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West Africa

Nigeria
Afren Back on Acquisition Trail

Six months had passed without the British junior Afren buying up new acreage. Its investors are unaccustomed to such a [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.09.2008

Equatorial Guinea
Pioneer Quits Block H

After a year of squabbling between the four partners on blocks H15 and H16, Pioneer is pulling out of Equatorial Guinea and indeed withdrawing from the Gulf of Guinea.

Free access Energy 16.09.2008

Nigeria, Russia
Gazprom/NNPC Pact

Russia’s Gazprom has penned a memorandum of understanding with the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.09.2008

Nigeria
Tagging Oil to Save It

During a ceremony opening a conference entitled West Africa Extractive [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.09.2008

Nigeria
KBR Executive Pleads Guilty

After bargaining at length with the U.S. Justice Department, Albert [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.09.2008

Nigeria
Singer & Associates

In the trial that will pit it against nine Nigerian [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.09.2008

Mauritania | Iron
Who Will Replace Qataris in Sphere?

Alexander Burns, the boss of Sphere Investments, has just seen his partnership accord with Qatar Steel Co unravel, but is [...]

Subscribers only Mining 09.09.2008

Sierra Leone
Battle Breaks Out Over Marampa Iron

After nine months of studies and due diligence, Cape Lambert Iron Ore has signed a preliminary agreement to buy a [...]

Subscribers only Mining 09.09.2008

Guinea
Ahmed Kante

Guinea’s minister for mines and geology, Ahmed Kante, was dismissed and replaced by Dr Louncény Nabé in late August. Nabé, [...]

Subscribers only Mining 09.09.2008

Niger
Niger Uranium Buys Henkries Uranium Deposit

Niger Uranium, a company set up by UraMin Inc (part [...]

Subscribers only Mining 09.09.2008

Guinea | Bissau
Phosphates Contract at Farim Revoked

The Guinea Bissau government has cancelled the contract for mining [...]

Subscribers only Mining 09.09.2008

Guinea
Poles Lay On the Charm

Poland’s Summa Energy is pulling out all the stops to finalize its contract for the onshore Boffa and Telemele licenses.

Subscribers only Energy 02.09.2008

Nigeria
Addax Picks Chrome as Partner

Switzerland’s Addax Petroleum has teamed up with a Nigerian partner, Chrome, and a South Korean group to develop the OML 137 gas field.

Subscribers only Energy 02.09.2008

Nigeria
France Spies Opportunities

Nigerian foreign minister Ojo Maduekwe received Matthieu Louvot, a technical adviser to French president Nicolas Sarkozy, in Abuja on Aug. [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.09.2008

Guinea
Lounceny Nabe

Guinea’s minister of mines and geology, Ahmed Kante, who was named in April, 2007, has been fired and replaced on [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.09.2008

Mauritania
New Oil Minister

Seizing power in a bloodless putsch on Aug. 6, general [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.09.2008

Ghana | Accra
Afren Seeks a Partner

The British oil firm Afren plans to drill a well [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.09.2008

Ghana | Accra
First Phase of Asogli Up and Running in December

. The gas-fired power plant at Kpone near Tema will [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.09.2008

Nigeria
Major Loan for Projects

The World Bank’s board of directors will decide by the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.09.2008

Nigeria
GEC Raises USD 150 Million

The Nigerian oil company Global Energy Co (GEC) is poised [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.09.2008

Nigeria | Abuja
Heinrich Tiemann

Heinrich Tiemann, Germany's junior foreign minister, was in Abuja on [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.09.2008

Guinea
Brabant and Camara Counter-attack

Rio Tinto and Simfer SA, the subsidiary running the Simandou iron project, have called upon Stéphane Brabant, a lawyer at [...]

Subscribers only Mining 26.08.2008

Mali
Oklo Mining Diversifies into Phosphates

Oklo Uranium, the Australian junior quoted on the Australian Securities Exchange that has up to now been active in uranium [...]

Subscribers only Mining 26.08.2008

Burkina Faso
Orezone Gets USD 330 million for Essakane

Initially set at USD 250 million, Orezone Resources’ loan for [...]

Subscribers only Mining 26.08.2008

Mauritania
Baba A. Ould Sidi Mohamed

A former minister of ex-Mauritanian president Maaouiya Ould Taya, who is a close relative, Baba Ahmed Ould Sidi Mohamed was [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.07.2008

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