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Cameroon
THREE LICENCES IN TWO WEEKS

The Societe Nationale des Hydrocarbures (SNH) last week announced an agreement allowing CMS Nomeco and Globex Cameroon to operate on [...]

Subscribers only Energy 31.12.1997

Congo
KITINA ON STREAM

Agip announced on Dec. 22 that production had begun on [...]

Subscribers only Energy 31.12.1997

Congo, Gabon
ARCO TO RING IN 1998 WITH ITS TOLO-OTITI WELL

Arco is planning to drill Padouk 1, its first well [...]

Subscribers only Energy 31.12.1997

Congo, Gabon
FORCENERGY DRILLS SECOND PROSPECT ON PHENIX MARIN

Sweden's Forcenergy is drilling a second exploratory well on its [...]

Subscribers only Energy 31.12.1997

Congo, Gabon
OCELOT STARTS PRODUCING

Ocelot Energy is beginning commercial oil production from its onshore [...]

Subscribers only Energy 31.12.1997

Sao Tome and Principe
UPGRADE FOR POWER STATION

The small Sao Tome hydroelectric power station Contador is going to be rehabilitated so as to restore a capacity that [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.12.1997

Cameroon
PERENCO TO START DRILLING

Perenco will shortly drill two wells in offshore Cameroon during [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.12.1997

Congo
AGIP TO DRILL WITH OCEAN LIBERATOR

Diamond Offshore has agreed terms with Agip for a six [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.12.1997

Gabon
OCCIDENTAL DEBATES OMEGA PROGRAM

Having finished a well for Agip in Gabon, the semi-submersible [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.12.1997

Congo
EDF AND CFD ON THE MOVE

AEM has learned that the Caisse Francaise de Developpment intends [...]

Subscribers only Energy 26.11.1997

Congo
ANOTHER OIL PRODUCTS GIFT FOR BRAZZAVILLE

When Angola threw its crucial military support behind Denis Sassou [...]

Subscribers only Energy 26.11.1997

Gabon
AGIP TAKES OVER REINS ON BIG OXY CONCESSION

Agip has acquired the 50% share that Occidental Petroleum had [...]

Subscribers only Energy 26.11.1997

Congo
SASSOU TO REVIEW SELL-OFF

Congo's new president, Denis Sassou Nguesso, wants to see an inventory drawn up on state-owned companies, including Hydro Congo, before [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.11.1997

Congo
ANOTHER FACELIFT FOR EMERAUDE

Governments can change but not a country's geology. At best, governments can only learn to live with it. Denis Sassou [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.11.1997

Gabon
HOPES PINNED ON ETEKE

Australia's Lafayette Mining believes it has found a big enough resource in Gabon to start planning a long-term gold mining [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.11.1997

Gabon
DISCOVERIES AND LICENCES

Two new discoveries were announced and the government signed four fresh licences as the ACP summit meeting was winding up [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.11.1997

Congo
THE GOVERNMENT AND ENERGY

Jean-Marie Tassoua, former bank executive and most recently the "General Giap" of Denis Sassou Nguesso's Cobra militia, was named energy [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.11.1997

Central African Republic
APPEAL TO INVESTORS

With articles signed by president Ange-Felix Patasse and Joseph Agbo, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.11.1997

DRC
AMFI WINS MERRILL LYNCH'S BACKING

American Mineral Fields International has signed an agreement with Merrill Lynch International that provides for the latter to help AMFI put together a future financial package for its copper/cobalt project based on the reprocessing of tailings at Kolwezi.

Subscribers only Energy 12.11.1997

Gabon
SOUTH KOREA INTERESTED IN FERROCHROME SCHEME

South Korea is thinking of buying into a project for [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.11.1997

Gabon
MARATHON LIKELY TO GET COMPACT DRILLER

Marathon is believed to have issued a letter of intent [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.11.1997

Gabon
PERENCO TO BUY RIG IN BRAZIL

AEM understands that Perenco has bought the former jack-up drilling [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.11.1997

Sao Tome and Principe
ERHC DEFENDER OF SEA RIGHTS

The exploration part of the pact that the U.S. company Environmental Remediating Holding Corp (ERHC) signed with Sao Tome & [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.10.1997

Congo
NOMECO TO DRILL WITH SMEDVIG'S T-5

CMS Nomeco Congo has signed a contract with Smedvig for [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.10.1997

Gabon
AGIP COULD DRILL WITH ADRIATIC I

Agip has reportedly agreed terms for the fixture of the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.10.1997

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