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West Africa

Nigeria
Bought by Private Indonesian Firm

Conducted by Nigeria’s Bureau of Private Enterprise and the U.S. [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.12.2005

Spotlight | Senegal
Dakar Seeks to Spur Mining Operations

Africa Mining Intelligence understands the Senegalese government has dusted off two mining projects in the hope of setting the spur to the country’s fledgling mining sector. The first project concerns a phosphate deposit at Matam which houses a resource of [...]

Subscribers only Mining 29.11.2005

Guinea
Chinese Land 21 Bauxite Concessions

Although it hasn’t wrested control of Alumina Co of Guinea from RusAl, which manages the company (AMI 102), Aluminum Corp [...]

Subscribers only Mining 29.11.2005

Senegal
Government Seeks Buyer for Zircon Resource

We understand the Senegalese government, which is determined to inject impetus into the country’s mining sector (see P. 1), is [...]

Subscribers only Mining 29.11.2005

Burkina Faso
How to Ship Out Perkoa’s zinc?

Australia’s AIM Resources is keen on pushing ahead quickly with its Perkoa zinc project (6.7 million tons @ 16.4% Zn), [...]

Subscribers only Mining 29.11.2005

Mauritania
Rio Narcea Calls on Macquarie

Australia’s Macquarie Bank is to put together a $45 loan [...]

Subscribers only Mining 29.11.2005

Burkina Faso
Orezone in Rights Issue

Canada’s Orezone Resources Inc., which is listed on the Toronto [...]

Subscribers only Mining 29.11.2005

Nigeria
End to Flaring?

Acting on a complaint filed by the Iwerekan ethnic community, a court in Benin state declared last week that the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.11.2005

Senegal
Indian Firm in Offshore Bid

The Gas Authority of India (GAIL) is seeking to acquire licenses in Senegal’s offshore.

Subscribers only Energy 22.11.2005

Mauritania
GDF In and Belhasa Out

Gaz de France is about to make its debut in Mauritania while Kuwait’s Belhasa will lose its acreage.

Subscribers only Energy 22.11.2005

Mali
Last Call for Concessions

Bamako is about to award some of the last available acreage in the country.

Subscribers only Energy 22.11.2005

Niger
New Licenses for Sonatrach

Niamey is going to award two new exploration concessions to Algeria’s state-owned Sonatrach.

Subscribers only Energy 22.11.2005

Nigeria
Oxy Makes its Way Back

Occidental Petroleum, which pulled out of Nigeria in the 1970s, is seeking to buy into Exxon’s OPL 214.

Subscribers only Energy 22.11.2005

Nigeria
First Russian License

Russia’s Zarubezhneft is understood to have won two gas concessions in Nigeria’s offshore.

Subscribers only Energy 22.11.2005

Mali
Bouygues Calls it a Day

Haggling for long months with the Bamako authorities concerning electricity rates, France’s Bouygues group has ended up by quitting the country.

Subscribers only Energy 22.11.2005

Nigeria
Macauley Ofurhie

Director of the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), the oil industry’s regulatory body between 2002 and May, 2005, Macauley Ofurhie [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.11.2005

Sierra Leone | petroleum resources unit
Licenses Withdrawn

We understand the Petroleum Resources Unit in Sierra Leone’s energy [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.11.2005

Equatorial Guinea | sonagas
Building a Gas Pipeline

Founded in March of this year, the Equatorial Guinea gas [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.11.2005

Nigeria
Partners Line up for OK LNG

We understand the planned LNG plant at Olokola on the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.11.2005

Nigeria | malone & Bailey
New Auditors for Chrome

ERHC/Chrome Energy, a company owned by Nigeria’s Emeka Offor that [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.11.2005

West Africa
Nigeria Oil & Gas 2006

The CWC Group is organizing a conference at the International [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.11.2005

Guinea, United States
Nathaniel Fields

The president of the African Development Foundation (ADF), an American agency that assists the least developed countries in Africa, Nathaniel [...]

Subscribers only Mining 15.11.2005

Ghana
Uncertainty over mining code

A draft bill concerning new mining legislation in Ghana that [...]

Subscribers only Mining 15.11.2005

Guinea, India
Souare talks to investors

Guinean mines minister Ahmed Tidiane Souare headed a delegation of [...]

Subscribers only Mining 15.11.2005

Canada, Guinea
Guinor’s suitors

Although two big gold groups joined the race to buy [...]

Subscribers only Mining 15.11.2005

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