from three environmental organizations, [.

Subscribers only Energy 02.06.1999

Central African Republic
NEW MOVE TO FREE MARKETS

President Ange Felix Patasse wound up several years of negotiations last week by signing a decree that put the distribution [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.06.1999

Burundi
BUMINCO DRILLS AT RUGOMERO

The Burundi Mining Corporation has just completed drilling on the Masaka deposit and began prospecting on Rugomero and Butihinda sites [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.05.1999

Burundi
PRODUCTION RECORD IN 1998

According to latest figures from Regideso, Burundi's power production increased [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.05.1999

Cameroon
WORKOVERS FOR ELF AND DEVELOPMENT IN SIGHT

Elf has fixed the Sedco Forex jack-up Trident VIII for [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.05.1999

Burundi
RISE IN IMPORTS IN 1998

Even before the regional embargo on Burundi was lifted in [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.05.1999

Congo
HEAVIER TAXES FOR SUB-CONTRACTORS

The country's new budget provides for heavier taxes on oil [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.05.1999

DRC
ADDITIONAL TAX FOR "RECONSTRUCTIO

" An additional tax of 193.7 Congolese francs per cubic [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.05.1999

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