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West Africa

Equatorial Guinea
Ultimatum in LNG Project

Africa Energy Intelligence understands the state-owned oil firm GEPetrol has finally decided to finance its share in Marathon's LNG plant [...]

Subscribers only Energy 23.03.2004

Nigeria
Obasanjo Snubs Libyans

A bid by the Libyan firm Tamoil to buy the Kaduna oil refinery is being countered by president Olusegun Obasanjo's staff.

Subscribers only Energy 23.03.2004

Nigeria
Black Year for Shell

RoyalDutch/Shell is being forced to downgrade its reserves just as Nigeria is pushing to increase its OPEC quota. In addition, the group is reportedly poised to lay off 1,000 of its Nigerian staff.

Subscribers only Energy 23.03.2004

Ghana
Surge in Newmont's Gold Reserves

Ghana looks like becoming the front-runner in developing Newmont Mining Corporation's production potential in coming years. The American company, which [...]

Subscribers only Mining 16.03.2004

Guinea
RusAl Overhauls Operations & Doubles Output

Russian Aluminum (RusAl) is merging the management of its assets in Guinea under a restructuring that will see the group [...]

Subscribers only Mining 16.03.2004

Senegal
Senegal's Mines Ministry

Senegal's Mines Ministry is trying to break the logjam over [...]

Subscribers only Mining 16.03.2004

Guinea
Funding for GAPCO project

A project to build an aluminum plant to produce 2.6 [...]

Subscribers only Mining 16.03.2004

Sierra Leone
From Las Vegas to Freetown

An unknown financial firm based in Las Vegas, 8 Investments, acquired an oil concession in Sierra Leone's offshore last summer. Here are some details about the company.

Subscribers only Energy 09.03.2004

Senegal
World Bank's Secret Projects

As the Senegalese government's unofficial adviser in the power sector, the World Bank is discreetly preparing two loans to enable [...]

Subscribers only Energy 09.03.2004

Ghana
IFC to Finance CMS

The International Finance Corp., private investment arm of the World Bank, is going to invest nearly $60 million in converting the Takoradi power station.

Subscribers only Energy 09.03.2004

Nigeria
Wilfred Belonwu

ExxonMobil Nigeria, headed by Mike Fry, has just promoted a number of Nigerian executives, among them Wilfred Belonwu who was [...]

Subscribers only Energy 09.03.2004

Equatorial Guinea
Domingo Mba Esono

Director of GEPetrol since it was formed in 2001, Domingo Mba Esono lost his job following the dust-up between Equatorial [...]

Subscribers only Energy 09.03.2004

Nigeria
Inquiry Marks Time

The investigation that French authorities launched into commissions paid in the NLNG contract depends on the outcome of a request [...]

Subscribers only Energy 09.03.2004

Nigeria
RoyalDutch/Shell Pushes Forcados

RoyalDutch/Shell has just increased production at its Forcados complex from [...]

Subscribers only Energy 09.03.2004

Benin
Adjaralla Back in Business?

While waiting for the West African Gas Pipeline to materialize, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 09.03.2004

Nigeria | NEPA
Trimming Workforce

Officially to improve its productivity, the National Electric Power Authority [...]

Subscribers only Energy 09.03.2004

Benin | SBEE
New Management Team

After splitting the former Societe de l'Eau et de l'Electricite [...]

Subscribers only Energy 09.03.2004

Nigeria | NNPC
Kaduna Working Again

The Kaduna refinery began operating again in early April after [...]

Subscribers only Energy 09.03.2004

Equatorial Guinea | NORTON ROSE
Adviser to GEPetrol?

According to our sources, the freeze on a $400 million [...]

Subscribers only Energy 09.03.2004

Nigeria
Nigeria Oil & Gas

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

Subscribers only Energy 09.03.2004

Mauritania
A First Gold Mine at Tasiast ?

A Canadian company that took over Geomaque Exploration Ltd., in June of last year, Defiance Mining Corporation, will shortly complete [...]

Subscribers only Mining 02.03.2004

Burkina Faso, Canada
St Jude Resources

St Jude Resources, a Canadian junior active in gold exploration [...]

Subscribers only Mining 02.03.2004

Nigeria
Alscon to Find a Buyer at Last?

Will an invitation to tender that was put back on [...]

Subscribers only Mining 02.03.2004

Nigeria
Ukrainian Experts at Ajaokuta

Around 30 Ukrainian engineers have just turned up at the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 02.03.2004

Ghana
Sysmin Infusion for Mapping Survey

The European Union's Sysmin program has offered Ghana's Geological Survey [...]

Subscribers only Mining 02.03.2004

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