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Central Africa

Gabon
ULTRA DEEP AFTER ELECTIONS

The deadline for bidding on the 8th round of licenses, which counts 13 blocks and covers all of Gabon's ultra-deep [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.10.1998

Gabon
VANCO POSTPONES DRILLING

Vanco Energy is to put back drilling the two wells it plans on its Anton Marin license – one of [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.10.1998

Central African Republic
DRILLING PLANNED ON ROANDJI GOLD CONCESSION

The Toronto-based company Asquith Resources is seeking to raise money [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.10.1998

Gabon
EA AND GENTRY AWAIT BETTER DAYS TO DRILL ON OFOUBOU

Gentry Petroleum indicated that several "significant leads" had been identified [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.10.1998

Gabon
COMILOG LAUNCHES ORE-PULPING PLANT PROJECT

Eramet confirmed on Sept. 16 that its Gabon affiliate Comilog [...]

Subscribers only Energy 23.09.1998

Cameroon, Chad
NEW PIPELINE BARGAINING

The World Bank is to stage new negotiations before the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 23.09.1998

Gabon
MABOUNIE PACKAGE SEWN UP

The financial package for the Mabounie niobium and phosphate mine project that will carried out by an operating company headed [...]

Subscribers only Energy 09.09.1998

Burundi
AUSTRALIAN/CANADIAN PROJECT

The nickel belt that lies across the entire east of Burundi figured in a recent agreement between the government and [...]

Subscribers only Energy 09.09.1998

Sao Tome and Principe
MOBIL GET A HEAD START

Mobil has won a serious option on all 22 blocks in the deep offshore that Sao Tome & Principe is [...]

Subscribers only Energy 26.08.1998

Cameroon
GAS-ELECTRICITY PROJECT WITH OCELOT

The Canadian company Ocelot Energy has committed itself to a [...]

Subscribers only Energy 26.08.1998

Central Africa
PETROFINA SELLS DOWNSTREAM ASSETS IN FOUR COUNTRIES

Although Petrofina intends to remain active in the upstream in [...]

Subscribers only Energy 26.08.1998

Gabon
MARATHON SEEKS RIG FOR UP TO NINE WELLS

Marathon is pushing ahead with its exploration-appraisal program on its [...]

Subscribers only Energy 26.08.1998

Cameroon
HIGH ISLAND VII TO DRILL FOR ELF

Pecten has extended its contract in Cameroon with the jack-up [...]

Subscribers only Energy 26.08.1998

Cameroon, Gabon
TRIDENT VI STARTS DRILLING FOR PERENCO

The jack-up Trident VI has begun a six month assignment [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.07.1998

Cameroon
BIG IFC SYNDICATED LOAN FOR PECTEN'S PROJECTS

The World Bank affiliate International Finance Corp. has organized a [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.07.1998

Cameroon
PHILLIPS PLANS NEW WELLS

Bids are due to be submitted to Phillips Petroleum on [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.07.1998

Equatorial Guinea, Gabon
TRITON ENERGY TO REMAIN

Triton Energy, which is active in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.07.1998

Equatorial Guinea, Gabon
CORRECTION

In Ivory Coast it will be Glomar Adriatic VIII that [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.07.1998

Gabon
LICENSE FOR PERENCO; NEWCOMER

Following a licence it obtained last Demcember (AEM 216), Perenco has won a fifth exploration permit in Gabon, designed Kari [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.07.1998

Cameroon, Chad
NAIL-BITING TIME IN YAOUNDE

There is growing concern in Yaoundé on when work by COTCO, the Cameroon firm building the future Chad pipeline (or [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.07.1998

Congo
BUY-INS AND CHANGES

The following changes have been approved: Elf has acquired a [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.07.1998

Congo
OIL TO EARN $420M FOR STATE

The first budget tabled by Denis Sassou Nguesso's regime for the current financial year, and which was confirmed by the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 24.06.1998

Congo
CONTRACTS ON KOMBI-LIKALALA

Elf Congo has just signed new integrated development drilling contracts with Horwell and Sedco Forex for the Kombi-Likalala project. Work [...]

Subscribers only Energy 24.06.1998

Gabon
BUILD-UP IN SIGHT FOR KOWE

Marathon has confirmed the discovery of TM West, a small [...]

Subscribers only Energy 24.06.1998

Gabon
VALCO DISCOVERY TESTS AT 3,500 BPD

Valco's recent drilling campaign on Etame with the jack-up Glomar [...]

Subscribers only Energy 24.06.1998

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