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West Africa

Ivory Coast
Technip Wins Baobab Contract

The French oil services firm Technip has just landed a direct, $125 million contract to develop the Baobab field in Ivory Coast.

Subscribers only Energy 16.09.2003

Mauritania
Rebels Set Up Armed Group

The main leaders of an abortive putsch on June 8, Mohamed Ould Sheikhna and Saleh Ould Hanenna, announced in a [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.09.2003

Nigeria
NLNG Hands More Work to GE

Already contracted for maintenance of trains 1 and 2 at [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.09.2003

Equatorial Guinea
Vanco Pulling Out

After managing to sell part of its huge, 7.9 million [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.09.2003

Sierra Leone
Smugglers Still Very Much in Business

In their bid to help rebuild Sierra Leone's mining industry, Britain's DFID and the U.S. Agency for International Development commissioned [...]

Subscribers only Mining 09.09.2003

Niger
Samira Hill to Start Producing in 2004

Etruscan Resources and Semafo Inc. are pulling out all the stops to develop the Samira Hill/Libiri (?Samiral Hill) gold mine [...]

Subscribers only Mining 09.09.2003

Ghana
Accra Misses Kimberley Deadline

Ghana's diamond industry could face serious problems for lack of [...]

Subscribers only Mining 09.09.2003

Spotlight | Nigeria
Who in Charge at NNPC?

Announced only last week, a flurry of top appointments at the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) had been planned long months in advance. Coming after Nigeria's presidential election, the overhaul in the state-owned company's management ushers in a period of [.

Subscribers only Energy 02.09.2003

Equatorial Guinea
Seeking Oil-Backed Loan

Equatorial Guinea's government has approached a number of international banks to put together a $250 million oil-backed loan that would [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.09.2003

Ivory Coast
Nigerian Crude for SIR

Abuja and Abidjan have agreed to ?normalize? their oil relations to ensure supply for SIR.

Subscribers only Energy 02.09.2003

Nigeria
Satellite to Watch Oil Facilities

Russia will lift a first Nigerian satellite designed to watch over the country's oil facilities into orbit on Sept. 26. [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.09.2003

Nigeria
Chris Finlayson

Just like Ron Van den Berg, his predecessor as head of Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) in Nigeria, Chris Finlayson [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.09.2003

Togo
Faure Gnassingbe

In the new Togo government set up following the re-election of president Gnassingbe Eyadema, the most interesting portfolio on the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.09.2003

Nigeria
Unipetrol Grabs Gaslink

Unipetrol Nigeria Plc., a company owned by Wale Tinubu's powerful Ocean & Oil group, has acquired a 51% holding in [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.09.2003

Ghana
IFC Opts for Takoradi II?

Our sources indicate that International Finance Corp., the private investment arm of the World Bank, could involve itself in funding [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.09.2003

Equatorial Guinea
Air France Eyes Route to Malabo

Africa Energy Intelligence understands Air France could open a line [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.09.2003

Nigeria | NNPC
Freeze on Exports

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) ordered the Pipeline Product [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.09.2003

Nigeria
Nigeria Oil & Gas

IBC Energy is organizing a conference on Dec. 10-11 in [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.09.2003

Equatorial Guinea
2nd Annual Conference GEPetrol & Oil and Gas in Equatorial Guinea 2003

The CWC Group is organizing a conference in Houston on [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.09.2003

Sierra Leone
Sierra Rutile Negotiates New Fiscal Terms

Citing softness in the world market for rutile and ilmenite, Sierra Rutile has succeeded in obtaining better fiscal terms from [...]

Subscribers only Mining 01.08.2003

Togo
Faure Gnassingbe

Son of the president and up to now speaker in Togo's parliament, Faure Essozimna Gnassingbe was named minister of mines, [...]

Subscribers only Mining 01.08.2003

Nigeria
Mangnus Odion Ugbesa

Named solid minerals minister in president Olusegun Obasanjo's new government, Mangnus Odion Ugbesa is a prominent figure from Edo state [...]

Subscribers only Mining 01.08.2003

Nigeria
$16 Million for Cement Works

A memorandum of understanding has been signed between the Nigerian [...]

Subscribers only Mining 01.08.2003

Ghana
Accra Wants More for Ashanti

Advised by Societe Generale, the Ghanaian government has informed AngloGold, [...]

Subscribers only Mining 01.08.2003

Ivory Coast, Mali, South Africa
Resolute Mining, Equigold, Jubilee Platinum

Resolute Mining (Australia), which bought the Syama gold mine from [...]

Subscribers only Mining 01.08.2003

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