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Gabon
START ON ULTRA DEEP OFFSHORE

Exploration on Gabon's ultra-deep offshore will kick off in December when Vanco Energy starts to shoot 1400 km of 2D [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.10.1997

Chad
THE LAST ACT

The government has just officially launched the privatization that will go along with the oil and electricity project based on [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.10.1997

Cameroon, Chad
EXXON TAKES PRE-EMPTIVE ACTION

The Green movement can be relevant on occasion but also destructive, such as Greenpeace when it plays on the public's [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.10.1997

Gabon
OMEGA DRILLS FOR AGIP

After fixing Scarabeo 3 in August for a minimum of [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.10.1997

Gabon
GEOSERVICE OPERATES REMBOUE SYSTEM

Geoservices and Geodex (Geoservices-Ipedex, see AEM 192) are operating the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.10.1997

Congo
ISRAELI MOVE ON MARINE III

The Israeli oil group Naphta has been revealed as the owner of the Marine III licence in Congo following a [...]

Subscribers only Energy 17.09.1997

Congo
KOMBI PROJECT ON THE MOVE

Elf Congo has just begun work which will lead to a production start-up on the small Kombi oil field on [...]

Subscribers only Energy 17.09.1997

Congo
PANORAMA EXPECTS NEW ACREAGE

After some hesitation Australia's Panorama Resources is pushing ahead with exploration in Congo despite the conflict that has spread beyond [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.09.1997

Congo
INTEGRATED DEAL FOR TCHIBOUELA EST

AEM has learned that Elf has signed its first-ever integrated drilling services contract in West Africa's offshore for development drilling [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.09.1997

Congo
DOWNSTREAM PACT SIGNED

Despite the ever-worsening crisis in Congo (see briefs), an agreement that had been expected on the privatization of the country's [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.09.1997

Gabon
DISCOVERY ON KENGUERIE MARIN

Shell Gabon has recorded a discovery testing 3,000 bpd on its Kenguerie Marin licence situated halfway between Port Gentil and [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.09.1997

Angola, Nigeria
ADRIATIC IX ANC X JACK-UPS REASSIGNED

A delay in securing formal approval for a planned well [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.09.1997

Congo
CONFLICT THREATENS POINTE NOIRE

The end of president Pascal Lissouba's mandate last weekend has [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.09.1997

Chad
FIVE STAR TAX SYSTEM

Chad's new tax system has won full marks for encouraging investment in a study by the U.S. consultancy Van Meurs [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.07.1997

Angola, Nigeria
TEXACO PLANS DEEPWATER OPERATIONS

Texaco now expects to spud a deepwater well in Block [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.07.1997

Angola, Nigeria
GMIS SEEKS SECOND JACK-UP IN REGION

Global Marine Integrated Services is understood to be trying to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.07.1997

Angola, Nigeria
ASHLAND PULLS OUT

Ashland is seeking a solution to its dispute with Nigeria, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.07.1997

Angola, Nigeria
NEW LNG SITE PROPOSED FOR ITALY

New hope has sprung up over saving Nigeria LNG's 3.5 [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.07.1997

Gabon
OCELOT WILL PRODUCE AT LEAST 2,000 BPD NEXT YEAR

Ocelot will put the Obangue field on the Panthere-Nze licence [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.07.1997

Spotlight | Cameroon, Chad
A CAREFULLY-PLANNED PIPELINE

There will soon be a Chad street in Paris and in the year 2001 an oil avenue running from Chad to the Atlantic. The first results from a promise made to Chad president Idriss Deby who completed an official visit [.

Subscribers only Energy 16.07.1997

DRC
MIBA AND ITS "WAR EFFORT"

AEM is in a position to confirm that the Miniere de Bakwanga (MIBA) contributed financially towards the war effort of [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.07.1997

DRC
DIAMOND MINERS SEETHE

Small-scale diamond miners and traders in the southern part of Bandundu near the border with Angola's Lunda Norte region are [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.07.1997

Gabon
NEW HOPE FOR BELINGA

Can the DRI scheme that Gabon's mines and energy minister, Paul Tougui, discussed last month in Denver with Union Carbide [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.07.1997

Gabon
BLOCKS TRANSFERRED AND RELINQUISHED

Amoco has just sold its interests on two licences in [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.07.1997

Gabon
LICENCES FOR OCELOT AND AMERADA

Ocelot Energy has just won a third production sharing licence [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.07.1997

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