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West Africa

Mali
Randgold to Push Loulo Underground Study

Randgold Resources plans to launch a pre-feasibility study on developing the two underground mines at Loulo. Its decision came two [...]

Subscribers only Mining 27.04.2004

Spotlight | Nigeria
Real Locals Replace Wheeler-Dealers

The three production sharing agreements signed by ChevronTexaco in Nigeria's offshore last week sounded the death knell of the era of sleeping local partners who gained choice blocks in Nigeria's offshore in the late 1990s...

Subscribers only Energy 20.04.2004

West Africa
PetroChina Joins DiamondWorks

The last Chinese major to lack a holding in Africa, PetroChina has just joined forces with Canada's DiamondWorks.

Subscribers only Energy 20.04.2004

Nigeria
Probe into NLNG Widens

Investigations in both France and Nigeria into commissions surrounding the construction of the NLNG plant are advancing at a quick pace.

Subscribers only Energy 20.04.2004

Nigeria
Sinopec Makes its Debut

Lengthy talks between NNPC and Sinopec finally resulted last week in the Chinese group setting up a partnership with the E&P affiliate of the state-owned Nigerian oil company.

Subscribers only Energy 20.04.2004

Sierra Leone
New Day for White Elephant

The World Bank is examining a novel way to finance completion of the Bumbuna dam on which work began two decades ago.

Subscribers only Energy 20.04.2004

Nigeria
Theophilus Danjuma

Nigeria's former defense minister, Lieut.-gen. Theophilus Danjuma was last week named chairman of PanOcean, the only Nigerian firm to work [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.04.2004

Nigeria
Olumide Onakoya

The Nigerian national Olumide Onakoya has been named director of Mobil Oil Nigeria, the downstream affiliate of ExxonMobil in Nigeria [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.04.2004

Equatorial Guinea
Xiaochao Wang

Adviser to Marathon and GEPetrol on their project to build an LNG plant, Xiaochao Wang has just been named vice [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.04.2004

Nigeria
Chris Finlayson

The director of the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), an affiliate of RoyalDutch/Shell in Nigeria, Chris Finlayson is presently overseeing [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.04.2004

Equatorial Guinea
Madrid Seeks to Mend Fences

As soon as it swept to power, the Socialist government of Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero indicated its willingness to improve [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.04.2004

Nigeria
Default on Debt to Paris Club?

Led by finance minister Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, a high-profile Nigerian delegation talked at length with officials from the Paris Club [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.04.2004

Nigeria
Stolt for Amenam

After developing the first phase of the Amenam field, which [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.04.2004

Equatorial Guinea
First LNG Contracts

Already working with Marathon on its LPG project on Bioko, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.04.2004

Nigeria
Nigeria Oil & Gas

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

Subscribers only Energy 20.04.2004

Nigeria | NEPA
Talking with Siemens and ABB

Nigeria's National Electrical Power Authority (NEPA) is presently talking with [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.04.2004

Senegal | SENELEC
West Africa's First Meter Firm

Early this month Senegal's Societe Nationale d'Electricite (SENELEC) inaugurated the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.04.2004

Nigeria | MCKINSEY
Advising NNPC

We understand that consultants from both McKinsey and Accenture have [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.04.2004

Mauritania
CHEYAKH OULD ELY

Mauritanian president Maaouiya Ould Sid Ahmed Taya has named Cheyakh [...]

Subscribers only Business 15.04.2004

Sierra Leone
Muller and Steinmetz Clash Behind Scenes

The diamond traders Serge Muller and Bennie Steinmetz are fighting discreetly for control of the Tongo Diamond Field concession in [...]

Subscribers only Mining 13.04.2004

Ghana
BHP Weighs Bauxite Projects' Impact

BHP Billiton is presently conducting an environmental impact study as a prelude to exploring the bauxite deposits of Nyinahin in [...]

Subscribers only Mining 13.04.2004

Sierra Leone
James Campbell

Former head of Anglo American's base metals and coal division, James Campbell was named executive chairman of Koidu Holdings, a [...]

Subscribers only Mining 13.04.2004

West Africa
Iamgold to merge with Wheaton River

The Canadian concern that discovered the Sadiola gold mine in [...]

Subscribers only Mining 13.04.2004

Mauritania
Raising Finance

Hardman and ROC Oil, partners of Woodside in areas A and B in Mauritania's offshore, have both raised finance to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.04.2004

Nigeria
Nigeria Oil & Gas

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

Subscribers only Energy 06.04.2004

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