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West Africa

Guinea
Trident Steel a Newcomer on Scene?

South Africa’s Trident Steel, an affiliate of the Aveng Group Co, sent a team to Guinea in late May to [...]

Subscribers only Mining 13.06.2006

Guinea
Ousmane Sylla

Former natural resources minister (1986-89) and Guinea’s former envoy to South Africa, Ousmane Sylla was named mines and geology minister [...]

Subscribers only Mining 13.06.2006

Ghana
Isaac Adjovu

A Ghanaian geologist who previously worked for France’s BRGM, Isaac Adjovu, has been named Africa manager for the Canadian junior [...]

Subscribers only Mining 13.06.2006

Ivory Coast
Randgold Resources

Randgold Resources has resumed work on its Tongon project at [...]

Subscribers only Mining 13.06.2006

Sierra Leone
Mineral Commodities

Mineral Commodities plans to kick off diamond production in Sierra [...]

Subscribers only Mining 13.06.2006

Nigeria
New Security Bosses

Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo has fired his leading security advisers whom he suspected of harboring political ambitions incompatible with their [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.06.2006

Mali
First Malaysian License

The Malaysian conglomerate Markmore has just been awarded a license in the Taoudeni basin.

Subscribers only Energy 06.06.2006

Nigeria
Suitors Line Up for Amni

After penning an agreement with China’s CNOOC, the Nigerian firm Amni is now talking with Total and with Afren, the group headed by Rilwanu Lukman.

Subscribers only Energy 06.06.2006

Nigeria
Repsol in Rivers State Venture

Spain’s Repsol and Gas Natural are thinking of building their future liquefaction plant in Rivers state.

Subscribers only Energy 06.06.2006

Nigeria
Changing Rules of the Game?

Rules governing the operations of local oil groups in Nigeria are being challenged in two court cases.

Subscribers only Energy 06.06.2006

Nigeria
Power Plants for Marubeni

Japan’s Marubeni group has just signed a contract worth a total of 44 billion yen ($390 million) with Nigeria for [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.06.2006

Nigeria
IFC in Petrochemical Deal

The International Finance Corp., the private investment arm of the World Bank, is poised to lend $155 million to the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.06.2006

Nigeria
Exxon Seeking $1 bn

In the works for over a year, a plan by ExxonMobil to raise a $1 billion loan to develop several [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.06.2006

Nigeria
Bello Buhari

A former executive of Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas, the firm that controls the liquefaction plant at Bonny, Bello Buhari has [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.06.2006

Equatorial Guinea | Gepetrol
Nearly 30 Licenses Up for Grabs

Speaking during the Equatorial Guinea Upstream 2006 conference that was [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.06.2006

Nigeria
ExIm Bank Finances CNOOC

The China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) was awarded a [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.06.2006

Nigeria
New Chinese-Built Line

On May 22 the state-owned Power Holding Company of Nigeria [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.06.2006

Guinea
Paris Bourse Watchdog Looks at SAG Issue

Africa Mining Intelligence understands that Alimou Diallo, secretary-general of Guinea’s mines department and chairman of the board at Ashanti Goldfields [...]

Subscribers only Mining 30.05.2006

Nigeria
Mitttal Brothers Look at West Africa.

Pramod and Vinod Mittal, the brothers and rivals of Mittal Steel boss Lakshmi Mittal, see potential in West Africa’s steel [...]

Subscribers only Mining 30.05.2006

Sierra Leone
Alexander Bodreshov

The vice president of the Russian Railways company, Alexander Bodreshov, visited Sierra Leone in late May to look at business [...]

Subscribers only Mining 30.05.2006

Guinea
Kiridi Bangoura

Regional administrative minister Kiridi Bagoura played a key role in mid-May in defusing a dispute in the Rural Development Community [...]

Subscribers only Mining 30.05.2006

Guinea
Nicolas Clift

Russia’s Anatoly Pantchenko has been main-tained in his post as president of Guinea’s Chamber of Mines until September. Nicolas Clift, [...]

Subscribers only Mining 30.05.2006

Nigeria
Monssour Jarmakani

In response to an article on Nigeria entitled "Three Local Firms to Bid in Coal Sell-Off," that appeared in the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 30.05.2006

Sierra Leone
Hitch at Titanium Resources

The Titanium Resources company (formerly Sierra Rutile) was briefly forced [...]

Subscribers only Mining 30.05.2006

Guinea
Guinea Conclave in London

The Rio Tinto group is doing its best to curry [...]

Subscribers only Mining 30.05.2006

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