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West Africa

Ivory Coast
Afren & Taleveras team up

Africa Energy Intelligence understands the Nigerian firms Afren and Taleveras are to work together on some blocks in Ivory Coast. [...]

Free access Energy 10.12.2013

Ghana
Final service contracts for TEN

Several companies are still battling to obtain the last service contracts for the oil complex operated by Tullow Oil. At least one enjoys the advantage of employing executives with good connections.

Subscribers only Energy 10.12.2013

Nigeria
Former executives eye E&P venture

Future auctions of marginal fields in Nigeria could well attract former executives of oil majors who are keen on starting up their own businesses. And their moves will be watched by certain would-be foreign partners.

Subscribers only Energy 10.12.2013

Nigeria
First shortlist for Shell auction

Considered the most promising asset put up for sell by Shell, OML 29 has drawn four bids that the company deems interesting.

Subscribers only Energy 10.12.2013

Nigeria
Glencore at battle stations

Cash-rich and determined to develop in the upstream, Glencore has elbowed its way into the sale of assets by Western majors in Nigeria.

Subscribers only Energy 10.12.2013

Nigeria
Nigeria LNG

Taking note of fast growth in shale gas output in [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.12.2013

Ivory Coast
Faster pace in boundary talks

Talks on the maritime boundary between Ivory Coast and Ghana [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.12.2013

Ghana
Focus on local content

Oil companies operating in Ghana all appear up in arms [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.12.2013

Ivory Coast
Societe Generale helps SIR

The Societe Ivoirienne de Raffinage (SIR) is unlikely to have [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.12.2013

Spotlight | Ivory Coast
Abidjan picks a harsh mining code

Catching many by surprise, Ivory Coast’s cabinet moved on Dec. 2 to adopt a new mining code. True, Abidjan planned to stitch the code together before the end of the year in order to table it before Parliament in 2014.

Subscribers only Mining 03.12.2013

Togo
Phosphates: bidders oppose contract split

The contract to mine Togo’s carbonated phosphates is expected to be awarded by the end of the year. But the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 03.12.2013

Niger
Yellowcake price, the other issue facing Areva

Talks on renewing the mining conventions of Areva’s affiliates Cominak and Somair, which are expiring end of December (AMI 308), [...]

Subscribers only Mining 03.12.2013

Ivory Coast
Ferromanganese pledge by Dharni Sampda

Eagerly awaited by inhabitants living around manganese mines in Bondoukou in northern Ivory Coast, industry and mines minister Jean-Claude Brou [...]

Subscribers only Mining 03.12.2013

Guinea
Kipre uses his influence to land gold deal

The Ivory Coast junior Transland Resources founded by Jean Likane Yagui, former managing director of Societe de Developpement Minier (SODEMI) [...]

Free access Mining 03.12.2013

Mauritania
Would-be suitors approach Charter Pacific

Anticipating that demand for steel could climb to 3.5 billion tons per annum around 2030, two Asian steel groups, including [...]

Subscribers only Mining 03.12.2013

Senegal
Oumar Toguyeni

Oumar Toguyeni, the regional head of the Canadian Institute of Mining Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM) in Dakar, has been asked [...]

Subscribers only Mining 03.12.2013

Guinea
Simandou: Walsh wants more time

Sam Walsh, chief executive officer of Rio Tinto, met with [...]

Subscribers only Mining 03.12.2013

Ivory Coast | Abidjan
Embargo soon lifted on diamonds?

The annual meeting of the Kimberley Process proved decisive for [...]

Subscribers only Mining 03.12.2013

Senegal | Dakar
EITI gives nod to Senegal

Sheikh Tidiane Toure, permanent secretary of the Extractive Industries Transparency [...]

Subscribers only Mining 03.12.2013

Burkina Faso
Endeavour focuses on Houende

Endeavour Mining is counting on producing its first ingots of [...]

Subscribers only Mining 03.12.2013

Burkina Faso
Avocet Mining’s fresh impetus in Inata

With an input of $63 million from the Panafrican Ecobank, [...]

Subscribers only Mining 03.12.2013

Ghana
Accra

Peter McMickan, managing director of Viking Ashanti, a firm mining [...]

Subscribers only Mining 03.12.2013

Ivory Coast
Bolloré and ICM Holdings clash in Abidjan

A dispute has been raging at the Port of Abidjan [...]

Subscribers only Business 27.11.2013

Togo
MEDEF plans Togo trip

France's employers' organisation Medef is planning a trade mission to [...]

Subscribers only Business 27.11.2013

Ivory Coast
Lazard plans to make Abidjan HQ

Lazard Bank, headed by businessman Matthieu Pigasse is planning to [...]

Subscribers only Business 27.11.2013

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