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Tunisia
PRODUCTION FIGURES EDGE UP

The state-owned Tunisian utility STEG managed to generate a maximum capacity of 1400 MW on its grid last year, some [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.06.1999

Libya
U.S. SANCTIONS REMAIN

Despite efforts by Libya's oil minister, Abdullah Salem al Badri, to woo American companies (AEM 250) U.S. trade sanctions against [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.06.1999

Libya
ENI PROJECT ALMOST FINALIZED

Among the cards placed on the table by Libya in negotiations with ENI on the Italian group's major trans-Mediterranean gas [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.06.1999

Tunisia
NEW ADB LOAN

The African Development Bank is expected next week to approve a new loan worth $63 million to the Societe Tunisienne [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.06.1999

Tunisia
SID AL ITAHYEM FIELD UP FOR SALE

Total retained a low key presence in Tunisian production with [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.06.1999

Algeria
AN AGREEMENT ON AMESMESSAK?

Algeria will shortly sign "a first cooperation accord involving precious minerals in the south of the country," energy and mines [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.05.1999

Libya
ELF Z4 PLAN NEARLY READY

Elf is understood to be considering a development of a field in its C-137 block in Libya which would entail [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.05.1999

Morocco
RECORD EIB LOAN FOR OCP

The European Investment Bank has handed the Office Cherifien des [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.05.1999

Morocco
NEW BOSS FOR ONA'S MINING BRANCH

Rachid Benyakhlef has just been named head of the ONA [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.05.1999

Libya
SOUTH AFRICAN DELEGATION IN TRIPOLI

A delegation of South African oil industry executives and businessmen [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.05.1999

Algeria
IN SALAH DOUBLES SALES TO ITALY

In Salah Gas, a joint marketing venture between BP-Amoco and Sonatrach that will sell gas that the British group produces [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.05.1999

Algeria
ANADARKO FOLLOWS LASMO PULLOUT

Anadarko has followed Lasmo's example in March by putting its stake on the Sif Fatima permit covering blocks 401A and [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.05.1999

Spotlight | Libya
U.S.-EUROPEAN RIVALRY COULD FLARE AGAIN

No sooner had United Nations sanctions against Libya been suspended on Jan. 5 than Libyan oil minister Abdullah Salem al Badri declared that "we invite U.S. firms which were our associates in the past to return to Libya and continue [.

Subscribers only Energy 14.04.1999

Tunisia
CONTRACT SIGNED FOR RADES II

The contract for Tunisia's first power station to be built as a private venture, Rades II, was signed at the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.04.1999

Egypt
IRON MINE AND STEEL-MAKING PROJECT

Aswan Development & Mining (ADEMCO) has chosen HSBC as adviser [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.04.1999

Tunisia
SIAME STAKE TO BE FLOATED ON STOCK EXCHANGE

A 47.1% stake in state-owned Societe Industrielle d'Appareillage et de [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.04.1999

Spotlight | Algeria
GAS JV ERA JUST BEGINNING

Three of the biggest Algerian projects could well be brought under the same roof this year through a merger between BP-Amoco and Arco. News of the possible merger, which appeared in the Wall Street Journal on March 29, came just [.

Subscribers only Energy 31.03.1999

Algeria
NEW DISCOVERY ON BLOCK 405

Burlington Resources, which operates through its affiliate LL&E Algeria on the Menzel Ledjmet license covering block 405 in the Berkine [...]

Subscribers only Energy 31.03.1999

Tunisia
HYDRO QUEBEC SETS UP SERVICES COMPANY

Hydro Quebec International has set up an energy services company [...]

Subscribers only Energy 17.03.1999

Morocco
OCP-HYDRO AGREEMENT

The Office Cherifien des Phosphates has signed a memorandum of [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.03.1999

Egypt
NEW GOLD EXPLORATION CONCESSION

An American company, Cresset International, has just been awarded a [...]

Subscribers only Energy 17.02.1999

North Africa
SPOTLIGHT ON RENEWABLE ENERGY

The Med-Energia 1999 seminar sponsored by the European Union Synergy program to promote technical, industrial, commercial and financial ventures between [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.02.1999

Algeria
ANADARKO/SONATRACH RIFT

Anadarko Petroleum Corporation last week reported its highest-ever level of activity in the Sahara region of Algeria with its partners [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.02.1999

Algeria
MONUMENT BECOMES OPERATOR ON BLOCK 212

As some indications suggested since December (AEM 242), the Finnish [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.02.1999

Egypt
ROSETTE'S BLOCK GAS IN PRODUCTION IN 2000

The production start-up for gas discovered on the Rosette block [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.02.1999

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