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West Africa

Ghana, Ivory Coast
Accord on maritime boundary

Africa Energy Intelligence has learned that Ghana and Ivory Coast secretly managed last week to agree on putting an end [...]

Subscribers only Energy 13.12.2011

Ivory Coast
Fakhoury factor hits Total

Five years after the CI100 block was awarded to Yam’s Petroleum, a personal relationship between Pierre Fakhoury and ex president Laurent Gbagbo has hit at Total’s interests.

Free access Energy 13.12.2011

Nigeria
NPDC lays down the line

Kulczyk and Afren have finally been allowed to buy Shell’s stakes on OML 26 and 42. But state-run NPDC has reserved the role of operator for itself.

Subscribers only Energy 13.12.2011

Ivory Coast
End game for OPL 245

Shell has announced its acquisition of the huge oil field owned by Malabu Oil & Gas run by Dan Etete. But the operation has yet to be finalized.

Subscribers only Energy 13.12.2011

Ivory Coast
CNR invests in Lion

The Canadian group CNR has teamed up with Cipem to buy the Lion gas processing plant.

Subscribers only Energy 13.12.2011

Ghana
CNPC

The Africa director of Tullow Oil, Tim O’Hanlon, is due [...]

Subscribers only Energy 13.12.2011

Ghana
Sinopec rides to the rescue

After months of negotiations (AEI 662) Ghana National Gas Co [...]

Subscribers only Energy 13.12.2011

Spotlight | Ivory Coast
Diamonds under the microscope

The Kimberley Process, which will come under the rotating chairmanship of the United States in 2012, intends to step up satellite surveillance of diamond mines in Ivory Coast. Experts from the Kimberley Process are to shortly approach Ivory Coast’s government [.

Subscribers only Mining 06.12.2011

West Africa
IMIC and AIOG in network tie-up

The International Mining & Infrastructure Corp (IMIC) is planning in coming months to form an exclusive tie with the African [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.12.2011

Sierra Leone
RusAl tempted again by bauxite play

Nine years after taking a close look at Sierra Leone’s bauxite but deciding not to invest in it, RusAl is [...]

Free access Mining 06.12.2011

Ghana
Mining legislation on the cards

Ghana’s government is preparing to introduce new reforms next year that will aim to shake up the country’s mining industry. [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.12.2011

Belgium, Liberia
Steven Van Bockstael

In a study on the diamond trade in Liberia, two researchers from the Institut Royal Belge pour les Relations Internationales, [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.12.2011

Burkina Faso
Michel Mercier

Under the supervision of its boss for West Africa, Michel Mercier, Canada’s Sarama Resources is thinking of investing $16.7 million [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.12.2011

Ghana
Thomas Amoah

PMI Gold Corp has promoted two Ghanaian executives to major posts. Thomas Amoah, who had previously been exploration director of [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.12.2011

Senegal
Dakar, JUNE 18-20

AME Trade has listed its African encounters for 2012. Between June 18-20, Senegal’s minister of mines, industry, food and drink [...]

Free access Mining 06.12.2011

Ivory Coast
Sansara looks northwards

The mining company Sansara has applied to the mines, petroleum [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.12.2011

West Africa
Nord Gold listed at last?

Nine months after being forced to put back the flotation [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.12.2011

Guinea
Odebrecht replies

In response to our article on Alpha Oumar Diallo in [...]

Subscribers only Mining 06.12.2011

Benin
I3S gathers intelligence for Benin

Edgard Kpatinde is using his solid network of contacts in [...]

Subscribers only Business 30.11.2011

Ivory Coast
BNP Paribas supports Ivorian State

Fabien Riguet, head of BNP Paribas' Ivorian subsidiary Banque Internationale [...]

Subscribers only Business 30.11.2011

Ivory Coast
Sophia Airlines in a fog

The private airline Sophia Airlines, which is based in Abidjan [...]

Subscribers only Business 30.11.2011

Africa, France
Amethis Finance launched in Paris

Luc Rigouzzo, the former director of Proparco, the subsidiary of [...]

Subscribers only Business 30.11.2011

Ivory Coast
Getma counter-attacks PAA in Abidjan

After years of legal wrangling, Getma CI has been ordered [...]

Subscribers only Business 30.11.2011

Togo
PMC rewarded in Lome

According to our sources, following private negotiations the Togolese government [...]

Subscribers only Business 30.11.2011

Togo
Zakari Darou-Salim (BTD)

Director since 2001 of the Banque Togolaise du Developpement (BTD) [...]

Subscribers only Business 30.11.2011

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