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Zaire
GCM AIMS FOR 6,500T OF COBALT

The technical director of Gécamines-Exploitation, Yumba Monga, told the governor of Shaba in late May that the company's work was [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.06.1994

Zaire
MIBA FEARS STRIKE

The threat by UDPS leader Etienne Tshisekedi to call on the personnel of the Minière de Bakwanga (MIBA) company to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.06.1994

Zaire
SNEL PLANS TO SUPPLY KALEMIE AGAIN

The Société Nationale d'Electricité announced it planned to shortly rehabilitate [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.06.1994

Cameroon
IFC LOAN FOR PECTEN

A list of loans for projects endorsed between November and [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.06.1994

Spotlight | Congo
NEW UPSTREAM LAW

Congo signed a production sharing agreement last week with operator Agip Congo and its associates on the Marine VI and VII permits -- the latter includes the Kitina discovery -- just as it reached a similar accord with Elf Congo [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.06.1994

Gabon
GAS PRESSURE RISES

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

Subscribers only Energy 01.06.1994

Gabon
SYSMIN LOAN IN PIPELINE

The European Commission has informed leading Gabonese officials that Gabon's application for a Sysmin loan worth 14 million ECU is [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.06.1994

Cameroon
REFORMS PLANNED WITH IDA

The International Development Association (IDA) is examining a $50 million loan to Cameroon for an "adjustment" programme for the country's [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.06.1994

Cameroon
PHILIPS PLANS TO DRILL IN NOVEMBER

Phillips has issued a pre-qualification for a jack-up rig with [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.06.1994

Gabon
KEY HAWAII AND KEY VICTORIA PULL OUT

The Sante Fe rigs Key Hawai and Key Victoria left [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.06.1994

Congo
WALTER-NUOVO OPERATES ON YOMBO

Announced last September (AEM 118), Amoco's withdrawal from the Yombo [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.06.1994

Congo
TCHIBOUELA NORD TO START IN 1995

Current development on Tchibouela Nord, a satellite of Tchibouela with recoverable reserves of around 20 million barrels, is expected to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.05.1994

Zaire
SNEL-WORLD BANK MEETING

The head of Zaire's Société Nationale d'Electricité, Bingoto Na'Mpeya, met with a delegation from the World Bank in April to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.05.1994

Zaire
KYUNGU'S DEFENSIVE MOVES

Former Katanga gendarmes who returned to their country following an amnesty have been mobilized by the governor of Shaba, Gabriel [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.05.1994

Zaire
GECAMINES IN STATIONARY ORBIT

Even though Gecamines appears to be on its financial death-bed the company has managed to pursue its efforts to acquire [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.05.1994

Gabon
ELF IN WORKOVER PROGRAMME

Elf has contracted the jack-up Glomar High Island VII for [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.05.1994

Zaire
MIBA BUYS A BOEING

The Société Minière de Bakwanga has acquired a Boeing 727-100F [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.05.1994

Central Africa, France
THREE OF ELF'S AFRICAN SUBSIDIARY HEADS PROMOTED

In what might be seen as a reward after the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.05.1994

Gabon
DISCOVERY ON APARI (ELF)

A discovery was made with the Assala Marine IG well [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.05.1994

Spotlight | Gabon
LIMBERING UP FOR THE EIGHTH ROUND

With Gabon's seventh round of tenders for exploration set to close on July 31 the country's ministry of mines, energy and hydraulic resources has undertaken and will indeed shortly put the final touches to an eighth round that could be [.

Subscribers only Energy 27.04.1994

Zaire
GCM FORCED TO CLOSE MINES

Gecamines will be forced to close all its open cast mines this year except those in Kolwezi and Kamoya if [...]

Subscribers only Energy 27.04.1994

Zaire
FRENCH CONTRACT

The Société Minière de Bakwanga (MIBA, diamonds) has signed a $13.1 million contract with a French firm called Electrim, which [...]

Subscribers only Energy 27.04.1994

Zaire
OKIMO ACCUSES GENDARMES

Ever since the Kimin partial privatization plan was scrapped, Tibasima Mbogenu Ateni, chairman of OKIMO (Office des Mines d'Or de [...]

Subscribers only Energy 27.04.1994

Gabon
BRITISH GAS RELEASES CEE THORNTON

British Gas will release the Reading & Bates jack-up C [...]

Subscribers only Energy 27.04.1994

Gabon
SFPO: UNDERHAND DEALING SUSPECTED

The SFPO (Ferromanganese de Paris-Outreau), which plays a key role [...]

Subscribers only Energy 27.04.1994

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