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Canada
ASHANTI SAID TO BACK "REBELS"

The war in Democratic Republic of Congo has stirred suspicions and accusations which – whether right or wrong – could [...]

Subscribers only Energy 23.09.1998

Africa
ANGOLAN AND CONGOLESE DIAMONDS BOOM

Purchases of diamonds from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Angola jumped sharply in the first six months on the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 23.09.1998

Africa
SUB-SAHARAN POWER

The Australian conference organizer AIC is planning a first Sub [...]

Subscribers only Energy 23.09.1998

Africa
NORTH AFRICAN POWER SUMMIT

The North African power conference is being organized on Nov. [...]

Subscribers only Energy 23.09.1998

Africa
DOUBTS ON R&B FALCON/TEXACO DEAL

The drilling contractor R&B Falcon may be negotiating the possible cancellation of a three to five year drilling contract with [...]

Subscribers only Energy 09.09.1998

Canada
KABILA ACCUSED OF SEEKING BRIBE

Congo president Laurent Kabila asked for a bribe during negotiations with American Mineral Fields (AMFI) concerning its project to re-processing [...]

Subscribers only Energy 09.09.1998

Canada
MPOYO FINDS OFFSHORE A BIT SLIM

Before he was ousted in a cabinet shuffle on June 1, economy and oil minister Pierre Victor Mpoyo had taken [...]

Subscribers only Energy 09.09.1998

Africa, France
BOS TAKES OVER PORTUGUESE FIRM

France's Bouygues Offshore (BOS) has just acquired the Lisbon-based company Tecnoprojecto Internacional that specializes in electricity, instruments and automatic systems. [...]

Subscribers only Energy 09.09.1998

Canada
BANRO CALLS FOR $1 BILLION IN DAMAGES

Banro Resources Corporation has initiated arbitration proceedings against the Kinshasa [...]

Subscribers only Energy 09.09.1998

Africa
HERBERT SMITH COMPANY BUILDS UP ENERGY TEAM

Stephane Brabant, who headed the energy and natural resources group [...]

Subscribers only Energy 09.09.1998

Spotlight | Canada
BANRO'S CONGO PROJECT "NATIONALIZED"

Even though the Kinshasa government's credibility in the eyes of foreign investors has hit rock-bottom, the Canadian government officially protested against the "nationalization"' of gold concessions of Sakima, a company 93% controlled by Toronto-based Banro Resource Corporation.

Subscribers only Energy 26.08.1998

Canada
GECAMINES DEPENDS HEAVILY ON INGA

The most eye-catching effect of the fall of the Inga hydro-electric dams to anti-Kabila forces was power cuts and shortage [...]

Subscribers only Energy 26.08.1998

Canada
SOCIR CAUGHT UP IN REBELLION

When the Kabila regime's former allies overran Moanda in the offensive they launched on Aug. 4 Kinshasa's supplies of oil [...]

Subscribers only Energy 26.08.1998

Africa
NORMANDY MOVE ON LA SOURCE

Normandy is keen on taking over La Source, a joint venture it set up with France's Bureau de Recherches Geologiques [...]

Subscribers only Energy 26.08.1998

Canada
SUSPICIOUS DIAMOND DEALS

Some officials from the Comptoir National d'Expertise (CNE) have been officially accused of complicity in fraud involving the diamond trade. [...]

Subscribers only Energy 26.08.1998

Africa
PIRELLA TO BECOME WORLD LEADER FOR POWER CABLES

Italy's Pirelli has acquired the power cable unit of Germany's [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.07.1998

Canada
NETWORK'S MANAGMENT TURNED OVER TO PRIVATE SECTOR

The Societe National d'Electricite recently signed a first "partnership" agreement [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.07.1998

Canada
CALEDONIAN IN NEW ACCORD WITH SODIMICO

Toronto-based Caledonia Mining Corporation, which already has interests in the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.07.1998

Canada
MALLANTS' SIDE OF THE STORY

Willy Mallants has sent AEM a 13 line letter and a copy of a fax he received last year from [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.07.1998

New Zealand
FIRST ROUND IN EARLY 1999

The "STP product" seems to be working well in the exploration engine entrusted to the junior ERHC (Environmental Remediation Holding [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.07.1998

Canada
DIAMOND SALES PLUNGE IN MAY

Sales of diamonds dived in May as a result of [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.07.1998

Canada
CHEVRON TO DRILL AGAIN

Chevron DRC will shortly resume drilling in the Democratic Republic [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.07.1998

Spotlight | Africa
ENVIRONMENT, MARKET APPROACH GAINS GROUND

If Bill Richardson is mostly known for his peacemaking skills as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations – he exercised them with talent in Bosnia and in more controversial fashion in the Congo-Kinshasa imbroglio – his appointment on June 18 [.

Subscribers only Energy 24.06.1998

Canada
MALLANTS LOSES HIS FIGHT

Willy Mallants, a retired Belgian army colonel and former security advisor to Mobutu, won confirmation in July, 1997 from the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 24.06.1998

Africa
NORTH AFRICA POWER SUMMIT

Casablanca will play host to a North African Power Summit [...]

Subscribers only Energy 24.06.1998

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