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West Africa

Guinea
Iranians Still Interested in Bauxite

Guinea and Iran are planning to inject new life into the joint firm Societe Bauxite de Dabola-Tougue (SBDT) that was [...]

Subscribers only Mining 27.07.2004

Guinea
Rio Tinto Pushes Ahead at Simandou

African Mining Intelligence understands that Rio Tinto plc sent a delegation headed by its West Africa manager, Colin Harris, to [...]

Subscribers only Mining 27.07.2004

Nigeria
TDA in Coal Deal

As we reported in June (AMI 878), the U.S. Trade [...]

Subscribers only Mining 27.07.2004

Guinea, United States
GAPCO

GAPCO, the Global Alumina Products Corporation based in New York, [...]

Subscribers only Mining 27.07.2004

Guinea
Conakry Spins Out Siguiri Squabble

The question of whether Societe Aurifere de Guinee (SAG), which [...]

Subscribers only Mining 27.07.2004

Spotlight | Equatorial Guinea
Turning to Africa for Shelter

With its American partners under fire in a Senate report that could well lead to legal action, the Equatorial Guinea government has turned to its African peers, particularly South Africa and Gabon, to seek shelter from the storm. And the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.07.2004

Mali
Paving Way for Oil Men

Mali's government has just adopted oil legislation and formed a state-owned company as a prelude to awarding concessions. Australian companies are displaying an interest.

Subscribers only Energy 20.07.2004

Nigeria
Background to ?KBR Network?

The financial system and agents used by Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) to hand out payments linked to the construction of the NLNG plant were established in the 1980s.

Subscribers only Energy 20.07.2004

Nigeria
Money Woes for EGTL Project

Nigeria's next big oil industry project - construction of the Escravos Gas-to-Liquids (EGTL) plant - has stalled because of a budget squeeze by Chevron.

Subscribers only Energy 20.07.2004

Equatorial Guinea
Suspicion Falls on GEPetrol

Not content with examining links between American oil companies and the Equatorial Guinea government, the U.S. Senate is also asking questions about who really owns the state-owned oil company.

Subscribers only Energy 20.07.2004

Benin
Major Loan for Sell-Off Plan

The World Bank has just awarded a $100 million loan to Benin's power sector.

Subscribers only Energy 20.07.2004

Benin
Chinese Loan for Adjarala

The Export-Import Bank of China has offered to put up 24 million euros towards construction of the Adjarala dam. The [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.07.2004

Nigeria
Power Subsidies

Since gasoline prices were deregulated (or relatively so) in Nigeria, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has gradually become the main [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.07.2004

Nigeria
ABB's Bribes

The Swiss-Swedish ABB consortium pleaded guilty last week to handing out $1.1 in ?commissions? and found itself paying $16.4 million [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.07.2004

Equatorial Guinea, United States
Riggs Sold Off

Under fire in a scathing report by the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations because of its relations with the ruling [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.07.2004

Equatorial Guinea
The Plot Thickens

With 70 mercenaries scheduled to appear in court in Zimbabwe this week on charges of trying to overthrow president Teodoro [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.07.2004

Nigeria
Indian Swap

Anxious to receive supplies of Nigerian oil as some African nations do, India has offered to swap part of the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.07.2004

Nigeria
John Chaplin

Up to now production manager for ExxonMobil in the Gulf of Mexico, John Chaplin was appointed head of operations for [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.07.2004

Mauritania
Drilling to Start in August

A consortium headed by Woodside will begin a 21-well exploration [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.07.2004

Nigeria | Nnpc
New African Ambitions

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has announced its intention to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.07.2004

Mauritania
OULD LEKWAR

Named chief of Mauritania's B2 military intelligence service following an [...]

Subscribers only Business 15.07.2004

Guinea
Raoul Delawa

The technical adviser to Guinea's president, Joseph Raoul Delawa, left Guinea on July 1 after keeping a close eye on [...]

Subscribers only Mining 13.07.2004

Mali
Wayne Colliston

West Africa Gold Inc. has just named Wayne Colliston as chairman of its advisory committee. The committee helps to fix [...]

Subscribers only Mining 13.07.2004

Liberia
Caspar Fithen

The U.N. Security Council has asked a group of experts that monitor application of sanctions against Liberia to continue its [...]

Subscribers only Mining 13.07.2004

Ghana
Glencar Mining Draws Interest

Several investors appear poised to buy shares in Glencar Mining [...]

Subscribers only Mining 13.07.2004

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