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West Africa

Niger
Niamey Seeks to Diversify Mining Potential

Known for its Tim Mersoi basin where its uranium-bearing reserves in the Arlit rift are extracted by three affiliates of [...]

Subscribers only Mining 17.02.2009

Liberia
BHP to Sign Agreement in Iron Ore

Iron resources in Liberia are attracting strong interest from major mining groups. ArcelorMittal, then known as Mittal Steel, kicked off [...]

Subscribers only Mining 17.02.2009

Mali
CAMEC Switches Focus to Mali

Strongly shaken by the drop in the price of cobalt in recent months, CAMEC is gearing up its other projects, [...]

Subscribers only Mining 17.02.2009

Nigeria
New Steelworks Inaugurated in Nigeria

President Umaru Musa Yar’adua is to inaugurate next month a [...]

Subscribers only Mining 17.02.2009

Mauritania
Vietri Stokes Mauritania Hopes

In the run-up to presidential elections in June, Max de Vietri is trying to persuade the government to set up a network of gas pipelines.

Subscribers only Energy 10.02.2009

Ghana
Secret Talks on Jubilee

With estimates of Jubilee’s reserves rising by leaps and bounds the fact that two blocks are present on the field complicates the process of developing the acreage.

Subscribers only Energy 10.02.2009

Guinea
Madison on Lookout for Projects

A partner of the Al Guhair conglomerate in the United Arab Emirates, the Canadian junior Madison Petrogas is seeking to sign a partnership pact with Guinea’s government..

Subscribers only Energy 10.02.2009

Nigeria
A Taste of Revenge for ONGC

Kicked out of two gas blocks in 2005 to make way for Korea National Oil Corp, India’s ONGC has just had its rights on the acreage confirmed after all.

Subscribers only Energy 10.02.2009

Ghana
Joseph Oteng Adjei

Senior civil servant Joseph Oteng Adjei has finally been picked for the crucial post of energy minister in the new [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.02.2009

Nigeria
Year Starts Out Well for Addax

The Swiss group Addax has made new oil finds on [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.02.2009

Nigeria
Petrobras Says Akpo Start-Up is Weeks Away

Production will begin in April on the Akpo field located [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.02.2009

Benin
New Start for Seme Field?

Nigeria's South Atlantic Petroleum company owned by former defense minister [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.02.2009

Nigeria
KBR Pleads Guilty

In the wake of an arrangement with the Justice Department, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.02.2009

Nigeria
Three Judges for Shell Case

His appeal in Paris against his conviction for money-laundering started [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.02.2009

Nigeria
Mercuria

A regular customer of Nigerian crude for over a year, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.02.2009

Guinea
Momo Sacko

Currently legal advisor to the minister for mines and geology, Momo Sacko has been appointed chief advisor in charge of [...]

Subscribers only Mining 03.02.2009

Niger
Niamey, 24-26/02 2009

The Niger Chamber of Commerce for agriculture and industry and ITE Group are organising the second "Mining, Petroleum & Telecommunications [...]

Free access Mining 03.02.2009

Liberia
Museveni Backs Mining Ugandan Uranium

The Ugandan president, Yoweri Museveni, has called on investors to [...]

Subscribers only Mining 03.02.2009

Guinea
Bauxite Operators Pull in Horns

RusAl group, which operates the Friguia aluminium refinery, is due [...]

Subscribers only Mining 03.02.2009

Nigeria
Billy Agha

In late January, Godwin Ukpaima Billy Agha was appointed director of Nigeria’s Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) that awards oil [...]

Subscribers only Energy 27.01.2009

Nigeria
Mohammed Sanusi Barkindo

As Africa Energy Intelligence had anticipated (AEI 478), the appointment of Rilwanu Lukman as Nigeria's oil minister at the end [...]

Subscribers only Energy 27.01.2009

Nigeria
John Orange

The Canadian firm Exile Resources has named BP veteran John Orange to its board. Orange is already a member of [...]

Subscribers only Energy 27.01.2009

Nigeria
Control Risks Group

Highly active, like its countryman ArmorGroup, in the Niger Delta, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 27.01.2009

Nigeria
Kenneth Julien

Kenneth Julien, a special envoy of the prime minister of [...]

Subscribers only Energy 27.01.2009

India, Nigeria
Emmanuel O Egbogah

Emmanuel O Egbogah, adviser to Nigerian president Umaru Yar’Adua, seized [...]

Subscribers only Energy 27.01.2009

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